While I agree with the overall thrust of your argument, the Bloomberg article you lead with is really misleading, at least according to the Daily Wire.
Truth is somewhere in the middle here. It's true that my profession mostly hires Asians, but whites (men and women) can also still find jobs. Here's the thing, though: I'm in a mathematics-intensive discipline, and taught (as tenured faculty) for some years before moving to industry. Asians are good at, and (more importantly), *interested* in mathematics-intensive subjects. Whites, as a rule, seem not to be. It is my observation as a curmudgeonly Gen-Xer that whites have become intellectually soft (obviously this is a statistical statement not a statement about individuals). So there's a karmic aspect to this. I love Western heritage and mourn the substantial loss, but honestly some of the causes are our own deficits and degeneration of character.
Yes, and I am quite aware that many of the causes are external. Our culture has systematically degenerated since at least the 1960s if not earlier. While the process has been somewhat iterative, I am 100% certain that there have been vested interests that have guided it.
This is absolutely the case. Degradation of the education system, poisoning of the food supply, the spread of drugs, and the promulgation of the "smart nerds aren't cool" meme have all played their part, and absolutely none of it has been organic.
BTW your ilk has over used the scare word "racist" like the boy who called wolf and now it has no effect on anyone with above a room temperature IQ, proud of yourself?
My complex special needs stepson doesn’t do well with questions; he may just respond to one of the words he picks up, much as you did, missing entirely the context and intent.
Beats anything you have to offer regime propaganda spewer. Yes, I have dealt with this heavily propagandized idiot before, he's not even smart enough to be an actual Marxist with a material class analysis which I can at least respect as a well thought out wrong idea, lol!
I have a theory about this decline in mental capacity in general. Mental capacity, or intelligence, is highly dependent on nutrition, especially in the first two years of life. Have you ever looked at what's in baby formula? I promise you that the wealthy elites are not feeding their children that crap. The brain is primarily saturated fat and cholesterol, and for some reason the "health authorities" want us to reduce saturated fat and cholesterol (mostly with a pill). I read somewhere that 30% of the population has detectible levels of glyphosates in their blood. Only the wealthy can afford to consistently eat food that isn't grown with toxic chemicals, unless you grow your own. I could go on about this topic for days, but the bottom line is, our general food supply has been ruined by genetic engineering and chemicals and the population has been brainwashed into believing that rabbit food is healthy for a primate with a big brain that was probably developed because of the eating of fatty meat.
As for the difference you see between different cultures (this has nothing to do with melanin in the skin in my opinion) I would wager that Asians and people of Asian descent typically eat completely differently than your average white person or your average black person. This is a cultural thing. It's a cultural thing between socio-economic classes too.
Weak people, mentally and physically, are easier to control. A sickly man cares nothing for liberty or anything else really. Follow the money...
Not all Asians. There's been a definite tendency in recent years for Americanized Asians to get fat. There's no question that adulteration of the food supply is having a deleterious effect, and I doubt this is unintentional.
I go to China on business. They eat greens and protein. A bit of noodles. Not much rice. They eat far fewer carbs there. I suspect they get here and eat the carb heavy diet we do and get fat, as we do.
When I was growing up one didn’t snack. You had your meal and that was that. Now fridges are constantly full. I suspect 1/ 3 of caloric intake is between meals.
In my opinion, Ancel Keys and FDR did more to destroy Western civilization than any of the great dictators of the 20th century. Sickliness and government dependency are now the norm. And if you point this out and suggest that people should *do* something about it, *you're* evil.
In the book Which Way Western Man?, William Simpson had already observed the decline in quality of the white population in the early half of the 20th century. He discussed the decline in the quality of the topsoil as a potential factor. This explanation is plausible imo.
Yes. Everything is a rich man’s trick. It’s all a class war. And that’s where this piece is frustrating, because it seems the author chose racist memes that will garner predictable responses. In fact I think one of these is profoundly wrong: the photograph suggesting the current state of the unhired whites actually makes them indistinguishable from your Sambo - err, “Tyrone” toon above. The picture you want is, seemingly a lot closer to a look in the mirror. These white males you speak of are found in mom’s basement, pale and not mating but gaming with their ilk, or 4channing hate, or, you know, plotting violence (something men, not women, excel at). So there’s that.
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Imagine a place where, 400 years ago, someone started adding a drop of rosewater to the murky water they drank, and this was quickly adopted as custom, and rosewater was added in increasing amounts to the public supply. Let’s say that 100 years ago, some folk started objecting, and began adding lemon juice to their own water. And then fifty years ago after much struggle, they took over the water supply and added lemon to the now fully rosewatered public water. They can’t eliminate the rosewater because most folk are used to it, but now instead of the pure clean water available to the very wealthy few, everybody else is getting rosewater with lemon. No one is happy but the rich. The lemon makes the rosewater only somewhat less unpleasant to those who don’t like it, but it spoils the rosewater of those who do.
It’s not the best analogy, but the point is, one way or another the inequities of the past intrude on today. Now, just as the indentured European would-be settlers found themselves in the same lot as enslaved Africans and were sold a bill of goods about race to fool them into thinking they weren’t at the bottom...they’re back at the bottom. And who is still on top? The MAN with the munny.
You confuse inequity with class-based law, ditto privilege and the corresponding social structure; inequity can only be discovered or exist when one starts out from an assumed position of theoretical equality (itself a logical impossibility because it requires all humans to be equal, meaning identical, in ability et c).
The pre-Leninist socialists were not cocerned with equity but with practical matters. That's a much more profitable (if you'll excuse the word) course of both analysis and action, and don't forget they also were pragmatists: reality first, theory second. Lenin and his bourgeois clique turned it topside-down, with well-known results. In post-war Germany, the Nordic nations and some other places theory took a back seat to reality and thus those nations had what is probably the closest working model of socialism, when compared totheory because they stuck to real things and because the nations were racially homogeous and based on lutheran and culture-bound morals and social structures (and strictures).
