this is all part of the cycle of the grift. NGOs collect tax dollars to encourage these people to come here. different NGOs collect tax dollars to "provide them services" (housing, food, etc). the teachers union and more NGOs get their cut when they enroll in schools with no plan or hope of succeeding. now the bar association takes its cut to sue to keep them here. at each step, every grifter gets more money and more power...
the "end of democracy" in america was voting for social security. once you break the seal on allowing the taking of one person's money to give to another, its over. its ALL been one giant back and forth to steal since then. take the simplest form of democracy- 3 people in a room. how long will it take for 2 of the 3 to realize the 3rd has more money and "vote" to take it?? thats why a constitution forbidding such needs to be in place. we had that for a minute but we decided in 1935 to let it go- again with the allure of getting something for "free".
we now speak often and boastfully about the "latest tax plan" and how "40% of americans dont pay federal income tax... isnt that great!!..." NO, not great. those people are by definition children- wards of the state. how will you ever get one of them to vote for less "free stuff". thats why NONE of this stuff will ever be reformed strategically, it will just happen when the money runs out- and that will create a real problem(s)....
From someone who PAID into social security for over 40 years, I do not believe I am taking "one person's money to give to another" - me. In fact, my contributions, if invested responsibly instead of spent by congress, would probably fund me pretty much until death.
Exactly. It's like Congress continually ceding more and more power to the presidency. She does whatever she wants. Meanwhile one of the wealthiest counties in the US (Westchester) has roads that will loosen the teeth from your head.
I'm a New Yorker and when I watch this, I feel like I'm wiping the spit off my face! Personally, I think we passed "fuck you" a while ago. Everyone here in NYC but the self-righteous who live in protected neighborhoods (like mine) and can indulge in luxury beliefs is feeling like we're being trod upon. Every time I look around, another of my friends has left or is leaving.
(While I despise unelected Kathy "God gave us the vaccine" Hochul, and I don't agree with taxpayer $ going to illegals to fight to stay here and keep getting free stuff, if it's legal representation to defend against being locked up in a torturous place like CECOT, where human beings are sent with no due process, that's a different story.)
I don't think Hochul cares either way, she's just saying whatever will make people go "Yeah! Migrants good! Trump bad!", but the CECOT thing is quite fucked up, and not what I thought "Deportation" meant ...
Interesting. That you wrote that today, as I wrote and shared the following comment on another platform today. Seemingly contradictory. But not. It is precisely the high trust societies that are most vulnerable to becoming authoritarian dystopias. Because the authoritarian predator class knows how to exploit high trust societies. And turn them to shit. Your piece today combined with my earlier comment can work together. And direct some thought into how to help prevent high trust societies from being exploited and turned into authoritarian dystopias.
"Minnesota is the textbook example of who, where, why free people become subjects under authoritarian rule.
They, by nature, are very nice, pleasant people. And very trusting. Especially of authority. So trusting that they are preternaturally obedient.
This is a feature of Nordic people. Who settled into that part of the US more than any other region. "Minnesota nice." "Wisconsin nice." A very Nordic trait.
What does "nice" have to do with becoming subjects under authoritarian rule? Think back to how masking first came about in 2020. To be nice. "To show you cared. To protect Grandma, even though you knew you were safe. The nice thing to do. And authorities said so. Those in power wouldn't dare abuse the trust of the population in a crisis. That would be bad and wrong. And most people aren't bad people doing wrong things. Those who we see in power appear to be nice, just like us. Even if they're wrong they must have a reason to say and do what they say and do. And to make demands of us. Can't have leaders in power we can't trust, they know that, they'd never blow the trust of the people. Only bad people do that, not our leaders. And since we're a nation of law and order we must obey laws and orders, that's how things work. Disobeying laws and orders is what criminals do. And we're not criminals. We're nice, law-abiding people."
And THAT'S who, where and why Minnesota has the politics it has, suffers under authoritarian rule. Because they are so very nice, trusting and obedient. Predators and authoritarians (but I repeat myself) know this, love them some very nice, trusting and obedient populations to rule. Easiest prey to turn into subjects.
Which is why the saying, "Be ungovernable" exists. American DNA is to be rebellious, sometimes rude and offensive, having the freedom to offend is paramount for free societies. Which is why there's been a long drumbeat to criminalize "offensive" speech and behaviors. Not anything that actually results in harm, just hurt feelings criminalized. Making it the law to be "nice" people who don't offend anyone's feelings. How subjects are created. And become a self-enforcing population. Of "nice" people."
Yes, and well said. A bunch of paradoxes to manage: High-trust society requires people to be kind and decent most of the time, but capable of serious anger and refusal. Hard.
As a Swede, I can testify to the truth of "Nordic nice", but also to its less-known backside:
The Germanic/Nordic peoples have the capacity to go just as far in the opposite direction, and do so with near-mechanical precision and completion.
Preventing that from happening towards the abusive rulers is an all-encompassing project for our media over here right now. We are to blame Trump, Putin, the patriarchy and the racists for everything. We are not to look at who is in charge, who made what decision, and who's footing the bill for it all. We are to be nice about it, and not show anger.
There's a lot of anger. I've never experienced anything like it. A quiet rage boiling under the surface, so strong the one being angry fears his own feelings. So, a lot of effort is expended to make people associate anger with shame. It only heightens the anger, it seems to me, though my horizon is limited.
There's another thing too, don't know if it's prevalent in Minnesota: The Dodge. Smile and be nice in front of officials, then ignore them and go about your business as you intended when their backs are turned. Another element of The Dodge is following instructions/orders literally and to perfection, and not doing one iota of labour beyond what's in your contract.
"Why haven't you removed the snow from the bus stop and the pavement?"
"I'm employed to plow the streets, says so in my contract. Want the rest plowed, you talk to the council about it, I'm only doing what they tell me to."
That's a quiet, careful and nice way to rebel against venal stupidity-in-office.
But that anger... even the police is frightened of it now.
Abusive rulers ask themselves, "what to do with all that anger? Hmmm...how about we shift it, yeah, that's the ticket, we'll shift it!"
And just like that a George Floyd is beatified into sainthood, a violent, angry break for people feeling anger at government for locking them down and taking away their lives ostensibly for a bad flu. Shift all that anger into something like racism and abusive policing (that many of all races had been experiencing for months preceding BLM riots.) BLM riots even held in European nations with tiny black populations and no history of discrimination. In 1930's Germany and across Europe the same tactic of shifting anger targeted Jews. Tried and true.
A decade ago I visited Iceland. And occasionally read news from there. So I took note of this story out of Iceland when I read it. Iceland is a very civil, obedient country. And obedience to authority is fertile ground for totalitarianism. That nice civility comes with that big vulnerability.
Count how many times the word "obedience/obey" is used in this story out of Iceland about a nurse in Iceland who defied the testing mandates and was punished, fined for challenging authority:
Could terminate work contract of a nurse who denied taking rapid Covid tests
"employees' obedience to the employer's legal order is one of the primary duties of employees"
"an employee must submit to the mastery of his employer"
"work procedures must be obeyed"
"breach of a duty to obey or refusal by the employee to obey a directive"
"employee’s breach of the duty to obey"
"the employee’s refusal to obey is considered a serious failure"
"Obviously, obedience is considered to be an important part of running a business"
"obedience obligations are evidently to be regarded as critical to the operation of the policy"
"The Court finds that the breach of the duty of obedience by the nurse during the time in question constitutes a serious breach of the employment contract"
"The woman was then sentenced to pay the company Klíníkin 1.2 million ISK [$8,500 USD] in legal costs."
FF - If authorities (including employers) order the people to wear anything, a mask, a strap-on dildo, whatever in public they will and must. Obey. It's the civil thing to do. Society stays nice and peaceful that way. But not very free. Obedient and free do not go together. Mutually exclusive.
Don't mistake nice, civil people for opponents of totalitarianism. Quite the opposite. Nice people support totalitarianism. By their unflinching obedience to authority. And desire to not offend, to remain civil.
I’m old enough to remember when those on the left used the slogan “QUESTION AUTHORITY!” Yet, they were and still are the ones who did anything but question Fauci, Birx, 6 foot stickers on the floor, double/triple masking, gene therapy “vaxxines” and all the other nonsense associated with Covid. So strange; it’s now those on the right who are the questioners/rebels. Why is that?
