I crowdsourced the task of finding a word to describe the political and social order that is leading us to doom, in a way that explains the fundamental driving forces, explains why the left always wins. Hwan Lewi: How about ‘atheocracy’? It should be instantly recognizable as derivative of ‘theocracy’ and thus retain most of the descriptive and shock value, and it gets around the deism/non-deism issue. From now on, …
The word “theocracyâ€
A lot of people complain about my use, and Mencius’s use, of the word theocracy, to refer both to past systems were God endorsed Caesar, and Caesar endorsed God, and the present system where Political Correctness endorses the state, and the State endorses Political Correctness. So I am trying to crowdsource some less confusing terminology.
Paul leading in Iowa
As the last non leftist still standing, Paul is now leading in Iowa, the first actual vote of the Republican nomination. Paul twenty three percent, Mitt Romney twenty percent, Gingrich fourteen percent, ten percent or less for all the rest.
Why the left always wins.
And the non left always loses. “Coordination Problem†is treating this as a deep and puzzling mystery. Obviously they have not been reading Moldbug.
Worse than a crime, a legalism
MF Global did worse than embezzle client funds. They embezzled client funds legally Very large numbers of investors may be in the same position as MF Global’s investors, who thought they were investing in gold, businesses, and suchlike, but were in fact investing in Greek rioters, Italians on welfare, and public servants taking early retirement.
Woman charged with making a false rape accusation!
A woman is being charged with making a false rape accusation! Gasp! Are pigs flying? Has the revolution come? Is marriage going to be legally restored? No. She is charged with making a false rape accusation against a minority. She should have done what everyone else does, make false rape accusations against lower income and/or rural members of the majority ethnic group of males.
Sarbanes-Oxley:
Sarbannes-Oxley does to double entry accounting, what the Occupy Movement did to poop control.
All Republican nominees extreme left by 1996 standards.
There is Governor Romneycare, who created the original of which Obamacare is a copy. There is Governor Perry, a man who fully supports the underclassing and the suppression of Christianity by state power combined with state sponsorship of alternatives to Christianity such as Islam. There Newt Gingrinch, who talks like a right winger, but is an entryist.
Climategate 1 and 2
Climategate 1 is self summarized by the famous line: Mike’s Nature trick  … to hide the decline. Climategate 2 is self summarized by the theme: ‘ help the cause
Timing the coming hyperinflation
We have a bubble in government paper. Assessing the end of the bubble is, like assessing the end of any bubble, hard.