I'm being low-key shunned by an art community I've been part of for years for mentioning that I read a Jordan Peterson book. I know exactly why but it's still hard to accept. It's always been hard for me to make friends to begin with, but with this social justice stuff it's hard to disentangle what's me and what's the zeitgeist.
It feels so oppressive to know that revealing one thing can cue people that you aren't with the program. Without even being ordered to these people are reading the literature and staying updated on whose been cancelled. And it's the most useless people doing it.
Is this gonna get beaten back when people finally get pissed enough? Do we have the strength as a society to survive this?
City government exists to fix city problems. Not to take stands on contentious political issues that let them virtual signal for woke points. Your city council has been rendered completely useless. The city will crumble under there wokeness until there’s nothing left to destroy. Talk about getting zero return on an investment, your local taxes would be better used as kindling during the winter.
(Victor David) Hanson's Law: The less local officials are capable of doing their jobs, the more they will concentrate on national and global issues like climate change or social justice.
Another great read. When I was 13, I made the pretty extreme declaration that I would not give my future children more than what I grew up with as a first generation American, in a single income home. Not because I hated my future children but because I saw how my peers didn’t take care of what they were given and they were miserably occupied with these huge, intangible problems in the world. My kids have more than what I or my husband had growing up but materially they have a lot less then their peers. Now, I have been trying to figure out a grown up way to articulate that idea I had as a 13 year old. It’s somewhere between trying instill a sense of duty in my kids, achieve a generational appreciation for the gift of our country and the shoulders on which we stand, and making sure my children stay a little “hungry” so they have the motivation to go further than their parents. Maybe all of the above? But less wordy.
We are in a trough of decadence and decline. Normal human history- and NO the problem doesn’t fix itself.
Strong Men made good times.
Good times made weak men.
Weak men made our time hard.
Hard times can make strong men, or they can have their nuts clipped by these ...things.
So find ye some strong men and yes hard men and follow them including and especially when the necessary ugly things happen. If IF you’re fortunate enough to even have the chance.
It was similar in the town in Illinois in which we lived for decades. (We moved to Florida in July of 2020 when we could see how bad the whole covid thing was breaking in Illinois)
Beautiful town, people took care of their homes. Invariably in front of any house that wasn’t well taken care of a “Love Lives Here” or BLM or some similar sign would appear in their front lawn. These were also the same people who couldn’t be bothered to shovel their sidewalks when it snowed so kids would have to walk through 6 plus inches of snow on the way to school (or mother’s pushing a stroller or anyone walking a dog…). And, of course, when it eventually turned to ice they couldn’t be bothered to salt the ice either.
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That kind of mentality cannot support paved roads. After all, that pavement is made with tar, a by-product of fossil fuel refining and the concrete alternative is made with cement, is a high carbon embedded product. The only "solution" is to grind up that black top and bring back dirt roads. Green is a Malthusian ideology. Malthusians don’t believe in industry; they live by plunder and usury! ;-)
New Orleans has been ruined, like most cities. The potholes are enormous and up to a foot deep, but thankfully the carpetbaggers who moved in got priorities straight and focus on destroying historical landmarks (there are many in 300+years of history) and social justice and covid mania. I don't even like to visit anymore. The brain drain may very well kill it, and when the swamp reclaims the city, the displaced lowlifes and rabble rousers will need a new place to ruin. They don't know how to build or respect, only how to destroy and resent. Watch out.
I live in a suburb of Sacramento. Wife and I went to see Top Gun last Friday at the multiplex. The ticket booths out front were closed. Ticket taker was still at her post inside but her only job was to direct us to buy tickets at the snack counter. There was only 1 other person seated behind us in the theatre. We chatted as we left, all of us glad to see a movie that was simply fun-to-borderline-silly, and not trying to sell us a new morality. He'd seen the movie 7 times. The five young people of the cleanup crew giggled about how it was a waste of time to show the movie. And they were right. A cathedral of 16 screens built to hold hundreds of people, mostly empty, built by another people from another time.
The odd thing is how menacing and surly the so called progressives are, picky, shaming, and piqued with a rigid sense of pseudo-superiority and righteous guerrance. They are closed minded and culturally xenophobic, especially when being called out on their c***.
Ha! When I first glanced at this headline, I honestly thought it said, “The Blue Model: A Recipe for RUM”. After reading this I feel like I need a shot of rum.
Chris, what is becoming of our society?
I'm being low-key shunned by an art community I've been part of for years for mentioning that I read a Jordan Peterson book. I know exactly why but it's still hard to accept. It's always been hard for me to make friends to begin with, but with this social justice stuff it's hard to disentangle what's me and what's the zeitgeist.
