The angst of the political class. The political class in Europe and the Anglo-American Empire is panicking. We are led by people who never grew beyond puberty.
Well, if the collected Western leader coalition wasn't all in on being 90210 - super elite Hollywood HS - we wouldn't even have lightweights like Justin or Emmanuel. (Who totally would have been prom king and queen, y'know!) The whole governance structure of the Empire is loaded with zero talent and less morality. Anyone who has wanted to be a nerd or Goth, or even a gangsta in the hood has had to trim down any substance to trim up popularity. They're all populists pointing at the biggest one of all (Trump) like he's defective. Because he beats them at their own game. But it is all a game, and at the end of this extended senior year there's going to be a seed change. The costumes will magically fall away and poodle skirts with crinoline slips, greased hair and penny loafers will make a rerun season. It will be up to us underclassmen to rule the school.
In the western world, we dont have leaders, we have managers, weak managers at that. Managers that rose to positions of power when no one was really paying attention because the going was easy. Now that going is tough and were stuck with an incompetent, ideologically blind ruling elite.
In Europe, before they airdropped Managers in three-piece suits, we had instead Collaborating foremen. They were part of the team and knew the technical issues.
After that, Knowledge was out-sourced and people who had that knowledge were pushed out, so they could hire it by external service providers (corruption) and could not be criticized.
Julian - your reference to our immature and childish leaders is an understatement - it applies to every segment of our populace, and thus our institutions. It actually began in the church, which was our major culture former.
Since everything is downstream from culture, certainly including government and politics, all you need to do is degenerate the church - as in converging Christianity into churchianity - mission accomplished! Antonio Gramsci anyone? You can start here - www.crushlimbraw.com - and eventually be directed to DaLimbraw Library for more, if you wish.
Logic: The systematic study and practice of discerning and then...telling the truth!
Read Hebrews 5:11-14 to see where most churches are now.
"We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil." - and we wonder why our institutions are geared for the mindless mobots.
Hitler is a great example of why men must make decisions cold, emotionless. He had a terrible temper.
If Hitler had not had such a raging temper and ordered the utterly pointless and senseless extermination of the Jews when the US entered the war, we’d have a much less clear cut case for the Allied side.
Hitler idiotically thought that the success of Jews in America made them actual hostages. The truth of America from the time of the Iroquois and other tribes is the lands are so bountiful that success is a matter of working at it, it requires outside intervention to fail or an utter failure of the men or their group, usually both.
He gave the order the night he declared war 8 DEC 1941.
Very insightful as usual — particularly that Trump, if re-elected, will be Biden 2.0. And the following on sentences are funny if a bit repulsive in imagery.
A quick correction to your comment on SBUX — it did not have a “loss” of $12 billion (in finance, that’s a measurement on the income statement), but a reduction of “market capitalization” (traded value of all common stock, as measured from the high point in the last period referenced). An income statement loss of $12B would be huge. The reduction in market capitalization of $12B is some 20% from the recent high. Serious, but it happens to traded stock in the normal course of time.
Adolf Hitler was gassed in World War I, and absolutely forbid its use against Allied troops in World War II. Churchill was all for using it, but knew he would alienate the Americans if he used it first. The Germans never did use it on Allied soldiers, and that was that. Yet the Ukrainians have used it against the Russians.
IOW, the Banderites are literally worse than Hitler. I am SO tired of funding fucking monsters.
I especially agree with your pointing out Group-Thinking as an important reason for the STUPIDITY among the Elites in the States, UK and the EU + NATO, including many governments in the so called West, which itself considers to be "The World"...
This same Group-Thinking they use in the Media and via Think-Tanks and Lobby-Networks to get all those Elites on one line and then via Media and Politics/Parties, NGO's and Action-groups to the ignorant masses who -after having heard or read the same narrative 3 times- start talking about it as if they know it is true... Group-Thinking...
After that the Elites rely on Cognitive Dissonance to keep the masses from changing their mind.
