I love portmanteaus, especially profane or otherwise offensive ones. "Marxcissicist" is great.
It is hard to not notice that the people shown being upset about open violations of Wokish edicts, as occurred in Massachusetts, are usually ugly, middle-aged white women, basically the distaff analogues of Reddit moderators. Imagine someone like Brad Pitt or Portia de Rossi trying to make a convincing case for fat acceptance or the general vibe of accelerating your own physical decay and dismay.
Some decades ago Graham Greene wrote The Human Factor, which highlights how even in the most secret plots of the secret services, what determines the results is the human factor.
It is always the human factor that brings good or bad changes, not the system.
The Roman Empire surely has fallen for many reasons but one above all was the human factor.
History is never the same with reference to time and space but it internally repeats itself because of the human factor.
And what is called Globalism seems to have, now, the worst human factor, ever.
That's why I agree with you: "We should nevertheless be very optimistic about the future"
I wish I could agree with you that the tide is turning - but the instruments of conformity are far more pervasive than ever before. This encouraging essay should be saluted nonetheless - thank you Gordon for bringing me here.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. It would be a very long haul, and the Globohomo Empire does seem firmly entrenched right now, so I understand your scepticism. I do see some big changes happening among the rising generation (I am a parent and uncle of teenagers). You know in the 50s traditional norms seemed pretty solidly in place, too, and nobody would have thought the Beatniks were the wave of the future, but a decade later and the hippie leftists movement would have seemed to come out of nowhere. If we can avoid a complete civilizational collapse in the meantime (big if), we will see a similar shift in the next 10 to 20 years.
Thanks Daniel for sharing these additional thoughts. Speaking of the hippie movement -- does anything seem more ridiculous today? Those spoiled children raised in propserity and their generational mantra "sex, drugs and rock and roll" -- we all know how that ended up. Perhaps the spoiled children of today, and their equally ridiculous obsessions with gender, social justice, and victimhood, will look just as pathetic in 40 years as the hippies do to us now. Here's hoping!
Bret, I was one of the previous sex and drugs and rock'n'roll is all my brain and body needs, funny thing happened on the way .....
You get a job, then get married, start working like a dog, one kid two kids three, house and mortgage this is not for free, I now can only dream of sex, the drugs I need is to ease the pain, and rock'n'roll is not the same.
Twenty years ago ,my children nearly all the same, thought this old man was totally insane, could not feel the strain, ir the pain.
Until that is, they started to grow up , and one kid two, now its their turn to wear the shoes.
Bret, Life had a way of straightening me out. Just Like my spoiled kids after me.
Glad to be of assistance! Now, it doesn't mean the communists will be out of power next year, but only that the tide of clownworld wokeness, something that has been growing for decades but only really became apparent in the past ten years, has definitely crested and begun to recede. Whatever the 2020 high water mark was, it will never achieve that level of cultural prestige again, and a big-time backlash will come and will undo a lot of the Marxcissist porject in America. Of course, that's important to remember, because it does seem like communism is everywhere in ascendancy today -- and it is -- but it's already on the way out.
But what stupidity lurks around the next corner? When I first heard Trump was running for office I couldn’t wait for him to win, get up in front of Congress and say, “you’re fired.” And for years I’ve been saying I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Both of these things have been tongue and cheek of course. The latest thing I’ve been saying is that most of the first world problems we face today are because life is too easy, so people need to invent some dumb injustice to rage against. I say if sabertooth tigers we reanimated and roaming the streets, nobody would have time to worry about pronouns. Plus they’d solve the homeless problem pretty quick! So, I’m rooting for the reanimation of sabertooths.
There will always be problems, many of them self-inflicted. But communism and all its illegitimate children are in a league of their own when it comes to their destructiveness and how insanely contrary to Human Nature they are. That said, the reanimation of saber tooth tigers would make things interesting for sure.
I think this is a very good analysis, that the political culture has escalated to an adversarial and suffocating phase where it's no longer a "cool vibe"
Sad to say, having a cool vibe is more necessary for a political movement's success than having good principles and reasonable positions on important issues.
