Tired and a bit of a headache. Enjoy some memes. Should be back with the podcast tomorrow and a new post on Friday. Enjoy!
Is Everything Worse Than It Was In 1900?
“Jefferson Public School. Fort Wayne, Indiana. Back on that planet you say you came from?” – Planet of the Apes
I went into a bar for time travelers and they were upset I haven’t paid my tab from next week.
For large chunks of human history, things didn’t change all that much from one century to the next. Oh, sure, there were innovations and social changes and cyclic government transformations (Roman Republic to Roman Empire, for instance) but life was such that in many cases, dropping a Frenchman from Paris in 1300 A.D. into Paris around 1400 A.D. would have been a fairly comprehensible change for the resident, except he would probably have had to get a different color beret.
Let’s go back to 1900, though. What changes might have seemed like science fiction (dystopian or otherwise) to a time traveler from Fort Wayne (let’s call him Taylor) if he showed up in the year 2024?
I guess Joe is happy he finally made a banana republic.
Lets start with . . .
Social Changes:
- Elevation of sexual fetish to that of a sacrament rather than that of a criminal offense.
- Unromantic sex with large numbers of partners for unmarried teenage girls and women is the norm.
- Sex changes for children are not punishable by prison time.
- Universal, free availability of pornographic images and videos.
- Women working. Sure, some worked, but it wasn’t the norm.
- Women voting. Yes, it was allowed in some places, but certainly not all.
- Criminals being treated with non-judgement, except when it comes to “hate crimes” – the concept of saying a “bad word” as being worse and less forgivable than murder.
- Rap music. I still can’t believe it exists.
- The fall in popularity of churches.
- Staggeringly low birthrates in developed countries.
- Credit scores as a primary measure of suitability coordinated by large, faceless financial companies.
- Working for large corporations as the norm, rather than a rare exception, like the dude who worked for the railroad.
My grade on how Taylor would rank these? Utterly dehumanizing for most of them. I think he’d be shocked at the collapse of the morality required to run a just society in the absence of tyranny.
Why do I hate the metric system? I’ll never accept a foreign ruler.
I think the sexual stuff would be the most shocking. Sure, humans have been boinking each other in all sorts of ways since Adam’s third night with Eve, but the celebration of things that were called degenerate (or worse) in nearly every Western civilization for thousands of years would be the most shocking.
The criminal change would be a big thing for Taylor, since he was probably used to speedy justice of a trial followed by a fairly quick hanging.
World Power Changes:
- The complete dissolution of the British Empire into a proto-Islamic Caliphate.
- The complete collapse of the Major Power colonial system leaving many colonies adrift in a state of partially collapsed civilizations that can’t care for themselves.
- Western government essentially declaring war on their own citizens in order to import aliens who don’t really assimilate, and importing those aliens in staggering numbers.
- Near universal, real-time information gathering on nearly every citizen from cameras and tracking devices that they buy and carry with them.
- A very small number of very large companies control what news people see.
- Drones in modern warfare cutting down the ability of troops to be sneaky, at all.
- Nuclear weapons which can devastate cities of a larger size than existed in 1900.
- Intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can reach any area of the Earth and devastate square miles in less than an hour.
- Jet fighters which, although nearly obsolete, can move at multiples of the speed of sound and destroy people and planes and things hundreds of miles away.
- Centralization of the financial systems of the world into a near-monolithic system where billions in capital could move easily from one continent to another in seconds.
- World hunger as less of a problem than world obesity.
- The staggering number of laws and rules from the federal level covering every aspect of life.
- Identity theft.
The set of changes was bad, but this may be thought of as more chaotic. In Taylor’s time, colonies certainly exploited the natural resources of a region, but in many places they also gave order and governance to areas that had (until that time) were at the mud and straw hut technology level, and are rapidly regressing back to the mud and straw hut technology level.
Do national anthems qualify as country music?
Warfare went from Teddy’s charge up San Juan Hill to remote controlled impersonal warfare that has the capacity to kill billions in an afternoon. I’m pretty sure that would be horrifying to him.
General Technology:
- Modern cars, including partially self-driving cars are amazing pieces of technology, and combined with modern highways provide a dream transportation system – coast to coast, in a car, in a couple of days.
- Air travel from nearly any part of the world to nearly any other part of the world is possible in hours.
- Humanity has travelled to the Moon. The Moon!
- Instantaneous communication with people all around the world is possible.
- Instantaneous video from anyplace in the world is possible.
- Most of the knowledge accumulated by the human race is available nearly instantaneously.
- Organ transplants are a thing.
- Modern architecture has become ugly and soulless, with no space for beauty and humanity.