I find mysrlf wondering where the spirit of 'QUESTION AUTHORITY' went among the non-radical left?
My friends in that category have become such bootlickers, both for COVID and the use of military force by the United States.
Any suggestion that government could be improved by any change or re-organization is met by wide-eyed fear. Could Yosemite limp along with 11 fewer employees? Shudders, impossible to even consider.
It's the conservatism of a 98 year rest home patient on their last legs.
The Left underwent a phase change during the Obama years. Trump's boorishness amplified it. Knock them out of power for a while and they will return to being liberal.
Um...because, like, maybe there's no such thing as "left" and "right," just sides to take relative to the particular authoritarianism in play, and what is to be gained from obeying versus rebelling?
The evangelical Christians I know who claim to be "republican" and "conservative" are the biggest Pharmacucks I've witnessed. All they want to talk about STILL is their latest PCR "test" result, how they're masking and when, how they're Social Distancing, etc. They worship at the altars of Pharma, and they don't question a thing about it.
Well, don’t know where you live, but I’m in the Bible Belt, and most of my conservative, evangelical friends were NOT into any of that. Most unvaxxed, too.
Freedom Fox—Yes indeed, many apparently "nice" people do support totalitarianism, and the past several years have been a master class in observing that fact up close & personal.
" It has been considered that an employee must submit to the mastery of his employer..." I love the "mastery". (In fairness, this article is poorly translated.)
The Rest of The Story:
"The woman was then sentenced to pay the company Klíníkin 1.2 million ISK in legal costs." She won't be bothering anybody else soon.
Also in the News:
"Two foreign tourists found dead at Reykjavik Edition Hotel". Apparently, they were French.
Possible on the translation. Do you know Icelandic? English is taught to most Icelanders in elementary school. It's not mandatory, but they're told if they don't learn English the only work they'll ever get is menial labor in the hinterlands. And Icelanders spoke better English, with nuance and colloquialisms than many Americans when I was there. Monitor is written by these same people. There's the possibility they just pushed it through the language translator, after writing it in Icelandic. But I'd defer to an Icelandic speaker to make that call.
What came through loud and clear in the piece is that obedience it paramount. You do as you're told. No excuses. No justifications. Obey.
Iceland took Bobby Fischer in and gave him citizenship when the US government was chasing him to the ends of the earth on a political persecution. They protected him until his death.
Fischers lonely grave in rural Iceland has become a pilgrimage spot for chess players.
Yes. They do have a reputation for that. And were central in the WikiLeaks Assange cases. And their web hosting services are better than most nations at protecting content that governments seek to ban, punish. But even they have their limits, and will bow to the politicians in some cases. Not just the kiddie porn/snuff video stuff that has universal revulsion of violent crime content, some political thought crime stuff that the heat is too much for them to bear.
That said, I met and maintained contact with a Member of Parliament in Iceland while I was there. He was a leader in the Pirate Party when they were at the height of their popularity after both parties were caught up in the banking racketeering scandals that came to light. Think of the Pirate Party in Iceland (and Europe) as sort of Socialist Anarchists. Declaring their unwavering support for freedom of speech, ideas, from mandates, etc. Except with comfortable public safety nets for education and health care. They portray themselves as a sort of "f the man" party, for the people. Boasted about passing anti-blasphemy laws in Iceland as a minority party, never done in their parliament before. We drank Brennivin in Reykjavik together along with his wife, herself a local newspaper publisher. A very nice couple. We stayed in touch via messages, social media for many years after my visit.
And then the Plandemic hit. I thought surely the Pirate Party would stand up to the authoritarianism in Iceland. I thought wrongly. They jumped on board with the restrictions, masking, testing, vax mandates. So much for the anarchist party. They're nice, obedient anarchists. They give anarchy a bad name.
And since you probed deeper into the piece I'll let you in on the deeper meaning of my seemingly flippant "strap-on dildo" comment. Iceland is the home of the world's only penis museum. So employers could, in fact, order people to wear a strap-on dildo in public in a coordinated awareness PR stunt for it. Not as throw-away a line as most readers may have thought. Though an Icelander may have picked up on it!
Update: "A French woman in her fifties was remanded in custody until June 20 at the request of the Capital Area Police, on the grounds of investigative interests, in connection with the investigation into the deaths of two French tourists [male] at a hotel in downtown Reykjavík."
Well said. I certainly feel it, that anger, here in England, the home of politeness and civility. There's a buried seam of repression that's close to erupting, more in urban densities than rural areas. I spend most of my time in rural life, where the nice people are. But you can still feel it.
The media do a great put-up propaganda job at redirecting that rage toward Trump, populism, the 'far-right' (which could mean anybody) and racism. Most people seem to buy that, but increasingly not so much... there's that undercurrent that can't be contained. Something's got to blow sooner or later.
Yes, speaking as a Minnesota resident, I can report the "Dodge" is everywhere prevalent in Minnesota -- and pretty much everywhere else in the US where the depressed and depressing 'Happy People' have gotten much too full of themselves.
Had to look it up, to be honest. I think it was part of English Literature when I was at university (as a student) but so was a whole slew of other poems and texts too, so it all winds up as literary jambalaya in my mind.
However, he wasn't wrong per se, and the advise of the Norman lord echoes sentiments from the Sagas, which is fitting given where the Normans came from.
Abusing your thralls was frowned upon most severly and was seen as unmanly.
Or as we might put it in modern terms:
Don't want a violent revolution or societal dissolution? Don't make it the better option for the people.
> A quiet rage boiling under the surface, so strong the one being angry fears his own feelings. So, a lot of effort is expended to make people associate anger with shame.
But this Shaming is a primary element of the Control System.
Let me ask you this. Be honest.
Do you feel this anger?
Do you fear it?
If you feel it, are you ashamed of it?
You see, this is where the entire Control System is coming undone.
In a shameless society where little boys are dressed up BY THEIR PARENTS as girls to twerk for money from adult homosexuals...where little girls are taught that to be physically active and interested in science makes them boys so they have to be chemically and surgically mutilated...where women have zero dignity and display/desecrate their bodies via digital whorehouses...where men in their 30s take pride in living with their Mommies (in a clearly incestuous relationship even where "sex" isn't involved)...etc.......there is no more shame to be had.
This is why that mom in the park incident was such a turning point.
> But that anger... even the police is frightened of it now.
I can't say I see this. "Law enforcement" is part of the Control System. They're more afraid that it's going to be harder to make their monthly quotas previously secured via speeding tickets, etc.
The awake cops I know SHARE that anger. They are sick of playing Praetorian Guard to a bunch of Permastate degenerates. They are sick of risking their lives for what is called "law enforcement," but no laws get inforced, only talmudically intepreted and reinterpreted by a captive/activist judiciary, and turned into mass media clickbait campaigns. They are sick of being told to "stand down," like the chief of police gal at Evergreen State who wanted to nip the BLM/Antifa/USAID riots in the bud in 2017, but was told not to (she left to be a beat cop in a nice upscale town about an hour away). (And key players who mismanaged that entire situation moved on to extremely lucrative jobs...including pushing vaccines through WA State's Department of Health.)
Rebellion through half-assing one's job is cowardice. However it's understandable. The problem with being high-time-preference is that one can imagine potential consequences of one's actions.
And that has always been a place where the Control System can slap on the bit and bridle.
The Minnesota nice syndrome can be applied to many churches as well. They’re all backward ass now utilizing the doctrine of social justice & accept everyone & everything. Many embrace transgenderism under this philosophy. The devil is clever - he preys on one’s emotions which is why liberal women are the most affected by this phenomenon.
> liberal women are the most affected by this phenomenon.
Bullshit.
Every child forced into transgender by a Munchausen Mommy has a father somewhere.
Every one of those fathers chose who to inseminate.
Men abrogated their role as fathers/family leaders back in the 1970s. Today all we hear is weak males screeching blame at women...because they'd rather be married to their fists and joysticks/game consoles, and how many in their 20s and 30s are failure-to-launch types redefining their weakness as some brave new realm of "NEET" or whatever?
