"The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability that we forget they are ideas at all."
I experienced this viscerally recently when discussing the homeless drug addict epidemic in urban centers across the United States with an NPR-listening friend. When I said I thought the situation was completely untenable, he looked at me as if I had just suggested we ought breathe methane instead of oxygen.
How do you convince someone they are being boiled alive when they've been convinced that it's a jacuzzi?
Absolutely. It took decades to get into this mess and we aren't getting out in a couple of months or even four years. John Carter at Barsoom calls it the Blitzkrieg through the Institutions which is an apt metaphor but the snows of Moscow lie ahead and we had better be ready.
Yes my daughter encouraged our 10 yr old grandchild to come out as gay. How sad and disgusting. She is now going on 15 and I don't get to be in contact with them because I made my feelings gently and lovingly known. That and my spouse having the words "Fu@# your pronouns" on his Twitter bio.
It's this generation that will carry the torch for this behaviour and normalize the mental illness.
They will just think the older generations are dumb ol' fuddy-duddies who just ain't cool enough to get it.
My daughter is a super high IQ but super low EQ. She shuts off at the slightest critical comment. Trust me I know my kid. And they were both great in school, never in trouble, and have fulfilling, happy lives. I did not spare the rod. My son is the polar opposite.
Obviously, something went wrong somewhere along the way with your daughter. I mean, if your kid is obviously and genuinely gay, then that’s how they are. But to try to convince them they’re gay for social status points is a sign of a serious psychological problem.
Her biological father has a plethora of mental illnesses. He's got almost the whole alphabet covered with his BPD, AADD, Manic Depression, GAD, SAD.... Drug and alcohol addiction Dpd... Yeesh...
I spent 6 years of abusive hell with him before I met the real deal. 35 years later here we are, still sweet on each other 💖
Yeah but the difference is we grow up and realize a) we DIDN'T know it all, and b) our parents didn't encourage us to do things that were wrong. This generation is DOOMED.
This is the most realistic writing I've read on the state of US culture. The new golden age ain't gonna happen with the product our schools produce. We can't give an inch. This is a brief window given to us to turn things around but it will require years of effort and, sorry to say, some spilled blood to be successful pushing back against these (Satanic) forces.
That is my fear too. We've lost at least one, and probably two generations to woke, anti-family, collectivist indoctrination. They're now of an age to take over political and governmental positions and are totally in control of all levels of education.
So many children and adults are either functionally illiterate or don't bother to read that all they know is what they watch on TikTok or are fed by the algorithm on their phones. I am worried that it has already gone too far. Europe is at a tipping point and we are not far behind.
Who is going to stand up against it? A generation that has been so conditioned to believe that "the nail that sticks up gets pounded down", that they fret over pronouns and would never question the veracity of anything they've been told by educators lest they be accused of some sort of X-phobia or X-ism?
I support Mangione...There is no point defeating the left to keep our cultures in tact just to be economic serfs.
We are being squeezed by two sides - the anti-Western left and the oligarchical right. Piketty calls them the "Brahmin left" & "Merchant right". Cultural security is being destroyed by one, economic security by the other - and they collaborate together to work against the majority, most obviously in supporting mass immigration.
While I don't support killing for political ends, the moneyed class needs to be made to feel afraid since they are leading us to landlords/serfs social structure through globalist & neoliberal class warfare.
Do you advocate class-based civil war, or just targeted assassinations? How do you define the monied class (the enemy)? Define carefully, or Mangione may be included in it. I'm curious how you can square that, given the fortune he was born into.
I do NOT advocate a class war - that is precisely why I hope elites see the threat of extremism emerging and choose to do something about it before it ever reaches extremity. If you are curious as to what I advocate its more of less exactly what used to exist during the postwar social contract of full employment, affordable housing and cultural security - before it was all sacrificed for globalism & neoliberalism. I'm a restorationist not a radical, I imagine Western society peaked maybe in the mid 90s.
How do I define the economic cleavage? Its always a conflict between the capital owners and wage-earners - with the prior balance which allowed upward advancement for working class people having just been destroyed to restore the historical norm of rentierism. This lies at the core of the recent runaway chasm between rich & poor.
