Brilliant and eloquently written, as expected. Sadly only a handful of people have what it takes to see how things really are and then to accept the reality, and those will always be opressed by the majority. Hence in recent years reading astute pieces only makes my misanthropy worse, the more rational and clear the thinking and better the writing, the worse my misanthropy gets after reading... As they say in Germany, Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle...
The Saturday edition of Canada's National Post--a conservative publication--includes a feature article titled "The Death of the Summer Job". which details the unprecedented difficulties faced this year by students seeking a summer job. One of the main factors is "a surge in job seekers due to rapid population growth, especially concentrated among people under 25." Later, the article points out that this can result in a "delayed passage into adulthood" and "slow down workers' careers for decades." It then goes on to list some of the negative impacts of this--"(Y)oung people not having kids, choosing not to have kids, not being able to afford a home because you need a stable job to get a mortgage, but you also need a stable job to save for a home." Nowhere in the article does it mention what is driving this population growth--that it is unnatural, unnecessary, and entirely driven by government policy.
Relevant to the end of the post, yesterday was one of the most telling days in the US. The military parade - 250 years anniversary of the US Army - which I watched - dignified. And the No Kings protests happening in every city - hysterical and 'mostly peaceful' - a lefty euphemism where the big crowds provide a stage and a cover for extremists to act out on everyone's involved behalf and their approval, and result in the righteous indignation about inevitable police 'overreaction'. Thus, flaming the next hysteria even higher.
Which shines the light on the reality of the left's intransigence. If conservatives tried to do something like that during Biden reign, the progressives would be screaming of fascism and Nazis, and white supremacy, and it would be investigated by FBI and police, and organizers and participants would be prosecuted. As happened for the smallest things like people resisting their children trans indoctrination - where speaking at the parent's school meetings was classified as terrorism. Conservatives are an order or even three orders of magnitude less prone to such protests in any case. They don't have the utopia and imaginary grievances on someone-else's-behalf - and female style aggression - to follow and perpetuate, but lives to live. But now it is Freedom to Protest Mostly Peacefully and scream "fascists, Nazis, Kings, oligarchs, racists, stolen lands, Palestine, Mahmoud Khalil" and all of that. And it is guaranteed when they come back to power, they will not show tolerance that is granted to them. They never do.
Uh-oh, based on what we know about LLMs, it will not be easy - or perhaps even impossible - due to the volume of 'legacy media' used as training material. Such an LLM would need to have views on the best possible compromise for human civilization among all possible actions and opinions, as opposed to a consensus among published ideologically biased opinions. But even then, it would need objective presence - like input from all cameras in the US, rather than doubting the published opinions that are guaranteed to be misrepresentations. Like Lorenzo notes about mainstream media here!
"Corporate addiction to cheap imported labour will have to be overcome if the unaccountable classes’ corrosive perversion of institutions is to be halted and reversed."
And therein lies the problem for the Professional Managerial Class, which is to the core - unaccountable. They were the target of Young's original formulation of the meritocracy.
Thought it triggered, that largely a tangent: I wonder if it would be possible to link immigration rates to assimilation rates by preventing immigration from groups that have clustered in specific locations?
After coordinated wage-suppression between Government and corporations, of the destruction of our powerful national manufacturing and employments that support a once huge widespread middle class, and other examples that clearly show that those the rule us and have power over us, they hate us and all we love and we depended on and supported, destroying or Sickening into abusive and poisoning our once trusted and supportive institutions. Those in power want us all suffering till early deaths.
To them we have always been Palestinians and would and will fire-bomb us all and all we love when it is possible and profitable with as much pushback as their Gazan Genocide is getting.
How can anything pushed by any powerful be trusted when everything they have pushed since my adult life has been destructive and evil?
Open borders have clearly been a systematic attack of Western Christian-based value-raised population and societies, a white Christian-raise family genocide.
Gaza is urban warfare, there is no genocide. That term has become wildly over used. We live in an age of moral hyperbole.
Migration policy is way more about class contempt, bureaucratic and corporate self-interest and prosecuted by the elite of Western societies. The anti-Christian element is because progressivism seeks to supplant Christianity.
We've never lost manufacturing output. We manufacture more than we ever did, we just don't employ lots of low or semi skilled labor in manufacturing as we once did. The same transition that occurred in agriculture a few generations prior.
Brilliant and eloquently written, as expected. Sadly only a handful of people have what it takes to see how things really are and then to accept the reality, and those will always be opressed by the majority. Hence in recent years reading astute pieces only makes my misanthropy worse, the more rational and clear the thinking and better the writing, the worse my misanthropy gets after reading... As they say in Germany, Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle...
