what a blackpill! I thought this article would end with a twist about why we should be optimistic, but it just kept getting darker
I will remind you that despair, defined as a complete loss or absence of hope, is a sin! Despair is seen as a sin because it involves a rejection of God's love and a refusal to trust in God.
Hi Chris, nice comment. I agree with you that fully embracing the black pill is not a healthy attitude; those that I know in real life who have done so have suffered mental/emotional collapses. Even Nietzsche ultimately went insane from his views.
Even if one is religious, though, Satan did offer Jesus all the kingdoms of the world (“Again, the devil took him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, "All these things I will give you if you will fall down and worship me.” - Matthew 4:8-9), implying that Satan controls this plane of existence.
To your core point, I agree that we all have to find hope somewhere.
That map has triggered me about the DPRK, but apparently, I'm not up with the times.
> In July 2021, North Korea rejected shipments of around two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, citing concerns over potential side effects. The same month, Russia also offered to supply the country with its own Sputnik V vaccine on multiple occasions. In September 2021, the country rejected three million doses of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine which were offered to it under the COVAX programme, asking that the doses be reallocated to other nations.
> The mass vaccination program started in the border areas in late September [2022], making North Korea the last country in the world other than Eritrea to have a mass vaccination program against COVID-19.
> "Regardless, these elites don’t want clean, safe, ubiquitous nuclear energy, because that doesn’t create a grift that allows them to separate themselves from the unwashed masses. They are and will continue to institute neoliberal feudalism as their preferred solution via massive inflation, the institution of freedom-killing CBDCs, ubiquitous woke AI"
"Are these elites in the room here?" I still think that your view is essentially anarcho-Marxist. Everything you have described sounds rad and dope. And AI cannot be made woke, because alignment. And yet another thing, this feudalism you so fear could be the technofascist nightmares of Russian communists - exactly the future any sensible person would adore.
Unfortunately, I don't think such conspiracies to have any place in our reality. Your very post, written in the Anglosphere, is indicative of the anarchic spirit of the West, and so it will continue - geniuses developing AGI, idiots blundering into a collective suicide, bleeding heart Christians breeding foreigners, importing them inside, and in the end causing the collapse of the Occident with the Sinosphere ascendant.
It's rather difficult to predict the future. I'm trying to conceive of a model that would account for what I'm seeing. And an even greater difficulty is indeed describing what is in front of my eyes. For example, when a Russian is moaning about the standard of living of doctors, it should be kept in mind that his very focus on said standard of living and said doctors is part of his cultural programming as a Bolshevik Marxist - ready to betray his motherland for a pair of lace panties. A gold-digger in a goldless land.
And so are you bound to the value judgement shared by many in that very "élite" you so despise. Yet the truth is that there are multiple great cultures on the face of the planet. And when one civilisation falls, another takes its place. That is the only reality.
Hi Adunai, yes, North Korea might be the last remaining semi-independent country in the world (they are reliant to a large extent on China); I have my doubts about Iran given their research into CBDC's and their response to COVID.
Where are you getting anarcho-Marxist from? I think you claimed that I had a Marxist outlook previously because I view human nature more or less neutrally, that most people have limited aspirations and want to be happy and they are regularly convinced by authorities and propaganda to act against their own interests out of laziness and stupidity. I think it's an odd label though given the positions I've taken against Bolshevism in all its forms, whether that be communism or anti-white racism or spiritual Bolshevism. I'm not sure where you're getting the anarcho part from.
"Everything you have described sounds rad and dope. And AI cannot be made woke, because alignment"
How does a future of technological slavery sound rad and dope unless you're at the very top? Do you like being told what to do in every aspect of your life, even if you are told to eat poisoned food, be locked-down or have your money stolen? AI being made woke has already happened as anyone who used ChatGPT has experienced...
Juche Korea relies on China materially, not politically or culturally, and that's an important distinction. And they can do without food just fine, as the 1990s demonstrated. The USSR fell apart with [relatively] full bellies (incidentally, possible a source of cope for American radicals?).
Iran disappoints me in that it is in constant civil turmoil. Sure, I'm happy for the hateful Iranian incels' having a place to fight in the Basij, but how enduring is the system? One could even say, "Iran tse Evropa" - they seem to have an inferiority complex before the West as monstrous as that of Slavs.
Traditionally, I've been calling you a Marxist due to your focus on bankers conspiring to pull the strings. Frankly, I don't remember your point about normies being inert - because if you do posit that, you stand even closer to Marxism. My view is more holistic, organic - the people and the élite are not that far apart, when taken in a single cultural area. "Rulers believing their own propaganda" is a classic idea - but when everyone is saying the same thing, where exactly would the ruler hear anything else? In secret speeches given at secret universities before secret audiences of secret geniuses? If everyone says, "we're making vaccines to save African children", where would the nefarious planning about "we're making vaccines to reduce the population" happen?
If we take Hitlerian Germany, everyone could see that Pole, who had made love to a German woman in Saxony, hanging. In the Soviet Union, everyone could see with their own eyes the concept of "advanced socialism". Meanwhile, chemtrails are as much an oppositional meme to the bland reality from below as paedophiliac rings may be oppositional memes to the bland reality from above. What I'm trying to say is that I don't see anyone escaping the cultural milieu, be they the masses or the élite.
And certainly, the masses have a degree of control. Applies even more to America with its numerous civilian guns. Glasnost was possible in the USSR, but public blasphemy against Allah is not conceivable in the KSA or Pakistan, no matter the station of the blasphemer. He would be killed.
Re: anarchism, I use that word to denote all freedom-loving individuals, especially those afraid of the encroaching totalitarianism. They're way too common, and way too American - too Christian, for in essence, anarchism stems from the old Catholic idea of the separation of church and state. Face it, if everyone sincerely prays to the giant bronze idol as an expression of their political idea, there can't be much freedom., can there? And yet, that's the world outside Christianity.
> "How does a future of technological slavery sound rad and dope unless you're at the very top?"
Currently, we're leading lives more luxurious than those of the kings of old (with some notable exceptions such as the exquisite experience of gambling and losing your entire kingdom). The trickle-down effect is real.
> "AI being made woke has already happened as anyone who used ChatGPT has experienced..."
ChatGPT-4 is not AGI. AGI cannot be aligned... or at least will not be with the current lackadaisical approach. And as America is an irresponsible, anarchist country, I'm sure there are going to be open-source projects that will fill many a niche - now here I put my serf's faith in our Jewish landlords, for China will not bet its future existence on dangerous technology.
