Friday, September 29, 2017

Invasion Hypocrisy Doesn't Exist

Alt-right is a loose term, but if there is one stance we all share, it is the the opposition towards the invasion of white countries by the rest of the world. There is certainly an element of white nationalism to that, but most of us, I reckon, are omni nationalists. We believe in nationalism for everyone. Every nation gets a homeland. That's the western tradition we've had at least since Westphalia, and up until so recently.

Supposedly there is hypocrisy in all this. For instance, if I stated that the US should not become a white-minority country, every liberal within earshot would proudly proclaim my hypocrisy, since white people took the lands from the Amerinds. So it's hypocritical for white people to take a moral stance against invasion now. But those claims of hypocrisy can only be made by people so insulated from reality that they have no comprehension of the natural order of things.

Lets look at an example a little further from home, to get a little extra objectivity. Every last alt-righter is fully abhorred at the Muslim invasion of Sweden. But who do we criticize? Just looking at this blog, who gets the blame? The Muslims? Hardly. I ridicule the Swedes every chance I get. For the Muslims to engage in resource warfare is perfectly normal. I don't know of anyone making the claim that Muslims should not invade Sweden, on moral grounds. No, what we say is that the invasion should not be allowed by the Swedes, on the moral grounds that people have a duty to preserve their nations, and should not be condoned by the rest of the world, on the moral principle of omni nationalism.

We think the Muslims are immoral for a lot of reasons, but not because they are amassing in places that will provide them resources. Doing so is perfectly natural. Likewise, we can't condemn our white ancestors for invading places like North America and Australia. We'd expect that the displaced peoples be given some sort of homeland, in reverence to omni-nationalism. In America, the Indians are allowed to live in highly autonomous reservations. It's probably not good enough, but it's far better than nothing. Most conquered peoples in history have not fared so well. 

There are two characteristics of the white invasion of America that bear scrutiny. One is a widespread lack of honor in the tactics of invasion, and the other is the degree to which Europeans engaged in profiteering over nation building. Our forebearers had a habit of breaking nearly every treaty they made with the Amerinds. Promises were made to keep things stable until such time as the application of force worked in the favor of whites. While diplomatic deceit was not created by Europeans (and is much more associated with the Eastern tradition), it is not a proud legacy. Frankly, we expect better of ourselves. Also, lands were not always settled for noble causes. Europeans had the tendency to import cheap labor from all around to build highly profitable plantations. While building economic engines is an admirable pursuit, it should be done with long-term goals, and without violating the dignity or rights of other people. Hawaii became a minority nation because of immigrant labor, as did many other places. Europeans didn't hesitate to import black African slaves to any location they might be useful. As such we see many black-dominated countries in the Caribbean today and strong populations in the American southwest and in the cities. As we're aware, every place with a black-majority population is an economically depressed locale, save the places that are fortunate to reside on popular tourist destinations.

Clearly there is room for criticism of white imperialism, and we in the dissident right are as quick to point them out as anyone (and probably with more clarity). But, that's not to say that white people were immoral for finding underdeveloped lands and building more advanced nations on those lands. This has been the natural way since time immemorial. We owe our existence to a very long history of more developed people displacing the backwards. Otherwise we'd have remained as tree-dwelling proto-humans. 

At the end of the day it's pretty damn simple. The morality of invasion is going to depend on what side you're on. Here's a way to argue with liberals if you get into it with them over invasion hypocrisy. Was it moral for the Nazis to bomb London? (They will say no.) Was it moral for the Americans to bomb the Nazis? Their heads will spin at this one, because as much as they hate America, Nazis are the real bogeyman in the prog cult. Ultimately there will be much handwaving about Germany being the aggressors or human rights atrocities, but you can see how you can easily corner them into agreeing that the morality of war acts depends on the side of the observer more than anything.

All this goes to show why we're just ever so slightly torn on the Swedish/Muslim holy war. On the one side we have a great affinity for the Swedes, who share our western European lineage and culture, and we recognize the right of all nations to exist. But we acknowledge that the Muslims are adhering to the natural order, whereas the Swedes are so infected with liberalism that they beg and pay to be invaded. When we look at things from a very wide view, and try to mute our personal biases, we find we must respect the Muslims' natural inclination for conquest, and cannot respect the Swedes' unnatural preference for national suicide.