Admittedly this isn't surprising considering that 50 years of war draft (1915-1965) deliberately selected for slaughter and maiming at least three generations of the most fit, intelligent, healthy, brave white men of prime breeding age. Who got through that selection gate?
Women have been staggering around since the 1960s looking for the chadly sons who never got born because their chadly forefathers were slaughtered at Paschendaele, Iwo, and Khe Sanh. Literally haunted by ghosts...and then expected to breed with lesser men, including passels of Thirdies...and then vilified for passing judgment on those genes with abortion.
Meanwhile, a massive destruction of the job base, replaced with Permastate positions where you get a paycheck and benefits for echoing the Permastate's ever-changing shibboleths.
Nobody stops to look at the bigger picture. The engineering of it.
You're doing the same thing here: social issue exists, it must be the women's fault. You're preying on emotion just as you claim "the devil" does.
John Adams was absolutely correct. Only a shared ethic and common culture, by citizens and rulers alike, can sustain a free society. That Hideous Strength understands the implications of that reality very well.
This sounds good, but some of the most hardened and difficult populations are no less “captured”. Your thesis isn’t wrong. It’s just parochial.
Look at NY, Philly, Baltimore, Atlanta, Boston, etc.
Blue cities dominate the state political system. Until, people realize and combat the mass-surrender-insanity that passes for “our democracy”, ie. wolves voting to decide the fate of the sheep, we’re all screwed.
It’s supposed to be a nation of laws…well, the judiciary has turned itself into a kangaroo court enforcing laws against sheep that the wolves wrote.
You described my cousin perfectly, who lives in Minnesota, near George Floyd central, and is a nurse who works with covid patients. Every time I've asked her to listen to the doctors who treat covid with repurposed meds, or info about how dangerous the shots are, she responds politely dismissively. No insulting "shut up you conspiracy theorist". She probably feels bad for me, immersed in such misinformation.
She's such a good soul. She probably can't ever process what she's been part of by giving Remdesivir. She's asked the infectious disease doc about Ivermectin, and - official narrative repeated, accepted, done.
Her hospital Still requires employees to be "up to date" with the covid shots. I need to find a group there who might be able to help her try for a medical exemption ... (do you know of any?). A few months ago she was sick, and her description on facebook sounded like what multiple shots do by wrecking the immune system.
But, then she found out the reason she was sick - Mononucleosis, "not from the covid vaccine"! ** By Design**, those damn things disable the same parts of the immune system that keep cancer, and herpes viruses like Epstein-Barr (mono), in check. https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/stabilising-the-code
She then had nothing to say besides "unfortunately" she's mandated by work to keep getting the shots ...
I don't think she could process how dark this goes ... Her Mom lives at a senior center, also in MN ... their covid restrictions were ridiculous ... but, must be for our own good ...
Fox, you write as though we haven't just been through 70 years of the most intense, and increasingly automated, psychological operations, delivered through total-saturation mass media, against white people (there, I said it rather than just tap dancing around it with euphemisms) of founding and pioneer stock.
Or you've been through it and still side with it, and side with the way you were mindf!cked:
You're talking from the same set of myths that the mindf!ckers talk from: that this is all just about Muh Human Nature.
Yet you're still engineered to talk about "Nordics," but refuse to name those who exploit Ice Age Winter Survival traits...using robust, demonstrated, well funded propaganda campaigns coupled with accelerated, intensified, closely held control of all levers of social and political power.
Even your use of the term "authoritarian dystopia" suggests you have a haunt in your own mind...that was implanted there by others.
WHAT flippin' dystopia do you mean? I haven't seen any, my entire life, except the culture of degeneracy and destruction inflicted on founding and pioneer stock white AND BLACK Americans, and their home towns and families! (Growing up among blacks who despised Michael King, and rejected "civil rights," and despised being told they were poor sad slaves when they were the descendants of free men and women and American Revolutionaries and such made it so I couldn't accept a lot of that bullsh!t myself.)
When a carefully orchestrated campaign of repression and destruction harms a people, by degrees, over extended periods of time, pushing back against that isn't "authoritarian dystopia," it's justice and rebalancing. It’s the turning of the Wheel.
At this point what do you suggest that kind, good, trusting people could do to those who have victimized them for four or five generations would even begin to equal what has been done to them?
And I don't want to hear a bunch of late 20th century propaganda fantasies about all that. It wasn't "Nordics" who slaughtered 170-200 million people, in their own countries, in the 20th century.
You are still protecting the true victimizers while waving their cave wall puppets' shadows.
Eeesh. Them granny panties you're wearing must be in quite the wad. Lighten up, Francis, ain't personal, don't make it so. Unless you have so much repressed guilt and latent shame that anything striking anywhere near home triggers you? Hmmm. Maybe you should invest in thongs?
A good example of what you’re talking about, Chris, is our idiot of a governor, Gavin Newsom, who is tripling down on sociopathy. Not only does he have two podcasts, he just announced he’s going to start writing on Substack. How does King Newsom have so much spare time? By not actually running California, he has to fill his day somehow. Newsom also just said he would run for president if he was answering a higher calling. The same explanation most sociopaths and dictators give for wanting more power. Except Newsom doesn’t want to a democratic president, he wants to king! He wants absolute power. Witness his Covid lockdowns, the school closures during Covid, the outdoor spaces off-limits, all upon his decree.
And now, Congress has rescinded Newsom’s all-electric vehicle mandate. What does Newsom do? He signs an executive order putting the mandate back in place. When Congress tells Newsom he can’t do that, Newsom signs a second executive order. No kings, indeed!
Wow. Newsom is in a class by himself (not a compliment). Two podcasts and a Substack? That’s just crazy. How will he have time to get that train built or hang with Pharma lobbyists at the French Laundry?
The initial segment of 171 miles has been under construction for 10 years. It is estimated that it will be complete by 2030. For context, it took about six years to build the nearly 1,800 mile long transcontinental railroad, without internal combustion engines, computers, robotics, CNC machining, wireless communications, etc, etc. Oh, and there was this very distracting Civil War going on at the same time.
I am in CA so I feel I can legitimately chime in here…how does Newscum’s 2 EO’s putting the “all-electric vehicle mandate” back in place supersede a Congressional Bill and the POTUS signing that same bill rescinding Newscum’s original EO on the “all-electric vehicle mandate”?
(Did you catch it when Trump in his press conference about signing the bill that rescinded Newscum’s original electric vehicle mandate and all the crazy car standards that are now on new vehicles, referred to Gavin as “Newscum” as well?)
What makes what CA does such a big deal is that so many states have made their vehicle laws follow CA's, not the feds. I don't remember exact number, between 17-24 states. Since those states pretty much say they'll do what CA does I'll be curious if they say must follow CA's law - repealed by Congress/Trump? Or CA's Executive Order? They are not treated the same in law. And the statute language is precise, I doubt the other state's laws contemplate CA EO's.
That'll be interesting to see how it plays out in the other many states on the CA standard.
Newsom literally can't read. This is not a cheap shot. It is literally true. He hires aides to read to him. His parents got him through the private (Catholic) University of Santa Clara with generous donations to the school.
On the other had, I have no illusions that Trump is a 'reader' either.
Well my first thought from here in LaLa land comes from the mail today. The cost of the large trash can in my alley will be doubled in July. Doubled. I work to fund the government and government contact employees . We all know it. Especially in California. Prices are going down almost everywhere. Not here
How can we trust these people. ? They are the vampires sucking us dry
It is a self replicating cancer. It creates new mutations daily and feeds itself from the never ending supply of (polite) tax slave dollars.
In a healthy society, high trust, politeness and responsibility are foundational requirements. We do not have a healthy society. We have a feedback loop of corruption, banality and a constant dumbing down of any square peg's edges to fit the pre-made round holes of government approved "community".
The farther one can get away from 'government approved', the better one's life will be. Smell the air, relish the sunlight, take the roads less traveled, seek adventure, take risks, and spend that time with real honest, real polite and truly trusting people and life will flourish.
Elite overproduction by universities full of young people who don’t go camping and have not been educated in any manual skills. People who are excited about something that they are making are not interested in destroying things. At root, impoverished early years with too much screen time, and then impoverished grade school with teachers who suffer the same deficiencies.