As for squaring away Mangione's privileged background its actually easy - it has always historically been members of the well-to-do with a social conscience who acted as revolutionaries, the most obvious example being the French revolution. It was the bourgeois who drove that revolution. and usually all others - in that his actions are completely historically normal. Even in the commie revolutions the leaders were middle class, it was the masses who provided the muscle.
You make some good points. It seems that a massively scaled back government that isn't constantly compromised by the usurping class is what would provide the most for the most. US Govt spending as a % of GDP has gone from 6% in 1902 to as much as over 30% in recent years.
As you suggest, elites are a big problem. Coercing, infiltrating, and conspiring with government allows monied interests to leverage access to, and to mortgage the future of, middle-class productivity and wealth. COVID, the 2008 financial crisis, and other such events become engineered opportunities for wealth transfer. Corporate welfare (too big to fail), Obamacare, and other examples are symptoms of government's choosing winners and losers, the middle class almost always being the loser.
I think we agree on a lot. But shooting someone in the back, for no good cause that I'm aware of, does nothing to correct the ills we are plagued with. Drastically shrinking and reforming (rehabilitating) government is the best place to start. You mentioned the 90s as perhaps a point at which to restart. I agree, except I'm thinking 1790s.
'When you see something, say something.' I see that you refer to Sarah (Tim) McBride as congresswoman. I invite you to join us Terfs the way Nancy Mace and Keith Self have and begin referring to all men LARPING as women using reality based language. The use of aberrant pronouns is demoralizing.
The USA is a democratic Republic. Normalization of democracy as the definition of our government is a woke ploy. Majority rule leads to Marxism or, at worst, anarchy. The USA was based on the Greek idea of a republic with checks and balances. Without an educated public, a civilized nation can’t stand. The founders knew it, but like the central bankers, the Marxists are playing the long game and redefining words to serve their goals. Democratic does not equal republic. Democratic equals bought votes through (false) dreams of utopia, entitlements, and a minimum annual income that’s given to the lazy voters.
“Without an educated public…”. This is our biggest problem to date. The public education system stopped educating people about 15 years ago. Our youth can barely read or do math. But they know about trans issues and climate change. Our future is uneducated. That scares me more than anything.
They started a hundred years ago. Some time around 1910. It’s being played as a long game. It’s been researched to have started in Columbia University in full force later in the 20th century, right around WWII. The New Republic, innocently titled because The Conquering of America would be noticed, has been the instrumental periodical to spread the mind viruses that have helped formulate and create a way of thinking that has led to the belief that everyone can develop their own “truth” if it doesn’t hurt anyone. However, when speaking of civilizations, that doesn’t wash because man will become lazy and search for pleasure and comfort which degrades into an anarchy of the strongest minds and the strongest physical ability. Joined with selfishness and lack of compassion, the smart use the strong to control everyone else. And I use smart in a loose fashion. Its domination due to greed and lack of compassion, I.e. a bunch of selfish sociopaths.
A couple of historians -- Emmanuel Todd who is still alive and Arnold Toynbee who died in 1975 -- both commented on how widespread education is not necessarily a net good for a civilization. Rather than raise up people, it lowers education. I haven't thought a lot about this, but it's a concept I'm interested in. I was raised that the more educated people, the better. So it was striking that two historians think otherwise, and I'm open to what they say. That is, it can raise up an exceptional person who is poor, but can it raise up a nation? Those two historians are not so sure.
Widespread education lowers education? How does that make sense? And it depends on how you define the structure of civilization. If the belief is that a working class is needed, so we can’t educate everyone, it might be sadly true in their minds. However, a productive civilization that strives for excellence in all they do would arguably be more satisfied by seeing what their potential may be. I suspect there are thousands of underemployed people in this country or lost entrepreneurs due to the de-minimis education provided in public schools.
It seems like I replied to this, and the reply is gone? Or I'm confused and technologically impaired...But here goes again:
So yes, theoretically, if you offer everyone formal education, you improve people’s lives. But what Toynbee and Todd are saying happens is that in fact formal education gets dumber, and young people are not being taught what they need to know to help build and sustain civilization. Toynbee believes universal compulsory education causes the “impoverishment of the results of education.”
