Tech Industry Split

The baizuo at companies like PayPal might think their political opinions are shared by a significant population of people in the United States, so they might think it makes sense to team up with the SPLC. Maybe they're surprised when people like me close my account in response.

Probably around half the employees of tech companies, including engineering and other technical staff, would identify as "conservative" or at least aren't partisan democrats. (I don't really know the actual stats, this is a guess based on personal experience and an assumption that national polls are probably representative of the industry.) There are lots of managers at tech companies that aren't tech people and those people probably got a good dose of cultural marxist indoctrination if they are younger than 35 or so.

I think the industry is going to split up, like many institutions in the country, over dumb commie ideology. It's hard to believe it's become as pervasive as it has in just my lifetime.

The East Bloc Was a Keel for the West

During the cold war, reports from the East Bloc countries provided a contrast between the totalitarian communist countries and the West. In a lot of ways, the East Bloc kept the west mindful of the value of freedom, especially free speech. The hypocrisy and pettiness of its "leaders" were front and center in the news on a daily basis.

Free speech, free political speech is paramount to the western world. The contrast between "oriental despotism" and the west was exemplified by gulags and political dissidents who had to flee the land of their birth for criticizing corruption and the commies who ran their countries into the ground.

Today, US corporations and Eurozone countries are starting to look a lot like the Eastern Bloc corrupt authoritarians.

Fool Me 1000 Times

There's an old post on this blog: "Julius Caesar Still Has a PR Department" that's a good preface to what I'm going to write about today.

The default appraisal of any political figure should be "that's a grifting scumbag". The only appropriate attitude toward politics is embodied in the character of Cincinnatus. It's a necessary evil, and political institutions should be held severely in check and limited in power and scope.

Politicians shouldn't get any credence or following, but even a narcissistic retard like Cortez who has zero track record or experience doing anything of value has millions of devoted fans.

Bernie Sanders, though he proved himself to be a fraud in the 2016 election, still has many ardent fans. I've already seen a few "Bernie 2020" bumper stickers on cars around here in Northeast Ohio. People who are grinding it out every single day and working to take care of a family, pay for a house, etc... still probably sent him a check to support him and his grifter family.

As an "anti establishment" figure, Trump retains some credibility. There's even some validity to him casting himself as a Cincinnatus type figure since he was already established as a businessman.

Why "The Establishment" Freaked out over Trump's Election

There have been several occasions in US history when the loss and subsequent mulching of one political order involved a long period of wailing and gnashing of teeth by the losers. When Andrew Jackson was elected, for example, the previous establishment cried and moaned in much the same way the current establishment is.

I think the current establishment has lost its shit so spectacularly in the wake of Trump's election because its main religious belief is humans are blank slates and are clay for molding via propaganda and mass media. There was a huge propaganda and mass media effort to stick Hillary Clinton in the white house, but it just didn't work. Rather than abandon their belief, they've doubled down on it and while their propaganda gets more strident it also gets less effective.

The process of centralization via financialization is going to flip around, mainly driven by the Internet. A lot of it will just be a reshuffling of the retarded corporate landscape--like big media companies selling off asssets they recently acquired--but the larger changes in the way people organize and work are yet to be seen.

YouTube is like a weather vane for these changes. It's the home of the counterculture, but also wants to collect a bunch of establishment corporation money tokens. Similarly, the establishment corporate world wants to get ads in front of the audience that fled to YouTube, but doesn't want to undermine its own future by supporting its competition. This tug of war has been going on for the past couple of years, and seems to be intensifying as time goes on.

Jussie Smollet: Counterintelligence Operation?

The "Jussie Smollet MAGA Lynching Hoax" followed on the heels of the "Covington Catholic MAGA" media scandal. Both of those stories are too good to be true for MAGA country. It makes me wonder if they're anti-globalist propaganda psyops that are meant to discredit the mainstream media and the SJW and "left wing" propaganda apparatus.

The two unfolded the same way. The Jussie Smollet story was obviously a hoax from the start, and as more details emerged it was a dumber and dumber hoax. At the same time, the actor kept doubling down and had a larger and larger stage to discredit himself and everyone that climbed on his fake bandwagon via social media. The Covington story unfolded in much the same way. The circus around the story grew and grew via social media grandstanding and virtue signaling and then the punchline was revealed as a sort of electric fence shock for all the people who attacked the kids.

