It is a standard trope to believe that modern medicine banished the horrendous infectous diseases that used to plague or civilization through antibiotics and mass vaccination. This narrative is almost entirely false. The first measles vaccine was licensed for use in the United States in 1963, but almost all the gains against measles-related mortality occurred long before that, and were not the result of medical intervention.

This is an interesting artifact; It's a rare occasion on which i think @GreeneMan6 mishandled a debate by being overly agressive.

https://twitter.com/GreeneMan6/status/1926313189911789663

@nathancofnas begins the discussion by trying to access the reality that in many circumstances a dishonest, self-interested, competant person, might be more useful than an honest but not competant person. Hypothetically, the competant person could have his incentives re-aligned to tell the truth, whereas the incompetant person cannot may not be able to achieve competence.

One of the essential and nearly immutable differences in the psychology of the American and the Canadian comes in their respective attitudes toward the frontier. Both historically and in our day to day lives, this difference shapes us profoundly. To the American, the world is something like a great race to tame an unoccupied land of milk and honey; given to them by God's providence. Their competitors and the hardships of the wild are something like speedbumps along that journey to test their resolve and strength.

In order to obtain victory, the mentality of the Boomer Truth Regime must be unseated. Pre-modern man was obsessed with his relationship to the long continuity of his people and his God. Modern man is focused on the way the long continuity of his people constrains his freedom. You can see this all around us in the physical world. Across the skylines of the west a battle is being waged between the eternal and the transient. The transient is winning.

I rarely give personal finance tips on Twitter, but this is nonsense.

Going into debt to advance economic classes is how most people move downward on the economic class hierarchy, rarely upward. Below is a list of ways people typically "advance economic classes".

https://twitter.com/friendlymj010/status/1874833370154480090

From "hand to mouth" to "lower-middle class"
1) Staying out of consumer debt
2) Ditching substance abuse problems
3) Getting enough emotional control to stay at a job
4) Learning to live with family

When I was in my late teens and early 20's I was not particularly interested in politics, instead my obsessive tendencies were applied to NFL football. Here is the story of how effminate Progressive culture ruined NFL football; and why the degraded masses love the change. All sports are designed to fulfill the martial instinct for men in a period of peace. Few sports have ever done it quite as well as NFL football. A sport which combined supreme physicality, tight organization, a wide diversity of roles, and extreme punishment for mistakes.

It's been a long time, the time has come to re-articulate my broad thesis for the future of the Western World. A lot of the arguments from this account flow from this basic view. The world as you currently know it rests on top of a series of complex systems with key nodes globally distributed. This system manifested in the post WWII world where great power conflict did not exist and all key nodes and shipping routes were effectively policed.

We mean to get back to the political settlement of old Christendom, before the crisis of modernity swept it away;

A world where all people groups have both their collective and induvidual interest recognized as fundamentally legitimate, rather than the MLK fantasy where collective interests disappear. To provide a concrete example; within the envelope of the post-war consensus the only legitimate complaints against immigraition to the UK are harms against induvidual citizens. Some migrants are criminals, or economic drags to the system.

Just finished going through the best interview with MM that I've heard; I have a couple of thoughts.
🧵

https://twitter.com/_jburden/status/1845798060879642738

First, MM takes the position both that he was caught flat footed by Tucker's WWII questions and also that he was surprised by the reaction. I don't believe the later for even a second.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of historical photography to the dissident movement. The world before the GAE must be remembered. Every day you must remind yourself how shabby and pathetic the current vision of the future is.

Vienna Opera c. 1900

https://twitter.com/TheBlackHorse65/status/1712176445890462072

London, c. 1900;

Attempting to put the GAE on a war footing is one of the riskiest possible maneuvers that are current ruling class could possibly attempt. I would suggest that there is a less than 10% chance they could complete such a maneuver and remain in power.
Here's why 🧵

https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1834523785791181166

There first problem would be that they would immediately create a large caste of men with huge incentives to violently defect from the regime. In virtually every case, this has led to large-scale civil unrest.

In his 1972 book "violence and the sacred" René Girard observed that in the same way human desire and values follow a memetic pattern, violence and especially political violence has a memetic quality

This memetic process is most profoundly expressed in terms of escalating antagonistic memesis.
"He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue."