I shouldn't respond to your trolling, but none of us here are stupid, I have a tested 140 IQ and am an Oberlin college philosophy grad, John Carter is also from a high level academic background, before he correctly realized that his career would go nowhere in academia due to overtly stated within academia itself bias against white straight men. My only excuse for believing in academia at all was I am older than John and went to college at a time woke discrimination wasn't quite as deleterious to a white straight male's life.
You’re right, you shouldn’t, but you seem unable to help yourself.
My IQ was about 4 points shy of yours when tested. My father is one of two living philosophers with comets named after them. I have spent an abundance of time in (not merely overhearing) intellectual discourse on many topics.
Please insert your ad hominem insults where the sun does not shine.
Classtardism is going out, give it up. Didn't you ever think that putting different races together is a rich man's trick (it is) and that I have very good, natural reasons not to want to be around other races?
It was the exact strategy pursued by the railroads. They understood that introducing other races created racial divisions and strife which undermined the abilities of the workers to act as a team.
This from Heather Mac Donald's 'The Diversity Delusion' forensic investigation of the effect DEI is having on STEM: "A study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science found “systemic anti-LGBTQ bias within STEM industry and academia.” The notorious James Damore Google discrimination lawsuit revealed an instance where an employee was reprimanded for pointing out that white males are actually underrepresented at Google: “’Being absolutely correct is inappropriate’ when it comes to ‘discussions of race and justice’” he was told. Meanwhile, “driven by unapologetic meritocracy, China is catching up to the United States in science and technology. Identity politics in American science is a political self-indulgence we cannot afford.” https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
It’s cultural. When I taught English in Russia and Ukraine, it seemed like about 60% of my teenage students were focusing on physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and other “hard” subjects.
We have emphasized credentials over actual skills in the U.S. That’s why so many white kids end up choosing easier degrees.
Given how corporate and government jobs seem to be favoring DEI candidates who also chose worthless degrees, maybe it’s time to encourage white boys to challenge themselves and study something useful
To a huge extent, this is also a failure of the progressive education system. Early Maths, like multiplication tables requires rote learning. Later Maths, like quadratic requires numerous past questions worked through, and ideally consolidation homework to ensure the new schema gets logged into long-term memory.
The progressive method of teaching, with children 'discovering' knowledge for themselves, or developing maths reasoning 'skills', fails to acknowledge the very basics of how the brain learns: Cognitive Load Theory.
The long and the short of it is that many kids suffer from cognitive overload because they don't have enough of the previous maths schema mapped into long-term memory. This is where maths 'trauma' comes from- tragically they haven't been equipped with the knowledge in long-term memory to be able to perform cognitively complex tasks. Working memory is puny after all.
I think I know your profession. Do you deal with Heston or Merton models, or XVAs or need to perform a lot of calibrations, if yes then I know what you do
🧐 this is a perfect example of the sheer incompetence - Bloomberg- THE Bloomberg of finance and trading platforms. And they fail spectacularly at simple statistics. And editorial review. Bah.
It's also possible they knew the numbers were off, but published it anyway to get clicks. The article did go mega-viral, so it worked for them if this was the case.
Indeed. I've seen this in other contexts, e.g. sloppy scientific work yielding "amazing results" which then results in tenured positions only for the sloppiness to be found, corrected, and the "amazing results" reverting to "exactly as expected by conventional models".
The crazy thing is, the juxtaposition of the open and obvious discrimination against straight white men with the endless lecturing about how privileged we supppsedly are. Meanwhile, blacks (and especially black females) love to recite the culturally-acceptable mantras about how you have to be so much better as a black person to get to the same place as whites, even as they benefit from special grants, SBA loans, scholarships, and DEI mandates reserved especially for them, as well as officials at all levels openly promising to make their next appointment a black female, etc. If it was just discrimination against white men purely on account of their race and gender, that would be bad enough, but it's all the gaslighting on top of it that really gets to me.
Isn't it though? I first saw it at Occupy, and I was like WTF, literally the majority of poor people in the U.S. are white, which is pretty simple and obvious demographics because we are the majority population. "The progressive stack," was my first real clue the left was deeply off course, though I had always been anti gun control and pro free speech "even for Nazis." I was naive then, but not that naive, LOL.
If you look at earnings, the average white family earns the average amount per year. Very logical. The largest group average is going to be close to the average. It has to be if the largest group is big enough. African Americans are quite far down the list. Well below average. Because of racism. But….black African immigrants are quite high up the list. Well above whites. And they are very black usually. Much darker than your typical mocha Afrjcan American. South Asian Indians are top or second. Chinese Asians, Jews, are near the top. Nigerians are well up there. Colour of skin is obviously not a factor.
I was recently referred to a position very similar to the one I currently occupy at a SaaS company (where I feel I barely squeaked in before the aftermath of Saint Floyd's Summer took full effect) by an Indian-Canadian colleague who used to work with me here.
The company is a similar size, in the same industry, and the role would have been a perfect fit for my skills.
Having talked to some former coworkers who left my current employer, I already knew I was underpaid but not how woefully: according to the recruiter for this position, the salary range was literally double my current pay and the health insurance premiums for my entire family would have been covered.
Alas, despite being given a chance by the white, 20-something female HR recruiter (who likely just has an incentive to pass along anyone who appears competent), I didn't even get to speak with the white woman in the Bay Area who would have been my manager because they "decided to go with a late-stage candidate."
I noticed basically the same role was open on a different team, so I asked the recruiter about it and had my friend push my resume for that one, too.
This one actually got me an interview with the woman who'd have been my manager-- again, a white woman, this time an overweight, late 30s woman who studied Women's Studies and Social Work, spending half her professional career fundraising for the Social Democrat party in Canada before somehow transitioning into a SaaS technical role.
I was wary of reporting to such a person, but given the potential pay raise, I was willing to try to play nice with almost anyone.
We actually had a great 30-minute conversation where I felt I developed good rapport with her and demonstrated my abilities as a near-perfect match for the role, especially given my own personal experience as not just an employee in the space but an end user of software products in the e-com niche as an entrepreneur myself.
Go figure, I got the exact same email, word for word, from the recruiter about them wanting to go with another "late stage candidate."
Now, the positions are gone from their site, so it's possible they really did have two other candidates and I just missed it by the skin of my teeth, though I had to wonder whether I was competing against other straight, white, married males with dependents or more single cat ladies who vote for progressives.
