I had an encounter with gentleman jihadi warlord Ahnaf Ibn Qais on Tree of Woe's blog. I disagreed and pushed back against what I perceived as "Islamic Supremacism". His argument was that Islam will dominate Europe because of Demographics. I argued that neither the progressive nor traditionalist Europeans have any interest in becoming Muslims, and that in the last 500 years, the Muslim world has made practically no contributions to Western culture, so why convert? Conquest through your ability to outbreed your host with throngs of children is not a winning strategy. That and other points got his goat, but rather than respond with counter arguments, he had me blocked. I just haven't seen the intellectual acumen that others say he has. Maybe I should read his blog, but I have so many others to read that it's a low priority.
Yes, his main argument is from demographics, and secondarily, that the West is spiritually exhausted and will therefore inevitably succumb.
Obviously, I disagree on both points. Quantity is far from everything, and as to spiritual exhaustion … dark nights of the soul such as we have endured do not last forever, and the burgeoning activity in our space is a strong indication that this era is drawing to its unlamented close.
What disappointed me was that at the end he switched to an ad homonym attack (the last resort of someone losing an argument) claiming I was against children and therefore aligned with the demons. Imagine that.
I haven't read his blog (Though I possibly will.) nor do I listen to many, hardly any podcasts (Prefer the written word and have a problem with, in many p'casts , hearing um, um, um and ah as parts of sentences) -but in reply to your; " ...Muslim world has made practically no contributions to Western culture, so why convert? ", 'cause any time they're the majority or have any power, they'll kill you if you don't?
Consider how mass immigration worked out for Indians in North American. White Europeans are the Indians now. They are reproducing below replacement rates while importing lots of 3rd worlders, many of whom tend to be from nominally Muslim countries.
It's not hard to imagine that 50%+ of the population will be Muslim in a generation or two with current trends. Add on top of that the European variant of Metis due to (involuntary) interbreeding. Look at the current concessions to appease ~10% of the population. It's only going to get worse as these systems will become self reinforcing with more Muslim politicians, civil servants, police, etc..
In this situation if you are some "enlightened" "progressive" secular then, why not "hack the system" and publicly convert? If one doesn't believe in God then, it doesn't really matter from their point of view. They don't have to really believe but they do have to eat.
I agree that unless things change considerably in the near future, "The West will be Religious again" and it probably won't be our father's Christianity.
The current trends have been encouraged by our elites. Change the elites and you can change policy. People have this idea that trends go on forever and the rules are set in stone. My opinion is that Western European conversion would be the worst thing for Islam. Aggressive new Euromuslims would eventually dominate culturally and push their own version of Islam. Christianity split several times as it grew. Islam would do the same.
Circulating the elites would solve a lot of problems. They are the ones importing Muslims, the ones transferring resources to Muslims, and the ones tieing the hands of the people so that they cannot fight back against the Muslims.
I know a few muslims grew up in Germany and they didn't survive in Qatar. Had to come back to Europe again. They like beer and enjoy life. I think European muslims in general would be so radical as Christians probably up to 70 years ago...
One thing (of many) that stuck with me from the "Re-enchantment" essay is this idea of space travel being the ultimate expression of humanity's focus on the transcendent and celestial. It made me think about Evola and "Revolt Against the Modern World" , in which he denotes the difference between the celestial-focused "hyperborean" spirit with the cthonic "ground and filth" obsession of the global south.
If space travel doesn't happen, it's because there are people (entities) that will do everything they can from keeping us out of the heavens. I am pretty certainly convinced that reaching for the stars and the spiritual issue are connected.
I have been convinced of this, at an intuitive level, since I was a child. It is obviously true, and is why no amount of economic argument can convince opponents - their opposition is spiritual. They're of a different (and, I think, lower) type.
The remigration image never really gets old, if I'm honest. It's the shit-eating grin the woman wears that sells it every time.
Great conversation between you and Mark, by the way. Archetypes and their meanings in stories are among the most interesting of topics to discuss in my estimation, and you guys nailed it.
The Gods made it (not the AI ones, they’re cunts, of course; well, most of them…).
