This is why I garden, learned to build and remodel houses, hunt, fish, and go on extended wilderness solo canoe trips. Skills matter.
So does fellowship. Dividing us makes it easier to rule over us, facilitating pathologies that destabilize society. I long for a fellowship of men particularly, to keep each other and community in check.
That's it. Hank Williams Jr. will be proven right: while the nation as a whole perishes, a country boy (i.e., those who have not forgotten the fundamentals) will survive. And I say this as a city/suburban boy who recognizes the rednecks really are the future. Post-collapse, they will probably thrive, since they won't have the parasitic urban-run federal government and bankster cartel gorging itself on the fat of their land.
We reap the fruits of Keynesian Economics. It has been government policy since the 30s to make sure those dollars move around.
And GDP does not include that which is produced at home. Raise your kids? No economic value! Send them to daycare? Growth!! Cook your own meal? No added value. Go out to eat? Growth! Homeschool? Terrible for the economy. Move some dollars and send them to school.
And Supply Side Economics is just Keynesian Economics' retarded younger brother.
Your insight about Keynesian Economics being at the root of this is spot on. I didn't think about that, but it's true that Keynes' ideas informed all of the worst policies of the past few decades.
Back when the progressives were open-minded, I was on a crusade to get them to realize that Keynesian economics was anti-environmental, and that deficit spending was a subsidy to the already rich.
Now, it seems the dissident right is more open to these messages.
There has been a profound shift in the Left/Right divide over the past 10 to 15 years. Trump is probably responsible for a lot of that (perhaps inadvertently or indirectly) shift of the Overton Window on the Right, due to his willingness to slaughter some of the Right's sacred cows. Prior to 2016, the Romney/Ryan chamber of commerce crowd had a solid lock on the GOP (which is why the Tea Party sputtered out so quickly). Then COVID came, and the response to that red-pilled a whole lot of people who either had considered themselves liberals before or who weren't even all that political, while the Democrats dropped any pretense of being anything other than the illiberal party of censorship and authoritarianism. Who knows what the "orthodox" right wing views will be by the time it is all said and done? But all the really interesting free-thinkers and artists and entrepreneurs have migrated rightwards, so that's where the best possibilities are (and where they will continue to be for some time to come).
Today's Right is what I called the Upper Left 20 years ago: a mix of smaller government and egalitarianism. The Democrats used to be solidly Big Government Left with a few intrusions into the Upper Left by some southern Democrats. (Carter did a fair amount of deregulating.) But for the most part the Upper Left was a disorganized rabble of Georgists, conspiracy theorists, and classical liberals who actually read Adam Smith.
Perot momentarily mobilized the Upper Left, but he was intimidated into backing down.
Trump was more aggressive -- but his policy positions weren't complete.
What the Upper Left needs next is think tank support, including a body of prepped staffers to carry out the agenda should our team get into power. Picking people who were good at flattery did not work out so well for Trump.
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Meanwhile, todays Left is trans-egalitarian. All power to the state and oligarchs, and we'll pay attention to who whines the best.
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Longtime Rush listeners are going to need to accept some longtime liberals as allies, and not be surprised at the loss of the remaining Wall St. support.
I got some give away ducks and a drake. Thought I could breed them for meat or at least get some eggs.
It turned out that they didn't lay eggs. I've spent hundreds of dollars on feed and more on fencing etc but I stopped caring about the money when I just stopped my day and spent some time with them.
They are very smart and naughty and funny. They have reconnected me with nature and my nature.
They have subtly told me what they want and when they want it and I started to hear them.
3 months in and I got my first egg.
I jump out of bed in the morning because they give me such honest joy and a very simple sence of responsibility beyond looking after myself and other peoples in dramas.
That's the right idea there. Connect with the real world and the real people around you, and try to build the things you need independently. I love animals (although all the ones I have are not good for meat or milk or eggs or anything), so I'm thinking about getting some hens (where I live I could not have roosters). I know there will be a steep learning curve, but I think, as your experience demonstrates, it will still be rewarding overall, even if I don't get that much success (as measured by egg production) from it. Best of luck with your ducks!
I Wonder what the grandparents would think, if they learned that all they suffered through- the Depression and WW2, were engineered by banksters, who caused them to happen, to further their own control on humanity?
That's nothing new: cabals of elites engineering some catastrophe for the serfs to suffer, so that they can enrich themselves and tighten their control over humanity. Obviously that's exactly what's happening today. Hence, why they say, "YOU will own nothing and be happy," not "WE will own nothing and be happy." Their "Great Reset" is for us, not them. The difference is not the adversity, but the way the World War II generation (and prior generations) were able to handle it. Their families and communities were intact and healthy. Most people at that time lived in high-trust rural, as opposed to atomized urban or suburban, communities. There were certain beliefs and values that they could just take for granted, because nearly everyone (at least at their level of society) shared them. That makes for a very resilient civilization that could withstand even the parasitism and depredations of globalist banksters.
Of course the federal parasites know this and have planned to sell us to the globalists. That is what keeps me up at night. But the system they want to push on us is so horrible they'll get more resistance than they counted on.
