Sounds like the old saying, "Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men, weak men create hard times and hard times create strong men.” The weak men can’t be cleared out fast enough.
Depart the "psyop" and live. Billions of dollars in stolen tax treasure, pension funds, life savings, labor and lives, has gone into the the willful manufacture of the hyperrealistic lie attempting to subsume human moral reason and strike a blow fully intended to bring the free peoples of the world to their knees. It is a repeat of the same joined at the hip pure psychosis of malignant narcissism and faux ideological utopianism that burned the 20th Century to the ground. There is no moral there there and most of the lie is an attempt to convince the free citizen that there is. Looking straight at the forces in play is absolutely vital but it is foolish to think people who lie as a profession have any interest in anyone or anything beyond themselves. "Everything means everything so nothing means anything." It is classic narcissism. A manipulative non-conversation built on half truths, threat, hysteria and lies willing to sacrifice the world for its own survival at the expense of everyone and everything. Why remain powerless twisting forever in the immoral vacuum the usurpers represent.
There is the Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. Everything else is psyop.
That’s one reason why I tend to think the only lion who can truly solve the problem is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. I don’t think we can rely on the repetition of past historical examples where lions eventually showed up to restore order. The times we are now in are unprecedented. Civilizations of the past may have done things that led to “suicide,” but they never believed the threat of the wolves was a mortal one. So today. Chaos comes, the cycle repeats, the world goes on. We just have to figure out how to get through it. But the lions who show up this time will be wolves too. And they will destroy wonderfully, with modern technological tools unimagined up till now.
Well, Stalin for one, absolutely was a strong man. Whatever the toll, he industrialized the country, saved it from Germany, and expanded across half of Europe. The weak men that followed eventually lost and created hard times (the collapse and the 1990s) but eventually another strong man emerged, no?
As for China, they're also doing quite fine, going from strength to strength, raising hundreds of millions out of poverty, building infrastructure at a crazy pace, building their military strengh, building their industrial capacity, and so on. No weak ruling class there or lack of determination and effectiveness in its leadership. These are not UK ruling class like Bozos.
I guess that depends on whether you think Stalin and Putin created good times for the saying to hold. You could argue that, like Xi, they merely sucked less than their predecessors but were far from creating good times.
If you consider the trajectory of say the UK after WW2 vs the USSR or China, clearly, the UK did much better, even though the only "strong man" leader since would have been Thatcher.
"Good times" is not about people having a fun time, though. It's about strengthening and enriching the country, and, whatever else, Stalin and Xi very much did that.
I hardly think the UK did better either. Quite the opposite, it became from an empire to the lapdog of the US, and an increasingly failed state, riddled with poverty, crime, mass immigration woes, failing infrastructure, irrelevance in the world stage, cultural production decline, and so on. And increasingly more restrictive in the way cornered elites whose population QoL is failing are.
I think the UK clearly did better as measured by quality of life. I mean, given a choice of living in Stalin's Russia, or modern Russia, or Xi's China, or the UK, which would most people prefer? Clearly it's the latter every time which is why people come in huge numbers from places like Pakistan and fly right past China and Russia, all the way across Europe right up to the UK. That very attractiveness compared to the alternatives is what's dragging the UK down right now - an ironic problem to have.
Utter nonsense. All is well in our happy and glorious United Kingdom and any suggestion to the contrary is plainly the work of outside agitators who in no way represent our many wonderful communities.
(Yes I'm British and posting under my real name, why do you ask?)
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The current situation was predictable and predicted: “This country may become an open reception centre for immigrants not selected in respect to health, education, training, character, customs and above all, whether assimilation is possible or not.The British people fortunately enjoy a profound unity without uniformity in their way of life, and are blest by the absence of a colour racial problem. An influx of coloured people domiciled here is likely to impair the harmony, strength and cohesion of our public and social life and to cause discord and unhappiness among all concerned.” Open Letter to Prime Minister Clement Attlee from 11 Labour MPs, 22 June 1948.
Brilliant analogy. Isn't this the "hard times create strong men who create good times that create weak men that create hard times" saying?
