I think this is a consequence of governments getting so big that they ignore their core functions in order to focus on the graft. The answer is to strictly limit government to the things they should be doing -- although that's much easier said than done.
I think this is a consequence of governments getting so big that they ignore their core functions in order to focus on the graft. The answer is to strictly limit government to the things they should be doing -- although that's much easier said than done.
This crumbling of our economic pyramid is exacerbated when government ignores its core function (protecting our rights) and focuses on feel-good terms such as “equity” while allowing criminals to run rampant through a city.
When your residents aren’t safe to shop or work, you become a low-trust society and it’s impossible to build upon your pyramid — in fact your pyramid will contract (down to nothing if you allow it).
This type of stuff is happening up and down the west coast (and in Chicago), but instead of dealing with the serious problems facing Portland, Clown World governments fund Clown World “solutions”.
But all of this must come with education of the individual, to understand that with all freedoms also comes responsibility to have some level of self sufficiency.
What the cabal of evil and greed has done, is to trick people into believing the opposite. To believe that these pretend beneficent "leaders" have our interests in mind, when in fact all they do is manipulate the markets and systems more to benefit themselves at the cost of all the sheep who blindly believed their crap (dressed up with flashy colors and super model spokesmen).
Stand up for the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Ten Commandments and call out those who do not, for they are not, yet, worthy of your respect.
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president (27 Oct 1858-1919)
And personal responsibility! I firmly believe most Americans would give up a shocking amount of freedom so the government can make the hard choices for them (and then they would have something to blame other than themselves)
You have enumerated the top 4 things on the NEAs "we must fix this" list of thought conditioning. Modern (the last 4 decades) education curriculum demonizes these principles as wrong. As unjust, as dangerous, as thoughts to be eradicated. It has been a successful campaign. And most recently as inherently racists favoring "white".
Not a complex conspiracy - in deed it is very, very simple. Mao explained it clearly as did Marx: control education and you control people in 2 generations.
I never advocate hate. Simply truth. Mao was a clever dude. Not to contradict our feline host, but the successful dictators are generally pretty clever. I don't think either Mao or Marx invented the idea - literacy was a carefully controlled skill in most places until fairly recently. Also I don't know the first to realize that education of the masses, if carefully controlled, would be so effective, but Mao certainly proved the concept.
I can understand your statement, but see the word and idea of "hate" differently (maybe). "Hate" has its place to me, current popular perceptions aside. To hate because of one's immutable characteristics is generally bad. But to hate that which is destructive, without a constructive good, is why we are given the skills of discernment. To not hate something bad is to be passively accepting of all things, even those which harm. Among other things I hate marxism, I hate totalitarians, I hate liars, cheats and miscreants who are parasites of society, and I am mad that so many of our fellow citizens have taken the passive approach, not realizing that their choice to accept these encroachments on our freedoms is costing us dearly, but in blood, treasure and prosperity. Not advocating hate, just recognizing it has its place in the real world.
As to the cleverness of malevolent dictators, agreed most are, as are most sociopaths and psychopaths, just not in the usual ways. I think what el gato was getting at was debunking the "master plan" theory and leaning towards the mass psychosis ideas of many disconnected entities all following an ideology, and not some superficial mysterious leader.
The Scots figured that out after the Reformation when they began establishing free public schools on the village level, for men and women, so that everyone might read the Bible in the vernacular and decide for themselves what it meant.
It is a winning strategy for a free people. Not so good for wanna be rulers who generally despise the "decide for themselves" part. Literacy makes people much harder to dominate and oppress. Which is why public education has become anti-literacy and actually strives to instill an institutionalized ignorance that discourages (disables) real thinking.
Exactly this. "The American Dream" was being able to do whatever you wanted in order to get by -- an opportunity that was first (and for a while only) available in America because that's where we built up our wealth pyramid through (mostly) voluntary transactions instead of central planning.
The wealth pyramid being built was constructed by the Fed, not the people. Yes, there were some honest and positive contributions within the spiderweb, but what you see now was ALWAYS the plan. Build it up, drain it out.
Nah, the real wealth pyramid is constructed way before the Fed, the Fed is the one that ruins the real economy with the fake economy of money printing. But yes, their plan was always to steal the real wealth out from under us with fake money.
The wrongful redistribution of wealth from the people who produce it to the people who produce nothing wasn't invented in the U.S. (Cantillon money was invented in Bourbon France, for example).
But U.S. mechanism for doing that was founded in the Fed.
When the anchor stores pull out of the mall, the rest are not far behind. I read a recent article about SF and Nordstrom's pulling out of the area. A bunch of support stores were concerned. Without that traffic (and likely security prescence) they were not long for it either.
Laura Ingraham was interviewing a guy on the street amid the filth and tents in San Francisco. She asked him about it, and while he didn't like how things were, he said "You get used to it." That's how people get neutered.
I think this is a consequence of governments getting so big that they ignore their core functions in order to focus on the graft. The answer is to strictly limit government to the things they should be doing -- although that's much easier said than done.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/things-fall-apart-the-centre-cannot
This crumbling of our economic pyramid is exacerbated when government ignores its core function (protecting our rights) and focuses on feel-good terms such as “equity” while allowing criminals to run rampant through a city.