There's nothing more dangerous than stupid people who believe they are smart and elite entrusted with power. That's what overproduction by universities is unleashing on society.
We inherited a small home in North Dakota, talk about a high trust place to live, people leave their keys in the car, house doors are unlocked all the time, local businesses still allow people to run a tab and leaving the garage doors open when running for parts (with the garage full of tools ) etc.
It’s surreal but it comes from everyone knowing everybody and a hundred sets of eyes watching out the windows. It’s a lot like Mayberry was depicted.
Took a road trip through southern Nebraska a couple years ago, and as a Los Angeles resident was shocked to see lines of empty cars with the engine running and the windows down outside the post office and the grocery store.
I think the point about the rangers being called in to deal with the 1% while the other 4% are dealt with by the site kind of demonstrates the key part of high trust society: problems get dealt with. I would argue that the biggest reason for the degradation of trust is that the rules are simply not enforced by authorities, and when private individuals do so they themselves are punished and not the offenders. Not only does this embolden the 1%, but it teaches that 4% to emulate the 1%; the more following the rules is shown to be unnecessary and enforcing the rules shown to be punishable, the more people on the margin will break the rules. That applies to the lowest petty thief and the highest government official.
Since COVID and George Floyd, traffic enforcement in our county (and the State of Washington) is nearly non-existent. Speeds are getting faster and traffic lights and stop signs are becoming suggestions. Reckless driving and aggressiveness is increasing. As we have a Soros-sponsored prosecutor and a radical legislature and governor, uneven prosecutions of offenders has created more and more conflict and disregard for laws. It's easy to see social order breaking down, where a trip to the grocery store is now a tactical decision. "Order causes order" is foundational to an ordered society.
Precisely. Bloated, arbitrary and discretionally enforced rule sets especially lead to a culture of little lies, where everyone breaks the rules and pretends they don't and no one else does, spiraling into ever more rule breaking that no one feels they have legitimacy to call out because "everyone does it."
The ideal is nothing is illegal that you aren't willing to kill someone for doing, although admittedly a few rules past that probably is fine.
One of the building-blocks of high trust (Sweden used to be one of the top three high trust cultures/nations in the world, competing with our neighbours for top spot) is that consequences for wrong-doing are public, applied equally and inflicts some form of cost to the delinquent, whether it's a civil or criminal matter.
Another one is cultural-ethnical homogenity, if said culture is a high-trust one. If it's a low-trust one, that same homogenity instead cements the low-trust behaviour-patterns. And no-one needs to imagine what happens when you try mixing high and low trust cultures: the low trust culture exploits the system until it breaks and the high trust ulture becomes a low trust one too, out of necessity.
Yet another one is respect: what the concept means, and that meaning is not the same across cultures nor social classes. For one people, respect may mean that weaker defers to and obeys stronger in all matters, or else. For another people, respect may mean that one shows appreciation to someone for what they have accomplished under their own power. It should be obvious that combining the two means things get lost in translation and that you build-in conflict.
And a fourth is lack of fear for starvation, cold and being destitute. Knowing that you and your children will not have to starve, and that there's a path open to you to climb back means you dare extend (or perhaps "spend" is better) trust to the people around you and to the societal system itself, and thus can live right by doing right.
All of the above must - must with emphasis - be expressed not only in law but in cultural practices and those who are at the apex of society must lead from the front by adhering to the unspoken rules of culture and society that little bit more than the average person. Because if the boss-man don't care about the rules, why should the masses? And worse, if the bosses make up the rules as they suit them, moment by moment, then to the masses the rules become "grab what you can while the grabbing's good" and you end up in the pit of low-trust and lose/lose-no win conditions.
Example from here: when former PM Torbjörn Fälldin had passed away, his wife found lots of office supplies he had accumulated over the decades, in his home office. One day, she appears at the Riksdag (parliament) asking to whom she's supposed to hand over the box of stuff to. Make it maybe $500 worth of stuff from the 1960s and 1970s, hole punchers, staplers, pencils and pens and such.
If you understand that example, you understand what high trust means.
Good post, as always Chris. I've thought a lot about this lately, especially since I abandoned my home state of MN at the height of the Floyd riots for, slightly better, western Wisconsin. It was such a beautiful state with kind, hard working people. The perfect people to be manipulated into societal suicide. And i think this is the crux of why we are so different politically. I know I'm a monster. I know humans are capable of terrible things. The peace and tranquility the U.S. has briefly enjoyed is the exception, not the rule. Most of us follow the rules, and the few that dont are subject to laws THAT ARE ENFORCED!!! MN politicians think everyone is as kind and loving - If we just have more govt programs, we'll fix their problems! They forcibly confiscate money thru taxation for pet projects and dont enforce the law! You will not solve the key under pinnings of human nature. 1 to 2 percent will take, take, take until they have bled you dry. Then they will burn down what is left and blame you for it. MN swallows it whole - we didn't do enough to help them! I think most MN democrats mean well, but their nativity has destroyed the state.
The folks who go on road trips in the national parks are probably a more functional group than the average American.
I’ve done a ton of long-distance travel by bicycle—probably well over 20,000 miles by now—and I’ve had to stay at urban campgrounds on occasion. (Yes, these are a thing.) Once in Miami, I took a shower super early (5 AM in winter?) because I slept poorly, and a naked man solicited me for sex in the bathroom. I’m pretty sure he was high. In a college town in Alabama, the nearby neighborhood blasted incredibly loud music until well after midnight. And on the outskirts of Orange County, CA, they’ve had to stop doing hiker/biker sites because they were so affordable ($5 per night) that homeless people kept on using them. Now you’ve gotta pay $40 per night (or thereabouts) to camp there on a bicycle tour.
Probably closer to 5% of urban people are anti-social, and once that group gets large enough, it starts to perpetuate itself and become a magnet for troublemakers. Pretty sure that’s what’s happening to Portland, OR, and probably any number of stupidly tolerant cities in the PNW.
I have often turned left through an intersection and felt the enormity of the trust required for such a system to work reliably, in which we trust not only people’s intentions, but also their competence in driving. The people behind these protest-funding NGOs want to destroy our trust in each other. What could be more divisive and less democratic?
My parents, very conservative Christians in their late 60’s, have lived in the same little town in northern WI for their whole lives. They are mostly closer friends with their long time very liberal pals, than they are with any of the people at their church. Its the oligarchic media thats working the hardest to divide us and keep us at eachothers throats. Peace and joy do not sell as much advertising as fear and loathing. Avoid.
Low-trust society, illustrated:
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1935169359447736727
This is a quarter of an inch from "fuck you, peasants."
I'd say a 64th.
She’s another POS
And butt ugly to boot. AOC is a POS bit at least she’s not butt ugly.
this is all part of the cycle of the grift. NGOs collect tax dollars to encourage these people to come here. different NGOs collect tax dollars to "provide them services" (housing, food, etc). the teachers union and more NGOs get their cut when they enroll in schools with no plan or hope of succeeding. now the bar association takes its cut to sue to keep them here. at each step, every grifter gets more money and more power...
the "end of democracy" in america was voting for social security. once you break the seal on allowing the taking of one person's money to give to another, its over. its ALL been one giant back and forth to steal since then. take the simplest form of democracy- 3 people in a room. how long will it take for 2 of the 3 to realize the 3rd has more money and "vote" to take it?? thats why a constitution forbidding such needs to be in place. we had that for a minute but we decided in 1935 to let it go- again with the allure of getting something for "free".
we now speak often and boastfully about the "latest tax plan" and how "40% of americans dont pay federal income tax... isnt that great!!..." NO, not great. those people are by definition children- wards of the state. how will you ever get one of them to vote for less "free stuff". thats why NONE of this stuff will ever be reformed strategically, it will just happen when the money runs out- and that will create a real problem(s)....
From someone who PAID into social security for over 40 years, I do not believe I am taking "one person's money to give to another" - me. In fact, my contributions, if invested responsibly instead of spent by congress, would probably fund me pretty much until death.
SALT anyone?
"50 million dollars"
The state of New York has a spare 50 million dollars lying about? The legislature doesn't need to approve a 50 million dollar expenditure?