What Emmanuel Todd says: “The threshold of 25% of higher education was reached in the United States in 1965. Oddly enough, it was accompanied almost immediately by intellectual decline at all levels.” (I have an unauthorized translation, but I assume he means 25% of Americans attended some college by 1965.)
I can't speak for Todd or Toynbee, of course, but I think the "de-minimis education" you refer to is what they would say inevitably happens when everyone must go to school. In other words, it's not what theoretically would or should or could happen; it's what does happen.
I haven’t read that they relate education to having a working class population, but in response to your comment, I would also add that I came from a working-class and at times quite poor family, and there is nothing wrong with having a working-class population. It is not a lower form of life. My dad never read a book, and he loved his kids incredibly, and that was what mattered to us, and to him.
If I implied working class is lower class it was unintentional. It’s when the education system limits critical thinking to create the working class they will most profit from that I get ticked off. Like telling a smart woman she shouldn’t be an engineer because she won’t be respected. Or telling Rosie Greer he shouldn’t knit blankets.
What’s been lost, and is reflected in the data you’ve shared, is the loss of intellectualism that was fostered in the centuries past but was dampened and then snuffed out. Minimizing critical thinking capabilities, through a CORE curriculum, helps to create sheeple that are done what they’re told, that believe what they are told to believe and are more predictable and manageable.
Of course there are the outliers, and the powers that be have tried to cancel them, but censorship of the media and the internet is required to hide the things that are hidden. With the advances in AI and, hopefully, an access to the minimally published histories of yore, the unfiltered true histories of the last 300-500 years, and older, will reveal what’s been hidden and wake most people from the fantasies they’ve been led to believe.
The revealing of the operations the CIA has been capable of dreaming up and conducting on their own citizens is just the tip of the iceberg.
Or a pawn to the empire. We have the military and are used by the chess players on the world stage. Think global mafia and you get an idea of how things work. We are the mice in the maze and the controllers are the programmers, programming us in public school depending on our level of mental skill. The lower IQ are made to be followers and anarchists, useful for torching Teslas, and the bright are used to fuel the STEM corporations, a slave to debt and the 50 hour work week.
Great essay. Remembering when the ‘politically correct’ speech policing started. Changing definitions of words. Intentionally taking offense at words for which no offense could be construed, causing intentional disorientation in the mind of the speaker (which is the whole point - to constrain and control language, to ward one away from accurate expression). The subversion starts slow and low and builds on itself.
The title alone is enough. I’ll die to protect kids. Blows me away that female circumcision in Africa would TODAY be banished by the wokest of woke, yet “gender affirming care” is “life saving.” For WHOM? Appreciate the truth that woke is far from dead. I only wish those kids protesting could experience seeing what Sharia law actually looks like. Not from the news. From the room they stand in. Poor kids have ZERO clue. I remember being a kid so I get it.
Thank you for a Clear articulation of the big five.... We must continue to remain vigilant.. with a zero tolerance for violence.. We can win this fight, but it is a marathon that could take several more years...
As far as Red Guard judges are concerned, it looks like something's got to give when it comes to Judge Boasberg and his interference of deporting criminal invaders.
You nailed it.
"The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability that we forget they are ideas at all."
- Jacob M. Appel
I experienced this viscerally recently when discussing the homeless drug addict epidemic in urban centers across the United States with an NPR-listening friend. When I said I thought the situation was completely untenable, he looked at me as if I had just suggested we ought breathe methane instead of oxygen.
How do you convince someone they are being boiled alive when they've been convinced that it's a jacuzzi?
Absolutely. It took decades to get into this mess and we aren't getting out in a couple of months or even four years. John Carter at Barsoom calls it the Blitzkrieg through the Institutions which is an apt metaphor but the snows of Moscow lie ahead and we had better be ready.
Spot on! The infection/ permeation runs deep and wide… and here’s a link to that important essay:
https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom/p/the-blitzkrieg-through-the-institutions?r=18ougb&utm_medium=ios
Im torn. I've actually had a few friends "wake-up".
Its almost as if once they see the light, the dark immediately vanishes.