- Creation of industrial “food” which incorporates large numbers of components that were created in a chemical plant rather than a growing plant or cow or pig.
What would Taylor say about these? He’d probably be impressed by the first part of the list, but the last two would be very troubling. In the last two weeks I ate a “pretzel” with cheezefoodsauce®, and it was tasty. But compare it to a freshly grown garden tomato? I’d rather have the tomato every time.
The Mrs. didn’t want a brain transplant, but then the surgeon changed her mind.
Wow. I don’t think he’d like to swap his steak and eggs and butter for Cheeze-Itz™ and Doritos©, but they seem popular.
So, what color beret kufi do you think the Frenchman be wearing in 2124?
How Did It Get So Crazy, So Fast?
“It was O-Ren Ishii and her powerful posse, the Crazy 88, that proved the victor.” – Kill Bill, Vol. 1
My friends always made fun of me in high school for having an imaginary girlfriend. Of course, the joke was on them: they were imaginary, too.
One of the comments on a post a few weeks back asked a pretty good question:
“How did we get so crazy, so fast?”
The answer actually involves several intertwining threads, mice, Soviets, and gasoline engines, so let’s see of we can weave a web that covers at least a chunk of what has made us so crazy, so quickly. This is a distillation of the last seven years’ worth of study and writing, so some of it might be pretty familiar. Also, it’s not necessarily complete yet, but here are the major threads that I see that have led to what Heinlein called The Crazy Years.
First: Societal Malaise Due to Abundance
I’ve written several times about John Bumpass (that’s his real middle name according to the Internet) Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia experiment, see immediately below this paragraph for links to two previous posts. The short summary is Dr. Calhoun asked a crazy question: what would happen if you gave a population of mice everything they could want: food, water, freedom from predation, space to live, bedding material, and places to make nests.
The result? The mice died out. At a certain point they stopped mating, mother mice stopped taking care of infant mice, gangs formed, and some mice (the “beautiful ones”) just spent their time grooming themselves and not really interacting.
If this sounds like Reddit® or TikTok™ or the Democratic National Convention, well, you’re right. For a certain subset of the population, abundance has ruined them.
My friend told me I didn’t understand the meaning of the word “ironic” which was ironic because it was Tuesday.
I think it started in the 1960s. I’m just guessing. I like to blame the hippies, so they’re likely the early-version. It then continued into the wildest era of abundance the world has ever seen: the 1990s. If you look at any time lapse, that’s when the United States started leading the world (it has spread now, literally) in having obesity, not hunger, be the bigger (pun intended) health problem.
I think this started to manifest itself, big time, in the music of the 1990s. We went from Warrant singing about Cherry Pie to Kurt Cobain mumbling about how living in the suburbs with all the Pop Tarts™ his fat face could eat was killing him. Turns out that shotguns are even more deadly than Pop Tarts©. Who knew? We had a generation that was lost because they had everything.
I think a candidate for the hallmark phrase of this Crazy Cause is: “Why are we even here, dude?”
Never take diet advice from a fat guy, and never take life advice from Kurt Cobain.
Second: Societal Anxiety Due to No Challenges
I recently made the comment on X® that a lot of people would e better off if they had been bullied as kids. Was I serious? Yeah, I was. One response was, “Why do you want to make things worse?”
The truth is, for me, that bullies actually helped me build my character and my resolve. And, believe it or not, sometimes the bullies were right and the things that they bullied me about (second graders can be assholes) were things I needed to fix to be a better person. Did I lift harder to get stronger because of it? Yes. Did I develop the internal resilience so that the people who (rightfully) bullied the smarmy second grader that I was eventually earned the respect of the bullies?
Yes. Males, even young males, need to develop a hierarchy and understand their place in it and why they are inferior to Chuck Norris.
No child is born perfect, and it is the challenges in life that help define and develop character. Without challenge, development is stunted.
I think that today’s twentysomethings have the problem that they look into a future that certainly looks grim to them, yet they’ve never had a chance to develop their character and are told again and again how perfect they are and how their choices are important.
Newsflash: the choices of a second grader generally deserve about as much attention as the choices my dog wants to make. Both will eat all of the cake in the house if you let them and make messes everywhere. It’s our job as parents to not care what they think when it’s important to develop character and virtue.
Chuck Norris can recite pi backwards.
As a society we face many of the same problems: what is it we stand for and what are we trying to accomplish? We don’t have Soviets to fight, we’re actively encouraging invaders into our country to replace us, and we don’t have any cool national purpose like the Apollo program.
I think a candidate for the catchphrase of this crazy cause is: “Why am I so worthless?”
Third: Societal Atomization Due To Tech
As humans, we have minds that are built around smaller social systems, mainly. The big move from rural to urban happened in the west only recently. Our legacy social structure is (mainly) to live in a town for a very long time, put down roots, make friends, make a reputation.
