The first week of the Trump restoration has recalled the times when a company has gone through a reorganization or had a management shakeup. Companies run on the decisions made by the people inside the company and those decisions are the result of the habits of mind, the company culture. Even the big decisions tend to follow a predicable course once you understand the culture.
When there is a reorganization or a new management team comes in, it feels like a shock to the system because it is a shock to the system. The new ways of doing things rattle the old culture because the new ways or the new people conflict with the old ways and those old ways must give way or those old ways must break the new people and the changes they are trying to implement.
Watching Trump act as the new CEO, sitting at the old CEO’s desk, cavalierly signing executive orders while stunned media asks questions, it recalled those experiences with corporate shakeups and takeovers. In 2016 he was the guy hired over the objections of the senior managers. In 2024 he is the new owner. It is an entirely different atmosphere now compared to then.
All of this has recalled an old idea of America as a corporation. The business of America is business, because America is a business. As such, a way to understand her is through the lens of business. That is the show this week. It is an alternative history of America as a business and a history of the managerial revolution through the lens of the old expression, shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- Alternative History
- The Macro Business Cycle
- The Managerial Cycle
- Not All Businesses Fail
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Nearly all businesses fail. Zero Hedge’s very motto is “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” Buddha codified the same idea well over two millennia ago in his doctrine of the impermanence of things, that everything has an arising and a ceasing. Ecclesiastes offers much the same wisdom with the famous observation that to everything there is a season. For all the hoopla surrounding Trump 2.0, the grim fact is that at best, he’s fighting a rear guard action against overwhelming odds. At worst, he’s the pawn of the usual powers behind the throne.… Read more »
I mostly thought Trump was there to crash land the plane, not resume flight. In that any relief from Clown World is welcome.
Much agree; Clown World is our Victorian Age, except fake and gay.
Since blacks riot every ten years, could it be that women riot every hundred years? Or perhaps, Clown World was the women’s rebellion against being lured out of their traditional roles.
“Ecclesiastes offers much the same wisdom with the famous observation that to everything there is a season.”
Ecclesiastes was penned well before Buddha. Highly recommend reading the whole thing.
I didn’t reply to your thing yesterday as it was late. This comment is helpful. I will try and be brief. Firstly, the linguistic aspect of Indo-European is solid. Latvian and Sanskrit and then Latin and Ancient Greek are descended from it. Your personal opinion doesn’t matter. Moreover, it is clouded by your theological/religious biases that come up consistently since you have been posting here. I think we all need to connect with this part of our history and biology because it binds us all together as a single people without requiring us to abandon any particularities – Westphalian nationality;… Read more »
FYI…It’s actually Lithuanian that’s closest to Sanskrit.
” Firstly, the linguistic aspect of Indo-European is solid. Latvian and Sanskrit and then Latin and Ancient Greek are descended from it. Your personal opinion doesn’t matter. Moreover, it is clouded by your theological/religious biases that come up consistently since you have been posting here.” I deeply appreciate that you can mind read. It’s a help. Perhaps the linguistic aspect of “Indo-European” is just a bunch of academic theories that hardly understand language, let alone their interconnections through time? I don’t think that idea should be a scary to think about, regardless of my biases. Unverified opinions/origin stories are not facts.… Read more »
Yesterday you said I am trying to avoid God. That is mind reading. Let’s smoke the peace pipe and say we are both guilty. I agree that Rama-long-a-ding-dong is going to do it. He already has with his Colosseum tweets. Balaji Srinivasan is claiming historic Asian supremacy though it is preposterous. This is a problem. However, King Cobra and these guys have zero claim on Greece, Rome or Europe. Owning an Indo-European identity does not give him claim. It is easily refutable. I think your concern about the coming Dravidian ruling caste is legitimate and yet another of the racial/ethnic… Read more »
“Yesterday you said I am trying to avoid God.” I said the theory of Indo-European is trying to avoid God. I did not say you in particular. It was an abstract/theoretical discussion for me, thinking of both the age of the theory and it’s role in particularly in the early 1930’s especially. I make no claims to your personal journey with God. I apologize about it being taken that way. “But you are worshiping the Jew’s God who gives them ethnic primacy over all other people as his Chosen people.” I cannot say this enough. I am not worshipping that… Read more »
“I deeply appreciate that you can mind read. It’s a help. Perhaps the linguistic aspect of “Indo-European” is just a bunch of academic theories that hardly understand language, let alone their interconnections through time?”