It feels so oppressive to know that revealing one thing can cue people that you aren't with the program. Without even being ordered to these people are reading the literature and staying updated on whose been cancelled. And it's the most useless people doing it.
Is this gonna get beaten back when people finally get pissed enough? Do we have the strength as a society to survive this?
City government exists to fix city problems. Not to take stands on contentious political issues that let them virtual signal for woke points. Your city council has been rendered completely useless. The city will crumble under there wokeness until there’s nothing left to destroy. Talk about getting zero return on an investment, your local taxes would be better used as kindling during the winter.
The entire state of California looks like this!
(Victor David) Hanson's Law: The less local officials are capable of doing their jobs, the more they will concentrate on national and global issues like climate change or social justice.
Socialists add nothing of true value in any society in which they infest (Not to be confused with "invest").
Another great read. When I was 13, I made the pretty extreme declaration that I would not give my future children more than what I grew up with as a first generation American, in a single income home. Not because I hated my future children but because I saw how my peers didn’t take care of what they were given and they were miserably occupied with these huge, intangible problems in the world. My kids have more than what I or my husband had growing up but materially they have a lot less then their peers. Now, I have been trying to figure out a grown up way to articulate that idea I had as a 13 year old. It’s somewhere between trying instill a sense of duty in my kids, achieve a generational appreciation for the gift of our country and the shoulders on which we stand, and making sure my children stay a little “hungry” so they have the motivation to go further than their parents. Maybe all of the above? But less wordy.
We are in a trough of decadence and decline. Normal human history- and NO the problem doesn’t fix itself.
Strong Men made good times.
Good times made weak men.
Weak men made our time hard.
Hard times can make strong men, or they can have their nuts clipped by these ...things.
So find ye some strong men and yes hard men and follow them including and especially when the necessary ugly things happen. If IF you’re fortunate enough to even have the chance.
“The British are Barbarians camped out in the relics of an older and superior civilization to whose beauties they are oblivious”-Theodore Dalrymple
That applies to US Americans too, and frankly all of Western Civilization.
It was similar in the town in Illinois in which we lived for decades. (We moved to Florida in July of 2020 when we could see how bad the whole covid thing was breaking in Illinois)
Beautiful town, people took care of their homes. Invariably in front of any house that wasn’t well taken care of a “Love Lives Here” or BLM or some similar sign would appear in their front lawn. These were also the same people who couldn’t be bothered to shovel their sidewalks when it snowed so kids would have to walk through 6 plus inches of snow on the way to school (or mother’s pushing a stroller or anyone walking a dog…). And, of course, when it eventually turned to ice they couldn’t be bothered to salt the ice either.
That kind of mentality cannot support paved roads. After all, that pavement is made with tar, a by-product of fossil fuel refining and the concrete alternative is made with cement, is a high carbon embedded product. The only "solution" is to grind up that black top and bring back dirt roads. Green is a Malthusian ideology. Malthusians don’t believe in industry; they live by plunder and usury! ;-)
New Orleans has been ruined, like most cities. The potholes are enormous and up to a foot deep, but thankfully the carpetbaggers who moved in got priorities straight and focus on destroying historical landmarks (there are many in 300+years of history) and social justice and covid mania. I don't even like to visit anymore. The brain drain may very well kill it, and when the swamp reclaims the city, the displaced lowlifes and rabble rousers will need a new place to ruin. They don't know how to build or respect, only how to destroy and resent. Watch out.
"Social justice" is so much sexier than such prosaic matters as street repair.
Is this what the majority of voters want? Apparently. They keep voting for it.
I live in a suburb of Sacramento. Wife and I went to see Top Gun last Friday at the multiplex. The ticket booths out front were closed. Ticket taker was still at her post inside but her only job was to direct us to buy tickets at the snack counter. There was only 1 other person seated behind us in the theatre. We chatted as we left, all of us glad to see a movie that was simply fun-to-borderline-silly, and not trying to sell us a new morality. He'd seen the movie 7 times. The five young people of the cleanup crew giggled about how it was a waste of time to show the movie. And they were right. A cathedral of 16 screens built to hold hundreds of people, mostly empty, built by another people from another time.
The odd thing is how menacing and surly the so called progressives are, picky, shaming, and piqued with a rigid sense of pseudo-superiority and righteous guerrance. They are closed minded and culturally xenophobic, especially when being called out on their c***.
"But Main Street's still all cracked and broken!"
"Sorry Mom, the mob has spoken!"
Ha! When I first glanced at this headline, I honestly thought it said, “The Blue Model: A Recipe for RUM”. After reading this I feel like I need a shot of rum.