This was a year after Amazon put me through a 2-month, 8-interview wringer (including making me talk to the same person twice), where I had great rapport with the guys who'd have been on my team, my immediate supervisor and his boss, and the subject matter experts who assessed me. I am almost certain I was shot down by the very last interviewer (the secret "bar raiser" who holds veto power over the entire chain of interviewers), who was a white woman my own age, the only one with pronouns in her signature, and who was training another woman to conduct the interview at the end of a 5-hour day where my brain was already fried.
Although I didn't get that job, I think I dodged a bullet since most of the tech companies did massive layoffs last fall, including my own, though I managed to be enough of a generalist with enough history here I wasn't redundant enough to axe.
In both cases, I received no feedback about why I wasn't selected, but it's one thing when you interview for a job where you figure out you're probably in over your head or the fit isn't that great or you make a poor showing of your skills in the interview and quite another where it feels like a position fits like a glove and would come with a sizeable raise and career advancement.
I haven't exactly been pounding the digital pavement, but if I can't even get a job when I have a referral, it feels pointless. And to be honest, I sort of gave up on the corporate world a while ago and have no desire to try to climb the ladder, especially seeing the writing on the wall for guys like me.
Which is why I've been buckling down continuing to build my own personal brand and consulting services. Would rather be done with all the woke HR departments and keeping my head down just to get a paycheck anyway.
P.S. Feinstein's corpse isn't even cold yet and Gavin Newsome has already nominated a black lesbian woman who doesn't even live in California to be her replacement as senator. As if Karine Jean-Pierre wasn't a warning.
Sounds like you've been experiencing this first hand. It's incredibly demoralizing, on the one hand; but on the other, we no longer need to give these corporations any loyalty, or tie up any of our self worth in our ability to advance within them.
This just parallels every other trend in our society as my wife continues her suburban homesteading while raising our two young children.
I really never expected when I was a kid in the 90s that I would live through the collapse of my civilization in the prime of my life, but I suppose no one does.
I try not to let it overwhelm me, but it is so tragic and all the more galling when you look at what absolute clowns our rulers are. I'm actually more angry at all the idiots who allowed-- and continue to allow-- them to hold any sort of respectability, let alone power.
How the average person doesn't see that the emperor is wearing no clothes at this point is one of the great pains of my life.
The sheer absurdity of it is the worst part. It would be one thing if we'd been conquered, put to the sword, our lands ravaged, our cities burned, our women, daughters, and sons taken as slaves. Having our rulers throw open the gates, hold our arms behind our backs, and give it all up with smiles on their faces is actually far more humiliating simply for how bafflingly ridiculous it is.
Our traitors posing as representatives know they'll profit more through Mr. Global's bribery than their severance packages. Generous as those are. And their subjects don't mind being lied to yet implicitly trust them enough to get experimental goo pumped into their arms. For reasons.
A whitepill that occurred to me recently is I think there are really only a 100 or so laptop class ass whores who are actual human shitlibs who crank out talking points for the day on Xer, and aside from a few very elderly people, fat trans HR department heads, and wine moms the rest are bots to make us think shitlibs are popular and triumphant when they are not. So what if shitlibs are only actually 5 percent of the population, and we are the counter 5 percent, and the 90 percent are just trying to get by under the radar?
The question is, how to you get the intert mass of people to see that?
"The question is, how to you get the intert mass of people to see that?"
Show them that they A) pay taxes for the clown-show and B) how much of their taxes go to A).
Ideological talking points bore most people to tears and they just shut down; that they have been forced to pay X amount of their wages to pedopropaganda aimed at their kids is tangible and real.
It is consistently only about 8%-11% who are progs. Research shows. Maybe 1% evil. Another 8%-10% minions. Activists, etc. About 20% can think for themselves. And 70% who are essentially NPCs. They’d hate blacks if they were told to. Or Jews. Or whites. Or Chinese. Or Russians. We actually out number them, the active haters, 2-1. The great mass lean our way but are swayed by propaganda.
Yes I live in a 650 sq foot house in literally one of the poorest counties in America. But I have an acre of land, and many lakes and clean running trout streams within walking distance of my house. I'll make it even if shit goes full south.
It's a hard time to be a white male, we've had a lot of young male suicides in my area and what you describe illuminates the entire situation...wishing you the best of luck and success with your company!
It's a silly reference but have you seen 'Layer Cake'? It's worth watching the introduction for the ending line about not taking the piss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwoCyF6qJzE.
If you are competent and reliable there will always be work. I don't know about large companies but the individual customer is not yet forced to buy from government-approved sources and can build up a reputation. In Britain this is seen by a lot of British medics going private with the Third-World dross staying in the public hospitals.
This is pretty much what I'm suggesting, yeah. The competent will have to establish a new societal infrastructure composed of loose, informally organized networks of freelancers and independent contractors.
The Liberal World Order is catching onto this trend as well and making gig-economy jobs illegal too. They are forcing companies like Uber to hire and pay the independent contractors, pricing their jobs out of the marketplace. Seattle just did this, and nobody wants to pay the premium.
I'm not sure this actually works anymore. I've noticed that LGBT is often not included in the "diversity rainbow" of equity-seeking categories in job ads I've seen from the last several months. I suspect they finally got wise to this obvious dodge.
As the leftist holiness spiral moves into the singularity stage, the requirements for acceptable holiness become more extreme.
"Leftist Singularity" aka "Holiness Spiral", are terms created by the blogger Jim from blog.jim.com. His theory is that when a nations military has dominated all competing groups, the result is that countries priesthood becomes the dominant force.
When a priesthood is in a dominant position, it then becomes in their interest to find new and novel interpretations of scripture that show how God's will was actually to give the priests more free shit at the expense of the populace. For example, "do not steal" becomes "you did not build this yourself therefore you are stealing by not giving your fair share". or "do not commit adultery" becomes "do not keep your wife from finding herself via sex with random men, preferably priests".
