“… after one participates in a project like this there is no wide path back to the place before. Nothing is ever the same again. We have constructed a delicate balance of goodwill and competence and public decorum, over centuries. When that is pulled down, even for a brief time, it proves extremely difficult to rebuild.”
Compare Endeavour's description of globalization as a sunk-cost fallacy, the oligarchs ruling our society can't admit migrants are economic deadweight *now* and only becoming more useless as AI takes more jobs, because if they do, it'd mean they'd have to admit they were wrong.
I highly recommend you read beckwiths "the scythian empire ", and empires of the silk road.
In one of these he argues that all of the individuals responsible for launching the axial revolution, where all scythians. From Greece to Persia and China. All of them where from the steppe, ie scythians.
I think you’re correct on this. It always reminds me of the Romans. The Romans were big on moving people around to places (other than where they came) so those people would be unfamiliar with their surroundings, and less likely to put up much of a fight. Who rebels in a place that’s not their own?
The difference here is that people are being brought in to Western nations specifically to bring them down. They are bringing these people to Western nations – not so that they will be easier to control (as they were already controlled where they came from) – but so that they will destroy Western civilization, making the indigenous Western populations easier to control.
If the goal were truly to “make a better world,” the UN (or some international governing body) would pay Westerners to go to these underdeveloped countries, to teach people, build infrastructure, and create a functioning society. But they don’t. This was done in the past, and it was called “colonialism” but now it’s frowned upon.
The question then becomes, “What will happen to those third world countries that are being drained of people?” You would think that those places would become even more underdeveloped because human capital is being removed.
But then, that might be the goal. The planners (powers that be, or whatever) likely see this as killing two birds with one stone.
As those third world countries are drained of able bodied people, their populations are liable to collapse. There won’t be enough producers left to provide for the remainder of the population, so massive food shortages are likely to occur. Of course, there will be a response from the UN and charities, but it will be on a scale large enough to quickly become unmanageable.
The planners will be able to decrease the world population, and take care of those pesky Western civilizations with all their “freedom(s) and stuff” (to quote Shepard Smith).
That’s what I think this is all about. But I could be wrong.
At any rate, the outcome from all this does not benefit the citizens of Western host countries – in any way. That’s why this is all a top-down push, and it’s being facilitated through the UN and NGOs. As it stands, Western countries are funding their own demise.
There is a very simple term for what the elites are doing which does not require an essay: they would rather rule in hell than worship in heaven.
At the end of the day, they would rather humanity languish on Earth until we get to a point that the geological activity wanes, the sun gets hotter and eventually the Earth dies, even if it takes hundreds of millions of years, than to allow the possibility we might eventually get to the stars and survive to the end of the universe if that means they might not be ruling us when it happens.
The future has arrived, and it is mocha coloured. The question is no longer how to stop it - because it is too late - but rather, what now.
Easy answer: Nations and ethnicities and cultures disappear, a general diminution of our intelligence and theory of mind or axiality that is our propellant becomes drowned out by noise. Ya, Iron Age.
You got kids? Yes, then worry.
General intelligence is esoteric the collapse will come in a much more pragmatic way: the death of the fiat currencies through monetary insanity.
Could not agree more. We must all do our own parts. Fantasy writers like myself must portray the Occidental world as the best, must transmit its values, ideas and virtues in our literature.
Philosophers must combat slop ideas like woke, and so on.
Even if your thesis is correct, Chinese civilization will likely long outlive the West. The Chinese clearly have the genetic chops, and restrict their borders to a degree that would elicit constant howls of "fascism!" if they were white. True, they have to get that plummeting birthrate problem under control. But I predict, as a practical people, they will; probably by reinstituting a strict and explicit patriarchy as the only known system that can sustain technological civilization over the long haul. As Monty Python wisely predicted: "If Darwin is anything to shout about/The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt."
I agree with you about the likelihood of empirical synching of civilizations across the Eurasian land mass. The more we understand about how early, and how extensive, trading and other commercial relationships were across the ancient world the more obvious it is that ideas were distributed via these commercial activities.
For many reasons, the previously inexplicable “miracle” of the rise of Classical Greece seems pretty clearly now to be the result of the (creatively brilliant) response of Greeks to ideas flowing from the Indus River Valley civilization across the Near East to the eastern Mediterranean.
Grandiloquence has never impressed me. Scaremongering does not improve the inherent pomposity of it. And it takes more than name-checking Great Empires of the Past to demonstrate either cultural fluency or personal taste.
We just had an Axial Age. An authentically multicultural, technology-boosted, intercontinental Axial Age, 1955-1975. Telecommunications oligopoly attempted to commodify it and distort its legacy, and has been partially successful at doing so. But that legacy survives.
“… after one participates in a project like this there is no wide path back to the place before. Nothing is ever the same again. We have constructed a delicate balance of goodwill and competence and public decorum, over centuries. When that is pulled down, even for a brief time, it proves extremely difficult to rebuild.”
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/overplaying-their-hand
Is Camp of Saints not already a reality?