"Conservatives are partly open to reactionary thinking, because to them it sounds like an excuse not to change. We all know they’ve never conserved anything, and that they regard any social condition which was present when they came of age as the default state of the world, as the good old days. Conservatives are neither right nor left wing, what they are is stubborn. They appear slightly right-wing in the same way that a light which is rapidly moving away from you appears red: it’s an instance of the doppler effect, a red shift. They are attracted to the aesthetic of transgression, but in practice, they want the same thing as any other normie: they want good vibes. They have slightly better targets for their normie sadism, but ultimately they are the same as leftist normies, except they would like their DEIB formulated in Christian language rather than secular scientific language. If you spread bad vibes, they might even defend the progressive consensus, the spirit of ‘68, with declarations of Christian piety. One man repeats a line from John Oliver, another quotes a Bible verse, and (most bafflingly) a third recites some mawkish pledge of allegiance to Adolf Hitler, but they’re all doing the same thing: they’re reciting their personal litany against Bad Vibes!"
This was a blast to read and hilarious, never went commie as a kid just to be a rebel, but I remember going atheist, then going pagan and then Catholique all to rebel (which is peculiar I know). But communism is lame, conformunism lamer and one can only hope kids continue to flout the rules laid down on them and seeking their own destinies as they should.
Thanks, and glad you enjoyed it! Youthful rebellion can seem stupid, but it does serve a limited purpose (like a chick rebelling against the shell when it is trying to hatch), which is all the more true with this generation rebelling against the conformmunist hysteria.
That's weird. I've heard other people say they get randomly unsubscribed to this and similar substacks. Not sure what's going on. But thanks for coming back!
It is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship
Is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable."
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs. He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
"It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government", he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100
new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for the Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that
were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. The math demonstrates that they do not have the time to even
read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
f. Since the Representative cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
g. Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
h. Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making some more tragic mistakes from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
We, the People, could actually direct the priorities of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
We can acquire the text of a recent law or Supreme Court ruling and have AI parse its actionable elements, apply a questionnaire so that the concerned Citizens can Ratify or Annul it. Then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Websites with traffic can put up the laws they find most egregious for Ratification or Annulment, probably charge a $1 or so per voter, and watch the evolution in real time.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the result of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
Good idea. It would have to be in-person, though. Too easy to cheat when things are done electronically, as we learned last election. And if that's not feasible given the number of laws being passed, well, that just means way too many laws are being passed; that process needs to be slowed wayyyyy down, especially at the federal level! Make the 10th Amendment great again!
You’re quite welcome. My annoyance is not with you; it’s with my former tribe, the progressives, for various examples of monkey business you’ve touched on here.
Oh, I completely understand. I hate to admit it now, but I voted for Obama both times. There was a sense of hope and possibility, naive as it was, that he represented, and which perhaps could have been if he hadn't been a psychopath serving as the front man for a cabal of psychopaths (like Bush and Clinton before him). Anyway, that moment when you realize it was all a lie, that your moral sensibilities were used to manipulate you by clever con men who spoke the language of morality but did not mean any of it, that the folks you'd been convinced were bad and wrong had been unjustly maligned and misrepresented and that the real villains were the ones posturing as virtuous, and that you and your nation were subjected to a series of escalating, high-budget, sophisticated psyops to bring you to ruin for the benefit of a very few, etc., when that moment hits, the anger and frustration you feel is 100% natural and necessary. Now we have to use it constructively, as best we can, from where we are.
Understandable. I didn't mention it in this essay, but I am a parent and uncle of teenagers who have rebelled by shifting sharply rightwards in their worldviews, along with their friends, and not at all at the behest of any of their parents. The news story I cited about the middle school protest is consistent with what I'm seeing elsewhere. And here's the other thing: would you have thought such a spontaneous, student-led protest possible just a few short years ago? Not to mention all the other pushback we saw from the public this past Pride Month. It won't be obvious for a while, but something has meaningfully changed.
As a punny poet I appreciate pithy playings with words. Conformmunism and Marxcissism, nice!
I will give you another for a Troika of Asses (dumb, numb, or both) to pull the State over the cliff to Nowhere.
Your Conformmunists and Marxcissists have “STRETCH MARX” from overconsumption of Junk Thoughts.
Stay free then safe.
Mental "stretch Marx" has a nice ring to it.
Jack that Was a good one!
I love portmanteaus, especially profane or otherwise offensive ones. "Marxcissicist" is great.
It is hard to not notice that the people shown being upset about open violations of Wokish edicts, as occurred in Massachusetts, are usually ugly, middle-aged white women, basically the distaff analogues of Reddit moderators. Imagine someone like Brad Pitt or Portia de Rossi trying to make a convincing case for fat acceptance or the general vibe of accelerating your own physical decay and dismay.
Some decades ago Graham Greene wrote The Human Factor, which highlights how even in the most secret plots of the secret services, what determines the results is the human factor.
It is always the human factor that brings good or bad changes, not the system.
The Roman Empire surely has fallen for many reasons but one above all was the human factor.