Again, you speak from ignorance. David Reich’s book, “Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past” (2018), covers the topic of migration patterns of ancient people and *finds* that the theories of the linguists matches his DNA findings quite well—you know, those DNA genomes we can’t get from “old” bones.
Try educating yourself, then commenting.
” DNA findings quite well—you know, those DNA genomes we can’t get from “old” bones.” I’ve been clear that it’s difficult and expensive, but not impossible. Again, a 30 seconds invested into showing me that it is not difficult, expensive, and somewhat unreliable is all that would take. I’m introducing the skepticism that belongs to all scientific inquiry here. Solid theories will stand up to this sort of questioning. “Try educating yourself, then commenting.” You should be able to calmly correct/offer answers to some basic questions if you are educated yourself. Referrals to a pop culture non-fiction book is not an… Read more »
“Referrals to a pop culture non-fiction book is not an education in the least.” Again. Basic ignorance of the science and the leaders of that science. David Reich is not a “pop science” publicist. He is the acknowledged leader in the field. He is a professor of long standing at Harvard. His book is for the layman to grasp quickly what they’d need to read via hundreds of publications in the field over decades and obtain an advanced degree to figure out for themselves. Of course, his assertions/theories are all annotated for those who wish to explore the field more… Read more »
Buddha had blue eyes, and preached some 500 years before Christ.
I don’t know when Ecclesiastes was cribbed, so your turn.
What is a bit irksome is everybody rushing to give one group the credit, rather than claiming it for one’s own.
Ecclesiastes was composed by Solomon around 950 B.C., and took its ‘permanent’ textual form most likely in the Fifth Century B.C.
Budda the Bud died about 480 B.C.
Many here wants to have some deep history that is unfortunately not their own. Ecclesiastes was indeed penned before Buddha (who was Indian)* and is worth the reading. Any European before the 20th century would have been reading Ecclesiastes. The deep history is there if you wish to claim it.
*This is why “Indo-European needs to go away. We’re going to have Indian claim to be the next Buddha soon too.
Oops, sorry, he was blue-eyed and of the ruling caste, a prince…which means he was of primarily Aryan descent.
I do understand your distate with the “Indo-” part of the terminology, they aggressively try to supplant and replace our history; they did it at youtube, wiping whole swaths of archaic European channels and replacing them with ridiculous Hinduvata hogwash.
I believe when India was under British rule, “Indo-European” was in reference to the region covered by the Aryan migration, but it is an unfortunate term today.
The original name of Buddha was Siddhartha Gautama. He was an Indian, not Englishman or a German born in the wrong place and time. Yes, I’m questioning the very existence of “Ayran” migration, but I’ve said my bit there.
That said, how long y’all want to cling to academic theory that has that strong stink of Judaism about it in the face of our new Indian overlords is up to you. I can promise at least that there’s a working alternative that sticks to just “European” and leaves Buddha to the Indian subcontinent.
“Buddha had blue eyes”
Source?
Nah, because to do so is vanity, like chasing the wind.
[Serious: It’s probably my favorite book of the Bible.]
It’s a pretty awesome book.
Even Gods fail. Just ask Ra.
Buddha codified the same idea well over two millennia ago in his doctrine of the impermanence of things, that everything has an arising and a ceasing. He taught “sabbe saṅkhārā aniccā” (all saṅkhāras [conditioned things] are impermanent” not, for instance, ‘sabbe dhammā aniccā’. See v. 277-279 of the Dhammapada of the Pāli cannon for the three marks of existence, about which some interesting details could be, I think, sussed out and clarified thorough a careful analysis with term logic. Also, it’s by the way that Gotama refused to assert whether or not the universe is eternal and is regarded in… Read more »
“sabbe saṅkhārā aniccā”
Wow, I was just about to say that!
Dunno, it’s Greek to me
Is Gotama in any way related to Gozer the Gozerian? Damn, I do miss Gozer. . . .
