I wanted to highlight a recent comment on the blog: I certainly hope you are right. As a devil’s advocate I would point out that during President Wilson’s tenure (when federal tax was introduced) about $755/capita per annum was spent by the US Government (in 2020 dollars). Today, the amount is over $10K for every… Continue reading Civilization and Collapse, Cont.

Freddie deBoer argues that because history is cyclical, that thus woke liberalism will pass eventually. Plenty of ancient Romans would have rejected the idea of an economy without mass slavery out of hand. People living under feudalism tended to believe that the system was literally ordained by God – and then the plague, the rise… Continue reading Is ‘wokeism’ just a fad that will pass? Probably not

I came across this story, which went viral MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule. If I had a dollar for every forecast of how “X is supposed to cause Y”… “Trump winning was supposed to tank the U.S. economy,” according to Paul Krugman “Trump tariffs… Continue reading Will Society Collapse This Century? Who knows, but probably not

Milley was one of Trump’s favorite generals. Now he’s a villain of the right. But in the span of just one year, the man former President Donald Trump appointed as the nation’s top military officer has found himself at the center of political firestorms on both ends of the political spectrum. One year ago, Milley… Continue reading Appointing the right people

The article How to Build a Small Town in Texas went viral. His site promotes “Traditionalism, sustainability, localism, urbanism,” but his article went viral on Hacker News. I have observed that among the biggest defenders and advocates of traditionalism are people in tech (and probably other STEM fields), on either side of the aisle, not… Continue reading Traditionalism and Technology

Eyeing a target of $20,000-22,000 or so The #1 unwritten rule: for a technology to be transformative, it must be useful. The automobile, the world wide web, electricity, elevators, planes, social networking, TVs, iphones, apps, email…all useful, and thus all saw widespread adoption quickly. Bitcoin is none of those. It has some use but is… Continue reading Bitcoin getting ready to fall again, and why listening to billionaires will not make you rich

The divergence between stocks and bitcoin keeps widening, which I predicted months ago. The S&P 500 makes new highs every week now, also as I predicted. Anyway, saw this post go viral The Subreddit /r/Collapse Has Become the Doomscrolling Capital of the Internet. Can Its Users Break Free? Regardless politics, both sides seem to be… Continue reading Small Signs of Collpase

I was listening to Bannon’s radio show and few things are more annoying, to me at least, than pundits and commentators lying or spreading misinformation, either intentionally or not. It’s insulting to the intelligence of the audience and it does not do anyone (or ‘the cause’) any favors. As much as we may ridicule the… Continue reading Coming to Terms With Another Biden Win

The question of collapse/crisis comes up a lot in dissident/alt-right discussions, such as the likelihood of the US suffering a fate similar to to past empires, and if so, when and how. In the past post, I eluded to the possibility of collapse, but not in the short-term future. Empires can last a very long… Continue reading Collapse and revival: 4 scenarios

A common narrative was that even though Trump had not accomplished much in terms of policy, he had appointed ‘hundreds of judges’ that would reverse the tide of liberalism and the left. Facebook antitrust lawsuits ‘legally insufficient,’ rules judge A federal judge on Monday dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission… Continue reading So much for that, part 5