SC - the inevitable conclusion of central planning - On our present course we are heading for a command economy by necessity viz. totalitarianism with modern feudalism. Everyday we draw closer to a plutocratic command economy run by the Fed under increased totalitarianism. China is the model ALL OTHER governments and their "leaders" (elected or not, of which there is no difference) aspire to. In a system which is controlled by predatory oligarchs, prepare for a command economy much like China's, but without the social benefits. I have seen the future and it does not work, for most of us that is.
That piece about Cuomo and the auctioned ventilators was brutal. Can you imagine a database of ALL of these crimes, these mass murders, logged with evidence and money trails? Why the hell aren't we in court by now?
The dam has to break soon. The narrative has been crumbling for months now. But somehow it just keeps on going... Maybe a nudge? Some C4? Hey, NSA bots, that was a metaphor.
I've long said that it will take until the "new blood" coming into politics benefits from attacking the "coviders" that are currently in office. Nobody wants the investigation right now because they're still in charge.
Kennedy is going to get the Ron Paul treatment so bad during the election, we might have to rename it to the Kennedy treatment. (And that will be super awkward because today the Kennedy treatment is to be left in a submerged car while Kennedy sleeps off the booze.)
Definitely awkward. They'll have to think up some new method, which they no doubt already have. Probably 'natural causes'. Whichever, it will cause such a backlash. One Kennedy after another... it's too dumb. Let's hope new blood will change things. Inevitably, it's up to us, the People.
And that is one of the core reasons ao many people in this country report they are depressed. I don't understand how people can live such pointless lives. It's very sad.
It's also very fitting, since the etymology is from a proto-germanic word meaning "to increase"; swedish still use "öka" which has the same root as "eke" and means "to increase".
'Eke out a life' would thus mean "to increase (a) life".
People here often use "swenglish" - especially in the media, "influencers" and their ilk - so why not? Go for it!
Generally speaking, the shorter a swedish (or danish or norwegian) word is, the greater the odds of it being Old Norse or even proto-germanic, so if one wants to sound like an ancestor, monosyllabic is the way to go.
The really old words (especially the nouns) like 'holk' and 'sel/säl' can have tens of differening meanings, all context dependent including local geographical points of reference.
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want the government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes, I am an Anarchist. – William Graham Sumner
"Long version" (for anyone under 40 at least): What Schumpeter talks about is in actuality industrialisation and modernisation of production and transportation. Which improves profits if succesfully carried out (I'll not get into the difference between monetary profit for an individual or very small group vis-a-vis profit for the system of economy and society as a whole.), especially when drawbacks such as child-labour, slavery, and destruction of environment has been addressed. First come the tech, then the societal change, then the hangover when we realise that releasing sulphurous oxide and lead particles in face-height (exhaust from millions of cars using old style petrol) is a Bad Idea(tm).
This is of course one of the places the "perfection or nothing"-fallacy grows. If the tech isn't perfect immediately it must be banned. Conversely, the tech should be safe to use in its intended manner. The tug between this is very much to the benefit of the individual, but only as long as there is real competition.
When governement employees have no metrics for success, or private employees have no career-path regardless of skill or diligence, you get people who don't care about what they do since it doesn't affect anything at all anyway; they become alienated and just go thorugh the motions of the path of least resistance. Splitting it into state/private is fallacious, even though I just did that: to the individual inside the organistion, the distinction is meaningless beyond rethorics.
Local example: when what grew to the current Social Services in Sweden was new, seniority and demonstrated ambition and ability meant advancement within the organisation, and the head of any internal department was promoted from within, meaning that they were invariably 50+ years of age with at least two decades of real work experience combined with their formal education, and a strong work ethic/integrity.
This combined with the constitution of the time meant that they were beyond political party control excepting laws, which required majority in parliament to enact or change. In 1976 this was changed so that the governement in office could appoint the head of the agency directly, and also hand out "guidance notes" on how the work was to be done.
The politically appointed agency head would then stack all level of managment with politically connected cronies, meaning that the Party could rule via all the state's agencies even if they lost elections.
Which of course creates selection pressure to be a good little bootlicking apple-polisher and nothing else. I'm sure the US is rife with similar exmple, both in on federal and state level as well as in the corporate sector.
Trading skill and diligence and a solid professional Nordic-protestant work ethic for control is a bum deal for society as a whole, private or public.