Many times the Buddha was asked for answers to such imponderables as: Does a Buddha continue to exist after death? To not exist? To both exist and not exist? To neither exist nor not-exist? Similar queries were made inquiring whether the universe was finite or infinite? Both? Neither? And so on. Buddha’s answer was generally to say that he did not dwell on such matters, because his primary mission was to teach the Dharma, the path out of suffering. Even if one doesn’t plan to be a Buddhist, one can still admire his focus on what he considered his purpose… Read more »
“For all the hoopla surrounding Trump 2.0, the grim fact is that at best, he’s fighting a rear guard action against overwhelming odds.” Yes. He is. I never thought it was possible for Trump of all people to actually “Make America great again.” But politics is not about absolutes, it is about incremental changes that are possible within a certain window of opportunity. As a normal, heterosexual, English-speaking white man and native-born citizen, after only one week of Trump the target on my back has gotten much smaller. The boot is not pressing quite as heavily on my throat, and… Read more »
I feel pretty much the same way but I suspect I am merely fooling myself. The long run still doesn’t look all that good but I am enjoying the short run.
But the breather gives you a chance to prepare and develop alternative/parallel societies.
Enhance your grey man characteristics, and live your life as disconnected from the circus as possible.
Mostly, that’s all you can do.
As Keynes said, “In the long run we are all dead.”
Donnie doesn’t have the stones to make the deep, painful, long-term changes needed to raise New Amerika from the pit. He’s an Eighties liberal and a feminist. Not a rabid fembot, to be sure. More a go-along, dotter-daddy feminist. Gotta lot of company in that regard. The heat is off the Ebil Ebil White Male for the moment. OrangeMan hasn’t budged the True Believers (most of them female) but he has intimidated some of the dilletante Lefties into backing down a tad. For the U.S. to survive it’ll take a much stronger hand than Donald Trump the Dealmaker. Women and… Read more »
The way to think about this is analogous to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The phase we are in right now is that the sheer insanity is coming to an end, Mao is gone and the Red Guards have been put in check.
Trump is basically Deng circa 1979. Saner, more sober and more practical than the Maoists and the Red Guards, but still a member of the Party.
Sounds about right.
Indeed. I no longer feel quite so certain I’d be thrown in an imperial dungeon for speaking the wrong truth in public. And that translates into more freedom and less uneasiness for me.
This stuff also has a cascading effect. It’s not all Trump. There are downstream effects of White people being able to speak freely and voice their feelings, and their enemies know this – this is why they try to prohibit it. This is basically the entire point of the Yoel Roth, Susan Wojcicki, etc. censorship regime. This is why the Resistance was so fierce in 2017-2018, even though, as Scott Greer pointed out, Trump’s EOs and actions go wayyyyyyyy beyond what he did back then. This is why we had a color revolution in 2020, the regime could not allow… Read more »
I think the way things worked out,(The deep state stealing the election, and then trying to crucify Trump), has produced a better outcome for Orange Man.
If he was reelected, he may not have developed the mindset to do what he is doing.
Agreed, like Z always talks about, they can only think one step ahead. They thought that Trump was permanently done in 2021 and his supporters were neutered forever. They couldn’t even conceive of a world where he survives the lawfare and re-emerges.
It’s possible that, if he plays his cards right, Trump could be our version of Gorbachev. Remember those two Russian words, glasnost and perestroika, openness and restructuring, respectively. Trump seems to doing more of the latter right now but the election results are also freeing people up to speak more openly about a lot of long-suppressed topics. So I’d say both are moving forward. What we are hoping for of course, is that these processes will run away and eventually smash the whole system whether Trump or anyone in his inner circle want that or not. This is essentially what… Read more »
“This is why we had a color revolution in 2020, the regime could not allow Trump to have a second term – a second election would legitimize him after they spent the prior four years trying to delegitimize him. Of course, we all know what happened.”
Yep, the Dem’s legitimized Trump through their abject failure with Biden at the helm to replace Trumps—and actually Biden was never at the helm for that matter. So much for rule by committee.