I think it's appropriate today that we gather a thread in memorandum of Joe Biden, the most popular president in US history, who secured an electoral mandate with an unprecedented 81 million votes.
🧵 The saga begins with the infamous Corn-Pop story, presented here in his abbreviated own words:

"And Corn Pop was a bad dude.
And he ran a bunch of bad boys.
And I did and back in those days –
to show how things have changed –
...
and he said,
‘I’ll meet you outside.’
...
and he said,
‘I’ll be waiting for you.
He was waiting for me with
three guys with straight razors.
Not a joke.
...
So I walked out with the chain.
And I walked up to my car.
And in those days,
you remember the straight razors,
you had to bang ’em on the curb,
gettin’ em rusty,
puttin’ em in the rain barrel,
gettin’ em rusty?
And I looked at him,
but I was smart,
then. I said,
‘First of all,’ I said,
‘when I tell you to get off the board,
you get off the board,
and I’ll kick you out again,"

Game of Thrones is, in many regards, the era-defining artistic achievement of the period between '08 and '21 in the GAE. It tells the story of the collapse of belief in a political formula into Machiavellian politics, and the rivers of blood that the collapse presages.
🧵 The story lives in the shadow of the untold story of how Robert Baratheon assembled a monarchy by strength of the sword; and how that monarchy has descended into a degenerate oligarchy.
This an artistic rendering of FDR --> Obama

In 1999, Henry S. Rowen wrote an article for the Hoover Institution arguing that China would inevitably become a Western Democratic Country, his target date was between 2015 & 2019.

The failure of the GAE to assimilate China is the defining characteristic of modern geopolitics. From the day that Bush Sr. made the New World Order speech in 1991; the US ran it's largest, most aggressive program to forcibly integrate China into the GAE. 4 prongs:
1) US Investment
2) Anticolonialism
3) Special Economic Zones
4) Left wing academic/street activism

People think that Justin Trudeau is stupid, but he possesses the animal cunning of a consumate survivor. If the world ever experiences a nuclear holocaust, he will be Prime Minister of the cockroaches making them fly little rainbow flag and importing Indian cockroaches.
🧵

https://twitter.com/OGRolandRat/status/1800006331094757598

6-9 months ago, Trudeau was facing political extinction. He had a caucus rovolt on his hands attempting to displace him as LPC leader, was facing insurmountable poll numbers, and a rebellion from the donor class because of asset price deflation.

There is no one cultural shit-lib cultural artifact that speaks to me of the change in the leadership class of the American Empire than Star Trek; This thread will explore this parallel transformation below: Star Trek's history can be divided into 5 major phases;
Star Trek "Progress"
Star Trek "Cold Warrior"
Star Trek "Science"
Star Trek "Transition"
Star Trek "DEI/Collapse"

The people of the American Empire today live haunted by the ashes of futures which were promised, but never materialized. This thread will review some of these unrealized dreams, which haunt us today. The first of these unrealized dreams was a world order where nations remained sovereign & distinct, but took joy in mutual appreciation and cooperation and resolved their differences through negotiation and international instructions the UN, WTO, and ICC.

Last night @AuronMacintyre & @OGRolandRat crossed paths on an episode of Cigar Stream. As Auron goes around and does the circuit of podcasts to sell the book, this is the one you should listen to. AA interrogates the work in a way others simply will not.

Here are my thoughts: Auron MacIntyre hits hard in this episode what I most appreciate about him as a thinker; the difference between deconstruction for it's own sake, and the effort to re-nest the deeply held values of his people in institutions which will give life to those values.

I don't agree that this is actually the reason. This is the public justification, but the pattern of behavior indicates that cultural erasure and the prevention of a coherent opposition is the primary goal, and that amulerating these issues is secondary at best.

https://twitter.com/martyrmade/status/1784384522609684812

e.g. this was done before mass immigration, in an effort to erase a past that was viewed as an impediment to the ruling class.

"The reason our society was better [than Islamic society] was that everyone was educated, men AND women" - Lauren Southern

....where do you even start.....

https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1783007011933950404

The men who built the West were, for the most part, not educated in the sense that Southern is speaking about, and neither were their wives.