politics

Why democracy will always elect a new people

Lately Mencius Moldbug has been off his best, so, looking back to his greatest hits, here is a golden oldie The democratic state needs votes, to give it legitimacy, so is always looking for ignorant stupid cheap voters that it can buy to bulk up its astroturf. And so the franchise expands. And when it can expand no more, then fresh voters are purchased from outside.

culture

There will be war

Brad deLong tells us: it took me only two months–two months!–to conclude that America’s best hope for sane technocratic governance required the elimination of the Republican Party from our political system as rapidly as possible. Since Republicans are supposedly terrorists, elimination is apt to mean lining them up against a wall and shooting them.

economics

Stagflation August

While inflation has been running at an annualised rate of 3.6% over the past three months, higher than the Fed’s target 2%, said Brett Hammond, senior economist at TIAA-CREF, “in order to get the economy moving again, a little inflation isn’t a bad thing”. If Keynesianism is true, you are not supposed to have rising inflation and unemployment at the same time.  It is only moderate stagflation, but it is …

culture

Rick Perry and the underclassing of America

Rick Perry proposed to give every female child Gardasil vaccine at government expense. Gardasil protects against a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer in women and male homosexuals. It rarely affects male heterosexuals in advanced countries. The vaccine is expensive, and has dangerous side effects, so should only be given to those that need it: sluts sexually active females and gays. If a girl is planning to ride the cock …