Vonnegut on Equality of Being

In Equality as a Gauge for Political Stance we followed the progression of the term equality, and determined that the final state of equality was "equality of being." In such a definition we have moved from equality meaning no man is divine, to equality under the law, to equality of opportunity, to equality of outcome (where we generally are today), to equality of being. Under equality of being, no person is allowed to be significantly better than another in any regard. Beauty, brains, and ability must all be hidden, or some sort of handicap will be applied.

Kurt Vonnegut was hip to this all the way back in 1961 when he penned the short story Harrison Bergeron. Consider this to be a must-read in the genre of dystopian fiction. Here it is as read by Jordan Peterson. (Starts at 5:34, if the time link doesn't work.)


Tuesday, September 26, 2017

We Can't Wait for the Apocalypse

Recently the Bloody Shovel blog made an observation that has been previously made on this blog. From his recent post, Primitvism,
If modern civilization collapses, which is a possibility given the relentless action of the worldwide IQ Shredder that we call “modernity”, then humanity will never get a second chance to start industrial civilization ever again. By lack of cheap fuel mostly. We’d be stuck, at best, with a Chinese style “high-level equilibrium trap“, basically the middle ages going on forever.
From this blog's post, Energy Regression: the Looming Apocalypse,
The problem is in acquiring oil. The first time we discovered oil it was quite simple. In places like Pennsylvania it was so accessible it could sometimes be found right at the surface. (Which is why we see oil brands such as Pennzoil and Quaker State). As we used the oil to power society we were able to develop increasingly sophisticated techniques to get the less accessible oil. Now we're fracking and running deep-sea oil rigs. There is no way a primitive society can get to that oil. And there's no way a primitive society can build solar panels or nuclear plants. If society fails now, it fails forever. The next big energy regression might well be permanent.
No one truly wants  to endure a collapse scenario, but many see it as both inevitable and necessary to realign society with reality. It's comparable to the stock market. Everyone knows there will be a crash eventually, and that the markets can keep running in fantasyland forever. Many of us with a survivalist bent imagine that all we have to do is prepare to bunker down for the inevitable calamity, let harsh reality clear out the limp-wristed invalids that permeate our society, and then the hardy folk can re-establish order based on an honest understanding of the human condition. A society build on blood, sweat, and brains.

The energy regression throws a monkey wrench in everything. We seem to be at an impasse. We can't save society, we can only respond appropriately as the natural cycle of growth and decay ebbs. But we must save society, or it is lost forever. Sure, we could live primitive lives. Many of use would even prefer such a scenario. But what does that mean in the long term? Humans live in a world of no advancement, stuck on this rock until the sun eventually destroys it? Okay, it doesn't sound that awful, but it doesn't seem right either. We were meant for something more than that. The idyllic shire life is for hobbits. Humans need to be working towards something.

However we reclaim society, it will not be through debate or the political process, but through strength. Either we will finds ourselves in an environment where the strong gain a survival advantage (the natural way), or we start killing our opponents once we believe we can do so without being killed ourselves. The former is morally superior, but the latter is there if you need it. The first scenario is something of a balancing act. We know that the longer we wait for the corrective action, the more intense it will be. If the apocalypse comes too soon, it won't do it's job of cleaning house and the problems will not be properly fixed. Wait too long and the apocalypse wipes out everything and we find ourselves rebuilding from a primitive state. But we've passed the technological threshold where we could simply hit the societal reset button. We'll never get back to an era of abundant fossil fuels. Ever. Even if we push past our petro dependency we face the same conundrum. An energy regressed society cannot rebuild fusion reactors, no matter how smart and capable the people.

Think of the enormity of our situation. If we screw this up too bad, we screw it up forever. That has never been the case before. The modern society cannot survive mass irrationality. I wonder if this isn't a universal predicament. The species succeeds over its environment, but then grows so soft it decays and destroys itself. Is this why we've not encountered intelligent alien life?