Most people aren’t leaders, they’re followers, and want to be led. Why else would sane people want zoning regulations?
The good news is I can have up to six Eldrich Abominations without asking for a zoning variance request.
But now, put us in a constantly churning urban landscape where we don’t know the next-door-neighbor in the apartment building? Who do we turn to?
Well, whatever latenightjokeman says or whatever TikTik™ says or whatever InstaFace© allows to be printed. People are defining themselves on how YouTube™ says Europeans feel about Donald Trump.
They are also allowed to pick whatever gender they are. How do I know tech is driving this? Back when COVID made everyone homeschooled, transgenderism dropped. Why? No one to identify to – which is why “transwomen” with no girl parts get offended when gynecologists won’t give them appointments.
Yes. That’s a thing.
The iPhone™ is a big driver. It puts connections in the hands of kids. I talked with one Millennial, and he said that at the start of his high school career, kids “cruised main” looking for other kids. By the end of high school, it was all phones. Friendships dropped, and dating dropped. Mix that with the first two causes above, and it leads to fewer kids.
Dating sites magnify this, and make every girl “4” think that she deserves a Chad ranked 9 or higher because one time a drunk Chad had sex with her. This leads to Chads being happy, but girls being sad and hollow inside.
I think a catchphrase for this Crazy Cause is “Who or what the heck am I?”
When I was a kid I thought my dad was Superman®. Later, I wonder why he put a cape on after drinking bourbon.
Result of these interacting strands of Crazy are a large number of people who:
- Stand for nothing
- Have no examples of virtue other than seeking money in their lives
- See no point in anything other than the present moment
- Are distracted
- Think they’re too good for PEZ™
- Are filled with the combination of anxiety and narcissism
- Do and feel whatever the media tells them to do
- Haven’t built social circles of any particular strength – clubs and churches are on constant decline
There’s good news.
All of this is self-limiting. We’re not mice, and plenty of good humans haven’t fallen into Calhoun’s Behavioral Sink. Many of those same people have overcome challenges sufficient to shape their character for the better. Finally, there are enough of us that don’t follow.
We lead. Or we choose our own path.
And?
We’re gonna win.
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Kamala: The NPC Candidate
“This isn’t a video game. There are no extra lives.” – Edge of Tomorrow
Kamala posted a commercial to YouTube®, I tried to reply, but just like Kamala the comments were disabled. (Memes and content mostly “as found”)
Kamala Harris has invented a new type of presidential candidacy – one based on being absolutely nothing. Seriously. She has stated exactly one position publicly: “No tax on tips” which is precisely the position staked out by Donald Trump two months ago. I guess we should give Kamala this one, since she’s no stranger to a variety of tips.
Oh, sure, Mr. Trump’s trademark is being “short on details” so that he can leverage a win, but based on 2016, what really outraged the GloboLeft is that Trump actually tried to follow through on many of his positions. One thing that Trump won’t be to voters is a surprise, but I think Kamala is so unknown as to be a surprise, and not a good one.
Kamala’s first interview question: “Describe yourself in one word.” Kamala: “Vague.” Interviewer: “Can you elaborate?” Kamala: “Possibly.”
Why?
She’s pulling what I’ll call an “Ultra-Clinton” approach to her candidacy. Back when Hillary first ran for senate in 2000, I was expecting that, finally, she’d have to address the public. There wasn’t any way, I naively thought, that she could duck the people for an entire election. I mean, without killing them.
Whoops. While Hillary did do carefully staged and vetted “listening tour” events, what she didn’t do was meet with anyone but fawning press. She successfully avoided all genuine interaction with people so she wouldn’t have to kill time. Of course, Hillary was well known to be a GloboLeft accomplice, so it wasn’t any surprise when the New York machine churned out a senate seat for her to launch an eventual presidential campaign.
Kamala Harris, though, is another matter. She is the ultimate in vapor. What, exactly, does she stand for? Apparently, no taxes on tips. But beyond that, she is a ghost.
Is she Indian or black? Yes, though my guess is that more of her ancestors owned slaves than were slaves.
I guess if she doesn’t owe reparations, nobody does.
Is she for or against illegals scurrying across the border in unending streams?
Yes. She wants to be seen as “tough on immigration” at the same time she promises to “let every illegal sitting in detention out on day one”.
Is she against inflation? You bet she is, and on day one of her administration she’ll do something (the something is not mentioned) to stop it. Why the Biden/Harris administration can’t stop it right here and now isn’t discussed and no one asks here that question, since that would be mean or something. As usual, the Bee nails it:
If honesty is the best policy, I guess Kamala’s normally uses the second-best policy.