Now that doesn't mean they like Trump but they do see the bias. And agree that The Lefts sacred cow issues are insane.
Live not by lies. Yuri is the Man.
Yes my daughter encouraged our 10 yr old grandchild to come out as gay. How sad and disgusting. She is now going on 15 and I don't get to be in contact with them because I made my feelings gently and lovingly known. That and my spouse having the words "Fu@# your pronouns" on his Twitter bio.
It's this generation that will carry the torch for this behaviour and normalize the mental illness.
They will just think the older generations are dumb ol' fuddy-duddies who just ain't cool enough to get it.
Love your spouses “pronoun” declaration!!
As do I mmp!
You know we Americans love our Canadian neighbors. We wish you well and hope poillivier(sp?) will prevail in the next election.
Thank you💖 but please don't wish Poilievre on us. His nickname in parliament is *The Weasel*. 🤣
pronouns are just a way of trans-ing the gay away. Trans is the new homophobia
BOOM!
🎯mitch
You should've tried a rougher approach.
My daughter is a super high IQ but super low EQ. She shuts off at the slightest critical comment. Trust me I know my kid. And they were both great in school, never in trouble, and have fulfilling, happy lives. I did not spare the rod. My son is the polar opposite.
Obviously, something went wrong somewhere along the way with your daughter. I mean, if your kid is obviously and genuinely gay, then that’s how they are. But to try to convince them they’re gay for social status points is a sign of a serious psychological problem.
Her biological father has a plethora of mental illnesses. He's got almost the whole alphabet covered with his BPD, AADD, Manic Depression, GAD, SAD.... Drug and alcohol addiction Dpd... Yeesh...
I spent 6 years of abusive hell with him before I met the real deal. 35 years later here we are, still sweet on each other 💖
More proof that Chicks Dig Jerks! Now his DNA is bounding into the future… WHEEEEE!!!!
Nah. I was very, very young. Just a teenager when I met him and a bit of jerk myself.
Second go round, and a lot more mature I wanted a real man and got one.
🤣😂🤣
Yeah but the difference is we grow up and realize a) we DIDN'T know it all, and b) our parents didn't encourage us to do things that were wrong. This generation is DOOMED.
This is the most realistic writing I've read on the state of US culture. The new golden age ain't gonna happen with the product our schools produce. We can't give an inch. This is a brief window given to us to turn things around but it will require years of effort and, sorry to say, some spilled blood to be successful pushing back against these (Satanic) forces.
That is my fear too. We've lost at least one, and probably two generations to woke, anti-family, collectivist indoctrination. They're now of an age to take over political and governmental positions and are totally in control of all levels of education.
So many children and adults are either functionally illiterate or don't bother to read that all they know is what they watch on TikTok or are fed by the algorithm on their phones. I am worried that it has already gone too far. Europe is at a tipping point and we are not far behind.
Who is going to stand up against it? A generation that has been so conditioned to believe that "the nail that sticks up gets pounded down", that they fret over pronouns and would never question the veracity of anything they've been told by educators lest they be accused of some sort of X-phobia or X-ism?
That too. Good point.
Half of college students support Mangione? Then we have a big, big problem in our high schools!
All of our schools have been subverted by the commissars and red guards.
I support Mangione...There is no point defeating the left to keep our cultures in tact just to be economic serfs.
We are being squeezed by two sides - the anti-Western left and the oligarchical right. Piketty calls them the "Brahmin left" & "Merchant right". Cultural security is being destroyed by one, economic security by the other - and they collaborate together to work against the majority, most obviously in supporting mass immigration.
While I don't support killing for political ends, the moneyed class needs to be made to feel afraid since they are leading us to landlords/serfs social structure through globalist & neoliberal class warfare.
Do you advocate class-based civil war, or just targeted assassinations? How do you define the monied class (the enemy)? Define carefully, or Mangione may be included in it. I'm curious how you can square that, given the fortune he was born into.
I do NOT advocate a class war - that is precisely why I hope elites see the threat of extremism emerging and choose to do something about it before it ever reaches extremity. If you are curious as to what I advocate its more of less exactly what used to exist during the postwar social contract of full employment, affordable housing and cultural security - before it was all sacrificed for globalism & neoliberalism. I'm a restorationist not a radical, I imagine Western society peaked maybe in the mid 90s.