Proof that Christ—or Zeus, Diana, Bacchus, Jupiter, and so on—-are watching over us, I reckon. Or maybe I’m just talking shit, like usual. Yeah, probably that. One thing’s for sure: I’m going to appropriate it and use it for my own ends; I’m just waiting for the right moment.
From the point of view of the moslem invaders, they are saving us. To the moslem, converting the heathen or the pagan is a sacred duty, exactly the same as how Christians used to view it and using the same ways Christians always have used against others: whatever gets the job done is sanctioned by god, by dint of saving people's souls.
That is one of the underpinnings why moslems react so violently to being opposed and told "No thanks, we don't want any": it robs them of their chance of gaining in rank and status in their hierarchy. Never forget all arabised or arab-adjacent moslem peoples are clan-based, and that your family name has real legal implications, something moslems perceive as right and just: to them our system of (the ideal of, at least) equality before the law, equal treatment of equal cases, and that only personal deeds - proven true - matters, and that respect can only ever be /earned/ or freely given, never demanded or coerced, is simply wrong. If you think of islamic kultur as the polar opposite - the antimatter - of Western civilisation you won't go wrong when studying it or trying to understand why they are the way they are.
Add to that 1 500+ years of selective inbreeding of course. Most arabic moslems are simply put very primitive, intellectually speaking. Not necessarily retarded, though a great many are squarely below IQ85, but primitive: they will not, often can not, think things through before acting in the slightest. An eyewitness-example is this: two men accidentally bum into each others cars, one is leaving a parking lot and the other is trying to enter at the same time. No real damage, just scraped paint.
Both men proceed to jump out of the car and verbally, then physically assault each other. This is in the afternoon, city-center, near a major grocery store so there's lots of people around and police arrive withing 5 minutes since they always have at least one patrol in that area, it being an area with fewer than 1/3 White inhabitants.
One of the men jumps in his car and tries driving away, ending hung up on a bollard. The other man starts running while tossing small packets out of his pockets. Both wind up arrested.
This is the kind of behaviour, if among Whites, you only see from CHAVs, or the lowest of fat and ugly meth/SSRI-doped up WT, or spastics throwing fits, or the truly woke. I.e. for white people this kind of stupid inability to automatically realise consequences is anomalous and is mainly represented by the dregs. For the typical arab(ised) moslems, it is instead the mean.
Now, imagine how their dregs act.
Source: 20+ years working in a moslem-majority NoGo-zone, and over 30 years tracking and experiencing arabisation/islamisation of one of the worlds Top 5 Western nations, in real time.
My position is, either they go and the world moves on without noticing any loss or Western civilisation goes away and the world is hurled into a backwards death-spiral for centuries uncountable.
When you have the innate ability to effortlessly reason through second order effects, it is extremely difficult to understand that not everyone can do this. Particularly if you're committed to tabula rasa individualism.
Islam, if adopted en masse, would likely lead to the same inbreeding in whites, since this is an effect of Islamic inheritance law. Combined with the outbreeding with Arab and Pakistani populations, this would wreak total genetic devastation.
Then of course there are the cultural effects. Say goodbye to representational artwork.
To me, it looks very much as though Western civilization is being deliberately destroyed. Not only with Muslims of course, it's a broad spectrum attack. Now, why annihilate the highest civilization humanity has every produced? Who would want to do such an evil thing?
To list possible answers, or rather rough outlines of the principles an answer would e organised under:
->Anyone with a big enough grudge and the means to maneuver over several generations. It would take a very loosely defined and equally loose coalition of forces and ideas, where each drives development towards the desired end-goal, without having anything so crude or crass as a detailed step-by-step plan. Rather, anything deemed detrimental to the target will be incorporated as a plan of action, while anything beneficial to the target is to be negated or turned into a negative.
->Any ruling caste convinced of their own supremacy and superiority fearing subconsciously that they may be surpassed by up-and-coming others, especially a young guard seemingly able and willing to prove the lie of the current rulerships' claims of supremacy. Therefore, an "Apres moi, le Deluge"-attitude becomes reasonable even if not consciously understood. You can see this among some children, that they'd rather destroy the game than lose.