Hi Adunai, that's a funny use of the term anarchism. I associate the term with the anti-governmental left, which is also how wiki defines it. Personally I am ambivalent when it comes to the state; the thrust of human history is toward ever-greater centralization, and greater-centralized states generally defeat less centralized states at war, because of the efficiencies that come from such an economy. So it seems more or less inevitable and beyond moral judgment. But at the same time I do place a strong emphasis on the individual over the group, because truth can best be seen by thinking for oneself and resisting peer pressure. I am against group-think in general, even though strongly centralized governments rely on it. I applaud Junger for standing outside of the crowd and his idea of the anarch (which is not related to anarchist but rather to that of a sovereign individual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumeswil#Themes ). And while I share some ideas traditionally associated with the left such as old-school environmentalism, I much prefer one-man-rule, where the ruler is answerable to his subjects, over that of a dithering, hiding in the shadows oligarchy. So I'm not quite sure how to classify that...
You also write, "What I'm trying to say is that I don't see anyone escaping the cultural milieu, be they the masses or the élite."
Yours is a reframing of the arguments made by Vaclav Havel and others which was discussed here, https://neofeudalism.substack.com/p/appendix-b-a-caveat-the-rise-of-a , which argues that the System has taken on a life of its own and the higher one gets within the system the more mentally captured they become. The degree to which control of the System has slipped outside of the central bank owners grasp at this point is unclear, however, we can still see their second-level minions coordinating at the WEF, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, CFR meetings regularly. The way the world responded uniformly to COVID -- except, perhaps, for a couple of nations whose leaders were promptly bribed, overthrown or assassinated -- and the coordinated fashion the world is responding to the introduction of CBDCs should point one to hidden mechanisms of control which have specific individuals pulling those strings.
> "[Vaclav Havel] the System has taken on a life of its own"
Not too sure, I'd say ideas have always had people. And collectives have owned people. Not denying the role of the individuals, both in culture war and real war, merely keeping in mind how much inertia a civilisation carries. Ludendorff wasn't that different from Hitler when it came to the East, and the modern transvestite Americans are still using the power system erected in the age of colonialism.
> "we can see their second-level minions coordinating at the WEF, Bilderberg meetings, Trilateral Commission, CFR regularly."
Where would the G7, CSTO and BRICS meetings figure in this? Anyway, aren't they talking the same boring liberal talk one can see on TV? Maybe aside from the Bohemian Grove.
> "That the world responded uniformly to COVID -- except, perhaps, for a couple of nations whose leaders were promptly bribed, overthrown or assassinated"
What about Sweden? Again, I think that a conspiratorial hypothesis is not the only possible explanation for the concert of nations - if we take the same idea that anti-corona measures increased government control, then simple self-interest could explain the apparently hysteria just fine.
A dark vision, and the only silver lining is near total collapse. I'm betting on a nuclear war to cut the population back at least 50%, better 90% and to toss the chessboard in the air allowing in 1000 years for a new civilization to emerge.
Hi Carlos, I hope that there is some way forward without resorting to total collapse, and that we get through this better off as a species. Nietzsche himself thought that the period of nihilism brought about by the death of God was a necessary transitionary step before, hopefully, ascending to new heights (which he didn't think was inevitable, only possible; just as likely, or more so now, is the total collapse scenario). Regardless, if total collapse happens, it is unclear in what form a technological civilization could be rebuilt given all easily accessible energy sources (the foundation for such a civilization) have already been exhausted...
Too bad we allowed our easily accessible energy, metals, ... be squandered by a malevolent parasite overclass that used those resources to poison and degrade most of our best people.
They apparently believe "It is better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven".
Well, the good news is the projections are BS. The bad news is the WEF/Club of Rome crowd is trying to create an artificial famine since the natural one they predict keeps failing to arrive.
Food & sex: life is first ‘n’ foremost about food & sex. Religions & philosophies & the cultural storylines we tell ourselves trick us into believing that other things are more important than food & sex 😂
TPTB are messing up the food supply & the sex supply (2nd-wave “feminism”).
And they are replacing the West with cultures that don’t value our modern concepts of human rights.
Yes, TPTB want Neofeudalism/ Great Reset/ techno-fascist state/ NWO/ Red China-style surveillance state, complete with social credit scoring & digital currency.
Yes, the planet is overpopulated (because we’re supposed to be eating meat - beef, ruminants - not beans & rice, bread & potatoes, etc., which is just slave food 😡
I really enjoyed both parts of the essay 👍🙂
“But optimists do have more fun” I always say 😂 I eat Carnivore diet. Also, I’m still getting laid, which is remarkable for a 51-year-old USAian man nowadays 😂 in our female-dominated & man-hating socioeconomic system 😡
I moved the family back to my wife’s native Tokyo-metro in 2015 so that our sons will someday have a sane & normal marriage and sex life in their turn; the 1960’s style 2nd-wave feminism mind virus has not ruined Japan (knock on wood). But will the beef keep coming to Japan? That’s the gamble I’m taking.
But I remain optimistic 👍🙂 I plan on growing old & dying 3-generations-under-1-roof here in Japan (instead of in the US’s Medicaid Concentration Camps), and for so long as my wiener still works I plan to keep on getting laid by this same ol’ girl who hasn’t gained a pound in 30 years.
Mass starvation event in Africa because of too much screwing, whereas not much screwing going on in America while there’s a mass diabetes & morbid obesity “carboholic” event killing half the population 😂 Clown World 😂
Thanks for the comment, Gerald. I agree with you food and sex comes first for people. Regarding Japan, unfortunately it’s fertility rate is very low and my understanding is there’s an increasing push to import in more and more migrants into the country. This was discussed in this post:
I’m enjoying the article so far. I’ve stopped at the graph of declining Japanese fertility in order to respond with the following.
Big Picture: We don’t even need to take educated guesses at the finer details of what the individual power players - bankers, industrialists, & politicians - might have been doing behind the scenes. The results of the post-WW2 social engineering are clear, now, from our perspective, three generations deep into the sociopathic Ruling Class’s *bright ideas* about how to neutralize the political threat posed their continued, byzantine governmental structures by the post-WW2 “crisis” of the “overproduction” of food & of labor saving technologies 😡:
1. the transfer of power from the family to the State didn’t happen by accident, so
2. the sociopathic Ruling Class did this to us on purpose 😡
Zooming in now on some details specific to Japan, as for the Japanese being “rabidly anti-immigrant,” that’s another way of saying that the Japanese still have “shared gods, shared blood, & shared enemies.” The West progressively lost these things in the past 100 years or so, but Japan still has them. By the way, “the religion of the Japanese is being Japanese,” as the saying goes. Japan is still a nation state, and a culture - and a peculiar culture (& language) at that - a fairly impenetrable culture, where thankfully “racism” & “sexism” are still the prescribed ethical norms.
And as for declining fertility - and remarkably in the absence of Western 1960’s style 2nd-wave “feminism,” including apparently no cultural tradition of the bc pill - it’s easy to explain:
Just like everywhere else in the modern industrialized democracies, all the sociopathic Ruling Class had to do (in order to transfer power from the post-WW2 Industrially Revolutionized farm family to the State) was to adjust food prices so that small farming becomes a practical impossibility, and so that Bright Lights, Big City is the only way for a man to get laid (because women are suckers for Bright Lights, Big City - read “materialism”*, see footnote below).
