Excerpts from Carlyle, predicting social decay, in the context of today’s headlines showing social decay. But, as Carlyle observed, in 1848, most of the Kings ran away at the first whiff of gunpowder. He hoped that they might be replaced by a sterner breed of Kings. They are not showing up yet. But, if enough people reject democracy, equality, and all that, perhaps they will. But I don’t think so. I am with Froude, who longed for the return of …
Category: politics
Aaron Swartz needed killing
Moldbug is back!
Guns, murder, and race
Stolen from the comment section of Steve Sailer’s excellent blog. Someone who wishes to remain anonymous has assembled data showing that American whites murder at about the same rate as whites in countries with strict gun control, American “Hispanics†murder at about the same rate as they do in their native countries, which generally have strict gun control, and that American blacks murder at about the same rate as blacks do world wide, mostly in countries with strict gun control. …
Mencius on the Fall
Mencius addresses the question: Does today’s US resemble the late Roman Empire in the west, or the late Roman Republic, in his usual wonderfully cryptic, long winded, and obscure fashion. Mencius’s proposed solution to our crisis, oligarchy or military dictatorship, assumes that America is analogous to the late Roman Republic. The people have become too degenerate to rule themselves, and so must be ruled by others.  In his latest post, however, he considers the possibility that there really is no …
The left singularity versus the technological singularity
Lately this blog has largely been about the left singularity: That leftism leads to more leftism, which leads to even more leftism even faster, until everything goes to hell. The best known singularity, however is the information technology singularity, the rapture of the nerds What of the theory that information technology leads to more information technology? Well, in a sense, in the long run, looking back over the last several million years, it is obviously true. Problem is that it …
Derivatives did it!
Bernie Madoff steals from his depositors. An evil Jew did it! Punish the evil Jew Bernie Madoff. Jon Corzine, pillar of the progressive establishment, senior financial regulator, steals from his depositors. Derivatives did it!. Poor Jon Corzine. We must punish derivatives by regulating them further.
Recent posts on Urban Future vanished
Recent excellent posts on the excellent blog “Urban Future†have mysteriously vanished. Perhaps the bitbucket ate them, but I suspect the problem was that he said “the Leftâ€, instead of saying the US Government. Edit: In the comments, Nick Land reassures me that they were merely eaten by the bitbucket. He was discussing the left singularity. He suggests that the left singularity was akin to an alcoholic drinking shoe polish in the gutter, which not only implies that the future …
As in Britain, maintaining order is being criminalized
As you know, another photo has come out showing that five foot eleven athlete Trayvon Martin beat the stuffing out of five foot seven overweight George Zimmerman, while Zimmerman never hit back, until he finally shot Martin. And when I say “come out†I mean that Zimmerman’s new lawyers extracted it by a year of litigation. His first set of lawyers were happy to roll over for the state, and help railroad him as a dangerous raaaaciiiiiist, hence the widespread …
China more capitalist than the USA
With the USA becoming more socialist, and China more capitalist, it was inevitable that they would cross over. And so today we see that private property rights in China are more secure and respected than in the USA. Which means that in a little while, the average Chinese will be richer than the average North American. At present, Chinese cars per capita is 21% of the US, electricity per capita is 29% of the US, and most middle class goods …
Moldbug’s mission completed
Moldbug has a new post of substance, but not a whole lot of substance. That a significant proportion of votes are fraudulent, disproportionately in the most critical states, such as Ohio, and everyone piously turns a blind eye to voter fraud on a scale that makes the difference between one presidential candidate winning, and another winning, is interesting in that everyone turns a blind eye. Democracy is now so dead that it is impolite to pay attention. It is not …