Interviews? Trump sits down to a multi-hour open and candid conversation with Elon Musk, and sits for interview after interview. Kamala? She might sit for an interview sometime by the end of the month. Maybe. If they can keep her off the gin for that long.
And Trump’s request for three debates?
Well, there’s just one on the schedule, and that’s enough for Kamala, at least in August. Heck, in September I’m not so certain that Paperwork American Judge Juan Merchan won’t slap Trump in irons and send him to prison. Oh, sure, he’ll get out on an appeal shortly thereafter, but don’t count that possibility out. This election is a circus, and we’re far short of the finale.
They did a study of how often Kamala was drunk. The results were staggering.
But what is known is that Kamala is really attempting to appeal to a select group of voters: those who aren’t paying attention and who will vote for a candidate based on what they feel.
Kamala has no need to preen for the hard-core GloboLeftists that want to hang Trump because they don’t like his face. They’re going to show up for her even if she changes her tune to being pro-life and wants to start distributing AR-15s to every citizen. They’d vote for her, because what they believe in is based only on what the latest talking points are from the DNC. These people are Non-Player Characters (NPC) because they’re programmed by the mainstream news or by whatever the talking head night joke men tell them to believe.
What, really, is an NPC?
Since humans are social creature, there is an inherent tendency in many people to follow. In the past, this made sense. The number of people, say, a French peasant would have seen in their life was small, and they derived their beliefs by what was presented to them other people, rather than any other source.
This variety of NPC is popular in the UK, and in the United States too! Talk about diversity!
Women, especially, were subject to this effect. An example proving that was the number of war brides that American troops returned home with from Germany. I don’t have the total from Germany, but over 300,000 war brides came from Europe, many speaking little English, to the United States. These women immediately married men of the armed forces that had bombed and terrorized them for years because everyone said they were in charge now.
See? NPC.
But as family groups become fractured due to no-fault divorce and a system that gives women cash and prizes for divorcing men, and as people become uprooted chasing economic success in areas far from where they grew up, they became reliant on a different tribe: mass media.
No one is entirely immune, but some are entirely dependent on mass media for their opinions. A close-knit family, longstanding friends, family stories and novels and other idea intrusions (like this blog) serve as counter-programming to the NPC soup that many live in. The more you’re divorced from Infocancer like The View, the greater your immune system, and the less of an NPC you are.
This phrase must have tested highly with the NPC species Karenus Manageriusspeakum.
Kamala is not for you. Kamala is for the NPC.
Kamala has to appeal (or pretend to appeal) to the middle. These are the people who aren’t on the GloboLeft, and aren’t on the TradRight. They just want to grill and enjoy the sunset and consume mass media. Be aware, this how they were built – to follow. Immersive multi-media that’s fed from a screen and doesn’t require any critical thought is what they desire.
For the NPC the TV or TikTok™ is their tribal sense of purpose. Along with a lot of drugs.
How the NPC class copes.
The difficulty for Kamala is that for many of these people the last four years have been hell. Their businesses have been closed (if they own a business) and their paychecks have dwindled in the face of ever-present inflation. They’ve seen awful riots, they’ve seen this weird transgender explosion that they don’t much like, and now they notice huge numbers of people who moved into their neighborhood and don’t speak any English staring at them when they fill their gas tank. They know they’re supposed to like them, but also have a tingling sense that these aren’t refugees or immigrants. They’re becoming worried that this is an invader class.
Huh. Wrongly think. Get on board, citizen!
Kamala has to appeal to those people to win. She can’t do it on record, so the best option is to run against anything she has ever stood for, or at least pretend to run against that. She can say anything in front of any group, and will wait for the networks and search engines to run interference for her so that she can fulfill her strategy to win the White House.
How? Kamala intends to be the first NPC candidate, standing for nothing, with no real substance except a desire for power with the media as her staunchest friend and defender. Let’s get this woman some more gin!
Göbekli Tepi: How Beer Created Civilization
“You blow it tonight, girl, and it’s keggers with kids all next year.” – Heathers
There’s also a neolithic monument to Dad jokes: Groanhenge.
FYI upfront: very likely I’ll not have a post at all on Monday – travelling for pleasure and won’t be back until the wee hours Monday morning.
Göbekli Tepi is back in the news. But first? What the hell is a Göbekli Tepi?
Göbekli Tepi is a location in the southern part of Turkey, right near the place you put the onion in, and later discover you forgot to remove the plastic bag with the gizzards and cooked it, and decide, “meh, it probably won’t kill me,” carve it up, and serve it anyway without telling anyone.