It wouldn't be very hard to orchestrate either drama. The left wing public and and the mainstream media are predictable. Their credulity for the initial premise of these stories was almost guaranteed. The only thing that wasn't guaranteed was if these stories would go viral.

It's entirely possible that these incidents were completely organic, but I think it's just about as likely that they were staged and setup. It will be interesting to see what happens to Smollet and to find out if he was goaded to stage the incident by a handler or manager.

The Fallen World as Fuel

The white liberals conceive of themselves as members of the elect who are apart from the greedy and racist society of their similarly skin toned peers. They conceive of minority groups as inherently good naive babies and in need of "their" protection. Protection takes the form of institutions like the government agencies, NGOs and legal action. Without the protection of those institutions, all the naive babies would die, or at least be really sad. The greed and racism, the impurity of the middle class is like fuel to propel the institutions on the road to the New Jerusalem.

The White Liberal as a Ghost God

Elizabeth Warren's desire to be a Native American isn't unusual, in fact the idea of rejecting one's roots to be made anew is a fairly common religious idea. Christianity's concept of baptism is an obvious example of that. It's a ceremony that's a washing away or symbolic death in the plane of the fallen corrupt world and rebirth in the church-world and its society.

The white liberal, the baizuo, conception of rebirth might be unique. The baizuo rejects the mainstream society on behalf of who they perceive as abject outcasts, not to join those outcasts or even meet with them in passing, but to rule over them as a Ghost God. They have empathy for the plight of some imaginary people to become their savior.

The Frontiersman as a Touchstone

In the 18th and early 19th century, a number of people made their living in the western frontier beyond the Ohio River in what's now Ohio. Those guys became an iconic character archetype--the frontiersman. They were outside the boundary of the new American country and served as go-betweens and traders with the tribes. They often served as diplomats or messengers between the colonies or the early US government and the tribes. In some of the recorded cases, they were also neutral, or on their own side in the countless disputes between the two, or sided with the tribes against who were ostensibly "their own" people.

Life on the frontier was often brutal, and some of the frontiersmen were hard asses and violent, too. However, Johnny Appleseed was a totally different case, as were the religious missionaries who went to the frontier to indoctrinate the tribes in Christian dogma.

In the wake of the 2016 election, New York media people started to look at the country outside their little cliques as a new frontier. They produced some TV shows on the trope of "exploring" the country more in the spirit of the bizarro world version of the christian missionaries of the early days of America than the spirit of the frontiersman. In this new yorker version of the story, the white people of the middle of the country are some version of savages that need to be conquered with propaganda for Karl Marx and Das Capital.

Elizabeth Warren, aka Fauxcohantas, and other white people who claim indian tribal ancestry basically disavow their roots to recast themselves as primal people. It's actually pretty interesting that Elizabeth Warren and her ilk view that oppressed victim with no agency as a sort of holy archetype. It's similar to Cortez claiming to be a latina hoodrat or Harris claiming to be a pot smoking gangsta. It's the inverted version of Roman patricians claiming blue-blood descent from gods or heroes of the Trojan War.

Politicians in the US have to disavow patrician upbringing and pretend to be self made. George W Bush is a great example of that. Since the US was founded as a rebellion against the old world "for the people" the establishment is forever illegitimate.

The Kingsman (2014): The Internet as a Civil War Machine

The movie Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) is a pretty entertaining, but cheesy spy movie that completely subverts the typical Hollywood political point of view of the day. For example, it shows Obama colluding to cull the people of the world with a silicon Valley billionaire character played by Samuel L. Jackson.

The movie portrays an electronic device--a cell phone--that's used to drive people into a murderous rage. This is a trope of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead, that Birdbox Netflix show and others.

What's the Internet today, social media specifically, if it's not that? In the movies the device instantly turns people into crazed murderers, while the Internet slowly divides people into a million little cliques and radicalizes some, not en masse, but in dribs and drabs.