“Overwhelming”? “Insurmountable odds?” Shame on you Ben. You’ve given up without so much as firing a shot! And hell’s bells – our enemies? You couldn’t ask for a better foe! They’re fake, they’re gay, mostly unhappy women, queers and lunatics. They don’t even need any help from us – they will destroy themselves in time. Look at California where the retarded lesbian fire chiefs gawp and stutter and point fingers at each other because there was no water in the fire hydrants. Fire prevention is only ONE essential service that has been pozzed. Like their neglected old growth forests… all… Read more »
“And hell’s bells – our enemies? You couldn’t ask for a better foe! They’re fake, they’re gay, mostly unhappy women, queers and lunatics.” The same is true of your own country — even moreso. But these people have power because they control the institutions. They control the courts, the police, the academy and the media. And they control those institutions because there are white men willing to sell their brothers out for their thirty pieces of government pension and dental. When the truckers protested in Ottawa, Trudeau and his “lunatics” and queers had no problem getting enough armed, white, male… Read more »
Americans always claim other white countries are more gay than the US but the global AIDS epidemic began in the US.
To this day just by being American a person has an elevated chance of having HIV/AIDS.
Very well said. And excellent use of Z’s analogy – I will enjoy being on the landing, but I will never mistake it for leveling the staircase or somehow reclimbing to the top.
I’m not sure that I buy into the Buddhist concept of everything being connected or that everything is contained within everything else.
I do very much buy into the idea that everything contains the seeds of its own destruction.
For example, the United State’s addiction to cheap labor will ultimately be its undoing.
I remember that a Japanese politician – playing off the Hoover quote – once quipped:
The business of Japan is the Japanese.
Smart people those Japanese.
America has a vast landmass teeming with resources. Nippon has a little island.
The Japanese can’t afford to be ludicrous, impractical ideological fantasists like U.S. leadership.
The business of the US is war.
I like to describe the American people as warlike but unmilitary. Those hundreds of years of conquering a continent have left their mark.
Yes, and you can see this quite clearly in how the U.S., militarily, tends to fall into the stone-age behaviors of their former continental enemies, such as taking body parts as trophies and demanding unconditional surrender.
Indeed. Perhaps America at large is a gang of negroes sitting on the stoop of a burned out rowhouse in Baltimore. They look menacing as they flex and wave their pistols around – but you know it won’t be long before somebody gets shot, probably accidentally.
Now there’s a tautology for you.
Considering our win-loss-draw stats in the conflicts we’ve been involved in since World War II, we’d better find a new line of business.
War is the business, not victory.
There’s that. Too bad they’ve done so much damage to the reserve status of the dollar, which is financing all these wars, by seizing Russian assets and cutting them off from the dollar trading system.
The removal of the security details of Bolton, Pompeo, and former Iran envoy Brian Hook moves them up to the top of my list of suspects who were involved in the assassination attempt on Trump. It’s not as if Trump is canceling the security details of anyone who ever crossed him, or the list would be practically endless. For some reason(s), he picked these 3 specifically. While the msm makes a lot of noise about the confirmation process for the relatively inconsequential Hegseth and Gabbard, they are radio silent on RFKJ. That’s suspicious. The major for profit consolidated defense contractors… Read more »
As someone who spent over two years hiding in the woods and working from home to avoid needles I am most pleased by the news Trump canceled Fauci’s security detail.
Now it’s time to cancel Fauci himself. Oh, and that slippery eel Birx too. How the women thrilled over Birxie the Scarfbearer takin’ charge!
Make examples out of them. Get the herd mooing and running.
Movin’ movin’ movin’
though they’re disapprovin’
keep them doggies movin’
Personally, nothing makes me happier than the tears and outrage of liberal wammen.
It is a beautiful thing.
RFKJ will require a recess appointment.
If it comes to that I expect they just won’t take a recess. Like Trump’s last term.
Trump will negotiate a deal with Thune to recess the senate and give him his appointments.
Long as it gets done.
Trump saying that Fauci can hire his own security because he made plenty of money and “they all made a lot of money” tells me this is very personal for him and he knows very much what the score is. This dude is not effing around.
As Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi is central to cutting through the ‘silo’ barriers, and bypassing the Senate Select Committee on Intel, the ‘Gang of Eight’. Since Intel is running the show– superceding the traditional framework in the same way Civil Rights superceded the philosophical framework– Tulsi as DNI is more than just show.