Oh, wait, it’s the country Turkey not the tasty bird. Göbekli Tepi is located right near the border with Syria, and is one of the most significant archeological sites. Ever.
Why? It’s made of huge stone structures, carved intricately and realistically, and showing more artistic skill than any post-modern artist. That’s not saying much, but, there it is.
I once read a very moving story in Braille. It was touching, really.
Original by Sue Fleckney – https://www.flickr.com/photos/96594331@N03/20385309880/, CC BY-SA 2.0, snarky comment by Wilder.
It’s old. Very old. 9,500 B.C. old.
That’s a really long time to try to even imagine. I’m not sure I can, since when compared to the lifespan of any human except your mother, it’s hard to conceive. I’ll never be able to put it in terms anyone can wrap their brain around, but let me give an example:
We’re closer in time to Jesus than Jesus was to the building of the pyramids. Göbekli Tepi is four times farther back in time than the construction of the pyramids was from the perspective of Jesus. This was so far back in time that pottery had yet to be invented, but, strangely, Tupperware™ was already in wide use.
Tupperware™ even made a casket with a clear lid. It was a failure, I don’t know why. They had a great slogan: Remains To Be Seen©.
Göbekli Tepi is old enough that it started being built around the time the very first evidence of agriculture shows up in the archeological record. This is such an early settlement, that most evidence indicates that it was made by hunter-gatherers for use only occasionally, like the cabin in the woods that they visited only on Labor Day. But why did they go there?
I know the answer. Why would hunter-gatherers meet up at the dawn of history?
To party.
I’ve written about this before – there is evidence of grain and yeast in big stone vats at Göbekli Tepi. This is evidence of the really simple answer to the question of why Göbekli Tepi was built – the guys got together, made beer, sang songs, told lies about the big aurochs that got away, farted, and got really, really drunk. Want more evidence? Over 7,000 grinding stones to mash the grain into something they could brew with. 7,000 seems like a lot, but they gathered there to party and get stoned for over a thousand years.
I go to the pool every day to try to get a swimmer’s body. But no one ever drowns.
Once a year, probably, because that’s all the beer they had because they hadn’t developed agriculture.
That last part is new and is in a paper by Dr. Martin Sweatman (chemical engineer) out of the University of Edinburgh (LINK). It turns out that a bunch of Scotsmen (I assume it involved grad students, having been an engineering grad student myself back in the day) noodled over the carvings and started counting. Scotland is boring, so counting the number of times a “V” (apparently the only letter the Göbekli Tepi residents knew) showed up was the only other thing Sweatman’s team could think to do after they drank all the booze in the lab.
Adderall© is dangerous. One of my friends took it, blacked out, and now he’s a grad student.
They found that there was a pretty cool pattern on the blocks (figure 12 on page 38 of the .pdf I linked above):
- One repeating set of the letter V (both right side up and upside down) that was either 29 or 30 days (depending on how you count the V). A lunar month is really 29.5 days, so 29 or 30 sounds right.
- 11 blocks, right under the 29 or 30 letter V. So, 29.5 times 11 (plus the original month above it) is . . . 354.
- Then, 10 more of the V letters. That brings us to 364.
- Finally, one more for the summer solstice (their guess), bringing us to 365.
My guess was that the last V? That was party day – the ultimate pre-dawn of writing stuff down beer bash. Since they only drank one weekend a year, I imagine these folks were the ultimate cheap date, sort of like a group of high school freshmen who had scored some near-beer.
I guess Cain was Abel. (meme as found)
And, by Crom Coors®, they invented mathematics, astronomy, sculpture carving, building craftsmanship, and agriculture in a short span of time.
To get more beer.
I’ll stand by that statement.
- Once planting started, had stick around to harvest it.
- So, we had to build a house.
- Since others might want our beer, we had to defend the house.
- We can’t do that alone, so we had to band together.
- Growing grain is a lot of effort, so, for the first time in history, humans had a use for slave labor.
- Work went from hunting and occasional fishing and gathering to back breaking farm labor.
- This meant greater complexity, which fed greater returns, and now beer was available all year round.
- We built cities, so we could support the beer industry, and had increased disease issues (COVID 8000 B.C., anyone?).
- Then, we created a division of labor, started the development of technology, and invented the fridge (the first one was in Germany, used for beer making).
- This led to the apex of civilization the 7-Eleven®, where one could buy beer, PEZ™ and pork rinds 24 hours a day, every day.
Society was created by and for beer drinkers. I’m not even kidding. People needed a reason to build all of this stuff, and men were the ones who did it. Have you ever been around men? We only do stuff for one of two reasons – one is beer, and you know what the other one is. Okay, three reasons. I forgot the PEZ®.