At this point, it becomes in the interest of every priest to "out holy" every other priest. Since more holiness means more goods for the priesthood. In the name of God of course. However, this also means that the priests are now in competition with each other, and that means that being "less holy" or even worse "unholy" allows the priests to kill heretic unholy priests whose crime is not being up on the latest agreed consensus as to what exactly is holy.
This incidentally explains why so many women at womens marches simply cannot explain what a woman is. They are there for holiness, not rights. Since it was decided by the priesthood (the universities) that womens rights are holiness, they march for womens rights, in order to be holy. They want to be holy because women depend on others for resources.
A woman can be honorable and genuinely holy and give herself in perpetuity to a man who will take care of her.
Or she can giver herself out to the lying faggots in the priesthood who will find great excuses for the thug class to steal shit from the producers. In return the lying faggots in the priesthood will pimp her out as a temple whore to the military and merchant class youths or even the older members of those classes.
So right now the priesthood has become so holy, that they declared that having a uterus is no longer a necessary requirement of being a women. Because holiness. As a result the temple whores are in a bind, it's obvious that a uterus is in fact a requirement of being a woman but if they say so they will be unholy and cast out by the lying faggots in the priesthood to die in the wilderness. Tough position.
You just described how Byzantium rotted from within.
Granted, it's fall took six centuries to complete, but still.
For an antithesis to the rot you describe (splendidly, by the way), look at what happened to Alexander's brief empire after his death. In fact, the Diadoci and their actions could be said to prove your point from the opposite direction.
The Diadoci display a different sort of rot. For example, I was just reading Plutarch's biography of Demetrius, and he made a point of noting how unusual his family was among the Diadoci in that sons weren't trying to kill their fathers for the throne.
Now that’s an interesting observation. A few years ago I came across an ad for a “crew leader” for a national forest strike team in Colorado or New Mexico. It sounded like really macho shit. Then I saw the minimum qualifications: “must identify as LGBTQIA2S+” (that’s a direct quote—I screenshotted it). You also had to exhibit “the ability to effectively work on diverse teams or with a variety of populations, including those underrepresented at our organization and those of BIPOC communities.” I mean you had to be on the rainbow spectrum to lead a national forest crew—it was the bare minimum requirement. Gives new meaning to the “gay lumberjack” stereotype.
I normally “decline to answer” all of the optional demographic questions, but I’ve actually seriously considered identifying as a “trans woman” and just forcing them to play their game no matter how absurd it seems. Are they really gonna challenge me on my chosen identity in this climate?
I had a waiter say to me ‘Hi I am Brad, he/him, and I will be your waiter today’. I said ‘Hi Brad. I am William, he/her, and I guess I will be your customer today’. He started to say something then he said ‘He/her?’ I explained I was a he when talking to me, but a she when referring to me. So if the busboy says ‘who gets the extra napkins?’ you can say ‘the woman in the green sweater’. He asked if I were pulling his leg and I got offended. ‘I don’t feel comfortable being referred to as a male. I feel it objectifies me wrongly.’ I said he should accept my gender identity! He apologized profusely for doubting me.
My last full-time job was at Craigslist. The sole HR woman there systematically threw out every resume from white males for a number of years until the hiring managers finally realized what she was doing. She was fired, and not replaced. They function much better with no HR department at all now.
HR adds nothing. If anything, it's negative value. That most companies haven't realized this is a testament to just how many useless jobs our fake economy sustains.
It would be far easier if HR were reduced to their old 'Personnel' role of completing routine paperwork in the hiring process and making sure wages, tax etc are paid. That's it. Managers choose whom they hire and that's it.
Problem is that hiring is one of the primary power points in a company. Once the leadership delegates that authority, it will result in the new source of authority becoming the de facto leadership.
Managers are less likely to be fat black menopausal women who particularly dislike young, healthy men. That said there is nothing more nauseating than an old, ugly women slavering over a young man. It's worse than old men and young women by far. So in conclusion I'm not sure whether it's worse having one of these creatures throw your CV in the bin or keep eyeing you up at work.
I have a completely useless "bullshit job," to use David Graeber's term, Graber's book on that topic is actually really good and funny even though he identified as a left anarchist before he died. He was probably lucky to shuffle off this mortal coil so he didn't have to see what the left became.
There are a few like him, not many. I doubt you have heard of Derick Jensen but he was the Earth First to Earth First an extremely radical at the time "left" anti technology activist. Now the left loaths him as he kept his values and is outspoken about trans cult. He isn't the best public speaker, but this is still worth your time IMO. You can hear the screeeing in the background, lol!
While I agree with the overall thrust of your argument, the Bloomberg article you lead with is really misleading, at least according to the Daily Wire.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-flubs-data-for-bombshell-report-that-only-6-of-new-corporate-hires-are-white
He argues that Bloomberg reporters flubbed the math; I didn’t double check, but it looked plausible.
Good catch. Indeed, that does look plausible, and it would not be at all surprising if the reporters screwed up the math.
Then again, it wouldn't be surprising if corporate America was, in fact, discriminating at this level.
Truth is somewhere in the middle here. It's true that my profession mostly hires Asians, but whites (men and women) can also still find jobs. Here's the thing, though: I'm in a mathematics-intensive discipline, and taught (as tenured faculty) for some years before moving to industry. Asians are good at, and (more importantly), *interested* in mathematics-intensive subjects. Whites, as a rule, seem not to be. It is my observation as a curmudgeonly Gen-Xer that whites have become intellectually soft (obviously this is a statistical statement not a statement about individuals). So there's a karmic aspect to this. I love Western heritage and mourn the substantial loss, but honestly some of the causes are our own deficits and degeneration of character.
You're absolutely not wrong about this. Intellectual standards have absolutely cratered among whites.
Yes, and I am quite aware that many of the causes are external. Our culture has systematically degenerated since at least the 1960s if not earlier. While the process has been somewhat iterative, I am 100% certain that there have been vested interests that have guided it.
This is absolutely the case. Degradation of the education system, poisoning of the food supply, the spread of drugs, and the promulgation of the "smart nerds aren't cool" meme have all played their part, and absolutely none of it has been organic.
And don't forget the divorce / single motherhood epidemic.
Is moving to increasingly overtly racist Florida and embracing the 1776 ‘education’ agenda going to help with that intellectual deficit?