An apt summation of the process we so effectively deployed to ensure the destruction of the richest society the world has ever known.
By replacing the competent with the compliant, doing away with meaningful performance metrics, and totally eliminating all forms of accountability, in virtually all fields of endeavor, we have created a world in which our grandchildren can expect to "enjoy" a MUCH lower standard of living. Unless, of course, they are members of the elite.
Sometimes I feel that a lot of our various societal problems on the organisational or systemic level is simply due to us humans being unable to stop tinkering.
When did we lose the wisdom of "If it ain't broke don't try and fix it"?
Remember when you learned something, and it made you hungry to learn more. What have you published that I can read? Anything by you would most likely expand my intelligence. Or I can just keep reading your posts. Thank you for your contributions.
"When in the Course of human events,... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,...
a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
Or as our current puppet would say, "...you know, the deal..."
The reduction of government, mostly at the federal level but increasingly at the state and local level needs to be job one for any new administration. Without that as the absolute first priority this once prosperous republic, which has devolved into a parasitic empire, will collapse. The fall of Rome, the easiest example to compare to, led to a dozen centuries of poverty, pointless battles of pseudo-nobles and countless suffering across continents.
Will we fiddle while our Caligulas and Neros debase the worth of their fellow citizens? Probably. But let us hope, and pray and work towards a better future, free of this tidal wave of ignorance, apathy and greed.
Except I went through DoE schools and I my understanding of the world differs from that of my former classmates. Why are they so susceptible to foolish claims such as masks work for flu because it disappeared despite covid persisting? How does my coworker form Australia who has long believed childhood vaccines caused Asperger’s syndrome in her now adult son latch on to the covid vaxxes as safe and effective? How do people see the damage done by BLM riots and say, “Well, at least the rebuilding will be good for the economy.”?
The DoE certainly plays a huge role, but how are so many infected with this group think while others are not? I guess that is what I should have asked.
You have to understand (and I'm sure you do) that you're the extreme minority -- the 'brainwashing' works on the vast vast majority of people.
As for WHY some people see through it, I asked that very question a while back: (Spoiler alert, most of us had some sort of 'revelation' when we were young that the authorities were full of it)
I’m flipping through IG and I chance upon a photo of Peanut with the following caption; “In 1979 I created the Department of Education. Since then America went from 1st to 24th in education.”. If this is accurate, then the DoE was created after the story I post earlier today where the link you provided directed my too. This seems to indicate that there were plenty of fertile fields for the DoE to sow their BS once they came into existence.
Oh, and how! I am the only person I know in Japan who does not mask. I have contact through Substack with others, but we have not actually met in person. But after three full years and 8 waves, how can any person not see that what we are doing is not working, including wearing masks all day every day. That is what I can not understand. People’s ability to lie to themselves is well documented, but this, at least to me, does not come close to explaining humanity as we now know it to be.
I will take the link you provide to delve deeper. Thanks.
Look at what it took for Japan to get rid of the feudal system and the samurai class - it too lingered on well after it had become an anchor around the neck of the drowning man (translating an idiom - the drowning man doesn't want to lose his anchor, so...).
I think the answer lies in a cultural angle, rather than intellectual or knowledge-based ones.
Then why are so many Westerners also taken in with all this Covid BS; masks work, the shots are not only safe and effective but necessary, that Zero Covid is not a fool’s errand?
Safetyism, credentialism, and MDs knowing all there is to know on any and all subjects have permeated all cultures world wide with but a couple of exceptions. Which is why I am of the belief that there is coordination behind all this.
Different cultures can take different paths to arrive at the Temple of Stupidity?
That there is co-ordination is obvious and no secret, nor that organisations such as the UN ones are captured by multiple agents.
All the Covid-messaging here was laced with subtext that to question, deny orjust say "No thanks" was tantamount to be anit-democracy, anti-good flavoured buzzword and "right wing extremist racist supremacist populist fill-in-the-list".
Also, if you don't believe in god(s), you have to believe in yourself instead. Most westerners do neither, meaning they supplantboth the role of god(s) and their own cognitive faculties with any Authority semantically/semiotically associated with "Good".
And of course, many westerners have very romantic notions ofthe well-ordered neatly structured chinese/japanese societies, and look to them as ideal.