This is why I garden, learned to build and remodel houses, hunt, fish, and go on extended wilderness solo canoe trips. Skills matter.
So does fellowship. Dividing us makes it easier to rule over us, facilitating pathologies that destabilize society. I long for a fellowship of men particularly, to keep each other and community in check.
That's it. Hank Williams Jr. will be proven right: while the nation as a whole perishes, a country boy (i.e., those who have not forgotten the fundamentals) will survive. And I say this as a city/suburban boy who recognizes the rednecks really are the future. Post-collapse, they will probably thrive, since they won't have the parasitic urban-run federal government and bankster cartel gorging itself on the fat of their land.
This is one reason I live in chudtopia despite not really being one.
We reap the fruits of Keynesian Economics. It has been government policy since the 30s to make sure those dollars move around.
And GDP does not include that which is produced at home. Raise your kids? No economic value! Send them to daycare? Growth!! Cook your own meal? No added value. Go out to eat? Growth! Homeschool? Terrible for the economy. Move some dollars and send them to school.
And Supply Side Economics is just Keynesian Economics' retarded younger brother.
Your insight about Keynesian Economics being at the root of this is spot on. I didn't think about that, but it's true that Keynes' ideas informed all of the worst policies of the past few decades.
Back when the progressives were open-minded, I was on a crusade to get them to realize that Keynesian economics was anti-environmental, and that deficit spending was a subsidy to the already rich.
Now, it seems the dissident right is more open to these messages.
There has been a profound shift in the Left/Right divide over the past 10 to 15 years. Trump is probably responsible for a lot of that (perhaps inadvertently or indirectly) shift of the Overton Window on the Right, due to his willingness to slaughter some of the Right's sacred cows. Prior to 2016, the Romney/Ryan chamber of commerce crowd had a solid lock on the GOP (which is why the Tea Party sputtered out so quickly). Then COVID came, and the response to that red-pilled a whole lot of people who either had considered themselves liberals before or who weren't even all that political, while the Democrats dropped any pretense of being anything other than the illiberal party of censorship and authoritarianism. Who knows what the "orthodox" right wing views will be by the time it is all said and done? But all the really interesting free-thinkers and artists and entrepreneurs have migrated rightwards, so that's where the best possibilities are (and where they will continue to be for some time to come).
Today's Right is what I called the Upper Left 20 years ago: a mix of smaller government and egalitarianism. The Democrats used to be solidly Big Government Left with a few intrusions into the Upper Left by some southern Democrats. (Carter did a fair amount of deregulating.) But for the most part the Upper Left was a disorganized rabble of Georgists, conspiracy theorists, and classical liberals who actually read Adam Smith.
Perot momentarily mobilized the Upper Left, but he was intimidated into backing down.
Trump was more aggressive -- but his policy positions weren't complete.
What the Upper Left needs next is think tank support, including a body of prepped staffers to carry out the agenda should our team get into power. Picking people who were good at flattery did not work out so well for Trump.
----
Meanwhile, todays Left is trans-egalitarian. All power to the state and oligarchs, and we'll pay attention to who whines the best.
---
Longtime Rush listeners are going to need to accept some longtime liberals as allies, and not be surprised at the loss of the remaining Wall St. support.
I got some give away ducks and a drake. Thought I could breed them for meat or at least get some eggs.
It turned out that they didn't lay eggs. I've spent hundreds of dollars on feed and more on fencing etc but I stopped caring about the money when I just stopped my day and spent some time with them.
They are very smart and naughty and funny. They have reconnected me with nature and my nature.
They have subtly told me what they want and when they want it and I started to hear them.
3 months in and I got my first egg.
I jump out of bed in the morning because they give me such honest joy and a very simple sence of responsibility beyond looking after myself and other peoples in dramas.
That's the right idea there. Connect with the real world and the real people around you, and try to build the things you need independently. I love animals (although all the ones I have are not good for meat or milk or eggs or anything), so I'm thinking about getting some hens (where I live I could not have roosters). I know there will be a steep learning curve, but I think, as your experience demonstrates, it will still be rewarding overall, even if I don't get that much success (as measured by egg production) from it. Best of luck with your ducks!
I Wonder what the grandparents would think, if they learned that all they suffered through- the Depression and WW2, were engineered by banksters, who caused them to happen, to further their own control on humanity?
That's nothing new: cabals of elites engineering some catastrophe for the serfs to suffer, so that they can enrich themselves and tighten their control over humanity. Obviously that's exactly what's happening today. Hence, why they say, "YOU will own nothing and be happy," not "WE will own nothing and be happy." Their "Great Reset" is for us, not them. The difference is not the adversity, but the way the World War II generation (and prior generations) were able to handle it. Their families and communities were intact and healthy. Most people at that time lived in high-trust rural, as opposed to atomized urban or suburban, communities. There were certain beliefs and values that they could just take for granted, because nearly everyone (at least at their level of society) shared them. That makes for a very resilient civilization that could withstand even the parasitism and depredations of globalist banksters.
This was spectacularly good.
Thank you, sir!
Of course the federal parasites know this and have planned to sell us to the globalists. That is what keeps me up at night. But the system they want to push on us is so horrible they'll get more resistance than they counted on.