BTW your ilk has over used the scare word "racist" like the boy who called wolf and now it has no effect on anyone with above a room temperature IQ, proud of yourself?
overtly racist florida? why move there move to zimbabwe
My complex special needs stepson doesn’t do well with questions; he may just respond to one of the words he picks up, much as you did, missing entirely the context and intent.
Beats anything you have to offer regime propaganda spewer. Yes, I have dealt with this heavily propagandized idiot before, he's not even smart enough to be an actual Marxist with a material class analysis which I can at least respect as a well thought out wrong idea, lol!
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I have a theory about this decline in mental capacity in general. Mental capacity, or intelligence, is highly dependent on nutrition, especially in the first two years of life. Have you ever looked at what's in baby formula? I promise you that the wealthy elites are not feeding their children that crap. The brain is primarily saturated fat and cholesterol, and for some reason the "health authorities" want us to reduce saturated fat and cholesterol (mostly with a pill). I read somewhere that 30% of the population has detectible levels of glyphosates in their blood. Only the wealthy can afford to consistently eat food that isn't grown with toxic chemicals, unless you grow your own. I could go on about this topic for days, but the bottom line is, our general food supply has been ruined by genetic engineering and chemicals and the population has been brainwashed into believing that rabbit food is healthy for a primate with a big brain that was probably developed because of the eating of fatty meat.
As for the difference you see between different cultures (this has nothing to do with melanin in the skin in my opinion) I would wager that Asians and people of Asian descent typically eat completely differently than your average white person or your average black person. This is a cultural thing. It's a cultural thing between socio-economic classes too.
Weak people, mentally and physically, are easier to control. A sickly man cares nothing for liberty or anything else really. Follow the money...
Not all Asians. There's been a definite tendency in recent years for Americanized Asians to get fat. There's no question that adulteration of the food supply is having a deleterious effect, and I doubt this is unintentional.
I go to China on business. They eat greens and protein. A bit of noodles. Not much rice. They eat far fewer carbs there. I suspect they get here and eat the carb heavy diet we do and get fat, as we do.
Portion size. Some reports on this back when. Americans eat more than they used to. Me included.
When I was growing up one didn’t snack. You had your meal and that was that. Now fridges are constantly full. I suspect 1/ 3 of caloric intake is between meals.
In my opinion, Ancel Keys and FDR did more to destroy Western civilization than any of the great dictators of the 20th century. Sickliness and government dependency are now the norm. And if you point this out and suggest that people should *do* something about it, *you're* evil.
In the book Which Way Western Man?, William Simpson had already observed the decline in quality of the white population in the early half of the 20th century. He discussed the decline in the quality of the topsoil as a potential factor. This explanation is plausible imo.
Yes. Everything is a rich man’s trick. It’s all a class war. And that’s where this piece is frustrating, because it seems the author chose racist memes that will garner predictable responses. In fact I think one of these is profoundly wrong: the photograph suggesting the current state of the unhired whites actually makes them indistinguishable from your Sambo - err, “Tyrone” toon above. The picture you want is, seemingly a lot closer to a look in the mirror. These white males you speak of are found in mom’s basement, pale and not mating but gaming with their ilk, or 4channing hate, or, you know, plotting violence (something men, not women, excel at). So there’s that.
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Imagine a place where, 400 years ago, someone started adding a drop of rosewater to the murky water they drank, and this was quickly adopted as custom, and rosewater was added in increasing amounts to the public supply. Let’s say that 100 years ago, some folk started objecting, and began adding lemon juice to their own water. And then fifty years ago after much struggle, they took over the water supply and added lemon to the now fully rosewatered public water. They can’t eliminate the rosewater because most folk are used to it, but now instead of the pure clean water available to the very wealthy few, everybody else is getting rosewater with lemon. No one is happy but the rich. The lemon makes the rosewater only somewhat less unpleasant to those who don’t like it, but it spoils the rosewater of those who do.
It’s not the best analogy, but the point is, one way or another the inequities of the past intrude on today. Now, just as the indentured European would-be settlers found themselves in the same lot as enslaved Africans and were sold a bill of goods about race to fool them into thinking they weren’t at the bottom...they’re back at the bottom. And who is still on top? The MAN with the munny.
You confuse inequity with class-based law, ditto privilege and the corresponding social structure; inequity can only be discovered or exist when one starts out from an assumed position of theoretical equality (itself a logical impossibility because it requires all humans to be equal, meaning identical, in ability et c).
The pre-Leninist socialists were not cocerned with equity but with practical matters. That's a much more profitable (if you'll excuse the word) course of both analysis and action, and don't forget they also were pragmatists: reality first, theory second. Lenin and his bourgeois clique turned it topside-down, with well-known results. In post-war Germany, the Nordic nations and some other places theory took a back seat to reality and thus those nations had what is probably the closest working model of socialism, when compared totheory because they stuck to real things and because the nations were racially homogeous and based on lutheran and culture-bound morals and social structures (and strictures).
I shouldn't respond to your trolling, but none of us here are stupid, I have a tested 140 IQ and am an Oberlin college philosophy grad, John Carter is also from a high level academic background, before he correctly realized that his career would go nowhere in academia due to overtly stated within academia itself bias against white straight men. My only excuse for believing in academia at all was I am older than John and went to college at a time woke discrimination wasn't quite as deleterious to a white straight male's life.
You’re right, you shouldn’t, but you seem unable to help yourself.
My IQ was about 4 points shy of yours when tested. My father is one of two living philosophers with comets named after them. I have spent an abundance of time in (not merely overhearing) intellectual discourse on many topics.
Please insert your ad hominem insults where the sun does not shine.
“Oberlin”. Says it all.
140 is high on the Cattell B scale, but not so much, about 4% quantile of UK population. To enter Mensa, say, you would need 148.
On the CFIT (culture fair) scale instead the threshold for Mensa is 132, so 140 is unrealistically high.
Before boasting about your IQ you have to specify the type of test you took to measure it.
IQ.....Jew construct. Fake.
Classtardism is going out, give it up. Didn't you ever think that putting different races together is a rich man's trick (it is) and that I have very good, natural reasons not to want to be around other races?