->A culture that sees itself as the originator of all kultur and civilisation, based in racial supremacy and rigid caste-like hierarchy, and who feels that it has been cheated out of and has its natural position as the center usurped by barbarians, would naturally try to make the usurper destroy itself, in order to weaken the usurper so much he will welcome the clandestine aggressor as a saviour, and copy the clandestine aggressor's ways: what better proof of inherent superiority can there be, vindicating the entire idea in one fell swoop.
->A kultur grown weak and decadent through the abolition of harships and threats, the removal of direct palpable consequences of wrong-doing, and who has also abolished its own natural endemic and intrinsical identity in favour of "humanitarian universalism" (for lack of a recognised term).
All of these can of course co-exist and intersect or over-lap.
But: just as with the diseases afflicting those with immuno-defense disorders, the target organism - the body of society in this case - must first be made weak. Ideally, weakness and being a victim must be made a token of worship, a desired status granting privileges automatically and with elevation to Brahmin-status to seal the deal, making any peaceful course-correction impossible.
This all is why the forces seeking our destruction don't really care overmuch about the merchants peddling identities counter to any narrative: it too serves the greater cause of destruction, in that it makes the seeker seek /without/ him- or herself, what can only be created within by yourself. A fetish, an idol, a ritual, a spell, a pill - anything but looking into the Abyss. Anything but venturing forth into the darkness within, there to battle monsters.
Flee to the message-merchant is the credo taught and endorsed and sold, all over all social media.
Enter the Abyss. Face the Last Man withing yourself, and grapple with him, always and eternally, because by doing so the strength is your own, the power is in your hand and the will is your soul.
All these are possible, and it may be that simple. Though I wonder sometimes in idle moments if it's something darker yet. Some external force, implacably opposed to the success not only of Europe but of Earth and all humanity, seeking to truncate the development of the species such that it never reaches its full potential in the Galaxy…
Supra/super-natural causes aside, what confounds us is the time-scale and pace involved. I don't know how much of a background you have with games or game-theory, I have some modicum of an understanding of it:
The term "open-ended" in some games means that as long as you get a specific result, you get to keep rolling the die again and again. In Rolemaster, open-ended results were basically the game mechanic making stuff like David slaying Goliath possible: a couple of 98-00 on the D100, and then rolling a 66C crit - instakill.
I mention this because that's one end of the scale or spectrum of time-perception (and projected perception of time too): immediate, no prep, no real plan needed - just a Sinkadus (Swedish spelling of 5+2 in French, when playing Craps).
The other end of the spectrum-scale is open-ended in the other sense: the game never ends. P&P RPGs used to be played that way - a GM, his mates and a never-ending story, kept up until it reached a natural pause or the players wanted to try something else, or the GM wanted to play instead of GMing. Instead of set and fixed hard goals, keeping the story going and having fun crafting it together was "winning the game".
Now transpose the above to perspectives of open-ended onto the initial question and my somewhat purple response:
If you are centered, if you [are] - then you can do both and switch back and forth as wanted and needed.
But if you grow up and live in time where only the first version is paramount (or presented as the only option), you will only think in immediates or short-term events. A mayfly's perception of reality. Easily brushed aside.
And if you grow up in a time and place where only the second perspective is allowed, you will not /be yourself the individual/ at all, but will exist as part and continuation of a collective whole.
Arabic culture is the first: short, nasty, brutish and "Me always, you never" in attitude. Or as a Palestinian students said it: "Me against my brother; him and me against the cousins; us all against another family; our people against everyone". There's no building anything lasting out of that, nor any point in planning ahead for generations.
Chinese culture is the second: you are the caretaker of the efforts and products of your ancestors. There's no innovation in that, only repetition. And while repetition may and will often lead to perfection, it also leads to perfecting things that could have been improved, but instead the flaws too were made perfect.
Only among the Europeans, and their offspring nations, was there ever in post-Roman times a good blend of both, up until after WW2 concluded.