Exactly. It's like Congress continually ceding more and more power to the presidency. She does whatever she wants. Meanwhile one of the wealthiest counties in the US (Westchester) has roads that will loosen the teeth from your head.
Our state legislature is beyond a joke.
I'm a New Yorker and when I watch this, I feel like I'm wiping the spit off my face! Personally, I think we passed "fuck you" a while ago. Everyone here in NYC but the self-righteous who live in protected neighborhoods (like mine) and can indulge in luxury beliefs is feeling like we're being trod upon. Every time I look around, another of my friends has left or is leaving.
How many security people in that video?
(While I despise unelected Kathy "God gave us the vaccine" Hochul, and I don't agree with taxpayer $ going to illegals to fight to stay here and keep getting free stuff, if it's legal representation to defend against being locked up in a torturous place like CECOT, where human beings are sent with no due process, that's a different story.)
I don't think Hochul cares either way, she's just saying whatever will make people go "Yeah! Migrants good! Trump bad!", but the CECOT thing is quite fucked up, and not what I thought "Deportation" meant ...
https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/two-narrow-narratives-of-the-anti
https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/context-catastrophes-and-selective
Democrats might as rename themselves the Treason Party.
They don’t care about Americans.
Question is: who does she really work for?
This woman wasn’t even elected!
Interesting. That you wrote that today, as I wrote and shared the following comment on another platform today. Seemingly contradictory. But not. It is precisely the high trust societies that are most vulnerable to becoming authoritarian dystopias. Because the authoritarian predator class knows how to exploit high trust societies. And turn them to shit. Your piece today combined with my earlier comment can work together. And direct some thought into how to help prevent high trust societies from being exploited and turned into authoritarian dystopias.
"Minnesota is the textbook example of who, where, why free people become subjects under authoritarian rule.
They, by nature, are very nice, pleasant people. And very trusting. Especially of authority. So trusting that they are preternaturally obedient.
This is a feature of Nordic people. Who settled into that part of the US more than any other region. "Minnesota nice." "Wisconsin nice." A very Nordic trait.
What does "nice" have to do with becoming subjects under authoritarian rule? Think back to how masking first came about in 2020. To be nice. "To show you cared. To protect Grandma, even though you knew you were safe. The nice thing to do. And authorities said so. Those in power wouldn't dare abuse the trust of the population in a crisis. That would be bad and wrong. And most people aren't bad people doing wrong things. Those who we see in power appear to be nice, just like us. Even if they're wrong they must have a reason to say and do what they say and do. And to make demands of us. Can't have leaders in power we can't trust, they know that, they'd never blow the trust of the people. Only bad people do that, not our leaders. And since we're a nation of law and order we must obey laws and orders, that's how things work. Disobeying laws and orders is what criminals do. And we're not criminals. We're nice, law-abiding people."
And THAT'S who, where and why Minnesota has the politics it has, suffers under authoritarian rule. Because they are so very nice, trusting and obedient. Predators and authoritarians (but I repeat myself) know this, love them some very nice, trusting and obedient populations to rule. Easiest prey to turn into subjects.
Which is why the saying, "Be ungovernable" exists. American DNA is to be rebellious, sometimes rude and offensive, having the freedom to offend is paramount for free societies. Which is why there's been a long drumbeat to criminalize "offensive" speech and behaviors. Not anything that actually results in harm, just hurt feelings criminalized. Making it the law to be "nice" people who don't offend anyone's feelings. How subjects are created. And become a self-enforcing population. Of "nice" people."
Yes, and well said. A bunch of paradoxes to manage: High-trust society requires people to be kind and decent most of the time, but capable of serious anger and refusal. Hard.
Like!
As a Swede, I can testify to the truth of "Nordic nice", but also to its less-known backside:
The Germanic/Nordic peoples have the capacity to go just as far in the opposite direction, and do so with near-mechanical precision and completion.
Preventing that from happening towards the abusive rulers is an all-encompassing project for our media over here right now. We are to blame Trump, Putin, the patriarchy and the racists for everything. We are not to look at who is in charge, who made what decision, and who's footing the bill for it all. We are to be nice about it, and not show anger.
There's a lot of anger. I've never experienced anything like it. A quiet rage boiling under the surface, so strong the one being angry fears his own feelings. So, a lot of effort is expended to make people associate anger with shame. It only heightens the anger, it seems to me, though my horizon is limited.
There's another thing too, don't know if it's prevalent in Minnesota: The Dodge. Smile and be nice in front of officials, then ignore them and go about your business as you intended when their backs are turned. Another element of The Dodge is following instructions/orders literally and to perfection, and not doing one iota of labour beyond what's in your contract.
"Why haven't you removed the snow from the bus stop and the pavement?"
"I'm employed to plow the streets, says so in my contract. Want the rest plowed, you talk to the council about it, I'm only doing what they tell me to."
That's a quiet, careful and nice way to rebel against venal stupidity-in-office.
But that anger... even the police is frightened of it now.
Abusive rulers ask themselves, "what to do with all that anger? Hmmm...how about we shift it, yeah, that's the ticket, we'll shift it!"
And just like that a George Floyd is beatified into sainthood, a violent, angry break for people feeling anger at government for locking them down and taking away their lives ostensibly for a bad flu. Shift all that anger into something like racism and abusive policing (that many of all races had been experiencing for months preceding BLM riots.) BLM riots even held in European nations with tiny black populations and no history of discrimination. In 1930's Germany and across Europe the same tactic of shifting anger targeted Jews. Tried and true.
A decade ago I visited Iceland. And occasionally read news from there. So I took note of this story out of Iceland when I read it. Iceland is a very civil, obedient country. And obedience to authority is fertile ground for totalitarianism. That nice civility comes with that big vulnerability.
Count how many times the word "obedience/obey" is used in this story out of Iceland about a nurse in Iceland who defied the testing mandates and was punished, fined for challenging authority:
Could terminate work contract of a nurse who denied taking rapid Covid tests
Iceland Monitor, March 9, 2023
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2023/03/09/could_terminate_work_contract_of_a_nurse_who_denied/
"the nurse disobeyed company orders"
"she was required to obey such orders"
"employees' obedience to the employer's legal order is one of the primary duties of employees"
"an employee must submit to the mastery of his employer"
"work procedures must be obeyed"
"breach of a duty to obey or refusal by the employee to obey a directive"
"employee’s breach of the duty to obey"
"the employee’s refusal to obey is considered a serious failure"
"Obviously, obedience is considered to be an important part of running a business"
"obedience obligations are evidently to be regarded as critical to the operation of the policy"
"The Court finds that the breach of the duty of obedience by the nurse during the time in question constitutes a serious breach of the employment contract"
"The woman was then sentenced to pay the company Klíníkin 1.2 million ISK [$8,500 USD] in legal costs."
FF - If authorities (including employers) order the people to wear anything, a mask, a strap-on dildo, whatever in public they will and must. Obey. It's the civil thing to do. Society stays nice and peaceful that way. But not very free. Obedient and free do not go together. Mutually exclusive.
Don't mistake nice, civil people for opponents of totalitarianism. Quite the opposite. Nice people support totalitarianism. By their unflinching obedience to authority. And desire to not offend, to remain civil.
I’m old enough to remember when those on the left used the slogan “QUESTION AUTHORITY!” Yet, they were and still are the ones who did anything but question Fauci, Birx, 6 foot stickers on the floor, double/triple masking, gene therapy “vaxxines” and all the other nonsense associated with Covid. So strange; it’s now those on the right who are the questioners/rebels. Why is that?
I find mysrlf wondering where the spirit of 'QUESTION AUTHORITY' went among the non-radical left?
My friends in that category have become such bootlickers, both for COVID and the use of military force by the United States.
Any suggestion that government could be improved by any change or re-organization is met by wide-eyed fear. Could Yosemite limp along with 11 fewer employees? Shudders, impossible to even consider.
It's the conservatism of a 98 year rest home patient on their last legs.
I find it very strange.
The Left underwent a phase change during the Obama years. Trump's boorishness amplified it. Knock them out of power for a while and they will return to being liberal.
Um...because, like, maybe there's no such thing as "left" and "right," just sides to take relative to the particular authoritarianism in play, and what is to be gained from obeying versus rebelling?