I would add to this weak man fox technocrat period of time anther factor that Niccolò Machiavelli could have never foreseen, the rise of female dominance in governance and institutional control. The result is that the foxes in power are more likely diagnosable as afflicted bipolar... uncontrolled emotions driving their foxy mandates that lack calculable justification and are often just absurd.
The female thing isn't given enough attention in explaining the freaky societal and political chaos that engulfs western civilization. There is not a single historical example of any country, civilization or even large tribe being dominated by females over males. An honest Darwin if alive today would have to conclude that we are mistakenly attempting to accelerate natural evolutionary trend-lines for gender roles and relations... taking a hockey-stick approach where the the gap between what would be natural progress and this forced 3rd wave feminist crap is the area making people miserable if not insane.
Looking back for when we went off the rails, it was allowing communist China into the WTO. NAFTA has been just more salt on that gaping economic wound. What is was... the foxes selling away the assets of the US... assets that had been hard-earned by the previous wolves. The selling off of these assets continues today, and it benefits the foxes and destroys the economic opportunity of the wolves.
Add uncontrolled immigration to that dig... those elite foxes need their house cleaners, home renovation trade laborers and restaurant cooks and dishwashers. They also need fat Wall Street returns from corporate profits made fatter by cheaper labor. Lastly, they also need luxury virtual signaling beliefs to round out their elite fox cultural status.
I was feeling confident that we were starting to head in the right direction. However, today not so much. The basic problem is that the foxes know human psychology and how to manipulate it. We have an electorate that are social media injected sleepwalking clones supporting their own continued destruction while being irrationally enraged to oppose the remedy... the the female version of that being the most prevalent and easiest to leverage.
Just think about that... it was that foxy bipolar female enthusiasm and rage that elected the Biden vegetable in the White House and again prevented GOP take back of the Senate in 2022. It appears that the same is happening with respect to Kamala Harris... probably the most unqualified candidate to ever be on the ticket for general election.
One string of hope for a turn back to normalcy is the example of Norway... a country with the most "progressive" women's rights, where a higher percentage of college-educated women choose marriage and child raising as their career. It seems to me that women, whom today are diagnosed with higher levels of depression and mental health issues than ever, are going to need to fix this. There are gender roles for reasons that cannot be changed with government mandates.
A society cannot simply trash normalcy with absurdity and expect it will result in anything but dystopia.
Without disputing your theory about women in politics, it was election fraud that put the vegetable in the White House. It is unknown to me how many of the perpetrators of that were women.
What's clear is that the white, British working class are now the lowest status group in the UK. The two-tier policing is only a detail of the fast solidifying intersectional hierarchy. Where other groups are on the scale can be debated. But it's clear who is at the bottom. This is really what the riots were about. People will fight for status long before they fight for wealth or resources, because without status, you are an easy victim for all manner of abuse from slavery to grooming gangs. The white working class has been backed into a corner and has no choice now but to fight.
It's worth noting that Reform were largely defunct until just now. They weren't prepared for an election, and the Conservatives seem to have called a surprise snap election at an unexpected time specifically to throw Reform off balance. They didn't even have candidates ready in most constituencies, and only had a few weeks to campaign.
You also have the fact that Farage has been slandered for years as racist. This sort of media control works: lots of people really believe it. When pressed for examples of why, they can't name any.
Given this, the fairly large chunk of the vote share they acquired is still quite impressive. Unfortunately in the FPTP system it doesn't translate into actual seats in Parliament because their signature issue and therefore their support is spread smoothly across the country. Parties where people congregate in single spaces and sort geographically do much better under that system.
Like Americans, Brits are captive to the two party mentality. Americans are even worse. It is worth noting that Two Tier Keir got a lower vote share in his landslide than Corbyn got in his landslide loss because of the British voting system.
Trump has some of the attributes of a lion but is missing a key one: lions are competent. Think Nietzsche's ubermensch or Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice or Franco in Spain. Forcefully imposing your will on others requires focus, attention, managerial and military acumen. Trump's first term illustrates how deficient he is in these attributes. He's arrogant enough to believe his will is superior but not competent enough to bring it about. "The Art of the Deal"? -- Trump is a fox. The Democrats want to pretend he's a wolf, which is absurd. But he's not a lion either.