Now, we are like mayflies before an early Autumn frost in being shortsighted and fixated on immediate gratification of [Rights], and at the same time we are blindly trying to stare beyond the horizon of Climate Doom, while not seeing what is happening right here, right now, nor with any ability to see why the Now is the way it is, nor where this Now will lead if the whys that made it possible are allowed to continue affect it.
Progress - in the meaningful rather than pejorative sense - is naturally impossible in either of the two extremes. One degenerates into chaos, the other crystallizes into inflexible order. A balance is needed.
You can see that crystallisation happening right now:
Inflexible Order imposed by the force driving globalism, via all its acronym-laden tentacles.
Anarchy and chaos being allowed to fester and flourish at the base of society, as long as it never rises to challenge the Order.
At the top of society, reigns Inflexible Order. Corrupt, venal, blind, groping about to gorge itself on anything it can befoul and devour.
At the bottom the rule of the ruthless holds court, making life short nasty and brutish for anyone not being a predator or an agent of Order.
Balance achieved, the way a pole may indeed stand on its own end. It may even stand fast, lodged in the ground. Eventually, that end rots away and the pole falls, the rest of it also going to rot and ruin.
The better balance being, the pole suspended on a fulcrum. But from what to make such a fucrum, where to forge it, how to move the pole back and forth to maintain balance, and how to not overload the ends so that the fuclrum a wedge does not become, snapping the pole in bits - I'm at a loss.
Hey! Thanks for the review. I'd be interesting on hopping into a podcast here or there. I've been on one so far and would be interested in getting in touch with people Any chance you could provide some useful advice there? There's so much going on the world that's worth talking about it's hard to keep up.
What's your recommendation for getting in touch with people and getting onboard some of these opportunities?
I had an encounter with gentleman jihadi warlord Ahnaf Ibn Qais on Tree of Woe's blog. I disagreed and pushed back against what I perceived as "Islamic Supremacism". His argument was that Islam will dominate Europe because of Demographics. I argued that neither the progressive nor traditionalist Europeans have any interest in becoming Muslims, and that in the last 500 years, the Muslim world has made practically no contributions to Western culture, so why convert? Conquest through your ability to outbreed your host with throngs of children is not a winning strategy. That and other points got his goat, but rather than respond with counter arguments, he had me blocked. I just haven't seen the intellectual acumen that others say he has. Maybe I should read his blog, but I have so many others to read that it's a low priority.
Yes, his main argument is from demographics, and secondarily, that the West is spiritually exhausted and will therefore inevitably succumb.
Obviously, I disagree on both points. Quantity is far from everything, and as to spiritual exhaustion … dark nights of the soul such as we have endured do not last forever, and the burgeoning activity in our space is a strong indication that this era is drawing to its unlamented close.
What disappointed me was that at the end he switched to an ad homonym attack (the last resort of someone losing an argument) claiming I was against children and therefore aligned with the demons. Imagine that.
I haven't read his blog (Though I possibly will.) nor do I listen to many, hardly any podcasts (Prefer the written word and have a problem with, in many p'casts , hearing um, um, um and ah as parts of sentences) -but in reply to your; " ...Muslim world has made practically no contributions to Western culture, so why convert? ", 'cause any time they're the majority or have any power, they'll kill you if you don't?
Consider how mass immigration worked out for Indians in North American. White Europeans are the Indians now. They are reproducing below replacement rates while importing lots of 3rd worlders, many of whom tend to be from nominally Muslim countries.
It's not hard to imagine that 50%+ of the population will be Muslim in a generation or two with current trends. Add on top of that the European variant of Metis due to (involuntary) interbreeding. Look at the current concessions to appease ~10% of the population. It's only going to get worse as these systems will become self reinforcing with more Muslim politicians, civil servants, police, etc..
In this situation if you are some "enlightened" "progressive" secular then, why not "hack the system" and publicly convert? If one doesn't believe in God then, it doesn't really matter from their point of view. They don't have to really believe but they do have to eat.
I agree that unless things change considerably in the near future, "The West will be Religious again" and it probably won't be our father's Christianity.