The World will be destroyed in a Nuclear Armageddon if we do not find ways to counter it.
My problem is not that i would not be happy when the Evil Crumbling Anglo-Zionist Empire collapses totally, but that it takes only ONE Psychopath to push that RED BUTTON....
I can PROOF that Group-Thinking is NOT able to let a large group of people come to a better solution, because of the combination of more people with more knowledge: "Many know more than 1...".
The 1930-1940's in two HUGE countries: Germany and Russia. Both having many many millions of inhabitants.
According to the theory they should both come near the best way to run a country in that time.
In reality they came to 2 TOTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEMS, so different, that they started fighting to the Death to solve that problem.
QED.
The best solution would have been: Trading and respecting each other and try to work together in stead of fighting each other. Any Autistic would have known that.
You're the one who got me thinking about group-think. Most autists understand this , along with cognitive dissonance. It's hard for us to group-think. And cog diss' is painful.
My research on Group-thinking started after i discovered the "Uncanny Valley" (a label from AI and Robotics on the repulsive feelings of humans (and kids) towards Robots the more they approach looking as real people) does not appear to be felt by Autistics.
Which seems to indicate that we are a bit more difficult to fall in the trap of Cognitive Dissonance and so don't go easily with the MSM Narrative Matrix.
Correct. Only Russia and China and perhaps Iran have hypersonic weapons. But the US is working on it. By the time they have such weapons. the Russians will be fully prepared with a complete defense system. The s500 it's not just designed to defend against hypersonic weapons, it has the widest range of aerial defense options of any AD system. In the Russians are still developing the platform.
What we Westerners need is a long pause. What we get is breathless panting for action from the demented few that rule us.
The U.S. defense budget is nearly $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion). That gets us services lacking personnel, ships that will not sail, planes that do not fly, tanks that cannot run and howitzers that wear out quickly. But let's send another $61,000,000,000 in aid to Ukraine because as our so savvy political class intones, "That money is going to our defense industry here."
So let me speak plainly to my bettors: if a trillion gets you crap, what can one reasonably expect from only 61 billion? You are out of kindergarten now so take a self-induced time out. Our Department of Defense and the munitions corporations they serve and shill for need radical reform. If you want to do something constructive then start by clawing back the enormous sums of money these defense industries have lit on fire. That is the only way history will view you kindly.
As pathetic as our octogenarian leaders are, there is no hope in sight from the younger leaders in the US, Canada and Europe who are absolute, arrogant, blithering idiots. I never quite imagined how so many leaders from so many Western countries could coalesce into one blob of hubris so vast, none have any interest in actual statecraft and diplomacy. It's all about the "rules-based order," baby!
The dog suffers from separation anxiety. He knows when its owners are leaving, and alternates between being a pain underfoot and delivering the saddest version of its eyes. But when they throw a chewy treat in the opposite direction of the door, reaction overcomes goal and he immediately races for it, and thus loses his argument for a place on the back seat of the car.
That's most of the USA and UK's politicians - childish, buffoonish, reactionary, looking for a mirror to ask "Whose the fairest of us all? Pick me, me, ME!".
Then there are the few who understand the sociopath game, and are deliberate and diabolical.
Well, if the collected Western leader coalition wasn't all in on being 90210 - super elite Hollywood HS - we wouldn't even have lightweights like Justin or Emmanuel. (Who totally would have been prom king and queen, y'know!) The whole governance structure of the Empire is loaded with zero talent and less morality. Anyone who has wanted to be a nerd or Goth, or even a gangsta in the hood has had to trim down any substance to trim up popularity. They're all populists pointing at the biggest one of all (Trump) like he's defective. Because he beats them at their own game. But it is all a game, and at the end of this extended senior year there's going to be a seed change. The costumes will magically fall away and poodle skirts with crinoline slips, greased hair and penny loafers will make a rerun season. It will be up to us underclassmen to rule the school.