Although it’s true that a couple hundred million female babies were murdered under China’s one-child policy, note for example how Red Chinese peasant farmer men have had to import Southeast Asian wives because Red China has seduced their modern industrial womenfolk, too, just like in the USSR & the rest of the commie world, and just like in the West; women are suckers for Bright Lights, Big City - and men have sex _drives_. We have sex drives; we’re driven beyond reason to do whatever we need to do in order to ejaculate within zero to 24 inches of a uterus 😂. (Again, see footnote below regarding women & materialism.)
Simple as that, destroy small farming —> concentrate wealth & power in the cities —> City Mice do not have large farm families - or live as well or live as long as Country Mice. Instead, they are directly indentured to the sociopathic Ruling Class, same today as in pre-Renaissance Europe.
This is a time tested maneuver, actually, straight out of the Iron Age playbook /How to Manage His Highness’s Serfs/. You manipulate the profitability of small family farming, (the foundation of a socioeconomic system, i.e. Food & Sex), which drives horny, landless young men to whatever medieval pre-industrial jobs they can get (e.g. the glass blowing sweat shop, the tanning sweat shop, the ship building sweat shop, etc., or the military, or the clergy - read bureaucratic enforcers of sociopathic Ruling Class exploitation of labor).
Toss in abortion. The bc pill never took off in Japan - and maybe that’s why their women still aren’t 1) obese and/ or 2) psychotic 😂 - but apparently the Japanese aborted a lot of babies in the Bright Lights, Big City lifestyle. Plus, although the national gov’t offers neither 1) a “free” (provided by young working people’s tax money) Medicaid Concentration Camp end-of-life experience for abandoned seniors nor 2) Lifestyles-of-the-Rich-&-Famous Social Security luxury retirement checks, for a significant period of boom times the Japanese Big Corporations did offer sizable private pensions sufficient to place downward pressures on reproduction.
After all, if the System promises to provide you with an even more reliable & more comfortable end-of-life experience than the traditional family intergenerational socioeconomic interdependence, plus now you’re living in a tiny apartment or a tiny stand-alone house (both much smaller than European accommodations, and laughably small by N. American standards), why make babies, right??? Why make 20-40 years of personal sacrifices investing in your own progeny-as-capital-investments when the Collectivistic State promises you an even better end-of-life experience, plus with zero effort on your part, right???
—> There’s no such thing as free <— 😡
So, that’s why despite the Blessed absence of 20th century “feminism” the Japanese didn’t reproduce.
Slightly different cultural conditions, but basically the same post-WW2 social engineering results.
*on women seduced by materialism: Besides the obvious feminine prerogatives of hearth ‘n’ home, maternal nurturing, and safety (again, compare the promises of safety from the post-WW2 Collectivistic State 😡 compared to the guaranteed vagaries of rustic small family farming, including the settler lifestyle, which is specifically what once made USA morality superior to all other cultures on the planet; it was specifically our settler culture + the US Bill of rights - but I digress).
Anyway, it’s not just Bright Lights, Big City but women are easily seduced by what I call “the Monkey from the Other Tribe,” but which in no way implies racial differences, although women’s natural romance drives - they have romance drives, not sex drives; we men have sex drives! - racial distinctions generally can & do amplify a woman’s romantic interest in a man in ways that racial & cultural distinctions certainly do not amplify men’s sex drives; we’re already 110% horny no matter what until old age & infirmity reduce a man’s sex drive.
No, the “Monkey from the Other Tribe” means primarily geographic distance from the woman’s childhood home/ hometown/ current daily life - her boring routine 😂. Briefly, and easily explained, this hearkens back to tens of thousands of years of intra-tribal wife exchanges between Paleolithic hunter-gatherer tribes. Along with trading sea shells, flint making rock, & whatever economic activity that Paleolithic Man was engaged in with his “neighbors,” (understood that these trade routes could be remarkably distant), Paleolithic Man had to have practiced the exchange of unmarried women (in order to avoid immediate inbreeding & immediate societal collapse in their small bands & small tribes).
Therefore, the female psyche evolved to raise her brood in a foreign tribe where certainly no potential husband would be even a distant relative, & certainly there would have been cultural differences between her home tribe & the adoptive tribe, and likely there were racial differences - not necessarily skin color or other obvious racial differences like between the Caucasoids, Mongoloids, & Negroids, just for example, but they could be some lesser racial differences from some tribe possibly hundreds of miles distant.
Anyway, the evolution of the female psyche to become romantically stimulated by “the Monkey from the Other Tribe” places the post-WW2 Bright Lights, Big City scientifically in the anthropological & sociological & human evolutionary biological contexts, etc..
So, back to the poor Red Chinese workin’ stiff, the would be pool of eligible bachelorettes tells him to “Fxxx off, loser! I’m gettin’ me some Bright Lights, Big City dick. He has a motor scooter! and a clothes washer! Go get your loser ass some Laotian pussy to farm this shithole & take care of your aging parents. I’m out of here!”
Of course, the Western parallels need no further explanation 😂
Anyway, just let me know if you’re interested in continuing this conversation.
I'm all for blackpills when they are true, but this one just reads like an exercise is self-wallowing.
Anthropogenic global warming is fake but I think you know it already.
The pacific ocean garbage patch is probably fake as well, and proof of that is that you cannot find a picture of "it" without mountains in the background. It's likely that whatever garbage there is, it is a relatively limited amount along the coasts. Of course, it's still awful in environmental terms but that is it. Patrick Moore talks about it.
Same thing about that photo with a bird eating crap, it's staged IIRC. What birds do is that they "feed" plastic to their children which goes into the gizzard in order to digest actual food into their stomachs. Even then, it's a minor amount compared to the traditional stuff like rocks. Once again, Patrick Moore explains it well.
It's similar with the rest as well.
Of course, it doesn't mean that our current model is sustainable. It's not. But I would be wary of any doomsday prediction. The main issue among your two-part article is the case of Africa. I won't get into much detail here because I don't know what Substack censorship policy is, but I can assure you that the challenge there is huge on multiple fronts.
Hi Thomas, Substack bans illegal language (i.e. incitement to violence) but it's otherwise hands off so far that I've seen. I attribute this to two things: (1) when a tech company is in growth mode they are more open with free speech, then once they can establish a kind of monopoly they crack down viciously (i.e. see Google, Facebook, Apple, etc), and Substack is not that established yet, and (2) Substack has a fundamentally different business model than other companies in the sense that it wants to maximize paid readers across the board as that, instead of advertising, is how it makes its money (they take 10% of revenues). There are certain risks currently -- both the Tiktok ban may apparently let shitlibs censor Substack and also its payment processor Stripe is woke, which is a problem. But anyway you can speak your mind within the confines of what is legal at the moment.