More details at the Treehouse, but the new CEO is firing up a wrecking ball on the front steps of the main HQ.
I’m aware of Sundance’s overestimation of the position’s importance. I reiterate, if the president can’t do it, neither can the DNI.
Many whites have a deep desire that humanity bind itself together as a big corporation ruled by meritocracy. Under this charter, we will have the highest possible productivity and deracinated harmony.
The problem is that no race feels inspired by this vision except whites, generally speaking.
If you throw down your weapons and declare your pacifism, you are in a terrible situation if your competitors don’t follow your example.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/donald-trump-h-1b-visa-programme-united-states-9794799/
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64818
This is why the impossibility of space colonization is a great tragedy. If only we had hope if leaving the rest of them behind it would provide great encouragement. Living in such a small world with the dusky hordes constantly dragging us down… it all feels so futile.
What’s that famous line? ‘It’s all so tiresome…’.
Bitter reactionary: That’s my version of “Imagine.” Imagine there are no Palestinians, no Israelis, no Indonesians, no Nigerians, no Pakistanis, no Somalis . . . What a wonderful world it could be.
I wouldn’t say space colonization is impossible but it requires cheap abundant energy and that means nuclear power and that means pushing the green commies out of power. Things do seem to be moving that way though.
All of Musk’s efforts are one combined vision: Mars.
Of course he’s selling it as delivering the rich their fantasies, but the rich are where the money is.
Ugly electric Cybertrucks for the Martian environment (no gas),
Optimus robots to build the habitats before humans get there,
the tunnel Borer to dig out underground caves,
Neuralink to tele-operate the robots and machinery,
Starlink to Stargate AI to Starship.
All of it, with one goal. Imagine a Mars with no negroes.
They’ll be back on earth running the adding machines.
It’s not as sexy but I’m much more interested in the asteroid belt. There are trillions (probably quadrillions) in metals up there. Many asteroids are “mini-earths” meaning they formed in a molten state and the heavy stuff settled to the core. Because they’re small, though, they cooled rapidly and are solid now. That means if you drill down a mile or so, you’ve got a layer cake of metals organized by density. The earth has lots of metal in the core too but we’ll never get at it because below a few miles depth the earth is too plastic to… Read more »
Pure fantasy. It is not remotely possible with existing technology. Not asteroid mining and not making spinning habitats. You would still have to lift the total mass of any spinning structures from off of Earth unless you plan on refining and manufacturing the metals into metal parts in space.
I didn’t say any of this was something anyone could do any time soon. A lot of our problems stem from the fact that no-one of any political persuasion thinks beyond about a 10 year time horizon. This is what our wonderful legislators were doing (well, not doing) in ’65 with the immigration bill. Hell, this is what the supporters of desegregation were doing around that time. Just 20 years later, Baltimore and Detroit looked like Berlin after the RAF got done with it. Anyway, it’s implied in the notion of asteroid mining that you refine and manufacture the metals… Read more »
Oft overlooked in such utopian fantasies is that the new location must needs be populated with human beings. We would soon have the same problems, or varations thereof, of precisely what we were trying to escape. As the old saying has it, you can’t run away from you.
Who says we can’t? Them?
Even they’re trying. We lead, they follow.
The Chinese don’t have those problems.
The problem is that no race feels inspired by this vision except whites, generally speaking. This has always been the most baffling thing to me about shitlib Whites. To me it was obvious even at a young age that most other races didn’t care about meritocracy or the imagined racial utopia. Of course, it might be that imagining a corporation as the structure that makes this possible isn’t that far off. Corporations are highly undemocratic after all and can suppress dissent and internal divisions with drastic measures. The most obvious political parallel is Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. It was basically 3… Read more »
If you believe Marc Andreesen in the NYT being interviewed by Ross Douthat, the business of American companies are destroying American companies. Pull Quote: [taken from Ace of Normies] — Douthat: But they’re working for you. These are people who are working for you. Andreessen: Of course. So I had this moment with a senior executive, who I won’t name, but he said to me with a sense of dawning horror, “I think some of these kids are joining the company not with the intent of doing things for us but destroying us.” They’re professional activists in their own minds, first… Read more »
Possibly the only ones who are exempt are resource extraction companies, and not all of them
Very informative.