Wait until he tries to explain Netflix®. (meme as found)
In the end, Göbekli Tepi wasn’t destroyed. It was carefully buried. This, my friends, suggests a great reverence for the place. It was like the ritual burial of the frat house after all the fraternity brothers had gotten married and had a real job.
Which was probably the case, they were now all farmers and soldiers and bureaucrats that ran the small cities so they could eventually build breweries, convenience stores and refrigerators. They gradually forgot about the place.
Then we (modern humans) found it. Now, the people who found it were very serious people who have grown only more serious over time at university cocktail parties in the woke modern world. They can’t, for the life of them, figure out what this was, since they forget that this was a place built by and for men to party.
I think Dr. Sweatman is totally right (there’s more in his paper including a Time Lord™ and a possible record of a cataclysmic comet, you should RTWT)– the stone is a calendar. And it’s counting the time until the next party.
It’s the countdown to beer day. And who doesn’t like beer day?
No Podcast Tonight
The Mrs. is tired. Have some memes:
Will Great Britain Rise Again?
“They chose to murder and steal.” – The Dark Knight
Notes: All memes are as found, and no podcast tomorrow – The Mrs. has to catch some sleep.
Alice Smith is a reciprocal follow on X®. She’s the great-great-great-granddaughter of Scottish economist Adam Smith, and is a good person to follow (@TheAliceSmith) if you’re already following the most important account on X™, @wilderbyfar. She’s from the UK, and had the absolutely best post I’ve seen on the current sickness that’s destroying the West:
Doesn’t that say it all?
Immigration to the West (Europe plus the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) has nothing to do with freedom or our culture for most immigrants. It’s merely about the stuff.
The sickness?
It’s from the GloboLeftElite attempting to brainwash the world into thinking that:
- There is no difference between a man and a woman,
- Anyone can be a man or a woman,
- There are no intrinsic differences between races and ethnicities,
- No one can pretend to be a different race unless it’s been okayed in advance even though all races are the same,
- White people should somehow feel shame for their race even though all races are the same,
- There is no difference between people of differing I.Q.,
- People who are wealthy merely “won a lottery”, and,
- Every culture is valid.
It’s the last one that we should talk about right now.
I’m not particularly interested in going on a culture jihad, so, perhaps all cultures are “valid.” I suppose, if cannibal, rape-y, stone age tribes are your thing, I guess you could call it valid.
But all cultures are certainly not equal in things like freedom, justice, morality, and economic output.
Here, for centuries, the West has been far ahead of the world. Europe was free-ish (feudalistically speaking) since the Black Death, which greatly changed the relationship between serf and local lord.
And in a continent that was freer than any in the world, there was a place that was freer yet: Great Britain. Great Britain had a really big advantage: after the year 1066, it really was never invaded by a external enemy army. Sure, you could make a case the culture has been subverted by outside forces (and I will below) but not by force of arms.
This isolation as an island nestled right next to Europe allowed a strange development – yeoman farmers who were encouraged to take up the longbow and become soldiers so that while the English lost land in France, there was never a doubt about them losing England. The Scotts in the north were much the same, being hard-headed independent herders, they had to be strong, and were used to fighting both against and with other Scotts as well as the English. And, yes, that’s a complement. (I’m partially Scot myself).
This isolation of individually armed individuals set up an independent society with no safety nets. If you were too poor, stupid, or drunk to make enough money to live, you died. If your lord decided he wanted something out of line, well, your +3 longbow could outrank his +1 armor at a distance. As a result, Britain’s I.Q. rose over the course of centuries because the culture itself winnowed out stupid people, yet the strong, stubborn sense of independence remained.
Even the song “Rule, Britannia!” has the following lyrics:
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves;
“Britons never will be slaves.”
This is a very, very different culture than that of the current people who opened the floodgates to Great Britain – they were unabashedly Globalist and Leftist, hated everything that Great Britain stood for, and were more than willing to start the migration into Great Britain. I’d be lying to say that none of them pulled their weight – in some cases Britain got some of the best from their home countries, hence the term “brain drain”, but this was the exception rather than the norm. Most of the immigrants to the UK have been a net negative to the country.
But no outside army ever conquered Britain. Except the army of beggars that have invaded it have done something that no one thought possible – united the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland – against the onslaught. What does it take to get people who have been fighting each other for centuries to hold hands, literally, and march together?
Whatever it is, it sounds Evil to me.
And it is. Evil. Brought directly to the shores of Great Britain by GloboLeftists in misguided altruism and the GloboLeftistElite out of a calculated bid to displace inconvenient people who don’t want to be replaced.