With regards to the other comments about the propaganda versus actual value of information, the argument being presented doesn't rely on any particular data point, whether it is the garbage patch or the bird eating plastic or whatever. The core point being made is that humanity's reductionist materialism is unsustainable, and the greater the world's population grows the worse it gets...
Alright I'll keep that in mind regarding substack's policy.
Yes I agree with the underlying point. But to me, and maybe you agree as well, this is purely a philosophical and conjectural position we find ourselves in. What I mean is that no significant, unrecoverable damage has been done to the planet. That will be the case for quite some time still, but it remains that humans cannot persist in this extractive relationship in regards to the earth. Mineral deposits and fossil fuels are especially concerning, not only because of their direct environmental issues (pollution) but most of all because they're finite (if large). Thus, our current excess might prevent us from enjoying a future, moderate use of them.
But, coming back to the topic of overpopulation, whites themselves are not that overpopulated. The issue comes from places like Africa, and their IQ, or rather their intelligence, abstract thinking and planning ability which IQ measures, is the direct cause of that. They will never be able to build a lasting civilization like we did, nor will they be able to sustain themselves. But you know that already. I can only imagine what Africa will look like once there are 2 billion africans throwing litter onto their own streets. The main issue with them is that they have little to none future projection ability.
But what about GROWTH? If we just cut the top marginal income tax rate a few more points, the economy will grow faster than the population and we will all be rich. The Laffer Curve says we can triple our production of new continents. And if we just cut some regulations, corporate researchers will find substitutes for phosphorus and cures for those forever chemicals.
There you go being wrong about everything again Eugine do you ever tire of being a neo-con tool of failed state capitalist corporatism? A worldview that had its last hurrah in the Reagan error two generations ago.
This article is a eugenic piece of utter evil the real problems are greedy billionaires corporations raping the world and wastage of food millions of tons of which are dumped every year and fast fashion where a cheap item is worn once then binned shame on the satnist who wrote and pushes this evil agenda
Once again a great article, thank you. I don't mind the darkness. It's darkest just before dawn. Light and dark go together and define each other. If we are afraid to allow the dark we will never see the full light.
A few thoughts came up;
1. Being sixty I heard it all before. Germany was an environmental mess on the seventies (polluted waterways, acid rain etc.) It spawned the Greens and Germany is way cleaner now.
Take-away: People will create new better solutions as the problems get worse. In all areas. The biggest polluters and reproduces come from third world countries becausr they don't have the wealth needed to tackle it like 1st world countries did. You don't need twelve children if your don't die and you have enough savings to br comfortable in old age. And you will only start to care about tbe enviroment if your basic needs are met. Exploitation of the poor countries (resources and labour) kerps them poor. They retaliate by polluting and reproducing.
2. Yes, the population numbers are high but greed is at an all-time high too. A lot is talked about the greed of the elites and almost no talk about the greed of the 8.5 billions. We weren't happy with enough food, a small house and one car, were we? No, we need a car each, a boat, a caravan, pineapples from Hawaii and a thousand things more each. If the, I don't know, 3 billion well-off citizens cut their overall footprint by 30%, this goes a long way in managing resources. Keep in mind that those 3 billions consume what 500%? 1000%% more than tbe poor 5.5 billion, so if they reduce by 30%, the overall savingd are probably more than 50%.
3. Where does the greed come from? A combination of nihilism and capitalistic brainwashing. Nihilism is needed to get rid of the churches. That is partly achieved in the rich countries. But it has to be replaced with experienced based individual spirituality like non-dual and buddhist sytems that can't be exploited. If we completly deny spirituality we reduce ourselves to a egoic body-mind entity who is separated from the unity and bliss of existence and riddled with fear and desires which causes all the current greed and madness. Most importantly, these blissful spiritual egoless states of unity with existence have to experienced to be true and valid, not believed and attri used to a god, doctrine, script or church. Only if billions get s taste of it, their egoic habits will change from the inside. So far, these spiritual awakening experienced were reserved to a few. Bit increased egoic suffering rises awareness. If consuming and rat race doesn't make you happy anymore you look elsewhere. In the past, a lot were scooped up by corrupt religions. Another glimmer of hope are intentional spiritual psychedelic sessions. It is scientifically proven beyond doubt (google Good Friday Experiment) that they can evoke these much needed spiritual awakening experiences. They won't last and can't be endlessly repeated by means of drugs, but they nevertheless change everything because they show you the way and what is possible. Ram Das was an example of that.
4. Top down , enforced or manipulated, mind-based solutions - no matter how well intended - will always end up in disaster. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. You are no different to gobohomo. To truly understand the vast limitations of our human minds, once again, intentional psychedelic sessions will give you a mind-boggling extremly humbling experience of the colossal universal intelligence constantly at work regulating and balancing everything in real-time. It's billion times billion more intelligent than us. After that all is left for your tiny little mind to find your place and align with this powerful unfolding force (the new god sprouting from nihilism)
That's my message - not coming from my egoic little human mind - but passed on from the universe through these experiences through this totally insignificant body-mind because we are still cursed to communicate in this very basic way.
So stop mind-fucking around and start and find your inner guru to tell you what to do next. Maybe a puritual practise, maybe an egoless task, maybe an intentional psychedelic trip. If enough of us do that, global suffering can be reduced but that is not even the goal, it is a side effect. You is all that matters. It starts and ends with you. Forget the world and it's problems. Find out who you really are. If you keep on living as a body-mind only, you and the world will keep on suffering.
PS: Running out of time so can't spell check. Applied.
Hi digger, you're right that wikipedia is a CIA-controlled propaganda outlet, and that the views it presents are generally lopsidedly one-sided. That being said, it's still the first go-to for people to begin researching obscure issues as an overview. I'll still quote it situationally with this in mind, although it's a small minority of the dozens of links I presented in this post.
What can go wrong? Big one-dimesnional solutions always backfire. Life is incredibly complex and consequences unforseeable and can't be calculated. That's why diversity always is the safest bit. Have a thousand or more different local approaches to problems, and the best one will grow organically. The bad ones will fade out without causing too much damage.
what a blackpill! I thought this article would end with a twist about why we should be optimistic, but it just kept getting darker
I will remind you that despair, defined as a complete loss or absence of hope, is a sin! Despair is seen as a sin because it involves a rejection of God's love and a refusal to trust in God.
Hi Chris, nice comment. I agree with you that fully embracing the black pill is not a healthy attitude; those that I know in real life who have done so have suffered mental/emotional collapses. Even Nietzsche ultimately went insane from his views.
