That's not so different from North America. Tradesmen tend to be a kind of working class aristocracy, making excellent money but quite plebeian in their tastes. The bougie "middle" class types hate them, since they don't make as much and are burdened with more debt. The lumpenproles are really their own thing - an underclass supporting i…
That's not so different from North America. Tradesmen tend to be a kind of working class aristocracy, making excellent money but quite plebeian in their tastes. The bougie "middle" class types hate them, since they don't make as much and are burdened with more debt. The lumpenproles are really their own thing - an underclass supporting itself from welfare and drug dealing, politically irrelevant for the most part.
That experiment with "Mouse Utopia" comes to mind, as the likely explanation.
I sometimes wonder what would have happened, had the US-and-friends either picked Huntington over Fukuyama, or simply declared a new Enemy when the East Bloc started crumbling.
I can't but help thinking that we'd been better off, culturally speaking, with either choice than with the path picked.
That goes for both makro-scale stuff like NATO and EU as well as mikro-scale stuff like a taxi driver buyintg alcohol for minors in exchange for sexual favours (this last is from the trial re: the five youths).
Be very careful with that thought. They are not politically irrelevant, they are bought votes here in Canada, as well as in the great Democrat-run cities south of us...
I also wanted to comment on the "Rural WT." Real rural (ie farm) families have enough work and structure for the children. Despite attempts via genetic engineering and other research it has not yet proven possible to breed cows who get up at 11:30 and only want to be milked once. We do have some good robotic systems now but the real rural families are working people.
The great thing now is that the trades can raise their prices to keep up with actual inflation, most of the salaried "intelligentsia" continue to fall behind. (I have had my fees (income) suppressed from the time I started working in 1981 until I was purged for declining my clot-shot.) The other benefit for the trades is the ability , so far, to work for actual cash. Little wonder that the CBDC is so attractive to our rulers.
Very little of the rural population works in agriculture anymore. Those who do are the salt of the earth, I agree, but they're a small minority.
Problem with trades is that there's a hard cap on earnings. Also hard on the body. Doesn't really use the mind - I rather bridle at the meme that smart boys rejected from universities due to DIE should just become plumbers, it's a waste of their potential. Also an excellent way to isolate them from the mechanisms of status and power.
The bright or ambitious ones end up running their own companies and do very well. At our municipal political level, the developers can drive the politicians and do quite well. Consider the Ford brothers in Toronto, or even Donald Trump on a larger stage.
I haven't figured out who works on the giant corporate farms, we don't have them on this coast. In California I see Mexicans, and the smaller farms here are often Sikh-owned and worked.
Trump was hardly a tradesman. Neither were the Ford brothers. Not that the Fords are particularly good examples of political success in any really meaningful sense. They took office and did nothing useful with it.
Understand, I have nothing against the trades. They're important and useful. But telling every demoralized white kid to go become a plumber as though this is the path to power and riches is simply delusional, and does a great service to the enemy.
That's not so different from North America. Tradesmen tend to be a kind of working class aristocracy, making excellent money but quite plebeian in their tastes. The bougie "middle" class types hate them, since they don't make as much and are burdened with more debt. The lumpenproles are really their own thing - an underclass supporting itself from welfare and drug dealing, politically irrelevant for the most part.
That experiment with "Mouse Utopia" comes to mind, as the likely explanation.
I sometimes wonder what would have happened, had the US-and-friends either picked Huntington over Fukuyama, or simply declared a new Enemy when the East Bloc started crumbling.
I can't but help thinking that we'd been better off, culturally speaking, with either choice than with the path picked.
That goes for both makro-scale stuff like NATO and EU as well as mikro-scale stuff like a taxi driver buyintg alcohol for minors in exchange for sexual favours (this last is from the trial re: the five youths).
Be very careful with that thought. They are not politically irrelevant, they are bought votes here in Canada, as well as in the great Democrat-run cities south of us...
I also wanted to comment on the "Rural WT." Real rural (ie farm) families have enough work and structure for the children. Despite attempts via genetic engineering and other research it has not yet proven possible to breed cows who get up at 11:30 and only want to be milked once. We do have some good robotic systems now but the real rural families are working people.
The great thing now is that the trades can raise their prices to keep up with actual inflation, most of the salaried "intelligentsia" continue to fall behind. (I have had my fees (income) suppressed from the time I started working in 1981 until I was purged for declining my clot-shot.) The other benefit for the trades is the ability , so far, to work for actual cash. Little wonder that the CBDC is so attractive to our rulers.
Very little of the rural population works in agriculture anymore. Those who do are the salt of the earth, I agree, but they're a small minority.
Problem with trades is that there's a hard cap on earnings. Also hard on the body. Doesn't really use the mind - I rather bridle at the meme that smart boys rejected from universities due to DIE should just become plumbers, it's a waste of their potential. Also an excellent way to isolate them from the mechanisms of status and power.
The bright or ambitious ones end up running their own companies and do very well. At our municipal political level, the developers can drive the politicians and do quite well. Consider the Ford brothers in Toronto, or even Donald Trump on a larger stage.
I haven't figured out who works on the giant corporate farms, we don't have them on this coast. In California I see Mexicans, and the smaller farms here are often Sikh-owned and worked.
Trump was hardly a tradesman. Neither were the Ford brothers. Not that the Fords are particularly good examples of political success in any really meaningful sense. They took office and did nothing useful with it.
Understand, I have nothing against the trades. They're important and useful. But telling every demoralized white kid to go become a plumber as though this is the path to power and riches is simply delusional, and does a great service to the enemy.