“Well, I didn’t know you wanted to get involved with the discussion, Mr. Helper.” – Back to School
I thought nice things about Nancy when I heard that she said she helped blind children, but then I figured out she meant verb, not adjective.
A few weeks ago I was driving all over creation, so I had a chance to listen to a few podcasts as the miles of Upper/Lower Midwestia melted by over dashboard. One of the podcasts was from Scott Adams.
One of Scott’s topics was about the concept of identity. In dealing with young kids, say four or five, researchers were trying to figure out how to best motivate these snot-covered disease machines to help tidy up a room. I must take a moment to note that forcing toddlers to replace hotel staff could potentially really help the bottom line of Marriott®, so I’m definitely for it.
Regardless, the researchers tried to ask the young kids to “help tidy up.” This had the effectiveness you might imagine, as my experience has shown that the typical five-year-old has the attention span of Robin Williams on cocaine.
But then the researchers tried another tactic. They asked the kids, “Are you a helper?” That worked, and so did the kids. They stayed on task for longer, and were apparently not as useless as they normally are.
I keep falling off of my bike – it’s a vicious cycle. (meme as found)
Adams finished up the segment. He moved on to another topic, which was some random piece of GloboLeftElite propaganda that was circulating on CNN™ or MSNBCommunist©. He then asked his audience, “Do you believe that?”
None of them did. Scott then made the statement: “You are immune to the propaganda of the Left. Why?”
Various answers came back.
“Oh, let’s see, FakeName52 said, it’s because we’re smarter? True, FakeName52, but that’s not it. VirginiaFats says that it’s because we’re more rational? True, but that’s not it either.”
Adams’ answer?
It’s the same thing as the toddler answer: we’re immune to (lots of) the propaganda of the GloboLeftElite not because we’re smarter (we are) or more rational (we are) but because of who we conceive ourselves to be: the lies of the GloboLeft become apparent when viewed through the filter of being someone who finds family important, for instance.
When deaf people go to court, is it still called a hearing?
That’s a pretty deep thought: Who I am is more important to me than what I’m doing. If I think of myself as more honest and trustworthy I’ll actually be more honest and trustworthy. If I think of myself as a victim and incapable of dealing with the world, that’s also exactly who I’ll be.
Simple as.
And, if that was where my podcasting journey ended, that might have been good enough for a Friday post – it feels like that sort of topic, since it’s essentially a way to change the way I look at and interact with the world. But the next podcast up was John Stossel interviewing Charles Murray.
Just like O.J. was best known for, um, one thing, Charles Murray is best known as the co-author of The Bell Curve, a book about I.Q. that touched a third rail by showing data that I.Q. is at least partially inherited. Scandals!
If a cannibal doesn’t like eating brains, think his friends will give him a hand?
But before that he wrote a lot about government policy, even being quoted by Ronald Reagan from time to time. Murray wrote about the interplay between government policy and outcomes, and one of the things that he found that bothered him the most is that all of the policies that give money to unmarried women had the consequence (intended?) of kicking the man out of the house.
The woman don’t need no man because .gov steps in and becomes the breadwinner. Heck, the government is even better than an actual husband and father because the government never judges, always pays on time, and let’s the woman sleep with whoever they want whenever they want.
So, no father, no problem. Right?
Well, not exactly. Young boys look to fathers as role models, as someone that they’d like to be like. Since Uncle Sugar is now the de facto father, that means that the only role models available to a young boy in a situation like that is, in the words of Charles Murray, “the worst possible role model: the most aggressive and meanest person in their circle of friends.”
I built a model of Mount Everest and The Boy asked if it was to scale. I said, “No, it’s to look at.”
We see the consequences of that all around us. How many of the “youths” shooting up Chicago or Baltimore have a father at home? Seven out of ten blacks (2018 data) were born out of wedlock. No father, or a revolving door of fathers removes the role model the boy should have had. The numbers for whites aren’t encouraging, either: nearly three out of ten whites is now born out of wedlock.
This should be no surprise if you’re familiar with r/K selection theory. I’ll give a quick explanation. This will be a refresher for some, or you can read one of my previous posts here (link below) for more a more in-depth discussion.
r selection is the selection process followed by rabbits. Rabbits live (generally) in an environment with large numbers of resources, so they have rabbit sex all the time. They produce lots of little rabbits, and, for the most part, the rabbits have little involvement in raising all of their baby rabbits. Rabbits also don’t particularly care who they mate with, there are no pair bonds. Rabbits survive based on a numbers game. In high resource environments, it’s about sex, all the time, with anyone and everyone.
When dentists get awards, they don’t give them trophies, just a little plaque.