Even if one is religious, though, Satan did offer Jesus all the kingdoms of the world (“Again, the devil took him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, "All these things I will give you if you will fall down and worship me.” - Matthew 4:8-9), implying that Satan controls this plane of existence.
To your core point, I agree that we all have to find hope somewhere.
That map has triggered me about the DPRK, but apparently, I'm not up with the times.
> In July 2021, North Korea rejected shipments of around two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, citing concerns over potential side effects. The same month, Russia also offered to supply the country with its own Sputnik V vaccine on multiple occasions. In September 2021, the country rejected three million doses of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine which were offered to it under the COVAX programme, asking that the doses be reallocated to other nations.
> The mass vaccination program started in the border areas in late September [2022], making North Korea the last country in the world other than Eritrea to have a mass vaccination program against COVID-19.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_North_Korea?useskin=vector
> "Regardless, these elites don’t want clean, safe, ubiquitous nuclear energy, because that doesn’t create a grift that allows them to separate themselves from the unwashed masses. They are and will continue to institute neoliberal feudalism as their preferred solution via massive inflation, the institution of freedom-killing CBDCs, ubiquitous woke AI"
"Are these elites in the room here?" I still think that your view is essentially anarcho-Marxist. Everything you have described sounds rad and dope. And AI cannot be made woke, because alignment. And yet another thing, this feudalism you so fear could be the technofascist nightmares of Russian communists - exactly the future any sensible person would adore.
Unfortunately, I don't think such conspiracies to have any place in our reality. Your very post, written in the Anglosphere, is indicative of the anarchic spirit of the West, and so it will continue - geniuses developing AGI, idiots blundering into a collective suicide, bleeding heart Christians breeding foreigners, importing them inside, and in the end causing the collapse of the Occident with the Sinosphere ascendant.
It's rather difficult to predict the future. I'm trying to conceive of a model that would account for what I'm seeing. And an even greater difficulty is indeed describing what is in front of my eyes. For example, when a Russian is moaning about the standard of living of doctors, it should be kept in mind that his very focus on said standard of living and said doctors is part of his cultural programming as a Bolshevik Marxist - ready to betray his motherland for a pair of lace panties. A gold-digger in a goldless land.
And so are you bound to the value judgement shared by many in that very "élite" you so despise. Yet the truth is that there are multiple great cultures on the face of the planet. And when one civilisation falls, another takes its place. That is the only reality.
Hi Adunai, yes, North Korea might be the last remaining semi-independent country in the world (they are reliant to a large extent on China); I have my doubts about Iran given their research into CBDC's and their response to COVID.
Where are you getting anarcho-Marxist from? I think you claimed that I had a Marxist outlook previously because I view human nature more or less neutrally, that most people have limited aspirations and want to be happy and they are regularly convinced by authorities and propaganda to act against their own interests out of laziness and stupidity. I think it's an odd label though given the positions I've taken against Bolshevism in all its forms, whether that be communism or anti-white racism or spiritual Bolshevism. I'm not sure where you're getting the anarcho part from.
"Everything you have described sounds rad and dope. And AI cannot be made woke, because alignment"
How does a future of technological slavery sound rad and dope unless you're at the very top? Do you like being told what to do in every aspect of your life, even if you are told to eat poisoned food, be locked-down or have your money stolen? AI being made woke has already happened as anyone who used ChatGPT has experienced...
Juche Korea relies on China materially, not politically or culturally, and that's an important distinction. And they can do without food just fine, as the 1990s demonstrated. The USSR fell apart with [relatively] full bellies (incidentally, possible a source of cope for American radicals?).
Iran disappoints me in that it is in constant civil turmoil. Sure, I'm happy for the hateful Iranian incels' having a place to fight in the Basij, but how enduring is the system? One could even say, "Iran tse Evropa" - they seem to have an inferiority complex before the West as monstrous as that of Slavs.
Traditionally, I've been calling you a Marxist due to your focus on bankers conspiring to pull the strings. Frankly, I don't remember your point about normies being inert - because if you do posit that, you stand even closer to Marxism. My view is more holistic, organic - the people and the élite are not that far apart, when taken in a single cultural area. "Rulers believing their own propaganda" is a classic idea - but when everyone is saying the same thing, where exactly would the ruler hear anything else? In secret speeches given at secret universities before secret audiences of secret geniuses? If everyone says, "we're making vaccines to save African children", where would the nefarious planning about "we're making vaccines to reduce the population" happen?
If we take Hitlerian Germany, everyone could see that Pole, who had made love to a German woman in Saxony, hanging. In the Soviet Union, everyone could see with their own eyes the concept of "advanced socialism". Meanwhile, chemtrails are as much an oppositional meme to the bland reality from below as paedophiliac rings may be oppositional memes to the bland reality from above. What I'm trying to say is that I don't see anyone escaping the cultural milieu, be they the masses or the élite.
And certainly, the masses have a degree of control. Applies even more to America with its numerous civilian guns. Glasnost was possible in the USSR, but public blasphemy against Allah is not conceivable in the KSA or Pakistan, no matter the station of the blasphemer. He would be killed.
Re: anarchism, I use that word to denote all freedom-loving individuals, especially those afraid of the encroaching totalitarianism. They're way too common, and way too American - too Christian, for in essence, anarchism stems from the old Catholic idea of the separation of church and state. Face it, if everyone sincerely prays to the giant bronze idol as an expression of their political idea, there can't be much freedom., can there? And yet, that's the world outside Christianity.
> "How does a future of technological slavery sound rad and dope unless you're at the very top?"
Currently, we're leading lives more luxurious than those of the kings of old (with some notable exceptions such as the exquisite experience of gambling and losing your entire kingdom). The trickle-down effect is real.
> "AI being made woke has already happened as anyone who used ChatGPT has experienced..."
ChatGPT-4 is not AGI. AGI cannot be aligned... or at least will not be with the current lackadaisical approach. And as America is an irresponsible, anarchist country, I'm sure there are going to be open-source projects that will fill many a niche - now here I put my serf's faith in our Jewish landlords, for China will not bet its future existence on dangerous technology.
Hi Adunai, that's a funny use of the term anarchism. I associate the term with the anti-governmental left, which is also how wiki defines it. Personally I am ambivalent when it comes to the state; the thrust of human history is toward ever-greater centralization, and greater-centralized states generally defeat less centralized states at war, because of the efficiencies that come from such an economy. So it seems more or less inevitable and beyond moral judgment. But at the same time I do place a strong emphasis on the individual over the group, because truth can best be seen by thinking for oneself and resisting peer pressure. I am against group-think in general, even though strongly centralized governments rely on it. I applaud Junger for standing outside of the crowd and his idea of the anarch (which is not related to anarchist but rather to that of a sovereign individual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumeswil#Themes ). And while I share some ideas traditionally associated with the left such as old-school environmentalism, I much prefer one-man-rule, where the ruler is answerable to his subjects, over that of a dithering, hiding in the shadows oligarchy. So I'm not quite sure how to classify that...