The evangelical Christians I know who claim to be "republican" and "conservative" are the biggest Pharmacucks I've witnessed. All they want to talk about STILL is their latest PCR "test" result, how they're masking and when, how they're Social Distancing, etc. They worship at the altars of Pharma, and they don't question a thing about it.
Well, don’t know where you live, but I’m in the Bible Belt, and most of my conservative, evangelical friends were NOT into any of that. Most unvaxxed, too.
Freedom Fox—Yes indeed, many apparently "nice" people do support totalitarianism, and the past several years have been a master class in observing that fact up close & personal.
From the Icelandic court ruling:
" It has been considered that an employee must submit to the mastery of his employer..." I love the "mastery". (In fairness, this article is poorly translated.)
The Rest of The Story:
"The woman was then sentenced to pay the company Klíníkin 1.2 million ISK in legal costs." She won't be bothering anybody else soon.
Also in the News:
"Two foreign tourists found dead at Reykjavik Edition Hotel". Apparently, they were French.
Possible on the translation. Do you know Icelandic? English is taught to most Icelanders in elementary school. It's not mandatory, but they're told if they don't learn English the only work they'll ever get is menial labor in the hinterlands. And Icelanders spoke better English, with nuance and colloquialisms than many Americans when I was there. Monitor is written by these same people. There's the possibility they just pushed it through the language translator, after writing it in Icelandic. But I'd defer to an Icelandic speaker to make that call.
What came through loud and clear in the piece is that obedience it paramount. You do as you're told. No excuses. No justifications. Obey.
I have seen Iceland from 29,000 feet.
Iceland took Bobby Fischer in and gave him citizenship when the US government was chasing him to the ends of the earth on a political persecution. They protected him until his death.
Fischers lonely grave in rural Iceland has become a pilgrimage spot for chess players.
So, Respect for the People of Iceland.
Yes. They do have a reputation for that. And were central in the WikiLeaks Assange cases. And their web hosting services are better than most nations at protecting content that governments seek to ban, punish. But even they have their limits, and will bow to the politicians in some cases. Not just the kiddie porn/snuff video stuff that has universal revulsion of violent crime content, some political thought crime stuff that the heat is too much for them to bear.
That said, I met and maintained contact with a Member of Parliament in Iceland while I was there. He was a leader in the Pirate Party when they were at the height of their popularity after both parties were caught up in the banking racketeering scandals that came to light. Think of the Pirate Party in Iceland (and Europe) as sort of Socialist Anarchists. Declaring their unwavering support for freedom of speech, ideas, from mandates, etc. Except with comfortable public safety nets for education and health care. They portray themselves as a sort of "f the man" party, for the people. Boasted about passing anti-blasphemy laws in Iceland as a minority party, never done in their parliament before. We drank Brennivin in Reykjavik together along with his wife, herself a local newspaper publisher. A very nice couple. We stayed in touch via messages, social media for many years after my visit.
And then the Plandemic hit. I thought surely the Pirate Party would stand up to the authoritarianism in Iceland. I thought wrongly. They jumped on board with the restrictions, masking, testing, vax mandates. So much for the anarchist party. They're nice, obedient anarchists. They give anarchy a bad name.
And since you probed deeper into the piece I'll let you in on the deeper meaning of my seemingly flippant "strap-on dildo" comment. Iceland is the home of the world's only penis museum. So employers could, in fact, order people to wear a strap-on dildo in public in a coordinated awareness PR stunt for it. Not as throw-away a line as most readers may have thought. Though an Icelander may have picked up on it!
https://www.phallus.is/
Update: "A French woman in her fifties was remanded in custody until June 20 at the request of the Capital Area Police, on the grounds of investigative interests, in connection with the investigation into the deaths of two French tourists [male] at a hotel in downtown Reykjavík."
Well said. I certainly feel it, that anger, here in England, the home of politeness and civility. There's a buried seam of repression that's close to erupting, more in urban densities than rural areas. I spend most of my time in rural life, where the nice people are. But you can still feel it.
The media do a great put-up propaganda job at redirecting that rage toward Trump, populism, the 'far-right' (which could mean anybody) and racism. Most people seem to buy that, but increasingly not so much... there's that undercurrent that can't be contained. Something's got to blow sooner or later.
Yes, speaking as a Minnesota resident, I can report the "Dodge" is everywhere prevalent in Minnesota -- and pretty much everywhere else in the US where the depressed and depressing 'Happy People' have gotten much too full of themselves.
Do you know Kipling's Norman and Saxon poem?
Had to look it up, to be honest. I think it was part of English Literature when I was at university (as a student) but so was a whole slew of other poems and texts too, so it all winds up as literary jambalaya in my mind.
However, he wasn't wrong per se, and the advise of the Norman lord echoes sentiments from the Sagas, which is fitting given where the Normans came from.
Abusing your thralls was frowned upon most severly and was seen as unmanly.
Or as we might put it in modern terms:
Don't want a violent revolution or societal dissolution? Don't make it the better option for the people.
That line: "Don't trust any clerk to interpret when they come with the tale of their wrongs."
There's what's wrong with our Euro-American bureaucratic way of governance.
> A quiet rage boiling under the surface, so strong the one being angry fears his own feelings. So, a lot of effort is expended to make people associate anger with shame.
But this Shaming is a primary element of the Control System.
Let me ask you this. Be honest.
Do you feel this anger?
Do you fear it?
If you feel it, are you ashamed of it?
You see, this is where the entire Control System is coming undone.
In a shameless society where little boys are dressed up BY THEIR PARENTS as girls to twerk for money from adult homosexuals...where little girls are taught that to be physically active and interested in science makes them boys so they have to be chemically and surgically mutilated...where women have zero dignity and display/desecrate their bodies via digital whorehouses...where men in their 30s take pride in living with their Mommies (in a clearly incestuous relationship even where "sex" isn't involved)...etc.......there is no more shame to be had.
This is why that mom in the park incident was such a turning point.
> But that anger... even the police is frightened of it now.
I can't say I see this. "Law enforcement" is part of the Control System. They're more afraid that it's going to be harder to make their monthly quotas previously secured via speeding tickets, etc.
The awake cops I know SHARE that anger. They are sick of playing Praetorian Guard to a bunch of Permastate degenerates. They are sick of risking their lives for what is called "law enforcement," but no laws get inforced, only talmudically intepreted and reinterpreted by a captive/activist judiciary, and turned into mass media clickbait campaigns. They are sick of being told to "stand down," like the chief of police gal at Evergreen State who wanted to nip the BLM/Antifa/USAID riots in the bud in 2017, but was told not to (she left to be a beat cop in a nice upscale town about an hour away). (And key players who mismanaged that entire situation moved on to extremely lucrative jobs...including pushing vaccines through WA State's Department of Health.)
Rebellion through half-assing one's job is cowardice. However it's understandable. The problem with being high-time-preference is that one can imagine potential consequences of one's actions.
And that has always been a place where the Control System can slap on the bit and bridle.
To write out what I feel... anger is not strong enough a word.
Berserker rage, is more like it.
The Minnesota nice syndrome can be applied to many churches as well. They’re all backward ass now utilizing the doctrine of social justice & accept everyone & everything. Many embrace transgenderism under this philosophy. The devil is clever - he preys on one’s emotions which is why liberal women are the most affected by this phenomenon.
> liberal women are the most affected by this phenomenon.
Bullshit.
Every child forced into transgender by a Munchausen Mommy has a father somewhere.
Every one of those fathers chose who to inseminate.
Men abrogated their role as fathers/family leaders back in the 1970s. Today all we hear is weak males screeching blame at women...because they'd rather be married to their fists and joysticks/game consoles, and how many in their 20s and 30s are failure-to-launch types redefining their weakness as some brave new realm of "NEET" or whatever?
Admittedly this isn't surprising considering that 50 years of war draft (1915-1965) deliberately selected for slaughter and maiming at least three generations of the most fit, intelligent, healthy, brave white men of prime breeding age. Who got through that selection gate?
Women have been staggering around since the 1960s looking for the chadly sons who never got born because their chadly forefathers were slaughtered at Paschendaele, Iwo, and Khe Sanh. Literally haunted by ghosts...and then expected to breed with lesser men, including passels of Thirdies...and then vilified for passing judgment on those genes with abortion.