History is never the same with reference to time and space but it internally repeats itself because of the human factor.
And what is called Globalism seems to have, now, the worst human factor, ever.
That's why I agree with you: "We should nevertheless be very optimistic about the future"
Very well said. And Graham Greene is great!
Always happy to see people digging Graham Greene--
I wish I could agree with you that the tide is turning - but the instruments of conformity are far more pervasive than ever before. This encouraging essay should be saluted nonetheless - thank you Gordon for bringing me here.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. It would be a very long haul, and the Globohomo Empire does seem firmly entrenched right now, so I understand your scepticism. I do see some big changes happening among the rising generation (I am a parent and uncle of teenagers). You know in the 50s traditional norms seemed pretty solidly in place, too, and nobody would have thought the Beatniks were the wave of the future, but a decade later and the hippie leftists movement would have seemed to come out of nowhere. If we can avoid a complete civilizational collapse in the meantime (big if), we will see a similar shift in the next 10 to 20 years.
Thanks Daniel for sharing these additional thoughts. Speaking of the hippie movement -- does anything seem more ridiculous today? Those spoiled children raised in propserity and their generational mantra "sex, drugs and rock and roll" -- we all know how that ended up. Perhaps the spoiled children of today, and their equally ridiculous obsessions with gender, social justice, and victimhood, will look just as pathetic in 40 years as the hippies do to us now. Here's hoping!
Bret, I was one of the previous sex and drugs and rock'n'roll is all my brain and body needs, funny thing happened on the way .....
You get a job, then get married, start working like a dog, one kid two kids three, house and mortgage this is not for free, I now can only dream of sex, the drugs I need is to ease the pain, and rock'n'roll is not the same.
Twenty years ago ,my children nearly all the same, thought this old man was totally insane, could not feel the strain, ir the pain.
Until that is, they started to grow up , and one kid two, now its their turn to wear the shoes.
Bret, Life had a way of straightening me out. Just Like my spoiled kids after me.
All its not lost...
It'll be even more embarrassing in the future. The hippies never let the establishment talk them into cutting their dicks off.
This is the most white pilling thing I have read in 6 years.
Glad to be of assistance! Now, it doesn't mean the communists will be out of power next year, but only that the tide of clownworld wokeness, something that has been growing for decades but only really became apparent in the past ten years, has definitely crested and begun to recede. Whatever the 2020 high water mark was, it will never achieve that level of cultural prestige again, and a big-time backlash will come and will undo a lot of the Marxcissist porject in America. Of course, that's important to remember, because it does seem like communism is everywhere in ascendancy today -- and it is -- but it's already on the way out.
But what stupidity lurks around the next corner? When I first heard Trump was running for office I couldn’t wait for him to win, get up in front of Congress and say, “you’re fired.” And for years I’ve been saying I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Both of these things have been tongue and cheek of course. The latest thing I’ve been saying is that most of the first world problems we face today are because life is too easy, so people need to invent some dumb injustice to rage against. I say if sabertooth tigers we reanimated and roaming the streets, nobody would have time to worry about pronouns. Plus they’d solve the homeless problem pretty quick! So, I’m rooting for the reanimation of sabertooths.
There will always be problems, many of them self-inflicted. But communism and all its illegitimate children are in a league of their own when it comes to their destructiveness and how insanely contrary to Human Nature they are. That said, the reanimation of saber tooth tigers would make things interesting for sure.
I think this is a very good analysis, that the political culture has escalated to an adversarial and suffocating phase where it's no longer a "cool vibe"
Sad to say, having a cool vibe is more necessary for a political movement's success than having good principles and reasonable positions on important issues.
My friend ZeroHPLovecraft agrees:
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"Conservatives are partly open to reactionary thinking, because to them it sounds like an excuse not to change. We all know they’ve never conserved anything, and that they regard any social condition which was present when they came of age as the default state of the world, as the good old days. Conservatives are neither right nor left wing, what they are is stubborn. They appear slightly right-wing in the same way that a light which is rapidly moving away from you appears red: it’s an instance of the doppler effect, a red shift. They are attracted to the aesthetic of transgression, but in practice, they want the same thing as any other normie: they want good vibes. They have slightly better targets for their normie sadism, but ultimately they are the same as leftist normies, except they would like their DEIB formulated in Christian language rather than secular scientific language. If you spread bad vibes, they might even defend the progressive consensus, the spirit of ‘68, with declarations of Christian piety. One man repeats a line from John Oliver, another quotes a Bible verse, and (most bafflingly) a third recites some mawkish pledge of allegiance to Adolf Hitler, but they’re all doing the same thing: they’re reciting their personal litany against Bad Vibes!"