"However, as Biden was Trump 2.0, so Trump will be Biden 2.0."
And coincidentally, "2.0" is both Biden's and Trump's official IQ!
LOL....
In the western world, we dont have leaders, we have managers, weak managers at that. Managers that rose to positions of power when no one was really paying attention because the going was easy. Now that going is tough and were stuck with an incompetent, ideologically blind ruling elite.
Managers can be replaced by AI.
In Europe, before they airdropped Managers in three-piece suits, we had instead Collaborating foremen. They were part of the team and knew the technical issues.
After that, Knowledge was out-sourced and people who had that knowledge were pushed out, so they could hire it by external service providers (corruption) and could not be criticized.
->https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHhLXlqWoAAnol2?format=jpg
Sander
Julian - your reference to our immature and childish leaders is an understatement - it applies to every segment of our populace, and thus our institutions. It actually began in the church, which was our major culture former.
Since everything is downstream from culture, certainly including government and politics, all you need to do is degenerate the church - as in converging Christianity into churchianity - mission accomplished! Antonio Gramsci anyone? You can start here - www.crushlimbraw.com - and eventually be directed to DaLimbraw Library for more, if you wish.
Logic: The systematic study and practice of discerning and then...telling the truth!
Read Hebrews 5:11-14 to see where most churches are now.
"We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil." - and we wonder why our institutions are geared for the mindless mobots.
Hitler is a great example of why men must make decisions cold, emotionless. He had a terrible temper.
If Hitler had not had such a raging temper and ordered the utterly pointless and senseless extermination of the Jews when the US entered the war, we’d have a much less clear cut case for the Allied side.
Hitler idiotically thought that the success of Jews in America made them actual hostages. The truth of America from the time of the Iroquois and other tribes is the lands are so bountiful that success is a matter of working at it, it requires outside intervention to fail or an utter failure of the men or their group, usually both.
He gave the order the night he declared war 8 DEC 1941.
Don’t let emotions fool you, they will.
Very insightful as usual — particularly that Trump, if re-elected, will be Biden 2.0. And the following on sentences are funny if a bit repulsive in imagery.
A quick correction to your comment on SBUX — it did not have a “loss” of $12 billion (in finance, that’s a measurement on the income statement), but a reduction of “market capitalization” (traded value of all common stock, as measured from the high point in the last period referenced). An income statement loss of $12B would be huge. The reduction in market capitalization of $12B is some 20% from the recent high. Serious, but it happens to traded stock in the normal course of time.
Thanks for that clarification.
Agree
Adolf Hitler was gassed in World War I, and absolutely forbid its use against Allied troops in World War II. Churchill was all for using it, but knew he would alienate the Americans if he used it first. The Germans never did use it on Allied soldiers, and that was that. Yet the Ukrainians have used it against the Russians.
IOW, the Banderites are literally worse than Hitler. I am SO tired of funding fucking monsters.
Interesting points. Thank you. Adds useful context.
Great Article again Julian....
I especially agree with your pointing out Group-Thinking as an important reason for the STUPIDITY among the Elites in the States, UK and the EU + NATO, including many governments in the so called West, which itself considers to be "The World"...
This same Group-Thinking they use in the Media and via Think-Tanks and Lobby-Networks to get all those Elites on one line and then via Media and Politics/Parties, NGO's and Action-groups to the ignorant masses who -after having heard or read the same narrative 3 times- start talking about it as if they know it is true... Group-Thinking...
After that the Elites rely on Cognitive Dissonance to keep the masses from changing their mind.
->https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwMuZglUMAAe2p_.jpg
Group-Thinking...
The World will be destroyed in a Nuclear Armageddon if we do not find ways to counter it.
My problem is not that i would not be happy when the Evil Crumbling Anglo-Zionist Empire collapses totally, but that it takes only ONE Psychopath to push that RED BUTTON....