To me it looks collectivist to the point of ants, almost, but that's measa foreigner looking from the outside, most assuredly missing all the nuances for the whole. (The same can be said for the term "western", it's as meaningless as "african" or "asian": I am nothing like and albanian or a kroat, the same way a korean is not thai, yet we are all "western" or "asian" respectively.)
One of the 1st determinations of the RPC will likely be that the USG will fail to recruit the desired employee because the salary/benefit pkg. is not competitive w/ the equivalent position in private business ( they will NOT determine that the "Right People" in for-profit business are those whose pay pkg. enables profit )
If you think NY’s Covid numbers are bad you must think Florida’s numbers are the worst in the world!! Florida had roughly half as many Covid deaths as NY when the vaccines were introduced and now it has more Covid deaths with roughly the same Covid death rate!?! So that means DeSantis attacking public health officials needlessly killed thousands of Floridians during the entirely preventable Delta death surge! The vaccines were crappy but mitigated severity and masks mitigated spread prior to Omicron.
The vaccines are crappy but mitigated severity through Delta which is why highly vaccinated populations avoided the Delta death surge. Florida didn’t have a high enough vaccination rate prior to Delta even though there was more than enough time to get vaccinated.
The best as-pect'
Of the free mar-ket'
Is the mouse trap-per'
Is ever bet-ter'
My Schumpeter-paraphrase, with apologies to the great man, and anyone who likes *good* poetry.
SC - the inevitable conclusion of central planning - On our present course we are heading for a command economy by necessity viz. totalitarianism with modern feudalism. Everyday we draw closer to a plutocratic command economy run by the Fed under increased totalitarianism. China is the model ALL OTHER governments and their "leaders" (elected or not, of which there is no difference) aspire to. In a system which is controlled by predatory oligarchs, prepare for a command economy much like China's, but without the social benefits. I have seen the future and it does not work, for most of us that is.
"I have seen the future and it does not work, for most of us that is."
Those people will find new lodging six feet under.
https://imgur.com/a/qNTa6Uu
That piece about Cuomo and the auctioned ventilators was brutal. Can you imagine a database of ALL of these crimes, these mass murders, logged with evidence and money trails? Why the hell aren't we in court by now?
Yep. If we looked close we'd find that stuff EVERYWHERE (like covid!)
The dam has to break soon. The narrative has been crumbling for months now. But somehow it just keeps on going... Maybe a nudge? Some C4? Hey, NSA bots, that was a metaphor.
I've long said that it will take until the "new blood" coming into politics benefits from attacking the "coviders" that are currently in office. Nobody wants the investigation right now because they're still in charge.
Maybe Kennedy can start the process, if he lives long enough. He's a lawyer, he knows his stuff.
Kennedy is going to get the Ron Paul treatment so bad during the election, we might have to rename it to the Kennedy treatment. (And that will be super awkward because today the Kennedy treatment is to be left in a submerged car while Kennedy sleeps off the booze.)
Definitely awkward. They'll have to think up some new method, which they no doubt already have. Probably 'natural causes'. Whichever, it will cause such a backlash. One Kennedy after another... it's too dumb. Let's hope new blood will change things. Inevitably, it's up to us, the People.
And that is one of the core reasons ao many people in this country report they are depressed. I don't understand how people can live such pointless lives. It's very sad.
“trying to eek out a life”
Eek! Your correct-o-matic substituted “eek” for “eke”.
I literally had no idea eke was a real word until just now.
Thank you!
It's also very fitting, since the etymology is from a proto-germanic word meaning "to increase"; swedish still use "öka" which has the same root as "eke" and means "to increase".
'Eke out a life' would thus mean "to increase (a) life".
So I could use "öka out" and pretend I'm sophisticated?
People here often use "swenglish" - especially in the media, "influencers" and their ilk - so why not? Go for it!
Generally speaking, the shorter a swedish (or danish or norwegian) word is, the greater the odds of it being Old Norse or even proto-germanic, so if one wants to sound like an ancestor, monosyllabic is the way to go.
The really old words (especially the nouns) like 'holk' and 'sel/säl' can have tens of differening meanings, all context dependent including local geographical points of reference.
2008- Obama, right?
Obama was elected at the end of 2008 but actually took office in 2009.
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want the government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes, I am an Anarchist. – William Graham Sumner
Those making the rules got rich, when most of them should be going on trial. So, no they did not learn anything.
TL;DR-version: selection pressure is important.