The Saturday edition of Canada's National Post--a conservative publication--includes a feature article titled "The Death of the Summer Job". which details the unprecedented difficulties faced this year by students seeking a summer job. One of the main factors is "a surge in job seekers due to rapid population growth, especially concentrated among people under 25." Later, the article points out that this can result in a "delayed passage into adulthood" and "slow down workers' careers for decades." It then goes on to list some of the negative impacts of this--"(Y)oung people not having kids, choosing not to have kids, not being able to afford a home because you need a stable job to get a mortgage, but you also need a stable job to save for a home." Nowhere in the article does it mention what is driving this population growth--that it is unnatural, unnecessary, and entirely driven by government policy.
Mainstream media: accurate but untruthful, because it leaves out what is awkward for the approved narratives.
Great continuation on the subject, Lorenzo.
Relevant to the end of the post, yesterday was one of the most telling days in the US. The military parade - 250 years anniversary of the US Army - which I watched - dignified. And the No Kings protests happening in every city - hysterical and 'mostly peaceful' - a lefty euphemism where the big crowds provide a stage and a cover for extremists to act out on everyone's involved behalf and their approval, and result in the righteous indignation about inevitable police 'overreaction'. Thus, flaming the next hysteria even higher.
Which shines the light on the reality of the left's intransigence. If conservatives tried to do something like that during Biden reign, the progressives would be screaming of fascism and Nazis, and white supremacy, and it would be investigated by FBI and police, and organizers and participants would be prosecuted. As happened for the smallest things like people resisting their children trans indoctrination - where speaking at the parent's school meetings was classified as terrorism. Conservatives are an order or even three orders of magnitude less prone to such protests in any case. They don't have the utopia and imaginary grievances on someone-else's-behalf - and female style aggression - to follow and perpetuate, but lives to live. But now it is Freedom to Protest Mostly Peacefully and scream "fascists, Nazis, Kings, oligarchs, racists, stolen lands, Palestine, Mahmoud Khalil" and all of that. And it is guaranteed when they come back to power, they will not show tolerance that is granted to them. They never do.
Musk response on Woke Grok's opinion that right wing violence is more prevalent than left wing violence:
Major fail, as this is objectively false. Grok is parroting legacy media.
Working on it.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1935180620352958935
Uh-oh, based on what we know about LLMs, it will not be easy - or perhaps even impossible - due to the volume of 'legacy media' used as training material. Such an LLM would need to have views on the best possible compromise for human civilization among all possible actions and opinions, as opposed to a consensus among published ideologically biased opinions. But even then, it would need objective presence - like input from all cameras in the US, rather than doubting the published opinions that are guaranteed to be misrepresentations. Like Lorenzo notes about mainstream media here!
If there is someone who has the ability to distill these topics down to their bones better than you, I haven't read them. Brilliant. Again.
"Corporate addiction to cheap imported labour will have to be overcome if the unaccountable classes’ corrosive perversion of institutions is to be halted and reversed."
And therein lies the problem for the Professional Managerial Class, which is to the core - unaccountable. They were the target of Young's original formulation of the meritocracy.
Interesting.
Thought it triggered, that largely a tangent: I wonder if it would be possible to link immigration rates to assimilation rates by preventing immigration from groups that have clustered in specific locations?
Or just avoid “big lumps” migration. Some clumping is going to happen, but if they lack the numbers, you cannot get full enclaves.
Denmark is going further and dissassembling the ghettos and trying to make it that these clusters cannot happen, and that there will be no parallel societies. https://theworld.org/stories/2025/04/07/as-denmark-tears-down-homes-in-non-western-areas-to-force-assimilation-residents-fight-back-in-court
After coordinated wage-suppression between Government and corporations, of the destruction of our powerful national manufacturing and employments that support a once huge widespread middle class, and other examples that clearly show that those the rule us and have power over us, they hate us and all we love and we depended on and supported, destroying or Sickening into abusive and poisoning our once trusted and supportive institutions. Those in power want us all suffering till early deaths.
To them we have always been Palestinians and would and will fire-bomb us all and all we love when it is possible and profitable with as much pushback as their Gazan Genocide is getting.
How can anything pushed by any powerful be trusted when everything they have pushed since my adult life has been destructive and evil?
Open borders have clearly been a systematic attack of Western Christian-based value-raised population and societies, a white Christian-raise family genocide.
Gaza is urban warfare, there is no genocide. That term has become wildly over used. We live in an age of moral hyperbole.
Migration policy is way more about class contempt, bureaucratic and corporate self-interest and prosecuted by the elite of Western societies. The anti-Christian element is because progressivism seeks to supplant Christianity.
"powerful national manufacturing"
We've never lost manufacturing output. We manufacture more than we ever did, we just don't employ lots of low or semi skilled labor in manufacturing as we once did. The same transition that occurred in agriculture a few generations prior.
There is some issue about the range of manufacturing—e.g. shipbuilding and various supply chains—but yes.