Meanwhile, a massive destruction of the job base, replaced with Permastate positions where you get a paycheck and benefits for echoing the Permastate's ever-changing shibboleths.
Nobody stops to look at the bigger picture. The engineering of it.
You're doing the same thing here: social issue exists, it must be the women's fault. You're preying on emotion just as you claim "the devil" does.
Freedom Fox— I agree with all you write here. Thinking back on all those "nice" conned people in their masks, my thoughts are not kind.
John Adams was absolutely correct. Only a shared ethic and common culture, by citizens and rulers alike, can sustain a free society. That Hideous Strength understands the implications of that reality very well.
This sounds good, but some of the most hardened and difficult populations are no less “captured”. Your thesis isn’t wrong. It’s just parochial.
Look at NY, Philly, Baltimore, Atlanta, Boston, etc.
Blue cities dominate the state political system. Until, people realize and combat the mass-surrender-insanity that passes for “our democracy”, ie. wolves voting to decide the fate of the sheep, we’re all screwed.
It’s supposed to be a nation of laws…well, the judiciary has turned itself into a kangaroo court enforcing laws against sheep that the wolves wrote.
There are no blue cities. Just cities with captured voting processes.
https://x.com/BevHarrisWrites/status/1854408541957972081
Exactly. Nice people become Nazi people.
From your lips to God's ear.
You described my cousin perfectly, who lives in Minnesota, near George Floyd central, and is a nurse who works with covid patients. Every time I've asked her to listen to the doctors who treat covid with repurposed meds, or info about how dangerous the shots are, she responds politely dismissively. No insulting "shut up you conspiracy theorist". She probably feels bad for me, immersed in such misinformation.
She's such a good soul. She probably can't ever process what she's been part of by giving Remdesivir. She's asked the infectious disease doc about Ivermectin, and - official narrative repeated, accepted, done.
Her hospital Still requires employees to be "up to date" with the covid shots. I need to find a group there who might be able to help her try for a medical exemption ... (do you know of any?). A few months ago she was sick, and her description on facebook sounded like what multiple shots do by wrecking the immune system.
But, then she found out the reason she was sick - Mononucleosis, "not from the covid vaccine"! ** By Design**, those damn things disable the same parts of the immune system that keep cancer, and herpes viruses like Epstein-Barr (mono), in check. https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/stabilising-the-code
She then had nothing to say besides "unfortunately" she's mandated by work to keep getting the shots ...
I don't think she could process how dark this goes ... Her Mom lives at a senior center, also in MN ... their covid restrictions were ridiculous ... but, must be for our own good ...
Psychopaths scope out and target nice people. And nice societies.
Unless we band together and mount smart strategies against them, we are toast.
But evolution helps. When they overbreed, they become obvious. And banding against them becomes much easier.
Fox, you write as though we haven't just been through 70 years of the most intense, and increasingly automated, psychological operations, delivered through total-saturation mass media, against white people (there, I said it rather than just tap dancing around it with euphemisms) of founding and pioneer stock.
Or you've been through it and still side with it, and side with the way you were mindf!cked:
You're talking from the same set of myths that the mindf!ckers talk from: that this is all just about Muh Human Nature.
Yet you're still engineered to talk about "Nordics," but refuse to name those who exploit Ice Age Winter Survival traits...using robust, demonstrated, well funded propaganda campaigns coupled with accelerated, intensified, closely held control of all levers of social and political power.
Even your use of the term "authoritarian dystopia" suggests you have a haunt in your own mind...that was implanted there by others.
WHAT flippin' dystopia do you mean? I haven't seen any, my entire life, except the culture of degeneracy and destruction inflicted on founding and pioneer stock white AND BLACK Americans, and their home towns and families! (Growing up among blacks who despised Michael King, and rejected "civil rights," and despised being told they were poor sad slaves when they were the descendants of free men and women and American Revolutionaries and such made it so I couldn't accept a lot of that bullsh!t myself.)
When a carefully orchestrated campaign of repression and destruction harms a people, by degrees, over extended periods of time, pushing back against that isn't "authoritarian dystopia," it's justice and rebalancing. It’s the turning of the Wheel.
At this point what do you suggest that kind, good, trusting people could do to those who have victimized them for four or five generations would even begin to equal what has been done to them?
And I don't want to hear a bunch of late 20th century propaganda fantasies about all that. It wasn't "Nordics" who slaughtered 170-200 million people, in their own countries, in the 20th century.
You are still protecting the true victimizers while waving their cave wall puppets' shadows.
Eeesh. Them granny panties you're wearing must be in quite the wad. Lighten up, Francis, ain't personal, don't make it so. Unless you have so much repressed guilt and latent shame that anything striking anywhere near home triggers you? Hmmm. Maybe you should invest in thongs?
OK, Boomer.
Maybe this will help treat that condition you suffer from:
https://www.amazon.com/vagisil/s?k=vagisil
You're welcome!
I think Finland is a Nordic nation? AmIRight?
https://jcpa.org/article/finlands-tarnished-holocaust-record/
hmmm....
A good example of what you’re talking about, Chris, is our idiot of a governor, Gavin Newsom, who is tripling down on sociopathy. Not only does he have two podcasts, he just announced he’s going to start writing on Substack. How does King Newsom have so much spare time? By not actually running California, he has to fill his day somehow. Newsom also just said he would run for president if he was answering a higher calling. The same explanation most sociopaths and dictators give for wanting more power. Except Newsom doesn’t want to a democratic president, he wants to king! He wants absolute power. Witness his Covid lockdowns, the school closures during Covid, the outdoor spaces off-limits, all upon his decree.
And now, Congress has rescinded Newsom’s all-electric vehicle mandate. What does Newsom do? He signs an executive order putting the mandate back in place. When Congress tells Newsom he can’t do that, Newsom signs a second executive order. No kings, indeed!
Wow. Newsom is in a class by himself (not a compliment). Two podcasts and a Substack? That’s just crazy. How will he have time to get that train built or hang with Pharma lobbyists at the French Laundry?
"The Train will build itself"
The initial segment of 171 miles has been under construction for 10 years. It is estimated that it will be complete by 2030. For context, it took about six years to build the nearly 1,800 mile long transcontinental railroad, without internal combustion engines, computers, robotics, CNC machining, wireless communications, etc, etc. Oh, and there was this very distracting Civil War going on at the same time.
I live near the central construction point of The
Train! Glaciers would be insulted at the speed of construction.
Never have so many labored so hard for so little result. And the hardest part through the Tehachapi Mountains hasn't even started.
I can't understand at all how the Egyptians built the pyramids.
I am in CA so I feel I can legitimately chime in here…how does Newscum’s 2 EO’s putting the “all-electric vehicle mandate” back in place supersede a Congressional Bill and the POTUS signing that same bill rescinding Newscum’s original EO on the “all-electric vehicle mandate”?
(Did you catch it when Trump in his press conference about signing the bill that rescinded Newscum’s original electric vehicle mandate and all the crazy car standards that are now on new vehicles, referred to Gavin as “Newscum” as well?)
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This has now become The Theatre of the Absurd.
What makes what CA does such a big deal is that so many states have made their vehicle laws follow CA's, not the feds. I don't remember exact number, between 17-24 states. Since those states pretty much say they'll do what CA does I'll be curious if they say must follow CA's law - repealed by Congress/Trump? Or CA's Executive Order? They are not treated the same in law. And the statute language is precise, I doubt the other state's laws contemplate CA EO's.
That'll be interesting to see how it plays out in the other many states on the CA standard.
Newsom literally can't read. This is not a cheap shot. It is literally true. He hires aides to read to him. His parents got him through the private (Catholic) University of Santa Clara with generous donations to the school.
On the other had, I have no illusions that Trump is a 'reader' either.
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Well my first thought from here in LaLa land comes from the mail today. The cost of the large trash can in my alley will be doubled in July. Doubled. I work to fund the government and government contact employees . We all know it. Especially in California. Prices are going down almost everywhere. Not here
How can we trust these people. ? They are the vampires sucking us dry
Government NEVER retracts, it ALWAYS expands.