These P.C. corporatists have been brainwashed in Woke, Globalism, and Feminism from kindergarten through college. Mostly by white women teachers, professors, and endless administrators. This is their functional religion, tho perhaps professing Christianity or whatnot.
They have little experience in the real world, so what they accept as truth is what they’ve been told in the classrooms for 16 years. That ain’t gonna change just because a corporation hires them.
This is a big part of what will make the next depression long and deep. The culture to dig out of it doesn’t exist.
This is spot on.
Just look at the idea of reindustrializing.
There are serious breaks in the knowledge chain in multiple professions and trades.
It will take years, possibly decades to repair the breaks in those chains.
If he believes that the college-indoctrinated young-professional “left” are anti-capitalists, he’s still fully chumped, a sucker for the Shapiro/Rufo/Lindsay left-flank-of-the-right con. No other group is more materially and emotionally attached to actual existing capitalism—to their own status within it. Demands they shout upward are pleas for their inheritance. If he’s saying all this because conservatives say it, insert standard black pill. “Wokeness,” anti-whiteness—of which “AI” and “crypto,” properly understood, are de facto subsets—is ruling class consciousness, not student radicalism or communism or whatever shit. The young don’t decide anything. They aspire and obey. In the college example, conservatives are trained… Read more »
It’s fine to desire Startup Nation run by white guys to re-industrialize the US.
The trouble is that startups require funding via venture capital and/or business loans.
Both of those funding sources are controlled by the DIE-invested crowd.
They will be in no hurry to lend to pale males.
The Kennedys have an enormous trust based in Fiji to avoid the American inheritance taxes they helped pass. Pretty much puts the later generations on an allowance that they can’t completely squander.
The Kennedys also made their fortune buying up the underground rights cheap in the MidSouth and South. RFKJ is on familiar ground with Luttnick’s natural assets grab, so I think the new elite core is going to work very effectively together to wrest power from the old fuddy-duddies.
Rather than just making America a better-run corporation, I think a classic dissident insight is we need to become a real nation, not just an economic zone.
Now that the frontiers and easy pressure-release valves have been closed for generations, our whole society needs to grow up and have the mature institutions and customs that mediate internal conflict and orient everyone towards the long-term.
Eliminating birthright citizenship seems a clear step on this path. If the courts will allow it. The text of the 14th seems pretty straightforward to me, but that hasn’t stopped them before.
Stopping or reverse-tariffing the outflow of money being sent home by illegals would be a nice second step. And getting rid of chemtrails–why are they still whitening the skies?
I just spent 10 minutes skimming through the comments. I do that occasionally to remind me not to bother reading comments. (I am old and forget things) Ecclesiastical Writings? War? Racialism? Mars? Trump? Maybe each of them are worth exploring but they are way off topic from the business analogy. What I was looking for was comment from somebody more knowledgeable about finances. The gigantic debt seems to be a freight train barreling down the track right at the U.S. standard of living. I am just a broken down old x-engineer, but I think the business analogy for the U.S.… Read more »
War is iindeed coming, the consolidation measures: Canada, Panama Canal, Greenland, possibly the UK are one sign. Certainly the Defense people (save the Generals and Admirals who are political creatures first and foremost) want to stave off any immediate conflict as we would lose badly with no industrial base, a woke and transgender military, masses of illegals soaking up all tax revenue (no military spending ala Europe), and said illegals being a Fifth Column in terms of sabotage and other actions. But this also means the Defense guys are behind “start up nation.” The idea being that having lots and… Read more »
This was one of your best shows. I found it to be absorbing and prescient.
Speaking of corporatism, it appears the Great Taking is real since Larry Fink of Blackrock is openly lobbying for the SEC to tokenize financial assets:
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/blackrock-ceo-wants-sec-rapidly-approve-tokenization-bonds-stocks
Sigh. Where’s Luigi when you need him?
