Another short post before I head out. We’ve all been hearing about “supply chain” problems, and we’ve all seen—to one extent or another—the empty shelves and “no longer in stock” notices on web sites. Rather than get into the technicalities of that—others more qualified are doing that—I want to reproduce some comments Tucker Carlson made last night. In the course of a much longer monologue about the supply chain problems and how that fits in with our dependence upon Chinese factories, Tucker also spoke about the confluence of economics—especially shortages—and politics.
I'll bet that the DS, and the Great Reset crowd, knew damn well what was obvious to JMG etc., and will be laughing their asses off when it unfolds in earnest, esp. insofar as it brings misery to the Deplorables.
Yes. It is worth considering how a single essay, written in such a way as to capture the present "zeitgeist" and expressing popular sentiment, can come to have real influence on events and to define a writer's career despite his or her many other achievements. Codevilla's "America's Ruling Class" and Anton's "Flight 93 Election" are a couple of recent examples. You never know when one of these will "hit" and when it does it can have outsized influence on political events. Good encouragement for all prospective commentators.
When I read this, I laughed sardonically and told my wife that the National Council on Family Relations would have fit right into Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron." From Wiki: "In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic."
The intact nuclear family definitely has advantages over the left's new paradigm of the single mother subsisting on government largesse and sending their spawn to leftist propaganda mills to be brainwashed. And here I thought that the left was using 1984 as its new blueprint for society. I'm glad to see the National Council on Family Relations is giving Vonnegut's flavor of dystopia its due.
"It turns out our economy was much more fragile than we thought it was. And if we'd known that earlier, we might not have elected an economic illiterate like Joe Biden as president. " There is the problem of deficits and the debt, and speculation may be rampant, but the main street economy was doing just fine in spite of Covid until Joe came along and messed everything up. And we did not elect an economic illiterate. The election was stolen. Other than that the problems mentioned are real.
"We're about to become a lot more like Mexico. It turns out our economy was much more fragile than we thought it was. And if we'd known that earlier, we might not have elected an economic illiterate like Joe Biden as president."
Um... but, Mexico is full of corruption, perverse economics that sustain mass poverty, and all kinds of terrible government policies. It's also a place where various forms of election rigging, up to and including outright fraud, have become entrenched. So maybe it's not really that much of a change for us, after all? And not exactly a hopeful path toward reform, either.
The regime doesn't really care what the polls show, because they know they don't need to even acknowledge the will of the electorate. They can just fake it, lie harder, and cover it up. They've managed to consistently get away with that approach so far. When I have a closer look at purported democracies around the world, especially the poor ones, I get the impression that this can be a pretty stable situation. Poverty and despotism seem to go well together. Once we've slid far enough down that slope, we may not be able to climb back out of the pit.
"It turns out our economy was much more fragile than we thought it was."
Assuming that the "we" includes him, on what basis did he think such?
Why shouldn't the most complex economy in history not be the most fragile?
For some writers who've long seen what should've been obvious, see any number of
Peak (cheap) Oil folks, e.g. Kunstler, and ArchDruid J.M. Greer, e.g. at https://www.ecosophia.net/the-negative-sum-economy/ .
I'll bet that the DS, and the Great Reset crowd, knew damn well what was obvious to JMG etc., and will be laughing their asses off when it unfolds in earnest, esp. insofar as it brings misery to the Deplorables.
Slightly off topic, I found this to be a good read re: Codevilla... https://unherd.com/2021/10/the-triumph-of-americas-ruling-class/
Yes. It is worth considering how a single essay, written in such a way as to capture the present "zeitgeist" and expressing popular sentiment, can come to have real influence on events and to define a writer's career despite his or her many other achievements. Codevilla's "America's Ruling Class" and Anton's "Flight 93 Election" are a couple of recent examples. You never know when one of these will "hit" and when it does it can have outsized influence on political events. Good encouragement for all prospective commentators.
When I read this, I laughed sardonically and told my wife that the National Council on Family Relations would have fit right into Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron." From Wiki: "In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic."
The intact nuclear family definitely has advantages over the left's new paradigm of the single mother subsisting on government largesse and sending their spawn to leftist propaganda mills to be brainwashed. And here I thought that the left was using 1984 as its new blueprint for society. I'm glad to see the National Council on Family Relations is giving Vonnegut's flavor of dystopia its due.
"It turns out our economy was much more fragile than we thought it was. And if we'd known that earlier, we might not have elected an economic illiterate like Joe Biden as president. " There is the problem of deficits and the debt, and speculation may be rampant, but the main street economy was doing just fine in spite of Covid until Joe came along and messed everything up. And we did not elect an economic illiterate. The election was stolen. Other than that the problems mentioned are real.
"We're about to become a lot more like Mexico. It turns out our economy was much more fragile than we thought it was. And if we'd known that earlier, we might not have elected an economic illiterate like Joe Biden as president."
Um... but, Mexico is full of corruption, perverse economics that sustain mass poverty, and all kinds of terrible government policies. It's also a place where various forms of election rigging, up to and including outright fraud, have become entrenched. So maybe it's not really that much of a change for us, after all? And not exactly a hopeful path toward reform, either.
The regime doesn't really care what the polls show, because they know they don't need to even acknowledge the will of the electorate. They can just fake it, lie harder, and cover it up. They've managed to consistently get away with that approach so far. When I have a closer look at purported democracies around the world, especially the poor ones, I get the impression that this can be a pretty stable situation. Poverty and despotism seem to go well together. Once we've slid far enough down that slope, we may not be able to climb back out of the pit.