It was the exact strategy pursued by the railroads. They understood that introducing other races created racial divisions and strife which undermined the abilities of the workers to act as a team.
You are right. Environmental toxicity is our #1 problem
This from Heather Mac Donald's 'The Diversity Delusion' forensic investigation of the effect DEI is having on STEM: "A study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science found “systemic anti-LGBTQ bias within STEM industry and academia.” The notorious James Damore Google discrimination lawsuit revealed an instance where an employee was reprimanded for pointing out that white males are actually underrepresented at Google: “’Being absolutely correct is inappropriate’ when it comes to ‘discussions of race and justice’” he was told. Meanwhile, “driven by unapologetic meritocracy, China is catching up to the United States in science and technology. Identity politics in American science is a political self-indulgence we cannot afford.” https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
This is what happens when diversity of everything other than opinion is prioritized.
It’s cultural. When I taught English in Russia and Ukraine, it seemed like about 60% of my teenage students were focusing on physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and other “hard” subjects.
We have emphasized credentials over actual skills in the U.S. That’s why so many white kids end up choosing easier degrees.
Given how corporate and government jobs seem to be favoring DEI candidates who also chose worthless degrees, maybe it’s time to encourage white boys to challenge themselves and study something useful
To a huge extent, this is also a failure of the progressive education system. Early Maths, like multiplication tables requires rote learning. Later Maths, like quadratic requires numerous past questions worked through, and ideally consolidation homework to ensure the new schema gets logged into long-term memory.
The progressive method of teaching, with children 'discovering' knowledge for themselves, or developing maths reasoning 'skills', fails to acknowledge the very basics of how the brain learns: Cognitive Load Theory.
The long and the short of it is that many kids suffer from cognitive overload because they don't have enough of the previous maths schema mapped into long-term memory. This is where maths 'trauma' comes from- tragically they haven't been equipped with the knowledge in long-term memory to be able to perform cognitively complex tasks. Working memory is puny after all.
I think I know your profession. Do you deal with Heston or Merton models, or XVAs or need to perform a lot of calibrations, if yes then I know what you do
No, not surprising at all. 😖
You might wanna reconsider “unemployment rates being low due to a shortage of labor”. Because it’s almost as stupid as your asininely racist cartoon.
DEI is idiocy, and so is ESG: that doesn’t mean it’s okay to let your dumbfuck racism out from under its well-earned rock.
Like anyone ever gave a fuck what a dickless rando cretin has to say.
Obviously a person of diversity was checking the numbers.
Exactly.
🧐 this is a perfect example of the sheer incompetence - Bloomberg- THE Bloomberg of finance and trading platforms. And they fail spectacularly at simple statistics. And editorial review. Bah.
Every institution has been hollowed out into a diversity skinsuit.
It's also possible they knew the numbers were off, but published it anyway to get clicks. The article did go mega-viral, so it worked for them if this was the case.
Indeed. I've seen this in other contexts, e.g. sloppy scientific work yielding "amazing results" which then results in tenured positions only for the sloppiness to be found, corrected, and the "amazing results" reverting to "exactly as expected by conventional models".
They're the 'Chosen', but by whom to do what...
The crazy thing is, the juxtaposition of the open and obvious discrimination against straight white men with the endless lecturing about how privileged we supppsedly are. Meanwhile, blacks (and especially black females) love to recite the culturally-acceptable mantras about how you have to be so much better as a black person to get to the same place as whites, even as they benefit from special grants, SBA loans, scholarships, and DEI mandates reserved especially for them, as well as officials at all levels openly promising to make their next appointment a black female, etc. If it was just discrimination against white men purely on account of their race and gender, that would be bad enough, but it's all the gaslighting on top of it that really gets to me.
It's infuriating. They just go on and on about it with no trace of self awareness.
Isn't it though? I first saw it at Occupy, and I was like WTF, literally the majority of poor people in the U.S. are white, which is pretty simple and obvious demographics because we are the majority population. "The progressive stack," was my first real clue the left was deeply off course, though I had always been anti gun control and pro free speech "even for Nazis." I was naive then, but not that naive, LOL.
If you look at earnings, the average white family earns the average amount per year. Very logical. The largest group average is going to be close to the average. It has to be if the largest group is big enough. African Americans are quite far down the list. Well below average. Because of racism. But….black African immigrants are quite high up the list. Well above whites. And they are very black usually. Much darker than your typical mocha Afrjcan American. South Asian Indians are top or second. Chinese Asians, Jews, are near the top. Nigerians are well up there. Colour of skin is obviously not a factor.
Hit the nail on the head, sir.
Your timing is impeccable, John.
I was recently referred to a position very similar to the one I currently occupy at a SaaS company (where I feel I barely squeaked in before the aftermath of Saint Floyd's Summer took full effect) by an Indian-Canadian colleague who used to work with me here.
The company is a similar size, in the same industry, and the role would have been a perfect fit for my skills.
Having talked to some former coworkers who left my current employer, I already knew I was underpaid but not how woefully: according to the recruiter for this position, the salary range was literally double my current pay and the health insurance premiums for my entire family would have been covered.
Alas, despite being given a chance by the white, 20-something female HR recruiter (who likely just has an incentive to pass along anyone who appears competent), I didn't even get to speak with the white woman in the Bay Area who would have been my manager because they "decided to go with a late-stage candidate."
I noticed basically the same role was open on a different team, so I asked the recruiter about it and had my friend push my resume for that one, too.
This one actually got me an interview with the woman who'd have been my manager-- again, a white woman, this time an overweight, late 30s woman who studied Women's Studies and Social Work, spending half her professional career fundraising for the Social Democrat party in Canada before somehow transitioning into a SaaS technical role.
I was wary of reporting to such a person, but given the potential pay raise, I was willing to try to play nice with almost anyone.
We actually had a great 30-minute conversation where I felt I developed good rapport with her and demonstrated my abilities as a near-perfect match for the role, especially given my own personal experience as not just an employee in the space but an end user of software products in the e-com niche as an entrepreneur myself.