Compare Endeavour's description of globalization as a sunk-cost fallacy, the oligarchs ruling our society can't admit migrants are economic deadweight *now* and only becoming more useless as AI takes more jobs, because if they do, it'd mean they'd have to admit they were wrong.
https://royalendeavour.substack.com/p/the-mother-of-all-sunk-cost-fallacies
I highly recommend you read beckwiths "the scythian empire ", and empires of the silk road.
In one of these he argues that all of the individuals responsible for launching the axial revolution, where all scythians. From Greece to Persia and China. All of them where from the steppe, ie scythians.
Empires of the Silk Road was a GREAT book.
Great piece!
I think you’re correct on this. It always reminds me of the Romans. The Romans were big on moving people around to places (other than where they came) so those people would be unfamiliar with their surroundings, and less likely to put up much of a fight. Who rebels in a place that’s not their own?
The difference here is that people are being brought in to Western nations specifically to bring them down. They are bringing these people to Western nations – not so that they will be easier to control (as they were already controlled where they came from) – but so that they will destroy Western civilization, making the indigenous Western populations easier to control.
If the goal were truly to “make a better world,” the UN (or some international governing body) would pay Westerners to go to these underdeveloped countries, to teach people, build infrastructure, and create a functioning society. But they don’t. This was done in the past, and it was called “colonialism” but now it’s frowned upon.
The question then becomes, “What will happen to those third world countries that are being drained of people?” You would think that those places would become even more underdeveloped because human capital is being removed.
But then, that might be the goal. The planners (powers that be, or whatever) likely see this as killing two birds with one stone.
As those third world countries are drained of able bodied people, their populations are liable to collapse. There won’t be enough producers left to provide for the remainder of the population, so massive food shortages are likely to occur. Of course, there will be a response from the UN and charities, but it will be on a scale large enough to quickly become unmanageable.
The planners will be able to decrease the world population, and take care of those pesky Western civilizations with all their “freedom(s) and stuff” (to quote Shepard Smith).
That’s what I think this is all about. But I could be wrong.
At any rate, the outcome from all this does not benefit the citizens of Western host countries – in any way. That’s why this is all a top-down push, and it’s being facilitated through the UN and NGOs. As it stands, Western countries are funding their own demise.
https://ogre.substack.com/p/the-great-distraction-or-reset-originally
I think this is actually the plan
There is a very simple term for what the elites are doing which does not require an essay: they would rather rule in hell than worship in heaven.
At the end of the day, they would rather humanity languish on Earth until we get to a point that the geological activity wanes, the sun gets hotter and eventually the Earth dies, even if it takes hundreds of millions of years, than to allow the possibility we might eventually get to the stars and survive to the end of the universe if that means they might not be ruling us when it happens.
Too late!
The future has arrived, and it is mocha coloured. The question is no longer how to stop it - because it is too late - but rather, what now.
Easy answer: Nations and ethnicities and cultures disappear, a general diminution of our intelligence and theory of mind or axiality that is our propellant becomes drowned out by noise. Ya, Iron Age.
You got kids? Yes, then worry.
General intelligence is esoteric the collapse will come in a much more pragmatic way: the death of the fiat currencies through monetary insanity.
Brilliant piece .
Could not agree more. We must all do our own parts. Fantasy writers like myself must portray the Occidental world as the best, must transmit its values, ideas and virtues in our literature.
Philosophers must combat slop ideas like woke, and so on.
Even if your thesis is correct, Chinese civilization will likely long outlive the West. The Chinese clearly have the genetic chops, and restrict their borders to a degree that would elicit constant howls of "fascism!" if they were white. True, they have to get that plummeting birthrate problem under control. But I predict, as a practical people, they will; probably by reinstituting a strict and explicit patriarchy as the only known system that can sustain technological civilization over the long haul. As Monty Python wisely predicted: "If Darwin is anything to shout about/The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt."
I agree with you about the likelihood of empirical synching of civilizations across the Eurasian land mass. The more we understand about how early, and how extensive, trading and other commercial relationships were across the ancient world the more obvious it is that ideas were distributed via these commercial activities.
For many reasons, the previously inexplicable “miracle” of the rise of Classical Greece seems pretty clearly now to be the result of the (creatively brilliant) response of Greeks to ideas flowing from the Indus River Valley civilization across the Near East to the eastern Mediterranean.
Couple this with the “Angry Black Women” post.
Why Black Female Dems Will Always Be Angry
I may have thought this, but I've never written a post about it...
I'm sorry, what post are you referring to?
corny
Yes, we know. This is beyond your comprehension.
Grandiloquence has never impressed me. Scaremongering does not improve the inherent pomposity of it. And it takes more than name-checking Great Empires of the Past to demonstrate either cultural fluency or personal taste.
"Grandiloquence." Wow, I've never had my writing described that way before. Shiny!
it doesn’t surprise me that you find that to be a compliment.
It doesn’t surprise me that you think he thinks it’s a compliment.
hey, he gave me a Wow! What am I supposed to think?
We just had an Axial Age. An authentically multicultural, technology-boosted, intercontinental Axial Age, 1955-1975. Telecommunications oligopoly attempted to commodify it and distort its legacy, and has been partially successful at doing so. But that legacy survives.
Fairness is the dialectical knife Marxists and philosophers! Glory is on the road to the stars! The Cosmos doesn’t give a shit about fairness!