/
https://asylummagazine.ca/MESSIANIC-ONLINEISM-AND-THE-SPIRIT-OF-16
There's a lot of truth to that! Very insightful and well said!
Yeah ZHP is a genius
This was a blast to read and hilarious, never went commie as a kid just to be a rebel, but I remember going atheist, then going pagan and then Catholique all to rebel (which is peculiar I know). But communism is lame, conformunism lamer and one can only hope kids continue to flout the rules laid down on them and seeking their own destinies as they should.
Thanks, and glad you enjoyed it! Youthful rebellion can seem stupid, but it does serve a limited purpose (like a chick rebelling against the shell when it is trying to hatch), which is all the more true with this generation rebelling against the conformmunist hysteria.
I like this a lot better than Marxcissicist.
Way more contempt factor! Definitely a rhetorical kill shot.
This is a top shelf essay. Bravo.
Thank you, sir!
Love the creative term, conformmunism!
I keep getting deleted from posting here. Next try. Great content! Let's unite to outsmart censorship! Best! T
That's weird. I've heard other people say they get randomly unsubscribed to this and similar substacks. Not sure what's going on. But thanks for coming back!
Representative democracy has failed.
We need something new.
Ross Perot called it The Electronic Townhall.
Citizenship
It is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship
Is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable."
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs. He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
"It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government", he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100
new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for the Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that
were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. The math demonstrates that they do not have the time to even
read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
f. Since the Representative cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
g. Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
h. Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making some more tragic mistakes from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
We, the People, could actually direct the priorities of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
We can acquire the text of a recent law or Supreme Court ruling and have AI parse its actionable elements, apply a questionnaire so that the concerned Citizens can Ratify or Annul it. Then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Websites with traffic can put up the laws they find most egregious for Ratification or Annulment, probably charge a $1 or so per voter, and watch the evolution in real time.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the result of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
The Electronic Townhall
Good idea. It would have to be in-person, though. Too easy to cheat when things are done electronically, as we learned last election. And if that's not feasible given the number of laws being passed, well, that just means way too many laws are being passed; that process needs to be slowed wayyyyy down, especially at the federal level! Make the 10th Amendment great again!
You are right. Just like how the credit card companies can never get anything right for millions of people with billions of transactions.
Damn it. I can’t find anything to disagree with in your posts. I’ve subscribed, but I can’t say I’m happy about it.
And yeah, who doesn’t love portmanteaus.
I think that's a compliment, so thanks, I guess?
You’re quite welcome. My annoyance is not with you; it’s with my former tribe, the progressives, for various examples of monkey business you’ve touched on here.
Oh, I completely understand. I hate to admit it now, but I voted for Obama both times. There was a sense of hope and possibility, naive as it was, that he represented, and which perhaps could have been if he hadn't been a psychopath serving as the front man for a cabal of psychopaths (like Bush and Clinton before him). Anyway, that moment when you realize it was all a lie, that your moral sensibilities were used to manipulate you by clever con men who spoke the language of morality but did not mean any of it, that the folks you'd been convinced were bad and wrong had been unjustly maligned and misrepresented and that the real villains were the ones posturing as virtuous, and that you and your nation were subjected to a series of escalating, high-budget, sophisticated psyops to bring you to ruin for the benefit of a very few, etc., when that moment hits, the anger and frustration you feel is 100% natural and necessary. Now we have to use it constructively, as best we can, from where we are.
Yeah, man. We won’t agree on everything but I’m interested to hear what you have to say. Keep it up, I say!
Marxcissists is the perfect descriptor for these bourgeois Maoist Brigades.
I gotta give credit where credit is due: this neologism was the handiwork of one John Carter of Mars: https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-marxcissists
It really is the perfect description of their entitled, petulant brand of bratty bourgeoise Bolshevism.
Really enjoyed reading this, Daniel.
Thank you, sir!
I want to believe that young people will revolt against this crap. But one protest does not make a movement. Still I will keep the faith.
Understandable. I didn't mention it in this essay, but I am a parent and uncle of teenagers who have rebelled by shifting sharply rightwards in their worldviews, along with their friends, and not at all at the behest of any of their parents. The news story I cited about the middle school protest is consistent with what I'm seeing elsewhere. And here's the other thing: would you have thought such a spontaneous, student-led protest possible just a few short years ago? Not to mention all the other pushback we saw from the public this past Pride Month. It won't be obvious for a while, but something has meaningfully changed.
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