Note, I'm not saying don't vote for him. I'll probably be voting for him. But in Matrix terms, he's not "The One".
As others have said, there may well come a time (in the next 3-4 election cycles) when we frustrated progressives will look back on Trump and Orban and Meloni as moderates and pine for their policies.
Arguably, Vance is a lion or at least evolving in that direction. Past has been fox-like what with Yale and venture capital but his current policy positions are pretty aggressive.
The U.K. ruling regime would undoubtedly like to establish a CCP-like "social credit" system to maintain total control without having to use much overt violence. But the British have such a different history and culture from the Chinese, that I don't think they'll be successful at that. So yes, as this article predicts, there will be a further descent into chaos.
There are approx 40,000 state-run CCTV cameras in London alone. The British may have a different culture, but they already live in a surveillance state and are thus primed for a social credit system. According to the Met, "CCTV helps solve 6 crimes every day".
Yes, the regime has the means with which to try to impose a social credit system. The U.K.-China difference would be in the reactions of the people tagged as low-credit and therefore denied access to transportation, banking, etc. I think that Brits (especially working class Brits) in that situation would be more likely than Chinese to become even more "anti-social," and possibly to recruit their neighbors to join them.
While I know this is a mythical movie example, Camelot went down this same road: when Guinevere & Lancelot became lovers any knight who dared make mention of it was either condemned to death or - if King Arthur granted clemency - was banished. When the number of banished knights grew to a considerable number, Lancelot - to save Guinevere - led an attack on King Arthur. The knights were filled with rage. King Arthur had placated the minority - Guinevere & Lancelot - and aroused the wrath of those unjustly accused of treason and banished. In the end, Camelot fell down around King Arthur's ears.
OK, my hobby horse, “lest we forget”, November 11, lives lost, remembrance, all that. On that day, the 11th day of the 11th month, it is sincere, the rest of the year, it’s an ironic statement: We always forget!
Why did we go to war? That’s what we’re supposed to not forget, you know, so it - war - never happens again and another generation lost.
My simple working definition of why we go to war (and often happily) : when you conclude the other side doesn’t listen, can’t be trusted and knowingly uses their advantage against your interests, damn the torpedoes, we go kinetic.
“Lest we forget”, no, we always forget, so we return to our Alma Mater to re-learn. No atheists on a foxhole.
You should probably give your kids a hug today. Our forgetfulness is their future.
It seems to me that the British elites have historically used plenty of violence when they were able to do so successfully. If they turned to the methods of the foxes, it is likely that they did so because the methods of the lions had ceased to work, not because they were squeamish about cracking heads when it was deemed useful. To some extent I speak from the observed experience of the Scots, the Irish, the Indians, numerous African nations, and so forth, as well as the English lower classes. One might want to recall that Augustus was soon followed by Caligula and Nero. Violence is fun, but only when you win.
As others have mentioned, a Franco-like figure is coming. Exactly when and what form he will take is uncertain, but he is coming, in America and Britain. (And no, Trump fans, the Orange Man isn't him -- the Caesar / Franco lion will be competent.) France is less certain. They may well be too far gone and what will arise instead will be an Islamic government ala Houllebecq.
Only after the collapse of civil society, we may end up with a Napoleon or Augustus. If we’re lucky we could end up with Charles ll and the Restoration but who knows?
Sorry, but Augustus — bellyaching in his tent at Philippi, never as far as I know displaying any fighting prowess whatsoever but playing his political cards like a total sharp, and then disguising his Imperial supremacy under the forms of the Republic — was a fox through and through.
Sounds like the old saying, "Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men, weak men create hard times and hard times create strong men.” The weak men can’t be cleared out fast enough.