It's possible.
But it's also a failure mode which would represent the termination of our civilization.
The current trends have been encouraged by our elites. Change the elites and you can change policy. People have this idea that trends go on forever and the rules are set in stone. My opinion is that Western European conversion would be the worst thing for Islam. Aggressive new Euromuslims would eventually dominate culturally and push their own version of Islam. Christianity split several times as it grew. Islam would do the same.
Circulating the elites would solve a lot of problems. They are the ones importing Muslims, the ones transferring resources to Muslims, and the ones tieing the hands of the people so that they cannot fight back against the Muslims.
I know a few muslims grew up in Germany and they didn't survive in Qatar. Had to come back to Europe again. They like beer and enjoy life. I think European muslims in general would be so radical as Christians probably up to 70 years ago...
One thing (of many) that stuck with me from the "Re-enchantment" essay is this idea of space travel being the ultimate expression of humanity's focus on the transcendent and celestial. It made me think about Evola and "Revolt Against the Modern World" , in which he denotes the difference between the celestial-focused "hyperborean" spirit with the cthonic "ground and filth" obsession of the global south.
If space travel doesn't happen, it's because there are people (entities) that will do everything they can from keeping us out of the heavens. I am pretty certainly convinced that reaching for the stars and the spiritual issue are connected.
I have been convinced of this, at an intuitive level, since I was a child. It is obviously true, and is why no amount of economic argument can convince opponents - their opposition is spiritual. They're of a different (and, I think, lower) type.
The remigration image never really gets old, if I'm honest. It's the shit-eating grin the woman wears that sells it every time.
Great conversation between you and Mark, by the way. Archetypes and their meanings in stories are among the most interesting of topics to discuss in my estimation, and you guys nailed it.
That remigration image is a definite AI win.
Where does it come from? Did you make it or did someone else? I feel like it’s a ubiquitous meme on the New Right, but the fuck do I know.
I'm not actually sure who made it.
The Gods made it (not the AI ones, they’re cunts, of course; well, most of them…).
Proof that Christ—or Zeus, Diana, Bacchus, Jupiter, and so on—-are watching over us, I reckon. Or maybe I’m just talking shit, like usual. Yeah, probably that. One thing’s for sure: I’m going to appropriate it and use it for my own ends; I’m just waiting for the right moment.
From the point of view of the moslem invaders, they are saving us. To the moslem, converting the heathen or the pagan is a sacred duty, exactly the same as how Christians used to view it and using the same ways Christians always have used against others: whatever gets the job done is sanctioned by god, by dint of saving people's souls.
That is one of the underpinnings why moslems react so violently to being opposed and told "No thanks, we don't want any": it robs them of their chance of gaining in rank and status in their hierarchy. Never forget all arabised or arab-adjacent moslem peoples are clan-based, and that your family name has real legal implications, something moslems perceive as right and just: to them our system of (the ideal of, at least) equality before the law, equal treatment of equal cases, and that only personal deeds - proven true - matters, and that respect can only ever be /earned/ or freely given, never demanded or coerced, is simply wrong. If you think of islamic kultur as the polar opposite - the antimatter - of Western civilisation you won't go wrong when studying it or trying to understand why they are the way they are.
Add to that 1 500+ years of selective inbreeding of course. Most arabic moslems are simply put very primitive, intellectually speaking. Not necessarily retarded, though a great many are squarely below IQ85, but primitive: they will not, often can not, think things through before acting in the slightest. An eyewitness-example is this: two men accidentally bum into each others cars, one is leaving a parking lot and the other is trying to enter at the same time. No real damage, just scraped paint.
Both men proceed to jump out of the car and verbally, then physically assault each other. This is in the afternoon, city-center, near a major grocery store so there's lots of people around and police arrive withing 5 minutes since they always have at least one patrol in that area, it being an area with fewer than 1/3 White inhabitants.
One of the men jumps in his car and tries driving away, ending hung up on a bollard. The other man starts running while tossing small packets out of his pockets. Both wind up arrested.