->https://shutok.ru/uploads/posts/2022-10/thumbs/1666685512_shutok.ru.99.jpg
Sander
PS.
I can PROOF that Group-Thinking is NOT able to let a large group of people come to a better solution, because of the combination of more people with more knowledge: "Many know more than 1...".
The 1930-1940's in two HUGE countries: Germany and Russia. Both having many many millions of inhabitants.
According to the theory they should both come near the best way to run a country in that time.
In reality they came to 2 TOTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEMS, so different, that they started fighting to the Death to solve that problem.
QED.
The best solution would have been: Trading and respecting each other and try to work together in stead of fighting each other. Any Autistic would have known that.
As does Putin. And Xi. And...
You're the one who got me thinking about group-think. Most autists understand this , along with cognitive dissonance. It's hard for us to group-think. And cog diss' is painful.
Thank you Julian.
My research on Group-thinking started after i discovered the "Uncanny Valley" (a label from AI and Robotics on the repulsive feelings of humans (and kids) towards Robots the more they approach looking as real people) does not appear to be felt by Autistics.
->https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/uncanny-valley-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-experience-it
We do not automatic react on (unconscious) signs that some one is not belonging to "our group", like a free-rider...
->https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138642
Which seems to indicate that we are a bit more difficult to fall in the trap of Cognitive Dissonance and so don't go easily with the MSM Narrative Matrix.
->https://www.occupyschagen.nl/Aut/Uncanny-Valley.jpg
Sander
The S500 can shoot down hypersonics? Only Russia & China have sonics and only Russia has S500, what an odd thing to say!
Correct. Only Russia and China and perhaps Iran have hypersonic weapons. But the US is working on it. By the time they have such weapons. the Russians will be fully prepared with a complete defense system. The s500 it's not just designed to defend against hypersonic weapons, it has the widest range of aerial defense options of any AD system. In the Russians are still developing the platform.
What we Westerners need is a long pause. What we get is breathless panting for action from the demented few that rule us.
The U.S. defense budget is nearly $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion). That gets us services lacking personnel, ships that will not sail, planes that do not fly, tanks that cannot run and howitzers that wear out quickly. But let's send another $61,000,000,000 in aid to Ukraine because as our so savvy political class intones, "That money is going to our defense industry here."
So let me speak plainly to my bettors: if a trillion gets you crap, what can one reasonably expect from only 61 billion? You are out of kindergarten now so take a self-induced time out. Our Department of Defense and the munitions corporations they serve and shill for need radical reform. If you want to do something constructive then start by clawing back the enormous sums of money these defense industries have lit on fire. That is the only way history will view you kindly.
The simple difference is that Russia has honest people.
Think of all the good things all those $$$ could buy for Americans. It would be a New America.
As pathetic as our octogenarian leaders are, there is no hope in sight from the younger leaders in the US, Canada and Europe who are absolute, arrogant, blithering idiots. I never quite imagined how so many leaders from so many Western countries could coalesce into one blob of hubris so vast, none have any interest in actual statecraft and diplomacy. It's all about the "rules-based order," baby!
How true. Trudeau is young. Marcon too. And his PM younger still. Biden's problem is not age so much as lack of character.
The dog suffers from separation anxiety. He knows when its owners are leaving, and alternates between being a pain underfoot and delivering the saddest version of its eyes. But when they throw a chewy treat in the opposite direction of the door, reaction overcomes goal and he immediately races for it, and thus loses his argument for a place on the back seat of the car.
That's most of the USA and UK's politicians - childish, buffoonish, reactionary, looking for a mirror to ask "Whose the fairest of us all? Pick me, me, ME!".
Then there are the few who understand the sociopath game, and are deliberate and diabolical.
Or like Biden's German Shepherd. Suffers anxiety and bites somebody.
Once upon a time, deep beneath a D.C. pizza parlour, a puppy was raised and praised with parts of the human working class as treats :)
They called him Joe.