How do I define the economic cleavage? Its always a conflict between the capital owners and wage-earners - with the prior balance which allowed upward advancement for working class people having just been destroyed to restore the historical norm of rentierism. This lies at the core of the recent runaway chasm between rich & poor.
As for squaring away Mangione's privileged background its actually easy - it has always historically been members of the well-to-do with a social conscience who acted as revolutionaries, the most obvious example being the French revolution. It was the bourgeois who drove that revolution. and usually all others - in that his actions are completely historically normal. Even in the commie revolutions the leaders were middle class, it was the masses who provided the muscle.
You make some good points. It seems that a massively scaled back government that isn't constantly compromised by the usurping class is what would provide the most for the most. US Govt spending as a % of GDP has gone from 6% in 1902 to as much as over 30% in recent years.
As you suggest, elites are a big problem. Coercing, infiltrating, and conspiring with government allows monied interests to leverage access to, and to mortgage the future of, middle-class productivity and wealth. COVID, the 2008 financial crisis, and other such events become engineered opportunities for wealth transfer. Corporate welfare (too big to fail), Obamacare, and other examples are symptoms of government's choosing winners and losers, the middle class almost always being the loser.
I think we agree on a lot. But shooting someone in the back, for no good cause that I'm aware of, does nothing to correct the ills we are plagued with. Drastically shrinking and reforming (rehabilitating) government is the best place to start. You mentioned the 90s as perhaps a point at which to restart. I agree, except I'm thinking 1790s.
'When you see something, say something.' I see that you refer to Sarah (Tim) McBride as congresswoman. I invite you to join us Terfs the way Nancy Mace and Keith Self have and begin referring to all men LARPING as women using reality based language. The use of aberrant pronouns is demoralizing.
The USA is a democratic Republic. Normalization of democracy as the definition of our government is a woke ploy. Majority rule leads to Marxism or, at worst, anarchy. The USA was based on the Greek idea of a republic with checks and balances. Without an educated public, a civilized nation can’t stand. The founders knew it, but like the central bankers, the Marxists are playing the long game and redefining words to serve their goals. Democratic does not equal republic. Democratic equals bought votes through (false) dreams of utopia, entitlements, and a minimum annual income that’s given to the lazy voters.
“Without an educated public…”. This is our biggest problem to date. The public education system stopped educating people about 15 years ago. Our youth can barely read or do math. But they know about trans issues and climate change. Our future is uneducated. That scares me more than anything.
They started a hundred years ago. Some time around 1910. It’s being played as a long game. It’s been researched to have started in Columbia University in full force later in the 20th century, right around WWII. The New Republic, innocently titled because The Conquering of America would be noticed, has been the instrumental periodical to spread the mind viruses that have helped formulate and create a way of thinking that has led to the belief that everyone can develop their own “truth” if it doesn’t hurt anyone. However, when speaking of civilizations, that doesn’t wash because man will become lazy and search for pleasure and comfort which degrades into an anarchy of the strongest minds and the strongest physical ability. Joined with selfishness and lack of compassion, the smart use the strong to control everyone else. And I use smart in a loose fashion. Its domination due to greed and lack of compassion, I.e. a bunch of selfish sociopaths.
John Dewey.
Touché! The father of progressive education. 1904-1930 professor at Columbia, together with The Frankfurt School.
A couple of historians -- Emmanuel Todd who is still alive and Arnold Toynbee who died in 1975 -- both commented on how widespread education is not necessarily a net good for a civilization. Rather than raise up people, it lowers education. I haven't thought a lot about this, but it's a concept I'm interested in. I was raised that the more educated people, the better. So it was striking that two historians think otherwise, and I'm open to what they say. That is, it can raise up an exceptional person who is poor, but can it raise up a nation? Those two historians are not so sure.
Widespread education lowers education? How does that make sense? And it depends on how you define the structure of civilization. If the belief is that a working class is needed, so we can’t educate everyone, it might be sadly true in their minds. However, a productive civilization that strives for excellence in all they do would arguably be more satisfied by seeing what their potential may be. I suspect there are thousands of underemployed people in this country or lost entrepreneurs due to the de-minimis education provided in public schools.