Depart the "psyop" and live. Billions of dollars in stolen tax treasure, pension funds, life savings, labor and lives, has gone into the the willful manufacture of the hyperrealistic lie attempting to subsume human moral reason and strike a blow fully intended to bring the free peoples of the world to their knees. It is a repeat of the same joined at the hip pure psychosis of malignant narcissism and faux ideological utopianism that burned the 20th Century to the ground. There is no moral there there and most of the lie is an attempt to convince the free citizen that there is. Looking straight at the forces in play is absolutely vital but it is foolish to think people who lie as a profession have any interest in anyone or anything beyond themselves. "Everything means everything so nothing means anything." It is classic narcissism. A manipulative non-conversation built on half truths, threat, hysteria and lies willing to sacrifice the world for its own survival at the expense of everyone and everything. Why remain powerless twisting forever in the immoral vacuum the usurpers represent.
There is the Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. Everything else is psyop.
That would be nice to believe in, but counter-examples abound. Where are the strong men in North Korea or China. Where were they in the USSR?
That’s one reason why I tend to think the only lion who can truly solve the problem is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. I don’t think we can rely on the repetition of past historical examples where lions eventually showed up to restore order. The times we are now in are unprecedented. Civilizations of the past may have done things that led to “suicide,” but they never believed the threat of the wolves was a mortal one. So today. Chaos comes, the cycle repeats, the world goes on. We just have to figure out how to get through it. But the lions who show up this time will be wolves too. And they will destroy wonderfully, with modern technological tools unimagined up till now.
Well, Stalin for one, absolutely was a strong man. Whatever the toll, he industrialized the country, saved it from Germany, and expanded across half of Europe. The weak men that followed eventually lost and created hard times (the collapse and the 1990s) but eventually another strong man emerged, no?
As for China, they're also doing quite fine, going from strength to strength, raising hundreds of millions out of poverty, building infrastructure at a crazy pace, building their military strengh, building their industrial capacity, and so on. No weak ruling class there or lack of determination and effectiveness in its leadership. These are not UK ruling class like Bozos.
I guess that depends on whether you think Stalin and Putin created good times for the saying to hold. You could argue that, like Xi, they merely sucked less than their predecessors but were far from creating good times.
If you consider the trajectory of say the UK after WW2 vs the USSR or China, clearly, the UK did much better, even though the only "strong man" leader since would have been Thatcher.
"Good times" is not about people having a fun time, though. It's about strengthening and enriching the country, and, whatever else, Stalin and Xi very much did that.
I hardly think the UK did better either. Quite the opposite, it became from an empire to the lapdog of the US, and an increasingly failed state, riddled with poverty, crime, mass immigration woes, failing infrastructure, irrelevance in the world stage, cultural production decline, and so on. And increasingly more restrictive in the way cornered elites whose population QoL is failing are.
I think the UK clearly did better as measured by quality of life. I mean, given a choice of living in Stalin's Russia, or modern Russia, or Xi's China, or the UK, which would most people prefer? Clearly it's the latter every time which is why people come in huge numbers from places like Pakistan and fly right past China and Russia, all the way across Europe right up to the UK. That very attractiveness compared to the alternatives is what's dragging the UK down right now - an ironic problem to have.
Stalin was dead before WW2 food rationing in the UK ended.
> I mean, given a choice of living in Stalin's Russia, or modern Russia, or Xi's China, or the UK, which would most people prefer?
Regarding Xi's China and modern Russia, you'd be surprised...
Regarding Stalin's USSR, the comparison should be to what was the lot for the masses there before 1917, not with early 20th century UK.
Excellent analysis
Utter nonsense. All is well in our happy and glorious United Kingdom and any suggestion to the contrary is plainly the work of outside agitators who in no way represent our many wonderful communities.
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Two Tier Keir doesn't care about you.
The current situation was predictable and predicted: “This country may become an open reception centre for immigrants not selected in respect to health, education, training, character, customs and above all, whether assimilation is possible or not.The British people fortunately enjoy a profound unity without uniformity in their way of life, and are blest by the absence of a colour racial problem. An influx of coloured people domiciled here is likely to impair the harmony, strength and cohesion of our public and social life and to cause discord and unhappiness among all concerned.” Open Letter to Prime Minister Clement Attlee from 11 Labour MPs, 22 June 1948.
Brilliant analogy. Isn't this the "hard times create strong men who create good times that create weak men that create hard times" saying?