Go figure, I got the exact same email, word for word, from the recruiter about them wanting to go with another "late stage candidate."
Now, the positions are gone from their site, so it's possible they really did have two other candidates and I just missed it by the skin of my teeth, though I had to wonder whether I was competing against other straight, white, married males with dependents or more single cat ladies who vote for progressives.
This was a year after Amazon put me through a 2-month, 8-interview wringer (including making me talk to the same person twice), where I had great rapport with the guys who'd have been on my team, my immediate supervisor and his boss, and the subject matter experts who assessed me. I am almost certain I was shot down by the very last interviewer (the secret "bar raiser" who holds veto power over the entire chain of interviewers), who was a white woman my own age, the only one with pronouns in her signature, and who was training another woman to conduct the interview at the end of a 5-hour day where my brain was already fried.
Although I didn't get that job, I think I dodged a bullet since most of the tech companies did massive layoffs last fall, including my own, though I managed to be enough of a generalist with enough history here I wasn't redundant enough to axe.
In both cases, I received no feedback about why I wasn't selected, but it's one thing when you interview for a job where you figure out you're probably in over your head or the fit isn't that great or you make a poor showing of your skills in the interview and quite another where it feels like a position fits like a glove and would come with a sizeable raise and career advancement.
I haven't exactly been pounding the digital pavement, but if I can't even get a job when I have a referral, it feels pointless. And to be honest, I sort of gave up on the corporate world a while ago and have no desire to try to climb the ladder, especially seeing the writing on the wall for guys like me.
Which is why I've been buckling down continuing to build my own personal brand and consulting services. Would rather be done with all the woke HR departments and keeping my head down just to get a paycheck anyway.
P.S. Feinstein's corpse isn't even cold yet and Gavin Newsome has already nominated a black lesbian woman who doesn't even live in California to be her replacement as senator. As if Karine Jean-Pierre wasn't a warning.
Sounds like you've been experiencing this first hand. It's incredibly demoralizing, on the one hand; but on the other, we no longer need to give these corporations any loyalty, or tie up any of our self worth in our ability to advance within them.
This just parallels every other trend in our society as my wife continues her suburban homesteading while raising our two young children.
I really never expected when I was a kid in the 90s that I would live through the collapse of my civilization in the prime of my life, but I suppose no one does.
I try not to let it overwhelm me, but it is so tragic and all the more galling when you look at what absolute clowns our rulers are. I'm actually more angry at all the idiots who allowed-- and continue to allow-- them to hold any sort of respectability, let alone power.
How the average person doesn't see that the emperor is wearing no clothes at this point is one of the great pains of my life.
The sheer absurdity of it is the worst part. It would be one thing if we'd been conquered, put to the sword, our lands ravaged, our cities burned, our women, daughters, and sons taken as slaves. Having our rulers throw open the gates, hold our arms behind our backs, and give it all up with smiles on their faces is actually far more humiliating simply for how bafflingly ridiculous it is.
Our traitors posing as representatives know they'll profit more through Mr. Global's bribery than their severance packages. Generous as those are. And their subjects don't mind being lied to yet implicitly trust them enough to get experimental goo pumped into their arms. For reasons.
Anytime you hear someone say they were "called" to public service...
kind of like I want to be a cop because I want to help people.
1000% this!
It's so painful, I wonder how many people know but are lying to themselves or pretending...
A whitepill that occurred to me recently is I think there are really only a 100 or so laptop class ass whores who are actual human shitlibs who crank out talking points for the day on Xer, and aside from a few very elderly people, fat trans HR department heads, and wine moms the rest are bots to make us think shitlibs are popular and triumphant when they are not. So what if shitlibs are only actually 5 percent of the population, and we are the counter 5 percent, and the 90 percent are just trying to get by under the radar?
The question is, how to you get the intert mass of people to see that?
"The question is, how to you get the intert mass of people to see that?"
Show them that they A) pay taxes for the clown-show and B) how much of their taxes go to A).
Ideological talking points bore most people to tears and they just shut down; that they have been forced to pay X amount of their wages to pedopropaganda aimed at their kids is tangible and real.
very very good question
It is consistently only about 8%-11% who are progs. Research shows. Maybe 1% evil. Another 8%-10% minions. Activists, etc. About 20% can think for themselves. And 70% who are essentially NPCs. They’d hate blacks if they were told to. Or Jews. Or whites. Or Chinese. Or Russians. We actually out number them, the active haters, 2-1. The great mass lean our way but are swayed by propaganda.
Yes parallel economies and other opting out schemes are the only long term hope.
A big problem is they can't offer the goodies the corporations' economy can. That makes starting them like pulling teeth. Sans Novocain.
Reduced standard of living in the short term seems unavoidable tbh.
Yes I live in a 650 sq foot house in literally one of the poorest counties in America. But I have an acre of land, and many lakes and clean running trout streams within walking distance of my house. I'll make it even if shit goes full south.
It's a hard time to be a white male, we've had a lot of young male suicides in my area and what you describe illuminates the entire situation...wishing you the best of luck and success with your company!
It's a silly reference but have you seen 'Layer Cake'? It's worth watching the introduction for the ending line about not taking the piss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwoCyF6qJzE.
If you are competent and reliable there will always be work. I don't know about large companies but the individual customer is not yet forced to buy from government-approved sources and can build up a reputation. In Britain this is seen by a lot of British medics going private with the Third-World dross staying in the public hospitals.
This is pretty much what I'm suggesting, yeah. The competent will have to establish a new societal infrastructure composed of loose, informally organized networks of freelancers and independent contractors.
The Liberal World Order is catching onto this trend as well and making gig-economy jobs illegal too. They are forcing companies like Uber to hire and pay the independent contractors, pricing their jobs out of the marketplace. Seattle just did this, and nobody wants to pay the premium.
The gig economy is just another form of extractive digital serfdom, frankly. At best it's a way to hold on, but it isn't the path to the good life.
I recommend using Gab for this purpose. It can be a time suck and troll magnet but also great for networking.
Put an intersectionality flag on your desk and say you're bi.
If H.R. wants dumb numbers, give them dumb numbers.