Monday, September 25, 2017

TDS Grows Stronger

In the 2016 election cycle, we were shocked, but also delightfully entertained, by a phenomenon known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. While we despair that such a significant portion of the voting public is highly irrational, watching Trump trigger lefties, often through innocuous action, was a thing of beauty. There has been a hope, but also a fear, that after taking office the opposition would observe that the hysteria wasn't very realistic, and TDS would wane, and the next four years would be kind of boring.

We now observe, regretfully but also gleefully, that TDS is here and stronger than other. The big news over the weekend was that Trump tweeted that the US flag and national anthem should be respected. (More specifically, that NFL players who kneel during the anthem should be fired.) The response has been the normal media fake outrage coupled with statements of condemnation from sports-world celebrities.

Yes, the president of the USA is being condemned for defending the symbols of the USA. He's doing his job. It as if the Pope was being condemned for stating the Cross should be respected. (Not that the current Pope would say anything like that.) As the leader of the country, making any statement other than the symbols of the nation should be respected would be a dereliction of duty. It would be treasonous. What's expected, it seems, is Merkelesque hatred for one's own country. The new norm is Obama apology tours. White nations and white leaders are expected to grovel in self-hatred. White people who aren't self-hating are called racists or white supremacists. Think about that.


Also amusing is the media now bandying about some poll that said something like 2/3 of the American public think Trump is a divisive figure. Which is amusing coming from the mainstream media, who have for two years now portrayed Trump as a racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic, Russian traitor, without a shred of evidence. The poll is just as much an indictment on the lugenpresse as it is on Trump's tweeting habits. Poll: 2/3 of Americans believe what they've been brainwashed to believe. To the extent he is divisive, he is clearly dividing American into two camps. Those who are openly hostile to America, its symbols, and its history, and those who are not.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Something Suspicious in Sweden

Open threats of Islamic terror, and government inability to handle it, is the new normal in multicultural Europe.


The Swedish government let in half a million third-world Muslims and now declares, "Only you can prevent terror attacks." It's not just that the message betrays the governments' inability to handle the mess it created, but it's not genuine. Image the scenario.

Government: Report to police if you see something suspicious.
Concerned Swede: Hi, I'd like to report something suspicious. I'm seeing hordes of foreign invaders in nearly every city. Many are openly hostile to Swedish laws and customs.
Government: You have been sentenced to 10 years for hate think. Your cellmate will be Ahmed. Try not to be racist. We will now increase refugee welfare.

Another scenario.

Swede: I'd like to report a suspicious person.
Police: Can you describe the suspect?
Swede: The suspect is human.
Police: Race?
Swede: There is only one race; the human race.
Police: Gender?
Swede: I cannot assume someone's gender.
Police: Name?
Swede: Revealing the name may stoke right-wing extremism against a protected ethnicity.
Police: Thank you for your report, you are a model citizen. **explosions in background**

You almost feel inclined to start rooting for the Muslim invaders. The Swedes deserve to lose their country at this point.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Venezuela Abandons the Petrodollar

The Economic Collapse Blog is reporting that Venezuela is abandoning the petrodollar.
The government of this oil-rich but struggling country, looking for ways to circumvent U.S. sanctions, is telling oil traders that it will no longer receive or send payments in dollars, people familiar with the new policy have told The Wall Street Journal.
The article also quotes Christopher Doran:
In a nutshell, any country that wants to purchase oil from an oil producing country has to do so in U.S. dollars. This is a long standing agreement within all oil exporting nations, aka OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The UK for example, cannot simply buy oil from Saudi Arabia by exchanging British pounds. Instead, the UK must exchange its pounds for U.S. dollars. The major exception at present is, of course, Iran.
This means that every country in the world that imports oil—which is the vast majority of the world’s nations—has to have immense quantities of dollars in reserve.