There reaches a point where something so awful happens that a culture revolts: it says, “That’s enough.” In the United States for transgender acceptance, it was the murder of six children by a trans killer so crazed that they still won’t release her manifesto. That was enough. The GloboLeftistElite wanted to try to hide it (see how autocomplete will try to take you to murders of transgenders, but not murders by transgenders). These murders is why Bud Light™ is Bud Deadtome© for so many consumers.
It appears that the United Kingdom (Great Britain plus Northern Ireland) has had enough of murderous vultures in their society. The cause? The murder of three girls, ages 6, 7 and 9 at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in a town called Southport. By knife. By a 17-year-old that had no place being in the United Kingdom in the first place.
English people had watched as rape gangs of organized sexual assault on at minimum 1400 young women that was denied to even exist in Rotherham because the victims were mainly white and the perpetrators were of privileged minority status – Pakistani, mostly.
This was covered up at a national level. Filing cabinets full of the data on the case mysteriously disappeared. That was never solved.
But would it matter? Probably not:
Some of those convicted (many weren’t even tried) got as little as 2 years. Britons can get more time for being mean with words.
Oh, and the last one? She was posting Bible verses.
That set the situation, along with other, repeated, ongoing murders and rapes by people not fit to live in any sort of civilized society. These three final murders were enough.
The response of the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, was exactly what you would expect from a member of the GloboLeftElite: he blamed the people pushing back against unrestrained and unrestricted illegals swarming the United Kingdom. And if you complained online, even if you were more likely to be arrested than the illegals swarming the streets with swords and machetes.
They’re now calling him “two-tier Keir”, since his justice has two tiers: a harsh one for actual English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish and one where all acts by any minority are ignored. Probably because Starmer hates his own people, because he hates himself.
I guess that’s easier.
The United Kingdom has found a point where they say, No More.
This is coming soon to a country near you.
Oh, and if they offer the type of deal below? We should take it. Because it’s not about the stuff.
At all.
Civil War 2.0, A Chaotic Month
“I knew your brother would send assassins.” – Gladiator
I would tell a joke about my time travelling experiences, but you guys didn’t like it.
- Those who have an opposing ideology are considered evil.
- People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology. Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
- Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
- Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
- Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
- Open War.
Volume VI, Issue 3
All memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”. I’ve kept the Clock O’Doom at the same place – though it will notch up quickly if there are any signs of the TradRight stiffening up.
This is a moving situation, and things are changing quickly. The advice remains. Avoid crowds. Get out of cities. Now. A year too soon is better than one day too late.
In this issue: Front Matter – Destabilization – Violence and Censorship Update – Biden’s Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Kamala – Links
Front Matter
Welcome to the latest issue of the Civil War II Weather Report. These posts are different than the other posts at Wilder Wealthy and Wise and consist of smaller segments covering multiple topics around the single focus of Civil War 2.0, on the first or second Monday of every month. I’ve created a page (LINK) for links to all of the past issues. Also, subscribe because you’ll join nearly 850 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
Destabilization
I’ll start with a couple of my own quotes from last month’s Civil War 2.0 Weather Report:
July will be an even more eventful month, if my guess is right.
This level of political intrigue is the highest since 1859 or so, and it’s quite clear that the glue that holds the country together is nearly gone, and this is a signpost on the way to Civil War 2.0.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was a surprise, and certainly not one that I had anticipated. In the immediate aftermath, Trump’s popularity soared as people saw the raw response to the event from Trump in one of the most iconic photographs of my lifetime, his fist raised in defiance.
Trump is certainly a showman.
As the details of the event continue, it looks like the Secret Service was doing its job as well as Boeing®’s Starliner™ design team.
The other thing the assassination attempt did was show how pathetic the attempt to prosecute the January 6 “insurrectionists” that were so ill-behaved that most of them used trash receptacles for their water bottles. Comparing the two events shows how silly, vindictive, and political the prosecution of the protesters was and is.
Immediately the political attacks restarted on Trump. He was Cheeto® Hitler™, and still is in their minds. Many of them were in open despair that the shooter had missed.
What followed? Joe Biden dropping out of the race. Joe was done, but his last middle finger to Obama, who I believe is the one who pushed for the June debate and pushed for Joe to be booted, wanted someone else, anyone else, other than the retarded girl-child with a love of vodka known as Kamala to be the nominee.
Obama lost, and Kackela Harris will soon be voted in by the Democratic delegates as their first candidate that never received a single primary vote, and was selected by a senile man as a revenge choice.
All of that screams stability.
Just kidding. Of all of the strange and destabilizing things we’ve seen so far, I would lay money we’ve yet to see the strangest part of this election season, and it will be more destabilizing even than what we’ve seen just this July.