"Long version" (for anyone under 40 at least): What Schumpeter talks about is in actuality industrialisation and modernisation of production and transportation. Which improves profits if succesfully carried out (I'll not get into the difference between monetary profit for an individual or very small group vis-a-vis profit for the system of economy and society as a whole.), especially when drawbacks such as child-labour, slavery, and destruction of environment has been addressed. First come the tech, then the societal change, then the hangover when we realise that releasing sulphurous oxide and lead particles in face-height (exhaust from millions of cars using old style petrol) is a Bad Idea(tm).
This is of course one of the places the "perfection or nothing"-fallacy grows. If the tech isn't perfect immediately it must be banned. Conversely, the tech should be safe to use in its intended manner. The tug between this is very much to the benefit of the individual, but only as long as there is real competition.
When governement employees have no metrics for success, or private employees have no career-path regardless of skill or diligence, you get people who don't care about what they do since it doesn't affect anything at all anyway; they become alienated and just go thorugh the motions of the path of least resistance. Splitting it into state/private is fallacious, even though I just did that: to the individual inside the organistion, the distinction is meaningless beyond rethorics.
Local example: when what grew to the current Social Services in Sweden was new, seniority and demonstrated ambition and ability meant advancement within the organisation, and the head of any internal department was promoted from within, meaning that they were invariably 50+ years of age with at least two decades of real work experience combined with their formal education, and a strong work ethic/integrity.
This combined with the constitution of the time meant that they were beyond political party control excepting laws, which required majority in parliament to enact or change. In 1976 this was changed so that the governement in office could appoint the head of the agency directly, and also hand out "guidance notes" on how the work was to be done.
The politically appointed agency head would then stack all level of managment with politically connected cronies, meaning that the Party could rule via all the state's agencies even if they lost elections.
Which of course creates selection pressure to be a good little bootlicking apple-polisher and nothing else. I'm sure the US is rife with similar exmple, both in on federal and state level as well as in the corporate sector.
Trading skill and diligence and a solid professional Nordic-protestant work ethic for control is a bum deal for society as a whole, private or public.
An apt summation of the process we so effectively deployed to ensure the destruction of the richest society the world has ever known.
By replacing the competent with the compliant, doing away with meaningful performance metrics, and totally eliminating all forms of accountability, in virtually all fields of endeavor, we have created a world in which our grandchildren can expect to "enjoy" a MUCH lower standard of living. Unless, of course, they are members of the elite.
Well said
Thank you!
Sometimes I feel that a lot of our various societal problems on the organisational or systemic level is simply due to us humans being unable to stop tinkering.
When did we lose the wisdom of "If it ain't broke don't try and fix it"?
Remember when you learned something, and it made you hungry to learn more. What have you published that I can read? Anything by you would most likely expand my intelligence. Or I can just keep reading your posts. Thank you for your contributions.
Cool!
"When in the Course of human events,... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,...
a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
Or as our current puppet would say, "...you know, the deal..."
The reduction of government, mostly at the federal level but increasingly at the state and local level needs to be job one for any new administration. Without that as the absolute first priority this once prosperous republic, which has devolved into a parasitic empire, will collapse. The fall of Rome, the easiest example to compare to, led to a dozen centuries of poverty, pointless battles of pseudo-nobles and countless suffering across continents.
Will we fiddle while our Caligulas and Neros debase the worth of their fellow citizens? Probably. But let us hope, and pray and work towards a better future, free of this tidal wave of ignorance, apathy and greed.
I pity the Fool who plays Jenga!
The fact that you have to state the obvious, as you have here, is why we are where we are. Far too few understand this, and I truly do not know why.
Three words: Department of Education
Add flouride, junk food, television, smartphones... an endless list.
Except I went through DoE schools and I my understanding of the world differs from that of my former classmates. Why are they so susceptible to foolish claims such as masks work for flu because it disappeared despite covid persisting? How does my coworker form Australia who has long believed childhood vaccines caused Asperger’s syndrome in her now adult son latch on to the covid vaxxes as safe and effective? How do people see the damage done by BLM riots and say, “Well, at least the rebuilding will be good for the economy.”?
The DoE certainly plays a huge role, but how are so many infected with this group think while others are not? I guess that is what I should have asked.
You have to understand (and I'm sure you do) that you're the extreme minority -- the 'brainwashing' works on the vast vast majority of people.