As described on this blog in Global Reserve Currency: Army of the Modern Empire, the US benefits from maintaining global reserve currency status because financial punishments can be unilaterally levied on other countries. This allows the US to maintain a global empire with a fairly small military, but it requires her to use the military against threats to global reserve currency status.
The American path to war almost always begins with a threat to the dollar's monopoly on the trade of energy commodities. 
 American foreign policy actions become highly predictable when viewed as through the lens of maintaining hegemony over the trade of energy resources. Unless something has changed, we should expect a strong reaction from the US regarding Venezuela. Direct military intervention has not been the normal way for Americans to influence Latin American countries, although it has happened. The common route is clandestine support for whichever faction, no matter how brutal or undemocratic, best serves American interests. We have to assume that the American deep state has tried very hard in Venezuela, but failed. The primary goal with Latin America has been to prevent the rise of anti-American socialist states. Rebuking the petrodollar is tantamount to declaring war against the American empire. The US options amount to redoubling her clandestine efforts, organizing an international reaction, intervening with direct military force, or giving up on the global empire project, which they will attempt more or less in that order. The last one might seem laughable, but Trump is a wild card here. It seems that his administration has been co-opted by neocons, but at the same time Trump is not personally a neocon, and he likes to be the one calling the shots.

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Price gouging: a feature, not a bug

Something we were treated to in the last couple weeks with the hurricanes in Texas & Florida was indignant outrage from price gouging in the affected regions. There were many examples of prices for gas, water, and airline tickets increasing tenfold. This shouldn't be terribly surprising. Prices respond to demand; that's like day 1 of microeconomics. What's a little more surprising is how easily the situation evoked communist messages. Memes from liberals cried this was finally proof that capitalism is evil. On facebook this video was being passed around, garnering 16 million views. Let's look at a couple screen grabs out of that.



Businesses are trying to MAKE MONEY off of hurricane victims. Oh, the horror! Guess what, that's what businesses do! The opposite headline would read: Businesses REFUSE SERVICE to hurricane victims.



You know what else skyrocketed? Demand for fuel, ice, and lumber throughout the state.


Opposite headline: customer stranded in hurricane zone because all flights quickly sold out.



In other words, it's time for resources to be free. Welcome to r-selected philosophy. There should be no competition for resources; they should be free.

As a thought exercise, imagine a scenario where disaster hits. A town has 100 residents and one store. That store has 100 cases of water. The store must decide whether or not to raise water prices. If they do not, there are three possible outcomes.

  1. High trust society. This is what liberals assume. The store doesn't seek to make an unfair profit and each resident takes just what they need, a single case, and everyone gets a case. This is the ideal scenario, but relying on this in reality would be a nice way to die of thirst. Liberals assume a high-trust society while doing everything to destroy it. Conservatives wish to preserve the high-trust society we had.
  2. Hoarding. The most likely scenario is that each customer buys more than one case to ensure they have enough in a worst-case scenario. So 50 people each buy 2 cases, and 50 people are turned away.
  3. Misuse. Kevin buys 50 cases so he'll be able to keep watering his weed grow operation throughout the emergency. 50 people are turned away.
  4. Illegal markup.  Mark sees a business potential and buys 50 cases. He sells them at double price. This is no different than if the store had raised prices, but Mark profits instead and pays no sales taxes.

On the other hand, the business could raise prices, which discourages hoarding and misuse. It's the best you can do, short of a high-trust society. It might put a stronger burden on the poor, but that can be avoided through preparedness. Everyone knows they should maintain emergency preparedness, and that it may cost them if they do not. Rich people can afford to neglect preparedness; the rest of us can't. With a little personal responsibility, and a high-trust society, these problems would not have arisen. But that would be the conservative solution. They don't want the conservative solution. They don't even really want a solution. They just want the state be in charge of distributing resources. They want communism.

Monday, September 11, 2017

Global warming is caused by climate skepticism

Another liberal meme.


The message here is that natural disasters wouldn't occur if we didn't have a government that doesn't "believe" in science. What I love about liberal memes is how much wrong they can cram into a little image macro. Let's count the ways.