It is a self replicating cancer. It creates new mutations daily and feeds itself from the never ending supply of (polite) tax slave dollars.
In a healthy society, high trust, politeness and responsibility are foundational requirements. We do not have a healthy society. We have a feedback loop of corruption, banality and a constant dumbing down of any square peg's edges to fit the pre-made round holes of government approved "community".
The farther one can get away from 'government approved', the better one's life will be. Smell the air, relish the sunlight, take the roads less traveled, seek adventure, take risks, and spend that time with real honest, real polite and truly trusting people and life will flourish.
Couldn’t agree more. But to do that I’ll have to move out to f California
Elite overproduction by universities full of young people who don’t go camping and have not been educated in any manual skills. People who are excited about something that they are making are not interested in destroying things. At root, impoverished early years with too much screen time, and then impoverished grade school with teachers who suffer the same deficiencies.
There's nothing more dangerous than stupid people who believe they are smart and elite entrusted with power. That's what overproduction by universities is unleashing on society.
'Their name is legion...'
A fake college experience is an exercise in obedience vs. a true education. There are too many people going to college.
That 1% wants to erase the whole history of America and the West from the collective memory, and they will tell you they only need 3% to do it.
Yes.
One of your best, Chris. Thanks for this.
We inherited a small home in North Dakota, talk about a high trust place to live, people leave their keys in the car, house doors are unlocked all the time, local businesses still allow people to run a tab and leaving the garage doors open when running for parts (with the garage full of tools ) etc.
It’s surreal but it comes from everyone knowing everybody and a hundred sets of eyes watching out the windows. It’s a lot like Mayberry was depicted.
Took a road trip through southern Nebraska a couple years ago, and as a Los Angeles resident was shocked to see lines of empty cars with the engine running and the windows down outside the post office and the grocery store.
I think the point about the rangers being called in to deal with the 1% while the other 4% are dealt with by the site kind of demonstrates the key part of high trust society: problems get dealt with. I would argue that the biggest reason for the degradation of trust is that the rules are simply not enforced by authorities, and when private individuals do so they themselves are punished and not the offenders. Not only does this embolden the 1%, but it teaches that 4% to emulate the 1%; the more following the rules is shown to be unnecessary and enforcing the rules shown to be punishable, the more people on the margin will break the rules. That applies to the lowest petty thief and the highest government official.
Yes -- the more you enforce a small, clear set of reasonable rules, the less you have to enforce rules. Order causes order.
Since COVID and George Floyd, traffic enforcement in our county (and the State of Washington) is nearly non-existent. Speeds are getting faster and traffic lights and stop signs are becoming suggestions. Reckless driving and aggressiveness is increasing. As we have a Soros-sponsored prosecutor and a radical legislature and governor, uneven prosecutions of offenders has created more and more conflict and disregard for laws. It's easy to see social order breaking down, where a trip to the grocery store is now a tactical decision. "Order causes order" is foundational to an ordered society.
Precisely. Bloated, arbitrary and discretionally enforced rule sets especially lead to a culture of little lies, where everyone breaks the rules and pretends they don't and no one else does, spiraling into ever more rule breaking that no one feels they have legitimacy to call out because "everyone does it."
The ideal is nothing is illegal that you aren't willing to kill someone for doing, although admittedly a few rules past that probably is fine.
One of the building-blocks of high trust (Sweden used to be one of the top three high trust cultures/nations in the world, competing with our neighbours for top spot) is that consequences for wrong-doing are public, applied equally and inflicts some form of cost to the delinquent, whether it's a civil or criminal matter.
Another one is cultural-ethnical homogenity, if said culture is a high-trust one. If it's a low-trust one, that same homogenity instead cements the low-trust behaviour-patterns. And no-one needs to imagine what happens when you try mixing high and low trust cultures: the low trust culture exploits the system until it breaks and the high trust ulture becomes a low trust one too, out of necessity.
Yet another one is respect: what the concept means, and that meaning is not the same across cultures nor social classes. For one people, respect may mean that weaker defers to and obeys stronger in all matters, or else. For another people, respect may mean that one shows appreciation to someone for what they have accomplished under their own power. It should be obvious that combining the two means things get lost in translation and that you build-in conflict.
And a fourth is lack of fear for starvation, cold and being destitute. Knowing that you and your children will not have to starve, and that there's a path open to you to climb back means you dare extend (or perhaps "spend" is better) trust to the people around you and to the societal system itself, and thus can live right by doing right.
All of the above must - must with emphasis - be expressed not only in law but in cultural practices and those who are at the apex of society must lead from the front by adhering to the unspoken rules of culture and society that little bit more than the average person. Because if the boss-man don't care about the rules, why should the masses? And worse, if the bosses make up the rules as they suit them, moment by moment, then to the masses the rules become "grab what you can while the grabbing's good" and you end up in the pit of low-trust and lose/lose-no win conditions.
Example from here: when former PM Torbjörn Fälldin had passed away, his wife found lots of office supplies he had accumulated over the decades, in his home office. One day, she appears at the Riksdag (parliament) asking to whom she's supposed to hand over the box of stuff to. Make it maybe $500 worth of stuff from the 1960s and 1970s, hole punchers, staplers, pencils and pens and such.
If you understand that example, you understand what high trust means.
Good post, as always Chris. I've thought a lot about this lately, especially since I abandoned my home state of MN at the height of the Floyd riots for, slightly better, western Wisconsin. It was such a beautiful state with kind, hard working people. The perfect people to be manipulated into societal suicide. And i think this is the crux of why we are so different politically. I know I'm a monster. I know humans are capable of terrible things. The peace and tranquility the U.S. has briefly enjoyed is the exception, not the rule. Most of us follow the rules, and the few that dont are subject to laws THAT ARE ENFORCED!!! MN politicians think everyone is as kind and loving - If we just have more govt programs, we'll fix their problems! They forcibly confiscate money thru taxation for pet projects and dont enforce the law! You will not solve the key under pinnings of human nature. 1 to 2 percent will take, take, take until they have bled you dry. Then they will burn down what is left and blame you for it. MN swallows it whole - we didn't do enough to help them! I think most MN democrats mean well, but their nativity has destroyed the state.
"The perfect people to be manipulated into societal suicide."
Right?
The folks who go on road trips in the national parks are probably a more functional group than the average American.
I’ve done a ton of long-distance travel by bicycle—probably well over 20,000 miles by now—and I’ve had to stay at urban campgrounds on occasion. (Yes, these are a thing.) Once in Miami, I took a shower super early (5 AM in winter?) because I slept poorly, and a naked man solicited me for sex in the bathroom. I’m pretty sure he was high. In a college town in Alabama, the nearby neighborhood blasted incredibly loud music until well after midnight. And on the outskirts of Orange County, CA, they’ve had to stop doing hiker/biker sites because they were so affordable ($5 per night) that homeless people kept on using them. Now you’ve gotta pay $40 per night (or thereabouts) to camp there on a bicycle tour.
Probably closer to 5% of urban people are anti-social, and once that group gets large enough, it starts to perpetuate itself and become a magnet for troublemakers. Pretty sure that’s what’s happening to Portland, OR, and probably any number of stupidly tolerant cities in the PNW.
We camped in the Angeles National Forest, because it's close to home and pretty, until we gave up. It's consistently unpleasant.
I have often turned left through an intersection and felt the enormity of the trust required for such a system to work reliably, in which we trust not only people’s intentions, but also their competence in driving. The people behind these protest-funding NGOs want to destroy our trust in each other. What could be more divisive and less democratic?
My Trust since COVID is markedly decreased. I have seen the ither side of pleasant. It shocked me.
I did think when people were openly confronted with evil they would choose good. They didn’t.
My parents, very conservative Christians in their late 60’s, have lived in the same little town in northern WI for their whole lives. They are mostly closer friends with their long time very liberal pals, than they are with any of the people at their church. Its the oligarchic media thats working the hardest to divide us and keep us at eachothers throats. Peace and joy do not sell as much advertising as fear and loathing. Avoid.
I am amazed at how high trust we are, despite the reality.
People leave their cell phones on their desk or cleaning cart.
Traveling overseas, I have become aware how odd this is.
Hope we stay this way and Trumpism is part of the answer.