I've often wondered if social media is really a mechanism for closing the feedback loop on propaganda. The weird stories and social issue du jour often seem calculated and promoted for the purposes of divide and conquer. Is it for a truly villainous purpose, and is there a master plan like promoting WWIII, or is the divisive and poisonous nature of social media just an aspect of human nature, and a side effect of the banal maneuvering of shitbird politicians like Hillary Clinton?

Social Media Echo Chambers and Cults

There's a long tradition of small groups casting themselves as "the elect" and trying to lead people in the United States into a new era. In the 19th century, for example, they founded towns and planned cities like Salem, Ohio and founded colleges and universities. A darker example is provided by Jim Jones.

If there's anything that defines "the left" it's the idea that the world is fallen and can only be redeemed through social engineering and quite ironically, by assuming the archetypal role of Jesus Christ and preaching new Sermons on the Mount.

The social media era has provided a mechanism for cults to gather new members via computer and phone screens and keyboards. Politics in the US has often been driven by these messiah wannabees whether it was abolitionists, prohibitionists, or civil rights leaders, messianic causes have provided a rallying point for top-down political movements. Now, instead of a cause dominating politics for decades, there's a cause a week.

The social media era has also provided a mechanism for instant critique and analysis of these causes and gives a voice to the otherwise "silent majority". The "left" politicians and the mainstream media in the United States seem to be inside the social media bubble world of fringe causes and opinions and are unaware of the small footprint of the influence of the groups that promote them.

Institutional Rot and White Flight

Every other day there's a news story out of the UK describing its descent into some sideshow version of totalitarianism. It wasn't brought low by Nazis or Vikings. Some homosexuals, transsexuals, feminists and university sociology departments turned the nation into a gulag without spilling a drop of blood. What the fuck happened?

There's pervasive institutional rot across the western world due to legalism and financialization. The Reformation provides a good historical analogy for this period, but maybe the "white flight" era in the US is even better.

My great grandfather moved his family out of the city into the far exurbs of Cleveland after a thief broke into their home. That happened decades before the racial strife of the late 60's and long before the highway system made it feasible to commute to city centers for corporate jobs. The quality of life in cities couldn't really compare with the life in the country for many people. Consequently many cities in the US just fell apart as the increasingly mobile population left for literally greener pastures. People made individual choices and moved en masse without any government intervention.

I think we'll start to see the same thing happen--not as a result of physical movement of populations, but by abandonment of institutions, like universities, corporations, and banks.

Corporate Central Planning

There are a lot of words on this blog that boil down to a pretty simple point. There's basically a war going on between the free yeomanry, the middle class of the west, and a group of people that some label communists, some label socialists, and some label technocrats. In the western world, while many of those people are in government, many more, apparently are in corporations. If they were in Red China, they'd be party members, but in the US, they're board members.

There's a strange evolution in corporate thinking. Some businesses now regard themselves as political entities and think of customers as subjects. This might be driven by corporations relying on finance more than sales to fund their activities. Money printing turns them into agents of the banking system, rather than entities that are dependent on sales.

The End of the Democrats?

I used to listen to our local NPR station back in the 1990s. The guy who reported on the Ohio legislature was an old school reporter who did a good job covering them from a neutral point of view. You couldn't really even guess at his party affiliation. Maybe his work inoculated him against being a partisan because the state legislature of Ohio, like that of many states in the country, is the reject bin for national level politicians so it's like a non stop pageant of dumb fucks giving nonsense speeches.

Now, the democrats have Cortez in congress, who reminds me of those retarded state legislators. She garners a lot of attention because she's prettier than most congress people and probably for that reason, the democrat PR machine started to push her as a national level politician. Unfortunately for them she's a genuine dumb ass. Her "Green New Deal" reads like a 8th grader's extra credit science class project. It's a collection of random central planning utopia sci-fi tropes.

We've seen the end of both of the national parties in the US. The GOP died with Bush and rebooted with Trump as the middle class party. The god awful democrats died with 0bama (another Bush) but still haven't rebooted. The stumbling and bumbling of the 2020 campaign will be epic. I'm tempted to say the Cortez side show will shut down at some point because the media will eventually ignore her in an attempt to save some credibility for the blue squad, but in the social media world, she can run her pie hole on twitter and keep doubling down on the crazy to get more attention.