It seems like I replied to this, and the reply is gone? Or I'm confused and technologically impaired...But here goes again:
So yes, theoretically, if you offer everyone formal education, you improve people’s lives. But what Toynbee and Todd are saying happens is that in fact formal education gets dumber, and young people are not being taught what they need to know to help build and sustain civilization. Toynbee believes universal compulsory education causes the “impoverishment of the results of education.”
What Emmanuel Todd says: “The threshold of 25% of higher education was reached in the United States in 1965. Oddly enough, it was accompanied almost immediately by intellectual decline at all levels.” (I have an unauthorized translation, but I assume he means 25% of Americans attended some college by 1965.)
I can't speak for Todd or Toynbee, of course, but I think the "de-minimis education" you refer to is what they would say inevitably happens when everyone must go to school. In other words, it's not what theoretically would or should or could happen; it's what does happen.
I haven’t read that they relate education to having a working class population, but in response to your comment, I would also add that I came from a working-class and at times quite poor family, and there is nothing wrong with having a working-class population. It is not a lower form of life. My dad never read a book, and he loved his kids incredibly, and that was what mattered to us, and to him.
If I implied working class is lower class it was unintentional. It’s when the education system limits critical thinking to create the working class they will most profit from that I get ticked off. Like telling a smart woman she shouldn’t be an engineer because she won’t be respected. Or telling Rosie Greer he shouldn’t knit blankets.
What’s been lost, and is reflected in the data you’ve shared, is the loss of intellectualism that was fostered in the centuries past but was dampened and then snuffed out. Minimizing critical thinking capabilities, through a CORE curriculum, helps to create sheeple that are done what they’re told, that believe what they are told to believe and are more predictable and manageable.
Of course there are the outliers, and the powers that be have tried to cancel them, but censorship of the media and the internet is required to hide the things that are hidden. With the advances in AI and, hopefully, an access to the minimally published histories of yore, the unfiltered true histories of the last 300-500 years, and older, will reveal what’s been hidden and wake most people from the fantasies they’ve been led to believe.
The revealing of the operations the CIA has been capable of dreaming up and conducting on their own citizens is just the tip of the iceberg.
I agree with you about all of that! Sorry if my original post was unclear.
Or a pawn to the empire. We have the military and are used by the chess players on the world stage. Think global mafia and you get an idea of how things work. We are the mice in the maze and the controllers are the programmers, programming us in public school depending on our level of mental skill. The lower IQ are made to be followers and anarchists, useful for torching Teslas, and the bright are used to fuel the STEM corporations, a slave to debt and the 50 hour work week.
Great essay. Remembering when the ‘politically correct’ speech policing started. Changing definitions of words. Intentionally taking offense at words for which no offense could be construed, causing intentional disorientation in the mind of the speaker (which is the whole point - to constrain and control language, to ward one away from accurate expression). The subversion starts slow and low and builds on itself.
Yes. And that allows them to make the imposition itself the point.
The title alone is enough. I’ll die to protect kids. Blows me away that female circumcision in Africa would TODAY be banished by the wokest of woke, yet “gender affirming care” is “life saving.” For WHOM? Appreciate the truth that woke is far from dead. I only wish those kids protesting could experience seeing what Sharia law actually looks like. Not from the news. From the room they stand in. Poor kids have ZERO clue. I remember being a kid so I get it.
Thank you for a Clear articulation of the big five.... We must continue to remain vigilant.. with a zero tolerance for violence.. We can win this fight, but it is a marathon that could take several more years...
As far as Red Guard judges are concerned, it looks like something's got to give when it comes to Judge Boasberg and his interference of deporting criminal invaders.
And I don't expect Trump to give way.
Yes, what has to give is Boasberg needs to be arrested by the FBI as he exits his vehicle to go to work. He's a crook.
Thanks Yuri you are a lamp in the darkness.
Keep knocking it out of the park.
Flush, purge, ILLUMINATE until the cancerous depravity is at least back into the shadows.
Thankfully the left still can’t meme.
Why do they/them always look like they're possessed by the devil? Serious question.
Demons are real