I would add to this weak man fox technocrat period of time anther factor that Niccolò Machiavelli could have never foreseen, the rise of female dominance in governance and institutional control. The result is that the foxes in power are more likely diagnosable as afflicted bipolar... uncontrolled emotions driving their foxy mandates that lack calculable justification and are often just absurd.
The female thing isn't given enough attention in explaining the freaky societal and political chaos that engulfs western civilization. There is not a single historical example of any country, civilization or even large tribe being dominated by females over males. An honest Darwin if alive today would have to conclude that we are mistakenly attempting to accelerate natural evolutionary trend-lines for gender roles and relations... taking a hockey-stick approach where the the gap between what would be natural progress and this forced 3rd wave feminist crap is the area making people miserable if not insane.
Looking back for when we went off the rails, it was allowing communist China into the WTO. NAFTA has been just more salt on that gaping economic wound. What is was... the foxes selling away the assets of the US... assets that had been hard-earned by the previous wolves. The selling off of these assets continues today, and it benefits the foxes and destroys the economic opportunity of the wolves.
Add uncontrolled immigration to that dig... those elite foxes need their house cleaners, home renovation trade laborers and restaurant cooks and dishwashers. They also need fat Wall Street returns from corporate profits made fatter by cheaper labor. Lastly, they also need luxury virtual signaling beliefs to round out their elite fox cultural status.
I was feeling confident that we were starting to head in the right direction. However, today not so much. The basic problem is that the foxes know human psychology and how to manipulate it. We have an electorate that are social media injected sleepwalking clones supporting their own continued destruction while being irrationally enraged to oppose the remedy... the the female version of that being the most prevalent and easiest to leverage.
Just think about that... it was that foxy bipolar female enthusiasm and rage that elected the Biden vegetable in the White House and again prevented GOP take back of the Senate in 2022. It appears that the same is happening with respect to Kamala Harris... probably the most unqualified candidate to ever be on the ticket for general election.
One string of hope for a turn back to normalcy is the example of Norway... a country with the most "progressive" women's rights, where a higher percentage of college-educated women choose marriage and child raising as their career. It seems to me that women, whom today are diagnosed with higher levels of depression and mental health issues than ever, are going to need to fix this. There are gender roles for reasons that cannot be changed with government mandates.
A society cannot simply trash normalcy with absurdity and expect it will result in anything but dystopia.
Without disputing your theory about women in politics, it was election fraud that put the vegetable in the White House. It is unknown to me how many of the perpetrators of that were women.
What's clear is that the white, British working class are now the lowest status group in the UK. The two-tier policing is only a detail of the fast solidifying intersectional hierarchy. Where other groups are on the scale can be debated. But it's clear who is at the bottom. This is really what the riots were about. People will fight for status long before they fight for wealth or resources, because without status, you are an easy victim for all manner of abuse from slavery to grooming gangs. The white working class has been backed into a corner and has no choice now but to fight.
If the British wanted less immigration they would have voted Reform and not Labour. They voted for immigration and by God they're going to get it.
It's worth noting that Reform were largely defunct until just now. They weren't prepared for an election, and the Conservatives seem to have called a surprise snap election at an unexpected time specifically to throw Reform off balance. They didn't even have candidates ready in most constituencies, and only had a few weeks to campaign.
You also have the fact that Farage has been slandered for years as racist. This sort of media control works: lots of people really believe it. When pressed for examples of why, they can't name any.
Given this, the fairly large chunk of the vote share they acquired is still quite impressive. Unfortunately in the FPTP system it doesn't translate into actual seats in Parliament because their signature issue and therefore their support is spread smoothly across the country. Parties where people congregate in single spaces and sort geographically do much better under that system.
Like Americans, Brits are captive to the two party mentality. Americans are even worse. It is worth noting that Two Tier Keir got a lower vote share in his landslide than Corbyn got in his landslide loss because of the British voting system.
Sad but true. There should be some proportional seats.
We need a Lion. We need Trump.
Trump has some of the attributes of a lion but is missing a key one: lions are competent. Think Nietzsche's ubermensch or Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice or Franco in Spain. Forcefully imposing your will on others requires focus, attention, managerial and military acumen. Trump's first term illustrates how deficient he is in these attributes. He's arrogant enough to believe his will is superior but not competent enough to bring it about. "The Art of the Deal"? -- Trump is a fox. The Democrats want to pretend he's a wolf, which is absurd. But he's not a lion either.