You also write, "What I'm trying to say is that I don't see anyone escaping the cultural milieu, be they the masses or the élite."
Yours is a reframing of the arguments made by Vaclav Havel and others which was discussed here, https://neofeudalism.substack.com/p/appendix-b-a-caveat-the-rise-of-a , which argues that the System has taken on a life of its own and the higher one gets within the system the more mentally captured they become. The degree to which control of the System has slipped outside of the central bank owners grasp at this point is unclear, however, we can still see their second-level minions coordinating at the WEF, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, CFR meetings regularly. The way the world responded uniformly to COVID -- except, perhaps, for a couple of nations whose leaders were promptly bribed, overthrown or assassinated -- and the coordinated fashion the world is responding to the introduction of CBDCs should point one to hidden mechanisms of control which have specific individuals pulling those strings.
> "[Vaclav Havel] the System has taken on a life of its own"
Not too sure, I'd say ideas have always had people. And collectives have owned people. Not denying the role of the individuals, both in culture war and real war, merely keeping in mind how much inertia a civilisation carries. Ludendorff wasn't that different from Hitler when it came to the East, and the modern transvestite Americans are still using the power system erected in the age of colonialism.
> "we can see their second-level minions coordinating at the WEF, Bilderberg meetings, Trilateral Commission, CFR regularly."
Where would the G7, CSTO and BRICS meetings figure in this? Anyway, aren't they talking the same boring liberal talk one can see on TV? Maybe aside from the Bohemian Grove.
> "That the world responded uniformly to COVID -- except, perhaps, for a couple of nations whose leaders were promptly bribed, overthrown or assassinated"
What about Sweden? Again, I think that a conspiratorial hypothesis is not the only possible explanation for the concert of nations - if we take the same idea that anti-corona measures increased government control, then simple self-interest could explain the apparently hysteria just fine.
A dark vision, and the only silver lining is near total collapse. I'm betting on a nuclear war to cut the population back at least 50%, better 90% and to toss the chessboard in the air allowing in 1000 years for a new civilization to emerge.
Hi Carlos, I hope that there is some way forward without resorting to total collapse, and that we get through this better off as a species. Nietzsche himself thought that the period of nihilism brought about by the death of God was a necessary transitionary step before, hopefully, ascending to new heights (which he didn't think was inevitable, only possible; just as likely, or more so now, is the total collapse scenario). Regardless, if total collapse happens, it is unclear in what form a technological civilization could be rebuilt given all easily accessible energy sources (the foundation for such a civilization) have already been exhausted...
Too bad we allowed our easily accessible energy, metals, ... be squandered by a malevolent parasite overclass that used those resources to poison and degrade most of our best people.
They apparently believe "It is better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven".
Well, the good news is the projections are BS. The bad news is the WEF/Club of Rome crowd is trying to create an artificial famine since the natural one they predict keeps failing to arrive.
Food & sex: life is first ‘n’ foremost about food & sex. Religions & philosophies & the cultural storylines we tell ourselves trick us into believing that other things are more important than food & sex 😂
TPTB are messing up the food supply & the sex supply (2nd-wave “feminism”).
And they are replacing the West with cultures that don’t value our modern concepts of human rights.
Yes, TPTB want Neofeudalism/ Great Reset/ techno-fascist state/ NWO/ Red China-style surveillance state, complete with social credit scoring & digital currency.
Yes, the planet is overpopulated (because we’re supposed to be eating meat - beef, ruminants - not beans & rice, bread & potatoes, etc., which is just slave food 😡
I really enjoyed both parts of the essay 👍🙂
“But optimists do have more fun” I always say 😂 I eat Carnivore diet. Also, I’m still getting laid, which is remarkable for a 51-year-old USAian man nowadays 😂 in our female-dominated & man-hating socioeconomic system 😡
I moved the family back to my wife’s native Tokyo-metro in 2015 so that our sons will someday have a sane & normal marriage and sex life in their turn; the 1960’s style 2nd-wave feminism mind virus has not ruined Japan (knock on wood). But will the beef keep coming to Japan? That’s the gamble I’m taking.
But I remain optimistic 👍🙂 I plan on growing old & dying 3-generations-under-1-roof here in Japan (instead of in the US’s Medicaid Concentration Camps), and for so long as my wiener still works I plan to keep on getting laid by this same ol’ girl who hasn’t gained a pound in 30 years.
Mass starvation event in Africa because of too much screwing, whereas not much screwing going on in America while there’s a mass diabetes & morbid obesity “carboholic” event killing half the population 😂 Clown World 😂
Thanks for the comment, Gerald. I agree with you food and sex comes first for people. Regarding Japan, unfortunately it’s fertility rate is very low and my understanding is there’s an increasing push to import in more and more migrants into the country. This was discussed in this post:
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/a-stock-market-bubble-as-a-trap
I’m enjoying the article so far. I’ve stopped at the graph of declining Japanese fertility in order to respond with the following.
Big Picture: We don’t even need to take educated guesses at the finer details of what the individual power players - bankers, industrialists, & politicians - might have been doing behind the scenes. The results of the post-WW2 social engineering are clear, now, from our perspective, three generations deep into the sociopathic Ruling Class’s *bright ideas* about how to neutralize the political threat posed their continued, byzantine governmental structures by the post-WW2 “crisis” of the “overproduction” of food & of labor saving technologies 😡:
1. the transfer of power from the family to the State didn’t happen by accident, so
2. the sociopathic Ruling Class did this to us on purpose 😡
Zooming in now on some details specific to Japan, as for the Japanese being “rabidly anti-immigrant,” that’s another way of saying that the Japanese still have “shared gods, shared blood, & shared enemies.” The West progressively lost these things in the past 100 years or so, but Japan still has them. By the way, “the religion of the Japanese is being Japanese,” as the saying goes. Japan is still a nation state, and a culture - and a peculiar culture (& language) at that - a fairly impenetrable culture, where thankfully “racism” & “sexism” are still the prescribed ethical norms.
And as for declining fertility - and remarkably in the absence of Western 1960’s style 2nd-wave “feminism,” including apparently no cultural tradition of the bc pill - it’s easy to explain:
Just like everywhere else in the modern industrialized democracies, all the sociopathic Ruling Class had to do (in order to transfer power from the post-WW2 Industrially Revolutionized farm family to the State) was to adjust food prices so that small farming becomes a practical impossibility, and so that Bright Lights, Big City is the only way for a man to get laid (because women are suckers for Bright Lights, Big City - read “materialism”*, see footnote below).