The funny thing about the mouse is it was invented in a business unit in one of the largest corporations in the world, Xerox. Despite the early quirks of the PC, it has been remarkably adaptable. This was, of course, a product of IBM, though not the concept. The concept indeed came from the small business venture, I think Altair, but they might not have been the very first.
The business thing is a reflection of the modern world. Western civ started in the ruins of Rome, became centered in today’s France, came to the British Isles via the Normans, which became the center as power moved from land to sea— the ‘British’ Empire— which moved to America and became centered on DC. Kind of a paradox, the trade thing and this reinvention being enabled by territorial expansion. No more new worlds to colonize, until we get to Mars lol. In the meantime, we have to figure out how to reinvent Western Civ (or maybe a new civ) as… Read more »
Never fear! Elon “Space Ranger” Musk is leading the charge into the universe. Soon, we will have McDonalds at Proxima Centauri.
Gimme a large order of McMoon Nuggets and a supersize glass of Black McMatter.
You want Fermi Fries with that?
Yes! And a couple of fish Plancks, now that you mention it!
He wants to colonize Mars to insure human survival if we end up totally screwing things up here on Earth. Tells us pretty much everything we need to know about our ruling elites. That and the fact that any trip to Mars is almost certain to be a one-way ticket across the River Styx.
Educational cartoons. That’s the quality of his thinking (and extent of his knowledge). Why do those say we’d go to Mars? To escape the ruin of Earth, plagued by the white man and his sin, his bad-animal drives to have and to move.
Add narcissism (drugs), midwit smugness (probably sub-midwit), physical ugliness, compulsive lying (always caught, never punished), the royal toddler’s (or Reddit moderator’s) tantrum as model of authority, etc., and the idea becomes to take all our having and moving.
“To Mars?”
“…What?”
It’s a fantasy. Mars makes Antarctica look like Club Med (and that’s not even considering the trip to get there – 6 months of irradiation).
Well, looks like we might need a little transhumanism and cyborg body sculpting to make it happen. GMO humans, perhaps?
I think it was the sexually confused mulatto, writer Sam Delaney, who proposed “neuters”- scarred astronauts made infertile by their life in space. Breasts and testes removed as prone to cancers.
Sex with them became a thing–in other words, they were transexuals.
This is one tasty nugget to chew on. Hats off to you, Painter.
Speaking of America, Inc., Trump’s revocation of LBJ’s old AA EO could have been done by any of the GOP Prezes since but wasn’t. The likely cause was Big Business. If they followed the AA guidelines, they were exempt from discrimination lawsuits. so they were perfectly happy to go along with the AA program and the GOP was fine with screwing their voting base to please their donor base.
Z broke into grandma’s medicine cabinet and swallowed all the white pills.
The white pill makes you larger
And black pill makes you small
And the ones that Donald gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Zeeman
When he’s ten feet tall
Pretty dam’ slick…
Sung with grace, er wot?
Along with America, the internationalist institutions- the UN, NATO, Davos, etc.- are being restructured too, by the somewhat fuzzy new way of doing things: Blackrock-style equity funds, NGOs, corporate-military ventures like DARPA, informal militias like Cartel and ISIS, EU Commission, etc. Things haven’t settled into anything definite yet.
First, kill all the lawyers (and maybe experts). I thought it was a great show – a really good way to think about the rise and obvious decline of America – or at least the American empire.
Business idea: selling a miracle cancer cure to profit off the the cancers induced by the miracle covid cure!
Second business idea: turn Syria into the next Ukraine!
Setting NATO Turkey against BRICS Iran
Good podcast. I liked the analogies and they do kinda fit American history, we are a corporation and the business of America is business as Coolidge said.
Off topic fellas – please forgive the diversion… but: I notice our Esteemed Blog Host is on Nitter. Is that the same as Twitter? I notice that many other of my favorite deplorable crime thinkers are on it too. So… do you have to sign up for it on Twitter? (Errrrr… Heil Hitler, Elon!) Should I re-evaluate my stance on those platforms and sign up? I ask as a doddring outhouse Dissident, or perhaps a “Dissident-adjacent” old stubfart flailing about in a foreign country that used to be my home, long ago… I love the dissidents, I love their rotten… Read more »
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1882789753294135296
If this is what this person believes, what wouldn’t they do?