Note, I'm not saying don't vote for him. I'll probably be voting for him. But in Matrix terms, he's not "The One".
As others have said, there may well come a time (in the next 3-4 election cycles) when we frustrated progressives will look back on Trump and Orban and Meloni as moderates and pine for their policies.
Arguably, Vance is a lion or at least evolving in that direction. Past has been fox-like what with Yale and venture capital but his current policy positions are pretty aggressive.
The U.K. ruling regime would undoubtedly like to establish a CCP-like "social credit" system to maintain total control without having to use much overt violence. But the British have such a different history and culture from the Chinese, that I don't think they'll be successful at that. So yes, as this article predicts, there will be a further descent into chaos.
There are approx 40,000 state-run CCTV cameras in London alone. The British may have a different culture, but they already live in a surveillance state and are thus primed for a social credit system. According to the Met, "CCTV helps solve 6 crimes every day".
Yes, the regime has the means with which to try to impose a social credit system. The U.K.-China difference would be in the reactions of the people tagged as low-credit and therefore denied access to transportation, banking, etc. I think that Brits (especially working class Brits) in that situation would be more likely than Chinese to become even more "anti-social," and possibly to recruit their neighbors to join them.
COVID kind of shattered my faith in this sort of thing happening. Bread and circuses go a long way, man.
They let themselves be disarmed too.
While I know this is a mythical movie example, Camelot went down this same road: when Guinevere & Lancelot became lovers any knight who dared make mention of it was either condemned to death or - if King Arthur granted clemency - was banished. When the number of banished knights grew to a considerable number, Lancelot - to save Guinevere - led an attack on King Arthur. The knights were filled with rage. King Arthur had placated the minority - Guinevere & Lancelot - and aroused the wrath of those unjustly accused of treason and banished. In the end, Camelot fell down around King Arthur's ears.
OK, my hobby horse, “lest we forget”, November 11, lives lost, remembrance, all that. On that day, the 11th day of the 11th month, it is sincere, the rest of the year, it’s an ironic statement: We always forget!
Why did we go to war? That’s what we’re supposed to not forget, you know, so it - war - never happens again and another generation lost.
My simple working definition of why we go to war (and often happily) : when you conclude the other side doesn’t listen, can’t be trusted and knowingly uses their advantage against your interests, damn the torpedoes, we go kinetic.
“Lest we forget”, no, we always forget, so we return to our Alma Mater to re-learn. No atheists on a foxhole.
You should probably give your kids a hug today. Our forgetfulness is their future.
As has been noted, the only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history.
It seems to me that the British elites have historically used plenty of violence when they were able to do so successfully. If they turned to the methods of the foxes, it is likely that they did so because the methods of the lions had ceased to work, not because they were squeamish about cracking heads when it was deemed useful. To some extent I speak from the observed experience of the Scots, the Irish, the Indians, numerous African nations, and so forth, as well as the English lower classes. One might want to recall that Augustus was soon followed by Caligula and Nero. Violence is fun, but only when you win.
Caligula famously said "Let them hate, so long as they fear". Reasonable up to the point where insiders fear random attacks.
As others have mentioned, a Franco-like figure is coming. Exactly when and what form he will take is uncertain, but he is coming, in America and Britain. (And no, Trump fans, the Orange Man isn't him -- the Caesar / Franco lion will be competent.) France is less certain. They may well be too far gone and what will arise instead will be an Islamic government ala Houllebecq.
Only after the collapse of civil society, we may end up with a Napoleon or Augustus. If we’re lucky we could end up with Charles ll and the Restoration but who knows?
Or really unlucky and wind up with a Hitler or Lenin.
Your essay, combined with Crawford's, is a beautiful thing.....
Sorry, but Augustus — bellyaching in his tent at Philippi, never as far as I know displaying any fighting prowess whatsoever but playing his political cards like a total sharp, and then disguising his Imperial supremacy under the forms of the Republic — was a fox through and through.
Yes, but who are the wolves?