As for WHY some people see through it, I asked that very question a while back: (Spoiler alert, most of us had some sort of 'revelation' when we were young that the authorities were full of it)
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/why-are-you-like-this
I’m flipping through IG and I chance upon a photo of Peanut with the following caption; “In 1979 I created the Department of Education. Since then America went from 1st to 24th in education.”. If this is accurate, then the DoE was created after the story I post earlier today where the link you provided directed my too. This seems to indicate that there were plenty of fertile fields for the DoE to sow their BS once they came into existence.
Oh, and how! I am the only person I know in Japan who does not mask. I have contact through Substack with others, but we have not actually met in person. But after three full years and 8 waves, how can any person not see that what we are doing is not working, including wearing masks all day every day. That is what I can not understand. People’s ability to lie to themselves is well documented, but this, at least to me, does not come close to explaining humanity as we now know it to be.
I will take the link you provide to delve deeper. Thanks.
Look at what it took for Japan to get rid of the feudal system and the samurai class - it too lingered on well after it had become an anchor around the neck of the drowning man (translating an idiom - the drowning man doesn't want to lose his anchor, so...).
I think the answer lies in a cultural angle, rather than intellectual or knowledge-based ones.
Then why are so many Westerners also taken in with all this Covid BS; masks work, the shots are not only safe and effective but necessary, that Zero Covid is not a fool’s errand?
Safetyism, credentialism, and MDs knowing all there is to know on any and all subjects have permeated all cultures world wide with but a couple of exceptions. Which is why I am of the belief that there is coordination behind all this.
Definitely coordination.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/352029/WHO-EURO-2022-3471-43230-60590-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
in the US, the coastal states are in full lock step with authority from their leaders.
Different cultures can take different paths to arrive at the Temple of Stupidity?
That there is co-ordination is obvious and no secret, nor that organisations such as the UN ones are captured by multiple agents.
All the Covid-messaging here was laced with subtext that to question, deny orjust say "No thanks" was tantamount to be anit-democracy, anti-good flavoured buzzword and "right wing extremist racist supremacist populist fill-in-the-list".
Also, if you don't believe in god(s), you have to believe in yourself instead. Most westerners do neither, meaning they supplantboth the role of god(s) and their own cognitive faculties with any Authority semantically/semiotically associated with "Good".
And of course, many westerners have very romantic notions ofthe well-ordered neatly structured chinese/japanese societies, and look to them as ideal.
To me it looks collectivist to the point of ants, almost, but that's measa foreigner looking from the outside, most assuredly missing all the nuances for the whole. (The same can be said for the term "western", it's as meaningless as "african" or "asian": I am nothing like and albanian or a kroat, the same way a korean is not thai, yet we are all "western" or "asian" respectively.)
Mutton is pretty tasty. can we bbq all the sheep and make sweaters?
Well, central planning would work perfectly if we hired more bureaucrats...
This time we'll hire The Right People!
LOLOLOLOLOL
According to The Right People Commission report, the solution is to create more federal agencies that can hire The Right People!
One of the 1st determinations of the RPC will likely be that the USG will fail to recruit the desired employee because the salary/benefit pkg. is not competitive w/ the equivalent position in private business ( they will NOT determine that the "Right People" in for-profit business are those whose pay pkg. enables profit )
Funny how that always ends up being them hiring the Left People (or the People who are Left, perhaps?).
🤣🤣🤮
If you think NY’s Covid numbers are bad you must think Florida’s numbers are the worst in the world!! Florida had roughly half as many Covid deaths as NY when the vaccines were introduced and now it has more Covid deaths with roughly the same Covid death rate!?! So that means DeSantis attacking public health officials needlessly killed thousands of Floridians during the entirely preventable Delta death surge! The vaccines were crappy but mitigated severity and masks mitigated spread prior to Omicron.
Still on 2021 talking points, lol.
The entire point of our response was to flatten the curve. That's what Florida did (along with everybody but the nursing home states, honestly).
The vaccines are crappy but mitigated severity through Delta which is why highly vaccinated populations avoided the Delta death surge. Florida didn’t have a high enough vaccination rate prior to Delta even though there was more than enough time to get vaccinated.
huh? why are you pin pointing FLA?
Many states in the 'union" managed to get by just fine without the clot shots
He's still stuck in 2021 "DeathSantis" mode.
His comments are reliably worthless. Wish Substack had a silence function.
I thought the same until I read the last one. Now I'm questioning everything I've ever known.
And yet another priceless gem.