The thing that enmaddens me is that when I talk about how education is overprescribed, or that we've entered a dysgenic age, the point is not "lol go be randomly violent"
It's the exact opposite, to identify traps of modernity, avoid them, and improve your own life within this
I am attempting to identify what's gone wrong so that people can live according to what's better, what will make them + their children happy and successful despite all the pressures to make us worse
The point is never "Go be Breivik," instead it's the opposite: "Ride the tiger"
It's comical, "gaslighting" even, that these journalists want to pretend everything is on the upswing when wages have been flat for 40+ years, liberalism is dying, Big Cricket is trying to make you eat bugs, + your standard of living will be lower than your grandparents
Who is the one that's more evil? The one that points these problems out?
Or the one that insists more of the same will, somehow, eventually make your life better, if only we do even more of what got us here?
"If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging"
It's ridiculous I even feel compelled to respond to this. "Make yourself better" + "Here are the ways society is failing us" is not a call for terrorism
It's the exact opposite. It's a way to call people away from the abyss and back towards what is true and beautiful
The fact the Cathedral treats these efforts as violence is only because it perceives it as a threat to its power
And that power process would rather *encourage real terrorism* than grapple with its failures, because creating terrorists only increases its power to destroy dissent
I want you to succeed and become great in order to undermine everything telling you to be weak. Guarantee BAP wants the same.
This is the exact opposite of how our side is portrayed by the journalist.
That, in itself, tells you everything you need to know.
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Nevertheless, the outer-productive regions were still able to sort of maintain themselves as industrial zones and city-feeders until the Regime stripped their means of life, industrialization, from them
Now they have neither the ideology to replace themselves nor the economic means to support themselves to provide for the cities that robbed from them (and, to be fair, enriched us all) for centuries
The old system broke down. All that remains, for the system, is mass migration
We are out of Afghanistan because of Trump, and we are *in* Ukraine because pols like the Clintons + Bidens turned it into their personal colony/paypig
Trump's foreign policy was his greatest achievement for Americans. We need not just one Trump, but fifty Trumps
Americans buy into lies like Iraq and now Ukraine because our eternal political class has convinced them to believe in lies, against our own interests as citizens
It is not a "fringe concern." Our guy literally ran our policies. And they absolutely ruled for the American people
This is apparent from the first day that Trump won election. When our domestic ruling class declared that "Russian interference" was the only reason he won
And went on to impeach him over it. Look, that's fucking weird, no Americans cared about Russia then
The Cathedral is at least a century old, but I think it's just now gone through a phase transition, as it exhausted a lot of its liberal premises of equality
While at the same time discovering it has captured enough of the people and the elite to *abandon* equality
Which means it has the power to enforce its next phase, "equity," i.e. equality through use of force
While it shares things with previous forms of illiberal leftism, this is a uniquely American evolution of it, and also one that draws on modern forms of "force"
Regular reminder that this was already diagnosed in The Elementary Particles 25 years ago. Reason and its infinite promises of liberation from any guiding strictures doesn't lead to better lives
It leads to a form of frozenness, an inability to judge and take action
The book's parallel narrative preemptively demolishes the MedGold-level response to this, "just increase the fuck rate," "just talk to her dude" The 20th century's two totems were pure reason and free sex. Both are shown as dead ends, incapable of giving humans what they need
The two horns of the ideology turn out to be twins in what they promise: liberation from the bounds of our basic being
Which is why both broke when they were put into practice. The outcome of both characters in The Elementary Particles is disgust with themselves.
Unusually insightful article by a Zoomer about Zoomers, that gets at my main idea about the current age: the post-war order is a paralyzing agent, an ideology that strips us of all spirit + will to act
Most visibly as he describes it in youth + children
This to me is the key passage. Combined with being stripped of all meaningful values—turns out "diversity" doesn't provide personal, human meaning—
This draining of spirit leaves people angry, but unaware of what they're angry at. And unable to act against it even if they knew
In short (and this isn't a uniquely Zoomer problem, it's just most concentrated there) there is an immense sense of betrayal, with no actual understanding of what that betrayal *is*, and no spirit to change it