This is the kind of behaviour, if among Whites, you only see from CHAVs, or the lowest of fat and ugly meth/SSRI-doped up WT, or spastics throwing fits, or the truly woke. I.e. for white people this kind of stupid inability to automatically realise consequences is anomalous and is mainly represented by the dregs. For the typical arab(ised) moslems, it is instead the mean.
Now, imagine how their dregs act.
Source: 20+ years working in a moslem-majority NoGo-zone, and over 30 years tracking and experiencing arabisation/islamisation of one of the worlds Top 5 Western nations, in real time.
My position is, either they go and the world moves on without noticing any loss or Western civilisation goes away and the world is hurled into a backwards death-spiral for centuries uncountable.
When you have the innate ability to effortlessly reason through second order effects, it is extremely difficult to understand that not everyone can do this. Particularly if you're committed to tabula rasa individualism.
Islam, if adopted en masse, would likely lead to the same inbreeding in whites, since this is an effect of Islamic inheritance law. Combined with the outbreeding with Arab and Pakistani populations, this would wreak total genetic devastation.
Then of course there are the cultural effects. Say goodbye to representational artwork.
To me, it looks very much as though Western civilization is being deliberately destroyed. Not only with Muslims of course, it's a broad spectrum attack. Now, why annihilate the highest civilization humanity has every produced? Who would want to do such an evil thing?
To list possible answers, or rather rough outlines of the principles an answer would e organised under:
->Anyone with a big enough grudge and the means to maneuver over several generations. It would take a very loosely defined and equally loose coalition of forces and ideas, where each drives development towards the desired end-goal, without having anything so crude or crass as a detailed step-by-step plan. Rather, anything deemed detrimental to the target will be incorporated as a plan of action, while anything beneficial to the target is to be negated or turned into a negative.
->Any ruling caste convinced of their own supremacy and superiority fearing subconsciously that they may be surpassed by up-and-coming others, especially a young guard seemingly able and willing to prove the lie of the current rulerships' claims of supremacy. Therefore, an "Apres moi, le Deluge"-attitude becomes reasonable even if not consciously understood. You can see this among some children, that they'd rather destroy the game than lose.
->A culture that sees itself as the originator of all kultur and civilisation, based in racial supremacy and rigid caste-like hierarchy, and who feels that it has been cheated out of and has its natural position as the center usurped by barbarians, would naturally try to make the usurper destroy itself, in order to weaken the usurper so much he will welcome the clandestine aggressor as a saviour, and copy the clandestine aggressor's ways: what better proof of inherent superiority can there be, vindicating the entire idea in one fell swoop.
->A kultur grown weak and decadent through the abolition of harships and threats, the removal of direct palpable consequences of wrong-doing, and who has also abolished its own natural endemic and intrinsical identity in favour of "humanitarian universalism" (for lack of a recognised term).
All of these can of course co-exist and intersect or over-lap.
But: just as with the diseases afflicting those with immuno-defense disorders, the target organism - the body of society in this case - must first be made weak. Ideally, weakness and being a victim must be made a token of worship, a desired status granting privileges automatically and with elevation to Brahmin-status to seal the deal, making any peaceful course-correction impossible.
This all is why the forces seeking our destruction don't really care overmuch about the merchants peddling identities counter to any narrative: it too serves the greater cause of destruction, in that it makes the seeker seek /without/ him- or herself, what can only be created within by yourself. A fetish, an idol, a ritual, a spell, a pill - anything but looking into the Abyss. Anything but venturing forth into the darkness within, there to battle monsters.
Flee to the message-merchant is the credo taught and endorsed and sold, all over all social media.
Enter the Abyss. Face the Last Man withing yourself, and grapple with him, always and eternally, because by doing so the strength is your own, the power is in your hand and the will is your soul.
