Thread by @Andercot

The reality is we could've easily mastered energy, food, and material abundance with 1970s era Technology.

Instead, we loaded up on virtue signaling, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory capture.

I call this general phenomenon "The Blight"

The Blight is what gives you things like billion-dollar a mile railroad tracks in San Francisco, never completed high speed rail in California, the NRC killing nuclear energy, ArianeSpace, a bunch of go-nowhere climate tech bubbles, Don Lemon, affirmative action, etc

The Blight is a disease of wealth.

Any society faced with genuine survival pressure can't afford the Blight, or else they perish

The Blight exists solely as a parasite suckling off the insane wealth generated by industrial capitalism

The Blight is endless bureaucracies, outsourcing, McKinsey consultants, feel good diversity panels, DEI committees, ESG, biofuels, carbon credit marketplaces, NIMBY anti housing socialism, "math is racist", denies biology, natural variance, etc

The Blight is simply a manifestation of petty tribalism and grift in the modern age

Most usually it leverages a feel good narrative of inclusion or else just sells fear to justify centralization of control

The net effect of Blight is inflation and declining birth rates

The Blight is fundamentally antithetical to what is good in the Human Spirit

Perseverance, competition, innovation, decisiveness, execution, imagination, risk-taking, adventurousness, and integrity

The Blight has produced endless millions of do-nothing paper pushing jobs with titles like Analyst, Coordinator, Engagement Officer, Committee Chair.

It is the reason education, healthcare, and government services have all declined in real value per dollar spent

The Blight cannot exist wherever there is free and fair competition.

It can only grow and take root where people let it, when they give in to peer pressure and crowd conformity to do what they know is not truly fair or just.

Fuck the Blight