  1. Science is not a belief system. One might believe in Christianity, or true love, or leprechauns, but science is a process of sorting out objective truth from the soup of human subjectivity. We don't believe in science; we apply it to the problems at hand. We on the right tend to be skeptical of climate science because of its perversion by government funding and liberal orthodoxy in academia. No one on the right says they "don't believe in science." We are the science defenders, and studies confirm that conservatives are more science literate than liberals. We just happen to know that science, like all human endeavors, is subject to corruption and we seek to defend its purity. There is a word we use for viewing science as a belief system rather than an analytical tool: scientism. Those who create & share memes like this tip their hands.
  2. What government doesn't "believe" in science? The obvious implication here is that this is Trump's fault because he is a climate non-believer for pulling us out of the Paris accord. Well, okay, he's been president for about half a year. Probably not enough time for his evil policies to destroy the Earth, right. But Obama was president for nearly a decade before. In fact, 16 of the last 24 years the government was run by so-called climate believers. So why did the world go to hell under their watch?
  3. It assumes the government can do anything about climate change, even if it wanted to. The great paradox of big government is that whatever problem it tries to fix it makes worse. Not only that, but the science believers are completely incapable of stating how much we should attenuate our economy to stop global warming. For all we know (and we skeptics suspect), we could knock the entire global economy back to the stone age and the earth would continue to warm, as it has done for the ten thousand years or so since the last glacial era. Liberals don't actually believe the government can stop climate change because they don't promote solutions that might actually work; they only want to destroy a capitalist society where some people do better than others. Because if we were serious about cooling the earth, we could probably do it. Paint the deserts white, seed clouds, launch a massive solar shield; anything to reduce the amount of sunlight that is converted to heat. But, of course, they don't really care about the problem of warming, who is causing it, or how to solve it. This is political warfare in disguise.
  4. The big one is that it assumes global warming is caused by climate change skepticism. The lefties have themselves in a comfortable safe space on this issue. If you pushed them, they would immediately retreat to the position of, "of course we know that climate change is caused by emissions, not climate denial, because blah blah blah..." Yet, they still act as if it was caused by mere skepticism itself. The reality is abstracted away so that skepticism is equated with worldly sin. If pushed on the issue they can pretend it's not a religion long enough to make the annoying sinner go away so they can go back to playing climate crusader. This makes sense if you understand how the left is organized. By and large, leftists don't set their own agenda; they are guided by propaganda. Liberal elites are the most hypocritical carbon abusers on the planet. They don't the issue to be too literal about emissions. That is, they don't want their attack dogs turning back on them. So they steer their underlings not to obsess over emissions as much as beliefs. Climate change is not a matter of scientific debate or even an ideological battle so much as religious warfare.
While you're praying for Houston and Florida and the other places, let's not forget the one group that needs it most. Pray for liberals. Perhaps only divine intervention can save them.

Thursday, September 7, 2017

When you create false premises, climate change is real

From the trusty Facebook feed:


Note that the "once in every 500 years" part is put in quotes, with no attribution. 500 years according to whom? Harvey was a Category 4 hurricane, a very serious storm to be sure, but not unusual. Certainly not "every 500 years" unusual. Harvey was particularly destructive because it stalled out over one area, but they can't be blamed on higher temperatures. Hurricane Camille did the same in 1969 over Appalachia. There are numerous hurricanes that have dumped nearly as much as Harvey on a single spot in the US.

Irma is a true monster of a storm, but not unprecedented. It is still weaker than Hurricane Camille or the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. Perhaps it will strengthen, but forecasts show it hitting Florida at Category 3 strength this weekend. Hurricane Andrew was a full-power Cat 5 when it ravaged Florida in 1992. Hurricane Hugo was a Category 5 Cape Verde type hurricane like Irma and hit the Carolinas at Cat 4 strength in the 1980s.

There is nothing to indicate these are "500-year" storms. Someone made that up and used it to "prove" climate change (where climate change means their theory of cataclysmic man-made global warming). The most humorous commentary has come from Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of airlines and cruise ships, who complained that his private luxury resort island, which he accesses by private jet and helicopter, was leveled by Irma, which he blames on global warming. None of this is Branson's fault, of course, as he has worked tirelessly to ridicule global warming skeptics. He seems to have convinced himself that global warming is caused by skepticism rather than actual carbon emissions.