Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door This passage stood out: The smaller indignities are numerous. At the end of every shift, Nicole watches large amounts of leftover food go into the compost – food she’s not allowed to take home. If the food is uneaten, who cares if… Continue reading Economics and Unintended Consequences
Month: July 2017
The Fumigation Begins
Nick plans to fumigate his comments. Some observations: 1. The ZOG question. The problem with this is it’s a conversation killer. It doesn’t mean it’s necessarily wrong, but it attracts a conspiratorial element, which is something that could be counterproductive. 2. There is the concern that NRx is losing focus and or quality has declined.… Continue reading The Fumigation Begins
Activism and the Imperial Mindset
Michael Perilloux of Social Matter discusses the need for an Imperial Mindset: There are many ways to deviate from the correct political mindset, but only one way to do it right. You have to actually think about what it would mean to govern an empire well. If our problem is to restore statecraft and political… Continue reading Activism and the Imperial Mindset
The Four Anomalies
A STEEL-cameralist Manifesto Part 3f: The Crisis of the Cathedral and the Structure of the Imperial Information Revolution. 1: The First Anomaly is the contradiction between political form (democracy) and political reality (oligarchy or technocracy); a democracy cannot be a technocracy. Thus, the government is de facto illegitimate. 2: The Second Anomaly is the contradiction… Continue reading The Four Anomalies
How Did Jordan Peterson Become So Successful?
Jordan B. Person’s popularity has exploded since late 2016. He has transformed from being just a clinical physiologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, to a ‘culture warrior’ whose videos about philosophy, psychology, and politics have been watched millions of times over by thousands, if not millions, of fans from all over… Continue reading How Did Jordan Peterson Become So Successful?
Taxation, Libertarianism, and Wealth
From Lion: Libertarians are wrong about taxation: Libertarians say that taxation is “theft.” But as I’ve shown, REALLY rich people voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 3 to 1 margin. Even though it was well known that there would be higher taxes under Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. People don’t vote for… Continue reading Taxation, Libertarianism, and Wealth
Status, Universities, and the Elites
This article is going viral: The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans: Since 2013, the federal reserve board has conducted a survey to “monitor the financial and economic status of American consumers.” Most of the data in the latest survey, frankly, are less than earth-shattering: 49 percent of part-time workers would prefer to work more hours… Continue reading Status, Universities, and the Elites
Updating old posts
Things have been kinda slow in the alt-right-o-sphere. The alt-light is here to stay because so as long as they make money, they have no reason to go away. I don’t begrudge their success though. It’s a different business model than the alt-right. The alt-right needs a catalyst to keep going. IN 2014, it was… Continue reading Updating old posts
Neoliberalism and Capitalism
A 2013 article on accelerationism: The Accelerate Manifesto: The Core Assumptions of Accelerationism 3. Capitalism has begun to constrain the productive forces of technology, or at least, direct them towards needlessly narrow ends. Patent wars and idea monopolisation are contemporary phenomena that point to both capital’s need to move beyond competition, and capital’s increasingly retrograde… Continue reading Neoliberalism and Capitalism
IQ, Education, and Upward Mobility
From David Brooks How We Are Ruining America: The educated class has built an ever more intricate net to cradle us in and ease everyone else out. It’s not really the prices that ensure 80 percent of your co-shoppers at Whole Foods are, comfortingly, also college grads; it’s the cultural codes. Status rules are partly… Continue reading IQ, Education, and Upward Mobility