Although it’s true that a couple hundred million female babies were murdered under China’s one-child policy, note for example how Red Chinese peasant farmer men have had to import Southeast Asian wives because Red China has seduced their modern industrial womenfolk, too, just like in the USSR & the rest of the commie world, and just like in the West; women are suckers for Bright Lights, Big City - and men have sex _drives_. We have sex drives; we’re driven beyond reason to do whatever we need to do in order to ejaculate within zero to 24 inches of a uterus 😂. (Again, see footnote below regarding women & materialism.)
Simple as that, destroy small farming —> concentrate wealth & power in the cities —> City Mice do not have large farm families - or live as well or live as long as Country Mice. Instead, they are directly indentured to the sociopathic Ruling Class, same today as in pre-Renaissance Europe.
This is a time tested maneuver, actually, straight out of the Iron Age playbook /How to Manage His Highness’s Serfs/. You manipulate the profitability of small family farming, (the foundation of a socioeconomic system, i.e. Food & Sex), which drives horny, landless young men to whatever medieval pre-industrial jobs they can get (e.g. the glass blowing sweat shop, the tanning sweat shop, the ship building sweat shop, etc., or the military, or the clergy - read bureaucratic enforcers of sociopathic Ruling Class exploitation of labor).
Toss in abortion. The bc pill never took off in Japan - and maybe that’s why their women still aren’t 1) obese and/ or 2) psychotic 😂 - but apparently the Japanese aborted a lot of babies in the Bright Lights, Big City lifestyle. Plus, although the national gov’t offers neither 1) a “free” (provided by young working people’s tax money) Medicaid Concentration Camp end-of-life experience for abandoned seniors nor 2) Lifestyles-of-the-Rich-&-Famous Social Security luxury retirement checks, for a significant period of boom times the Japanese Big Corporations did offer sizable private pensions sufficient to place downward pressures on reproduction.
After all, if the System promises to provide you with an even more reliable & more comfortable end-of-life experience than the traditional family intergenerational socioeconomic interdependence, plus now you’re living in a tiny apartment or a tiny stand-alone house (both much smaller than European accommodations, and laughably small by N. American standards), why make babies, right??? Why make 20-40 years of personal sacrifices investing in your own progeny-as-capital-investments when the Collectivistic State promises you an even better end-of-life experience, plus with zero effort on your part, right???
—> There’s no such thing as free <— 😡
So, that’s why despite the Blessed absence of 20th century “feminism” the Japanese didn’t reproduce.
Slightly different cultural conditions, but basically the same post-WW2 social engineering results.
*on women seduced by materialism: Besides the obvious feminine prerogatives of hearth ‘n’ home, maternal nurturing, and safety (again, compare the promises of safety from the post-WW2 Collectivistic State 😡 compared to the guaranteed vagaries of rustic small family farming, including the settler lifestyle, which is specifically what once made USA morality superior to all other cultures on the planet; it was specifically our settler culture + the US Bill of rights - but I digress).
Anyway, it’s not just Bright Lights, Big City but women are easily seduced by what I call “the Monkey from the Other Tribe,” but which in no way implies racial differences, although women’s natural romance drives - they have romance drives, not sex drives; we men have sex drives! - racial distinctions generally can & do amplify a woman’s romantic interest in a man in ways that racial & cultural distinctions certainly do not amplify men’s sex drives; we’re already 110% horny no matter what until old age & infirmity reduce a man’s sex drive.
No, the “Monkey from the Other Tribe” means primarily geographic distance from the woman’s childhood home/ hometown/ current daily life - her boring routine 😂. Briefly, and easily explained, this hearkens back to tens of thousands of years of intra-tribal wife exchanges between Paleolithic hunter-gatherer tribes. Along with trading sea shells, flint making rock, & whatever economic activity that Paleolithic Man was engaged in with his “neighbors,” (understood that these trade routes could be remarkably distant), Paleolithic Man had to have practiced the exchange of unmarried women (in order to avoid immediate inbreeding & immediate societal collapse in their small bands & small tribes).
Therefore, the female psyche evolved to raise her brood in a foreign tribe where certainly no potential husband would be even a distant relative, & certainly there would have been cultural differences between her home tribe & the adoptive tribe, and likely there were racial differences - not necessarily skin color or other obvious racial differences like between the Caucasoids, Mongoloids, & Negroids, just for example, but they could be some lesser racial differences from some tribe possibly hundreds of miles distant.
Anyway, the evolution of the female psyche to become romantically stimulated by “the Monkey from the Other Tribe” places the post-WW2 Bright Lights, Big City scientifically in the anthropological & sociological & human evolutionary biological contexts, etc..
So, back to the poor Red Chinese workin’ stiff, the would be pool of eligible bachelorettes tells him to “Fxxx off, loser! I’m gettin’ me some Bright Lights, Big City dick. He has a motor scooter! and a clothes washer! Go get your loser ass some Laotian pussy to farm this shithole & take care of your aging parents. I’m out of here!”
Of course, the Western parallels need no further explanation 😂
Anyway, just let me know if you’re interested in continuing this conversation.
Thanks for reading,
Gerald
Typo: inter-tribal exchanges of unmarried women, not intra-tribal.
I'm all for blackpills when they are true, but this one just reads like an exercise is self-wallowing.
Anthropogenic global warming is fake but I think you know it already.
The pacific ocean garbage patch is probably fake as well, and proof of that is that you cannot find a picture of "it" without mountains in the background. It's likely that whatever garbage there is, it is a relatively limited amount along the coasts. Of course, it's still awful in environmental terms but that is it. Patrick Moore talks about it.
Same thing about that photo with a bird eating crap, it's staged IIRC. What birds do is that they "feed" plastic to their children which goes into the gizzard in order to digest actual food into their stomachs. Even then, it's a minor amount compared to the traditional stuff like rocks. Once again, Patrick Moore explains it well.
It's similar with the rest as well.
Of course, it doesn't mean that our current model is sustainable. It's not. But I would be wary of any doomsday prediction. The main issue among your two-part article is the case of Africa. I won't get into much detail here because I don't know what Substack censorship policy is, but I can assure you that the challenge there is huge on multiple fronts.
Hi Thomas, Substack bans illegal language (i.e. incitement to violence) but it's otherwise hands off so far that I've seen. I attribute this to two things: (1) when a tech company is in growth mode they are more open with free speech, then once they can establish a kind of monopoly they crack down viciously (i.e. see Google, Facebook, Apple, etc), and Substack is not that established yet, and (2) Substack has a fundamentally different business model than other companies in the sense that it wants to maximize paid readers across the board as that, instead of advertising, is how it makes its money (they take 10% of revenues). There are certain risks currently -- both the Tiktok ban may apparently let shitlibs censor Substack and also its payment processor Stripe is woke, which is a problem. But anyway you can speak your mind within the confines of what is legal at the moment.
With regards to the other comments about the propaganda versus actual value of information, the argument being presented doesn't rely on any particular data point, whether it is the garbage patch or the bird eating plastic or whatever. The core point being made is that humanity's reductionist materialism is unsustainable, and the greater the world's population grows the worse it gets...
