All of it planned. It's the Cloward-Piven theory basically:
The faster you can tank the whole system, by bankrupting the country through massive social program, give-aways (and by wars), the sooner full-on socialism has to be implemented.
Essentially the entire cold war apparatus never went away, it was just repurposed. It turned against the west itself over the past 30 years due to leftist and globalist ideologies that took over the elites and the bureaucracy.
And to make it worse, every dollar of the spending for "spreading democracy " is borrowed from future generations. Deliberate Destruction through Dependence.
The Lefts entire platform is trying to create equal outcomes because it will cause equal dependence. It is impossible to be free if you are not self-reliant. Thats what they want.
You have to admit it's fun watching the Left trying to defend the indefensible. The goal is to save America, not trigger the Left. For some reason trying to save America triggers the Left.
Planned, you say it’s all planned. Collapsing, everything will lead to socialism socialism being government handouts, and complete dependency. This is the Colward-Piven theory.
I think human stupidity, the egregore of group think, the inability of recessive ideas to compete in the marketplace of ideas as distorted by career considerations and bad religion ( progress) are responsible and not planning. As a species we are far too stupid to plan at this level.
But that’s me being picayune, the effect is certainly as you describe: destruction first followed by dependency. It is a hate filled belief system, self loathing and perverse.
I am Canadian. I’m in Florida for the winter, but there’s lots of Canadians in my orbit. I bring it up, the 51st state, I tell them all that I think it’s a good idea, I’m in favour. They lose their minds. I enjoy. I enjoy greatly. Schadenfreude, my old friend.
Yugoslavia broke up starting in July of 1991, and the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991 and Czechoslovakia dissolved in 1993, and Kuwait was granted large parts of the Iraqi coast in 1992, the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, but the country didn’t unify until October 1990, so this can only have been made between October 1990 and July of 1991.
Love how you left out North Macedonia from the post-yugo states. It was the only place that the Serbs simply let it go without giving decades of future employment for local anthropologists.
That globe is a treasure though. I'm sure it will have a nice place with baby Yulia.
I also love collecting maps and similar things from the past. When one of the local schools were shut down I managed to save some really rare stuff. I don't remember who made it (and they are at the family home right now) but german atlases, and geography textbooks that were otherwise would have been destroyed. The oldest one is from 1838 and to be honest...it's pretty accurate. And they also have a lot of Terra Incognitas in it, that we will never see again.
I don't know what is the system over there, but time to time I find absolute gems that would otherwise end up in a landfill. So if it is possible, I would encourage you too to try to save the old memories if you have a chance. A lot of libraries have been disbanded/are disbanding and we can't trust the authorities to find and save that might be worth saving.
Yuri-thanks for the geography themed article today. I hold a BS in Geography and a minor in Geology. I love all things Geo (except the car from the 80's)! One of my favorite projects in college was having to create the southern hemisphere in the Mercator scale with original cartography tools. Challenging and wonderful.
We had to draw our map on a 2 X 2 piece of mylar. It was meticulous work but worth it. I was also in school when GIS first came on the scene. That was fun to play around with as well.
Perhaps, I am wishcasting but I think devolution is more likely than imperialism. We are going to see more countries break apart (Belgium, Canada, perhaps Russia) or dissolve into civil war (Spain, Ireland, perhaps the US), Multiple places in Africa already have the war and break up is in their future. The EU will break up, if you consider that a country. The problem, in the West at least, is what Edward Abbey called the world's oldest war-between city and countryside.
Taiwan is going to get Hong Kong'd and I bet Xi has his eyes on some of Putins far eastern land for mining and oil. I feel he was supporting Putin going to war in Ukraine after he left the Olympics just to put the hurt on the Bears economy. Putin's no fool and like all the other countries Xi has "helped" develop the West will be a better option. If only the West can "Keep on Trumpin" I love maps and collect snowmobile trail maps.
We played it with our kids - I think in the late 1990's, as WIN95 or 98 computer game. "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" theme song is now playing in my head.
What is the relationship of the "end of history" and the "last man" – isn't the last man a Nietzschean depiction of the terminally nihilistic and unimaginative (i.e. "NPCs" nowadays)? "The last man hops..." Heidegger elaborated with "They blink..." in his book What Is Called Thinking (excellent text by the way).
I guess those who declared the end of history in the 1990s confused the map for the territory and the era for the timeline. Fukuyama aside, 1992 was a good year though – SNES was fire and Zelda 3 still remains the best of that franchise ;D
Carmen San Diego was fire. I wanted to be Carmen San Diego for a brief time as a kid. The Donroe doctrine one and the one showing our northern colonies( they don't know it yet really but why tf not🤣) were good ones.
All of it planned. It's the Cloward-Piven theory basically:
The faster you can tank the whole system, by bankrupting the country through massive social program, give-aways (and by wars), the sooner full-on socialism has to be implemented.
Essentially the entire cold war apparatus never went away, it was just repurposed. It turned against the west itself over the past 30 years due to leftist and globalist ideologies that took over the elites and the bureaucracy.
And to make it worse, every dollar of the spending for "spreading democracy " is borrowed from future generations. Deliberate Destruction through Dependence.
The Lefts entire platform is trying to create equal outcomes because it will cause equal dependence. It is impossible to be free if you are not self-reliant. Thats what they want.