I'm not sure this actually works anymore. I've noticed that LGBT is often not included in the "diversity rainbow" of equity-seeking categories in job ads I've seen from the last several months. I suspect they finally got wise to this obvious dodge.
As the leftist holiness spiral moves into the singularity stage, the requirements for acceptable holiness become more extreme.
"Leftist Singularity" aka "Holiness Spiral", are terms created by the blogger Jim from blog.jim.com. His theory is that when a nations military has dominated all competing groups, the result is that countries priesthood becomes the dominant force.
When a priesthood is in a dominant position, it then becomes in their interest to find new and novel interpretations of scripture that show how God's will was actually to give the priests more free shit at the expense of the populace. For example, "do not steal" becomes "you did not build this yourself therefore you are stealing by not giving your fair share". or "do not commit adultery" becomes "do not keep your wife from finding herself via sex with random men, preferably priests".
At this point, it becomes in the interest of every priest to "out holy" every other priest. Since more holiness means more goods for the priesthood. In the name of God of course. However, this also means that the priests are now in competition with each other, and that means that being "less holy" or even worse "unholy" allows the priests to kill heretic unholy priests whose crime is not being up on the latest agreed consensus as to what exactly is holy.
This incidentally explains why so many women at womens marches simply cannot explain what a woman is. They are there for holiness, not rights. Since it was decided by the priesthood (the universities) that womens rights are holiness, they march for womens rights, in order to be holy. They want to be holy because women depend on others for resources.
A woman can be honorable and genuinely holy and give herself in perpetuity to a man who will take care of her.
Or she can giver herself out to the lying faggots in the priesthood who will find great excuses for the thug class to steal shit from the producers. In return the lying faggots in the priesthood will pimp her out as a temple whore to the military and merchant class youths or even the older members of those classes.
So right now the priesthood has become so holy, that they declared that having a uterus is no longer a necessary requirement of being a women. Because holiness. As a result the temple whores are in a bind, it's obvious that a uterus is in fact a requirement of being a woman but if they say so they will be unholy and cast out by the lying faggots in the priesthood to die in the wilderness. Tough position.
Excellent comment.
You just described how Byzantium rotted from within.
Granted, it's fall took six centuries to complete, but still.
For an antithesis to the rot you describe (splendidly, by the way), look at what happened to Alexander's brief empire after his death. In fact, the Diadoci and their actions could be said to prove your point from the opposite direction.
The Diadoci display a different sort of rot. For example, I was just reading Plutarch's biography of Demetrius, and he made a point of noting how unusual his family was among the Diadoci in that sons weren't trying to kill their fathers for the throne.
Byzantium: priest-caste corrupting everything as per the initial comment I responded to.
Diadoci: ambitious warleaders expending the resources and manpower of the empire they helped make, in a contest of strength.
I wouldn't call that rot, more slash-and-burn.
Now that’s an interesting observation. A few years ago I came across an ad for a “crew leader” for a national forest strike team in Colorado or New Mexico. It sounded like really macho shit. Then I saw the minimum qualifications: “must identify as LGBTQIA2S+” (that’s a direct quote—I screenshotted it). You also had to exhibit “the ability to effectively work on diverse teams or with a variety of populations, including those underrepresented at our organization and those of BIPOC communities.” I mean you had to be on the rainbow spectrum to lead a national forest crew—it was the bare minimum requirement. Gives new meaning to the “gay lumberjack” stereotype.
Gen question: if you said you were 'Hispanic' how do HR know? Why not lie and say your grandmother was a Spaniard? How will they check?
I normally “decline to answer” all of the optional demographic questions, but I’ve actually seriously considered identifying as a “trans woman” and just forcing them to play their game no matter how absurd it seems. Are they really gonna challenge me on my chosen identity in this climate?
I had a waiter say to me ‘Hi I am Brad, he/him, and I will be your waiter today’. I said ‘Hi Brad. I am William, he/her, and I guess I will be your customer today’. He started to say something then he said ‘He/her?’ I explained I was a he when talking to me, but a she when referring to me. So if the busboy says ‘who gets the extra napkins?’ you can say ‘the woman in the green sweater’. He asked if I were pulling his leg and I got offended. ‘I don’t feel comfortable being referred to as a male. I feel it objectifies me wrongly.’ I said he should accept my gender identity! He apologized profusely for doubting me.
LMAO
Historically I've done the same, but I will be adopted a victim class identity on every job application for a Fortune 1000 company from here on out.
That just perpetuates the whole charade we need to go medieval warrior Vlad the Impaler punk on their asses, FUCK THEM!
The authoritarians must have their violence...
My last full-time job was at Craigslist. The sole HR woman there systematically threw out every resume from white males for a number of years until the hiring managers finally realized what she was doing. She was fired, and not replaced. They function much better with no HR department at all now.
HR adds nothing. If anything, it's negative value. That most companies haven't realized this is a testament to just how many useless jobs our fake economy sustains.
It would be far easier if HR were reduced to their old 'Personnel' role of completing routine paperwork in the hiring process and making sure wages, tax etc are paid. That's it. Managers choose whom they hire and that's it.
Problem is that hiring is one of the primary power points in a company. Once the leadership delegates that authority, it will result in the new source of authority becoming the de facto leadership.
Managers are less likely to be fat black menopausal women who particularly dislike young, healthy men. That said there is nothing more nauseating than an old, ugly women slavering over a young man. It's worse than old men and young women by far. So in conclusion I'm not sure whether it's worse having one of these creatures throw your CV in the bin or keep eyeing you up at work.
I have a completely useless "bullshit job," to use David Graeber's term, Graber's book on that topic is actually really good and funny even though he identified as a left anarchist before he died. He was probably lucky to shuffle off this mortal coil so he didn't have to see what the left became.
Graeber was great. I think he did see what was happening to the left, and if I recall, even warned about it.
There are a few like him, not many. I doubt you have heard of Derick Jensen but he was the Earth First to Earth First an extremely radical at the time "left" anti technology activist. Now the left loaths him as he kept his values and is outspoken about trans cult. He isn't the best public speaker, but this is still worth your time IMO. You can hear the screeeing in the background, lol!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJsf5QY12rg&t=38s