Violence and Censorship Update
Well, there’s this:
Which resulted in proof that you don’t hate the media enough:
And also proof that the constant drumbeat has made GloboLeftists evil or crazy. Or both:
And the GloboLeftElite try to hide what we all saw:
But don’t bet on Bing™ to be unbiased:
And here are things they’re also attempting to memoryhole, including billionaire Alex Soros with a bullet hole and forty-seven dollars. Hmmm, Trump, if elected would be the 47th President:
And Prince Harry shows why July 4 is still important:
And here are things that the GloboLeftistElite don’t want you to think about:
But there are Bright spots:
Biden/Harris Misery Index
If Democratic economic policy had a face:
Let’s take a look to see how we’ve done this month . . . .
Yup, up again. It’s like there’s a pattern here . . .
More to come:
Updated Civil War II Index
The Civil War II graphs are an attempt to measure four factors that might make Civil War II more likely, in real time. They are broken up into Violence, Political Instability, Economic Outlook, and Illegal Alien Crossings. As each of these is difficult to measure, I’ve created for three of the four metrics some leading indicators that combine to become the index. On illegal aliens, I’m just using government figures.
Violence:
Violence is up. I wonder if Chicago’s Democratic National Convention is going to spike temperatures? Maybe they’ll play some soothing music?
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it is slightly down. I expect this fall to drop.
Economic:
The economy looks to be juiced, but thankfully we have housing options.
Illegal Aliens:
July is showing as down, again, since (my take) the .gov folks are just making up numbers now.
Kamala
I was going to write a bit more, but I’m a bit under the weather, so here are some related memes, in order:
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
Bad Guys
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1818705002023530940
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1818801077308809307
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1816613118056837285
https://x.com/DaRealMonch/status/1817987959922250083
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1817614424141857175
https://x.com/Glock_Topickz/status/1815899177596903814
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1816611210214731827
Good Guys
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/89EFTHojJRw
One Guy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrlrzw5550o
Body Count
https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/25/kids-a-growing-number-of-americans-say-no-thanks/
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1817731127672779239
https://reason.com/2024/06/15/house-passes-bill-to-automatically-register-young-men-for-the-draft/
https://themilitant.com/2024/08/02/congress-discusses-upgrading-the-draft-and-conscription-of-women/
https://www.newsweek.com/us-army-military-women-draft-conscription-1916238
Vote Count
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184621/presidential-election-voter-turnout-rate-state/
Civil War
https://radaronline.com/p/trump-shooter-suicide-mission-trigger-second-civil-war/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/ohio-republican-trump-civil-war
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/trump-vance-civil-war-gop-political-violence/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-civil-war-talk-1235066760/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/29/how-civil-wars-start/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/movies/war-game-documentary-review.html
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democracy-suffer-quiet-death-simulated-trump
Learn This One Weird Trick
“I don’t know, but whatever it is, it’s weird and pissed off.” – The Thing
The Mrs. is so weird: she starts every conversation with “were you even listening to me?”
All memes today are “as found”.
In the recent week, a miracle occurred. It seems like every Mainstream Media® pundit found the exact same word to describe Donald Trump, JD Vance, or both of them.
“Weird.”
Yup, “weird”. That’s the Kamala campaign’s strategist attempting to frame the 2024 election. Republicans are . . . weird. Master Persuader Scott Adams analyzed this. His conclusion?
This was “mean girl” politics. And the person who came up with the idea was . . . a woman. Her idea was to use the “in-group/out-group” method of attack.
What’s that? Well, simply enough, a junior high girl would describe someone as “weird” in order to get her friends to form a united group against someone. It only works, mind you, in junior high and also if it’s true. With Trump and Vance?
Well, not so much, for a couple of reasons. First off, they’re actually the weird ones:
See what I mean? We aren’t the weird ones. Nothing about us is weird. Okay, some things about me are weird, but most of them in a good way. Most of them. Those memes above will have a visceral impact, mainly on those who already agree with us. Some of them, though, especially at the bottom end of the list will be far too much for the normies in the middle. They might chuckle, but they’re gonna be pretty hesitant to share them. Regardless, if they see them and they’re not already consumed by the Woke Mind Virus, they’ll start to grow the doubts about who is really “weird”.
Here are some that are a bit more sharable:
See what I mean?
My take is that the following, though, are knockout punches to the middle, because they really hit the values that define us, but that the normies in the middle have a hard time seeing as weird – it builds a cognitive dissonance – the look at that, and realize that’s a far, far better world than we live in today.
Which makes these memes something that might move them.
And that’s my take. YMMV. And if someone called me weird? I’d say, “Hell yeah, I’m so weird I believe in marriage and intact mothers and fathers raising their kids with moral values.” Agree with them, and amplify. Because every single time that they try to paint us as something, it’s something that they fear others think of them.