K selection is different – it’s the selection process that wolves have. Wolves often live in low-resource environments. They pair-bond for life, and a huge amount of resources is expended in the long process of turning a wolf pup into an adult member of the pack.
Obviously, the environment for women right now favors r selection, and I can’t help but think that this is entirely on purpose. That attack on the family seems to serve the GloboLeftElite’s agenda. Families are the atoms of civilization, and to fundamentally transform civilization, the families have to be controlled first.
As for me? I’m a helper.
One of Soviet main philosophies was to break the familial bond. Just like the pups in Animal House, removed from their natural role models, the gov “parents” provided food and conditioning. How do think that will work out?
It won’t. But the good news is we still win in the end.
Well known concept: if you want more of something……SUBSIDIZE IT !
So paying low skilled/low educated women to have and raise successive babies without a /father/family is only going to produce more of that behavior.
My proposal (put on ear protection so the Libtard screams will be somewhat more tolerable):
NORPLANT ! The first bite at the apple is free, meaning their first baby arrives and becomes, like the mother, addicted to guvamint subsidies “welfare”. But to get her check she has to show up and prove that the NORPLANT is still in her arm……….every month , for as long as she wants a check.
No NORPLANT, no check.
This plan does not reward more of the behaviors that the guvamint should not want nor be having to pay for. It cares for the innocent child and teaches the mother that if she wants assistance she has to meet certain requirements. ( thus instilling in her: want money, work for it concept)
When she marries, both she and the husband can bring marriage license filed at courthouse/records office and request that the NORPLANT be removed along with continuing requirement to show up to have arm inspected. n Note: this rewards for “proper” behaviors !!
I like your plan and it should be extended even further. If the father isn’t named, then welfare should be cut in half. If he is named and refuses to provide financial support, then he has to make a choice….jail time, community service or a vasectomy. This should apply to any healthcare for illegals as well, namely the hospital provides the care but only with the requirement that deportation is a requirement.
I like it! No, I love it!
I have a counter proposal: No unmarried person shall receive government benefits, except a widow or widower with minor children. For families in need, the husband shall receive benefits to spend on their behalf.
+1
The world is full of people who want to change the world. There is a saying, or if there’s not there should be, that if you you want to change the world change yourself, since that’s the only thing you have much control over. People will generally be changed by their circumstances, but that might not be in a good way. It’s hard to change yourself, but it sometimes happens inadvertently and quickly due to traumatic situations. Since those are not really under your control what I’m considering is what you can do to intentionally change yourself. That is usually a slow process, and basically consists of acting and thinking in the way you want to become. The idea that we become what we do applies both to what we physically do as well as what we think about and what our wants and desires lie. For any skill you wish to acquire the skill itself must be practiced, and the repetitive nature of the practice will change you.
https://drp314.substack.com/p/the-rudder-of-destiny
Excellent, excellent link!
And I agree with every letter in your comment.
The Facts About Families:
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/05/family-households-still-the-majority.html
Takeaways:
From Fig 1 – Marriage is a declining institution
From Fig 2 – Lone wolf males are the fastest growing type of household
From Fig 3 – Most married families don’t have kids
None of this is good.
More on this on a later post. Some of this, at minimum, is structural. Mouse Utopia.
Based on the policies They keep pushing one might be inclined to think this is all being done intentionally.
AHS-
It’s intentional. The tent people on the elite college campuses (campi?) are the ones who’ll be running the show 20-30 years from now. And will be much, much worse. If anyone survives by then.
And they wouldn’t “get” Ether Bunny.
Not accidental and not about R/k selection. This is all as carefully managed as a magic show. Intricately managed. Wolves and bunnies don’t have trans-generational overseers administering their environment.
Death cult.
Demography is destiny. The future belongs to those who show up.
Got a post on that coming up. And kids who will hopefully take me into the future.
It’s hard to indoctrinate a family, but individuals are much easier. That, and families refusing to be indoctrinated perpetuate their refusal with more members of the family. If you have enough families, you have a healthy society, and Sunday dinners are less lonely.
And families are where actual values are modeled to children. That’s what they really hate.
Women want and defend the current matriarchy because it enriches and empowers them. Dads of daughters likewise — by the millions — want and defend the current regime. It’s in their financial and emotional interest, has been for half-a-century. ‘Christian’ and ‘conservative’ mean nada when it comes to this auto-bias.
Hillary, champion of modern women, demanded (and got) ‘a village’ the neolithic longhouse where the word daddy is unknown, because nobody knows who sired whom. All the communes from the Sixties and early Seventies ended in gyno-rule and chaos.