You have to admit it's fun watching the Left trying to defend the indefensible. The goal is to save America, not trigger the Left. For some reason trying to save America triggers the Left.
Planned, you say it’s all planned. Collapsing, everything will lead to socialism socialism being government handouts, and complete dependency. This is the Colward-Piven theory.
I think human stupidity, the egregore of group think, the inability of recessive ideas to compete in the marketplace of ideas as distorted by career considerations and bad religion ( progress) are responsible and not planning. As a species we are far too stupid to plan at this level.
But that’s me being picayune, the effect is certainly as you describe: destruction first followed by dependency. It is a hate filled belief system, self loathing and perverse.
Ryan G that is very very solid. Congratulations are in order. I love incisive thinking.
Thanks!
I am Canadian. I’m in Florida for the winter, but there’s lots of Canadians in my orbit. I bring it up, the 51st state, I tell them all that I think it’s a good idea, I’m in favour. They lose their minds. I enjoy. I enjoy greatly. Schadenfreude, my old friend.
If they don't like it, maybe they shouldn't have voted for Justin Trudeau over and over and over again.
I say things like that. my circle of friends is shrinking.
Annexing a country which has a tradition of socialized medicine would be a disaster for the US.
Yugoslavia broke up starting in July of 1991, and the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991 and Czechoslovakia dissolved in 1993, and Kuwait was granted large parts of the Iraqi coast in 1992, the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, but the country didn’t unify until October 1990, so this can only have been made between October 1990 and July of 1991.
Spot on.
Yep… God is on the move… moving us to a multipolar world.
We're not. We'll just annex Canada and then have Canadians rent Greenland from us....;)
We should have just kept Cuba when we had the chance.
Imagine studying history one's whole life, becoming a professional historian, and never having learned the most principle of lessons from it.
Many such cases in the NPC PMC "expert" class.
The globalists loved that stuff and paid him handsomely, I'm sure.
Love how you left out North Macedonia from the post-yugo states. It was the only place that the Serbs simply let it go without giving decades of future employment for local anthropologists.
That globe is a treasure though. I'm sure it will have a nice place with baby Yulia.
I also love collecting maps and similar things from the past. When one of the local schools were shut down I managed to save some really rare stuff. I don't remember who made it (and they are at the family home right now) but german atlases, and geography textbooks that were otherwise would have been destroyed. The oldest one is from 1838 and to be honest...it's pretty accurate. And they also have a lot of Terra Incognitas in it, that we will never see again.
I don't know what is the system over there, but time to time I find absolute gems that would otherwise end up in a landfill. So if it is possible, I would encourage you too to try to save the old memories if you have a chance. A lot of libraries have been disbanded/are disbanding and we can't trust the authorities to find and save that might be worth saving.
Yuri-thanks for the geography themed article today. I hold a BS in Geography and a minor in Geology. I love all things Geo (except the car from the 80's)! One of my favorite projects in college was having to create the southern hemisphere in the Mercator scale with original cartography tools. Challenging and wonderful.
Making maps is fun and educational.
We had to draw our map on a 2 X 2 piece of mylar. It was meticulous work but worth it. I was also in school when GIS first came on the scene. That was fun to play around with as well.
Perhaps, I am wishcasting but I think devolution is more likely than imperialism. We are going to see more countries break apart (Belgium, Canada, perhaps Russia) or dissolve into civil war (Spain, Ireland, perhaps the US), Multiple places in Africa already have the war and break up is in their future. The EU will break up, if you consider that a country. The problem, in the West at least, is what Edward Abbey called the world's oldest war-between city and countryside.
Taiwan is going to get Hong Kong'd and I bet Xi has his eyes on some of Putins far eastern land for mining and oil. I feel he was supporting Putin going to war in Ukraine after he left the Olympics just to put the hurt on the Bears economy. Putin's no fool and like all the other countries Xi has "helped" develop the West will be a better option. If only the West can "Keep on Trumpin" I love maps and collect snowmobile trail maps.
Heh. I remember "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" as a video game in 1985.
We played it with our kids - I think in the late 1990's, as WIN95 or 98 computer game. "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" theme song is now playing in my head.
I used to own a cassette tape of the Carmen San Diego soundtrack album by Rockapella. Apparently it's an expensive collectors' item now!
How much do you want for it?
If I still had it, I would give it to you as a token of my esteem. As it is, I'll let you know if some MP3s magically manifest on my hard drive.
We want deal! We have the best MP3s, don't we folks?
What is the relationship of the "end of history" and the "last man" – isn't the last man a Nietzschean depiction of the terminally nihilistic and unimaginative (i.e. "NPCs" nowadays)? "The last man hops..." Heidegger elaborated with "They blink..." in his book What Is Called Thinking (excellent text by the way).
I guess those who declared the end of history in the 1990s confused the map for the territory and the era for the timeline. Fukuyama aside, 1992 was a good year though – SNES was fire and Zelda 3 still remains the best of that franchise ;D
Carmen San Diego was fire. I wanted to be Carmen San Diego for a brief time as a kid. The Donroe doctrine one and the one showing our northern colonies( they don't know it yet really but why tf not🤣) were good ones.
1991 is my guess-even though in May 1990 Slovenia had separated from Yugoslavia-it would take time to manufacture the glove😆
Thanx Yuri,
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!