When your residents aren’t safe to shop or work, you become a low-trust society and it’s impossible to build upon your pyramid — in fact your pyramid will contract (down to nothing if you allow it).
This type of stuff is happening up and down the west coast (and in Chicago), but instead of dealing with the serious problems facing Portland, Clown World governments fund Clown World “solutions”.
Less government = more freedom
More freedom = more prosperity
More prosperity = more innovation
More innovation = opportunity for all
But all of this must come with education of the individual, to understand that with all freedoms also comes responsibility to have some level of self sufficiency.
What the cabal of evil and greed has done, is to trick people into believing the opposite. To believe that these pretend beneficent "leaders" have our interests in mind, when in fact all they do is manipulate the markets and systems more to benefit themselves at the cost of all the sheep who blindly believed their crap (dressed up with flashy colors and super model spokesmen).
Stand up for the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Ten Commandments and call out those who do not, for they are not, yet, worthy of your respect.
Education avails nothing without morality.
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president (27 Oct 1858-1919)
"One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
V. Corleone.
Very true. I agree completely, but was trying to be brief. Thank you for adding this key ingredient.
And personal responsibility! I firmly believe most Americans would give up a shocking amount of freedom so the government can make the hard choices for them (and then they would have something to blame other than themselves)
Less government = more freedom
More freedom = more prosperity
More prosperity = more innovation
More innovation = opportunity for all
You have enumerated the top 4 things on the NEAs "we must fix this" list of thought conditioning. Modern (the last 4 decades) education curriculum demonizes these principles as wrong. As unjust, as dangerous, as thoughts to be eradicated. It has been a successful campaign. And most recently as inherently racists favoring "white".
Not a complex conspiracy - in deed it is very, very simple. Mao explained it clearly as did Marx: control education and you control people in 2 generations.
Wow, I had no idea. Even more reason to hate maoist/marxist of the NEA.
I never advocate hate. Simply truth. Mao was a clever dude. Not to contradict our feline host, but the successful dictators are generally pretty clever. I don't think either Mao or Marx invented the idea - literacy was a carefully controlled skill in most places until fairly recently. Also I don't know the first to realize that education of the masses, if carefully controlled, would be so effective, but Mao certainly proved the concept.
I can understand your statement, but see the word and idea of "hate" differently (maybe). "Hate" has its place to me, current popular perceptions aside. To hate because of one's immutable characteristics is generally bad. But to hate that which is destructive, without a constructive good, is why we are given the skills of discernment. To not hate something bad is to be passively accepting of all things, even those which harm. Among other things I hate marxism, I hate totalitarians, I hate liars, cheats and miscreants who are parasites of society, and I am mad that so many of our fellow citizens have taken the passive approach, not realizing that their choice to accept these encroachments on our freedoms is costing us dearly, but in blood, treasure and prosperity. Not advocating hate, just recognizing it has its place in the real world.
As to the cleverness of malevolent dictators, agreed most are, as are most sociopaths and psychopaths, just not in the usual ways. I think what el gato was getting at was debunking the "master plan" theory and leaning towards the mass psychosis ideas of many disconnected entities all following an ideology, and not some superficial mysterious leader.
The Scots figured that out after the Reformation when they began establishing free public schools on the village level, for men and women, so that everyone might read the Bible in the vernacular and decide for themselves what it meant.
It is a winning strategy for a free people. Not so good for wanna be rulers who generally despise the "decide for themselves" part. Literacy makes people much harder to dominate and oppress. Which is why public education has become anti-literacy and actually strives to instill an institutionalized ignorance that discourages (disables) real thinking.
Exactly this. "The American Dream" was being able to do whatever you wanted in order to get by -- an opportunity that was first (and for a while only) available in America because that's where we built up our wealth pyramid through (mostly) voluntary transactions instead of central planning.
The wealth pyramid being built was constructed by the Fed, not the people. Yes, there were some honest and positive contributions within the spiderweb, but what you see now was ALWAYS the plan. Build it up, drain it out.
Nah, the real wealth pyramid is constructed way before the Fed, the Fed is the one that ruins the real economy with the fake economy of money printing. But yes, their plan was always to steal the real wealth out from under us with fake money.
IMO you are both right.
The wrongful redistribution of wealth from the people who produce it to the people who produce nothing wasn't invented in the U.S. (Cantillon money was invented in Bourbon France, for example).
But U.S. mechanism for doing that was founded in the Fed.
"Democracy - the great experiment."
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And counting down to "food deserts and the old people can't get their prescriptions filled because those evil corporations won't open a store here..."
When the anchor stores pull out of the mall, the rest are not far behind. I read a recent article about SF and Nordstrom's pulling out of the area. A bunch of support stores were concerned. Without that traffic (and likely security prescence) they were not long for it either.
A great point!
i never understood when Reagan would say he wanted a government so small he could drown it in the bathtub. i get it now.
Laura Ingraham was interviewing a guy on the street amid the filth and tents in San Francisco. She asked him about it, and while he didn't like how things were, he said "You get used to it." That's how people get neutered.