Mini-recap: first they slaughtered the Christian King on teevee in a luciferian rite straight outta The Golden Bough. Total masonic coup and (almost) nobody knew.
Then they installed gynarchy via LBJ/Great Society, which always was the occult purpose for America’s founding. D.C. is an open shrine to Her Herness. These organizations and individuals are goddess-worshippers, Jezebel’s crowd. Those cults never went away, only underground while America was — at popular but not elite levels — Christian.
LBJ neo-pagan regime, mass welfare to females ensuing, nothing more than the old tribal village, with gov as collectivized hubby. Civil Rights Act, 1964. Immigration Act, 1965. Openly stated purpose of feminist movement in Sixties: destruction of the family.
Fatherhood, sonship, and all forms of masculinity must be exterminated. Call it Equality, Progress, Safety, Liberation, Social Justice . . . anything that will sell to women and allied men.
A fatherless nation of boys and men is precisely what was engineered in the Fifties and Sixties and set loose upon the world.
10 years ago I would have thought this post the work of a madman. Now at the least I believe that those in charge believe in it, if not in it actually being real. Even that last I’m not so sure about any more.
Opening a tunnel to the underworld:
https://youtu.be/CbOldRsITpQ
Wow.
The core priorities of feminism start with “no woman is responsible for anything, anywhere, at any time.”
EveryHer: “How do you write women so well?
Jack: “I think of a man; and I take away reason, and accountability.”
– As Good As It Gets
https://youtu.be/c-ecbGNxEHM?t=99
Hollyweird had to put that bitter jagged-edged Truth in the mouth of the Broken Psychotic Loser in the film, because otherwise, that bitchslap would have left a big red handprint on the cheek of all feminism for the last 60 years.
The other characters are literally the Rainbow Diversity, and Melvin is supposed to be the broken dinosaur whackjob.
But they’re actually the butt of the joke, and he’s actually the sanest one of them all.
He moves outside his comfort zone to help them, but they don’t change.
That’s how you can identify the Hero: by his journey.
It was a lot like Forest Gump in that respect. The movie mocked every Leftard idiotic fad and cause of the last 70 years, but by putting it from the point of view of a midwit retard, they slipped it past the Leftard Conformity Police, and Hollywood didn’t realize everything they hold dear was the butt of the joke, and retard Forest was smarter than all of them. Even Lt. Dan got schooled: he wanted to be the patriotic hero, but it took Forest to teach him the greatest glory in war is taking care of your people, and just surviving it.
That’s how you subvert a paradigm.
It’s amazing how when they put caricatures of what they think the TradRight is in their movies, they’re often the most popular part. Funny, hmm? And Forrest Gump didn’t belong to the Boomers or Gen X, he belonged to Gen A.
It makes the world ever so pretty. Love wins!
‘Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do’
— John 5:19
Amen
Perfect timing.
If you allow those who benefit from handouts an equal vote to those who pay for those handouts, guess what? Handouts will not only never end, but will increase as those in the latter camp realize the futility of their efforts and, however reluctantly, join the former. This describes today’s entitled female consumer, basically at war with the overburdened, slowly vanishing male producer. The logical, inevitable end to the spiral is societal collapse and reset. I won’t live long enough to see it, but my children and potential grandchildren will.
My son and I were talking, and he said, “Why are people who are on benefits allowed to vote?”
A very good question.
“He who robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on getting Paul’s vote.“
Yup. The kids are pissed. And they’re NOT on the Left.
It is all simple, the bureauocracy demands it be god. And the power behind that is Satan, whether you believe in him or not. If you do’n’t believe in him he’s half way won with you.
And if you do, he’s won the other half but at least you’re not accountable anymore. The devil made me do it. The devil is in the details, but I didn’t read them.
Yup. That’s what Screwtape said.
“The greatest trick the Devil pulled, was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” – another one of those movies you didn’t see
https://youtu.be/BQpfa9RZbTk?t=175
I did the r/K Masterclass with Bill Whittle probably about a decade ago.
The problem with r/K is being a rabbit, when suddenly abundance vaporizes like fog on a July morning, andscarcity hits.
The wolves abide, because they’re used to scarcity.
The rabbits die en masse, in what becomes a local or regional extinction event.
My cheerful estimate of the number of survivors after we win the coming unpleasantness in 120 million. My pessimistic estimate is 90 million. If we don’t win? There won’t be enough of us left to count, but at least we will have tried.
McChuck, if we don’t win, it all burns down and there will be 500 million tops – in the world.
I’ve tried to raise wolves in a rabbit world so they’re ready when winter hits. Up to them now.