Alright I'll keep that in mind regarding substack's policy.
Yes I agree with the underlying point. But to me, and maybe you agree as well, this is purely a philosophical and conjectural position we find ourselves in. What I mean is that no significant, unrecoverable damage has been done to the planet. That will be the case for quite some time still, but it remains that humans cannot persist in this extractive relationship in regards to the earth. Mineral deposits and fossil fuels are especially concerning, not only because of their direct environmental issues (pollution) but most of all because they're finite (if large). Thus, our current excess might prevent us from enjoying a future, moderate use of them.
But, coming back to the topic of overpopulation, whites themselves are not that overpopulated. The issue comes from places like Africa, and their IQ, or rather their intelligence, abstract thinking and planning ability which IQ measures, is the direct cause of that. They will never be able to build a lasting civilization like we did, nor will they be able to sustain themselves. But you know that already. I can only imagine what Africa will look like once there are 2 billion africans throwing litter onto their own streets. The main issue with them is that they have little to none future projection ability.
But what about GROWTH? If we just cut the top marginal income tax rate a few more points, the economy will grow faster than the population and we will all be rich. The Laffer Curve says we can triple our production of new continents. And if we just cut some regulations, corporate researchers will find substitutes for phosphorus and cures for those forever chemicals.
Sarcasm aside, we probably need to gut regulation as well as cutting taxes. But yes, growth is indeed possible.
Saying the truth in a sarcastic tone of voice doesn't make it false.
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Says the person blindly repeating the globalist UN's predictions.
In any case, The Club for Growth's predictions about these things have been right, and the UN's have been wrong for decades.
One can see that infinite growth is unsustainable without positing WEF solutions you gaslighting smear (((merchant))).
There you go being wrong about everything again Eugine do you ever tire of being a neo-con tool of failed state capitalist corporatism? A worldview that had its last hurrah in the Reagan error two generations ago.
Do you ever tire of being a WEF useful idiot?
This article is a eugenic piece of utter evil the real problems are greedy billionaires corporations raping the world and wastage of food millions of tons of which are dumped every year and fast fashion where a cheap item is worn once then binned shame on the satnist who wrote and pushes this evil agenda
I notice that in your charts all the declines are in the projected category and predicted to reverse any day now.
If we looked at similar projections from a decade ago, the declines would also start about a year after the date of the prediction.
Basically, predictions about peak resources have been getting falsified for decades.
Once again a great article, thank you. I don't mind the darkness. It's darkest just before dawn. Light and dark go together and define each other. If we are afraid to allow the dark we will never see the full light.
A few thoughts came up;
1. Being sixty I heard it all before. Germany was an environmental mess on the seventies (polluted waterways, acid rain etc.) It spawned the Greens and Germany is way cleaner now.
Take-away: People will create new better solutions as the problems get worse. In all areas. The biggest polluters and reproduces come from third world countries becausr they don't have the wealth needed to tackle it like 1st world countries did. You don't need twelve children if your don't die and you have enough savings to br comfortable in old age. And you will only start to care about tbe enviroment if your basic needs are met. Exploitation of the poor countries (resources and labour) kerps them poor. They retaliate by polluting and reproducing.
2. Yes, the population numbers are high but greed is at an all-time high too. A lot is talked about the greed of the elites and almost no talk about the greed of the 8.5 billions. We weren't happy with enough food, a small house and one car, were we? No, we need a car each, a boat, a caravan, pineapples from Hawaii and a thousand things more each. If the, I don't know, 3 billion well-off citizens cut their overall footprint by 30%, this goes a long way in managing resources. Keep in mind that those 3 billions consume what 500%? 1000%% more than tbe poor 5.5 billion, so if they reduce by 30%, the overall savingd are probably more than 50%.
3. Where does the greed come from? A combination of nihilism and capitalistic brainwashing. Nihilism is needed to get rid of the churches. That is partly achieved in the rich countries. But it has to be replaced with experienced based individual spirituality like non-dual and buddhist sytems that can't be exploited. If we completly deny spirituality we reduce ourselves to a egoic body-mind entity who is separated from the unity and bliss of existence and riddled with fear and desires which causes all the current greed and madness. Most importantly, these blissful spiritual egoless states of unity with existence have to experienced to be true and valid, not believed and attri used to a god, doctrine, script or church. Only if billions get s taste of it, their egoic habits will change from the inside. So far, these spiritual awakening experienced were reserved to a few. Bit increased egoic suffering rises awareness. If consuming and rat race doesn't make you happy anymore you look elsewhere. In the past, a lot were scooped up by corrupt religions. Another glimmer of hope are intentional spiritual psychedelic sessions. It is scientifically proven beyond doubt (google Good Friday Experiment) that they can evoke these much needed spiritual awakening experiences. They won't last and can't be endlessly repeated by means of drugs, but they nevertheless change everything because they show you the way and what is possible. Ram Das was an example of that.
4. Top down , enforced or manipulated, mind-based solutions - no matter how well intended - will always end up in disaster. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. You are no different to gobohomo. To truly understand the vast limitations of our human minds, once again, intentional psychedelic sessions will give you a mind-boggling extremly humbling experience of the colossal universal intelligence constantly at work regulating and balancing everything in real-time. It's billion times billion more intelligent than us. After that all is left for your tiny little mind to find your place and align with this powerful unfolding force (the new god sprouting from nihilism)
That's my message - not coming from my egoic little human mind - but passed on from the universe through these experiences through this totally insignificant body-mind because we are still cursed to communicate in this very basic way.
So stop mind-fucking around and start and find your inner guru to tell you what to do next. Maybe a puritual practise, maybe an egoless task, maybe an intentional psychedelic trip. If enough of us do that, global suffering can be reduced but that is not even the goal, it is a side effect. You is all that matters. It starts and ends with you. Forget the world and it's problems. Find out who you really are. If you keep on living as a body-mind only, you and the world will keep on suffering.
PS: Running out of time so can't spell check. Applied.
Hello Neo What did you think of the other points i made.
Ad can you explain why you qoute wikipedia as it is a mi5ciamossad propaganda machine spreading lies worldwide or have i got that wrong?
Hi digger, you're right that wikipedia is a CIA-controlled propaganda outlet, and that the views it presents are generally lopsidedly one-sided. That being said, it's still the first go-to for people to begin researching obscure issues as an overview. I'll still quote it situationally with this in mind, although it's a small minority of the dozens of links I presented in this post.
Fertilise the oceans with iron to promote plankton growth and feed the world.
What can go wrong? Big one-dimesnional solutions always backfire. Life is incredibly complex and consequences unforseeable and can't be calculated. That's why diversity always is the safest bit. Have a thousand or more different local approaches to problems, and the best one will grow organically. The bad ones will fade out without causing too much damage.