All these are possible, and it may be that simple. Though I wonder sometimes in idle moments if it's something darker yet. Some external force, implacably opposed to the success not only of Europe but of Earth and all humanity, seeking to truncate the development of the species such that it never reaches its full potential in the Galaxy…
As I said, idle speculation…
Supra/super-natural causes aside, what confounds us is the time-scale and pace involved. I don't know how much of a background you have with games or game-theory, I have some modicum of an understanding of it:
The term "open-ended" in some games means that as long as you get a specific result, you get to keep rolling the die again and again. In Rolemaster, open-ended results were basically the game mechanic making stuff like David slaying Goliath possible: a couple of 98-00 on the D100, and then rolling a 66C crit - instakill.
I mention this because that's one end of the scale or spectrum of time-perception (and projected perception of time too): immediate, no prep, no real plan needed - just a Sinkadus (Swedish spelling of 5+2 in French, when playing Craps).
The other end of the spectrum-scale is open-ended in the other sense: the game never ends. P&P RPGs used to be played that way - a GM, his mates and a never-ending story, kept up until it reached a natural pause or the players wanted to try something else, or the GM wanted to play instead of GMing. Instead of set and fixed hard goals, keeping the story going and having fun crafting it together was "winning the game".
Now transpose the above to perspectives of open-ended onto the initial question and my somewhat purple response:
If you are centered, if you [are] - then you can do both and switch back and forth as wanted and needed.
But if you grow up and live in time where only the first version is paramount (or presented as the only option), you will only think in immediates or short-term events. A mayfly's perception of reality. Easily brushed aside.
And if you grow up in a time and place where only the second perspective is allowed, you will not /be yourself the individual/ at all, but will exist as part and continuation of a collective whole.
Arabic culture is the first: short, nasty, brutish and "Me always, you never" in attitude. Or as a Palestinian students said it: "Me against my brother; him and me against the cousins; us all against another family; our people against everyone". There's no building anything lasting out of that, nor any point in planning ahead for generations.
Chinese culture is the second: you are the caretaker of the efforts and products of your ancestors. There's no innovation in that, only repetition. And while repetition may and will often lead to perfection, it also leads to perfecting things that could have been improved, but instead the flaws too were made perfect.
Only among the Europeans, and their offspring nations, was there ever in post-Roman times a good blend of both, up until after WW2 concluded.
Now, we are like mayflies before an early Autumn frost in being shortsighted and fixated on immediate gratification of [Rights], and at the same time we are blindly trying to stare beyond the horizon of Climate Doom, while not seeing what is happening right here, right now, nor with any ability to see why the Now is the way it is, nor where this Now will lead if the whys that made it possible are allowed to continue affect it.
Interesting way of exploring these issues.
Progress - in the meaningful rather than pejorative sense - is naturally impossible in either of the two extremes. One degenerates into chaos, the other crystallizes into inflexible order. A balance is needed.
Sorry for late reply:
You can see that crystallisation happening right now:
Inflexible Order imposed by the force driving globalism, via all its acronym-laden tentacles.
Anarchy and chaos being allowed to fester and flourish at the base of society, as long as it never rises to challenge the Order.
At the top of society, reigns Inflexible Order. Corrupt, venal, blind, groping about to gorge itself on anything it can befoul and devour.
At the bottom the rule of the ruthless holds court, making life short nasty and brutish for anyone not being a predator or an agent of Order.
Balance achieved, the way a pole may indeed stand on its own end. It may even stand fast, lodged in the ground. Eventually, that end rots away and the pole falls, the rest of it also going to rot and ruin.
The better balance being, the pole suspended on a fulcrum. But from what to make such a fucrum, where to forge it, how to move the pole back and forth to maintain balance, and how to not overload the ends so that the fuclrum a wedge does not become, snapping the pole in bits - I'm at a loss.
All those deportees are going into the pilots' station.
It’s an AI image, whaddaya want, accuracy?
Going back to check for extra fingers.
Hey! Thanks for the review. I'd be interesting on hopping into a podcast here or there. I've been on one so far and would be interested in getting in touch with people Any chance you could provide some useful advice there? There's so much going on the world that's worth talking about it's hard to keep up.
What's your recommendation for getting in touch with people and getting onboard some of these opportunities?
I dunno man, people just invite me on, I don't go looking for it.
Is trump on another globalist brainwashing campaign with the UAPs?
I doubt that very much.