It's entirely possible that the democrats are completely oblivious to their position. The mainstream media, for example, seems pretty oblivious to its decline. Inside their clique bubble, where the hefty paychecks are still being deposited, it's not important that PewdiePie has a larger audience than they do.

I've thought the RINO/DINO party will reboot as the democrats after 2020, but maybe I'm wrong. It seems like the "mainstream" neolib candidates are adopting some of the lunatic marxist ideas, too.

Brainwashed by the Financial Industry

Many people in the United States pour a significant chunk of their income into a 401(k) because of tax advantages and employer matches. The incentives to save via a 401(k) are so great, it's foolish not to do it, and in fact, for many people it eclipses any alternatives. Their entire plan for their after-work future is to live off the 401(k) savings and a meager social security check. In the past few decades workers who are contributing to 401(k) plans are fueling the massive income disparity between executives and the work force and fueling corporate data mining, crapflation, offshoring jobs, and so on.

The most profound effect, though, is to suck resources out of the country and deposit them in a handful of cities. Instead of people investing in their home, in productive assets, and in their family, a monthly tithe goes to Wall Street. The investor is supposed to be the beneficiary of corporate activity, but often the two parties are largely at odds. The legislative agenda of corporate America is anathema to mom and pop America.

Rise of the Middle Class?

The United States shift to corporatocracy and technocracy started in the late 70s and kicked into high gear in the 80s and 90s. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 is one piece of legislation that changed the country. Prior to the MCA, trucking was heavily regulated not for safety or efficiency, but to control the market and to prevent competition. As a consequence of deregulation, trucker's wages fell 20-50% over the years.

People's attitudes and beliefs also shifted, partly because of corporate propaganda and hollywood brainwashing. However, hollywood and corporate propaganda is becoming less effective on a daily basis. As ownership of media companies concentrated in the past couple of decades it seems like the audience for their shit just started walking away, and in many cases became hostile. At the same time, it's become much easier for independent and individual content producers to make and distribute media.

Rather than drive concentration of ownership and production and the ongoing corporatization of America, the Internet could spurn a renaissance of localism and a corresponding middle class boom and oligarchy shrinkage.

"Green New Deal" Bullshit

If a random person looked at some posts on this blog, they'd probably think I'm an "environmentalist" since I go on and on about the Garden of Eden as a better mythos and pole star for guiding humanity than the City on the Hill model.

Over the years, I've come to think there's really no technological fixes to the problems and side effects of industrialization and that if we adopted a truly sustainable model, our lives and civilization will be basically unrecognizable from what it is today. People's relationships with each other and the economy would be completely incomprehensible to the typical work-a-day person of today. The motives and thinking of the person in that garden of eden world would be incomprehensible.

Furthermore, I think there really is no choice. Humanity ends up there one way or the other--either through conscious choice or catastrophic failure. On top of that, I don't think you get there by central planning. It's through individuals making intelligent and long range plans for themselves and their families over many generations.

The "green new deal" is just another boondoggle scam. It'll result in tremendous waste of resources rather than improved technology. Even if it's done in earnest and is not totally corrupt as it will certainly be, every industrial or technological undertaking is a game of robbing the future to live a more lavish present, even activities aimed at conservation or green energy.

Trump turned the GOP into the Middle Class Party

The transition from solid middle class America to financialized corporatocracy America took a couple of decades and probably peaked in the early 2000s with the popping of the first Internet bubble. The GOP died and was resurrected as the middle class party, while the democrats and the larger RINO/DINO corporate party became the banker/war party.

The 2016 GOP race was like a Clown Car. Trump set the clown car ablaze as it rolled down the street and emerged as the clown phoenix.

The democrats are really the anti-middle class party, which is one of the reasons most of their ire is aimed at white people. The middle class is a piggy bank for the federal government and crony, pork barrel jobs, and for financial institutions. It's actually pretty interesting that the "left"--what a totally meaningless term--became so openly hostile in recent years. It seems like a much better strategy would be to continue sucking wealth out of the middle class in stealth mode.

It's interesting to watch those assholes try to recalibrate their party. They can't seem to hide their hatred and contempt for their middle class marks. It's like a loss of self control of a con man that's had a long winning streak.