The Dead Creations of Man

There's a small creek that runs through the middle of our property. It drops about 100 feet from one corner to the other corner over about 1500 feet, so during a heavy rain the little creek can aggressively erode its banks. That's not really a problem, except where there is man made infrastructure. So I had to route the creek and slow it down through about 20 feet of its course. This requires a fairly substantial amount of material and cost, and eventually, maybe in several decades, that will fail, too.

The creek is really solar powered, while the infrastructure to contain it is mainly powered by fossil fuels and by my work. The land, here, is really solar powered too. It's the result of the ice age(s). The soil was deposited over thousands of years by advancing ice that was built up by the sun driven weather. The dynamism of nature is due to the sun and the earth's core and tectonic activity. The infrastructure of man is a dead thing.

It's pretty close to impossible to indefinitely restrain the dynamism of nature to fit a man made design. Engineering projects like the Panama Canal require constant, massive maintenance to keep operational, for example. Roads fall apart in a short time. Bridges rust away. Cars rot out in no time in a wet, cold climate. The list goes on and one. Even electronic devices fail from the cycling of power through their components.

Infrastructure technology like a Yurt or a Teepee seems to be more in line with the dynamism of nature. Simpler, less energy intensive and resource intensive infrastructure would mean less sunk cost and time to live.

The Moderns' "Project"

 The World Economic Forum has been promoting a utopian idea of a communist totally managed society that's setup "to serve man" in the twilight zone sense. I saw a Ted Talk on this idea a few years ago. The headline of this article sums it up: "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better"

The moderns project has old roots. Christianity includes the concept of redemption of a fallen world. Judaism has a similar concept. The idea of civilization is that nature is fundamentally broken and needs the work of man to fix it.

The utopians' scheme makes gods out of them and puts everyone else in a theme-park version of life where everyone is a big family and there's no boundaries or borders or strife. In this totally managed world, everyone is directed into tasks that solve every single "problem".

The notion that civilization is actually bad, that is detrimental to man doesn't occur to the moderns. The thinkers like Hobbes and Locke regarded the natural world, and the natural order as abhorrent. Most of modernity is about replacing nature with a man-made replacement.

Civilization seems to make people dumber and weaker as it goes on, and typically leads to spectacular catastrophic system failures. There's a large pile of collapsed and failed empires. Nature adapts and struggles in every nook and cranny of soil and rock and water. The creations of man start to decay and fall apart from their inception.

The moderns' anti-nature project seems fundamentally flawed because of its philosophical roots.

Forming Group Opinion with Talk Shows

 The talk show format on radio, TV and even on YouTube is a useful tool to form group opinion.

The host and guests serve as a sort of proxy family or friend group for the audience. They model the attitudes and present the interpretation of the world some oligarch wants to sell. The guests and hosts mock and deride other opinions. The guests and the hosts are presented as leading figures. The guests are usually attractive people, or at least are wearing makeup and clothes that make them look attractive or at least interesting.

They effectively launder the oligarchs' opinions into public opinion.

Of course the same thing happens on other popular media like entertainment shows, but usually in that case, broader themes are sold. Talk shows can fine tune public opinion on policy matters, legislation, and wars, for example. They're on more often, plus the thematic content can be focused more.

Cult World Order

Generations of pop culture rotted out the traditional culture, and generations of the industrial age turned people into oafish consumers. Now the average person is a dope who's thinking is completely shaped by marketers and scammers on behalf of some degenerate oligarchs. They're in ten different "cults" and have no thoughts of their own, nor any awareness of the real world.

There's the Apple cult, the Tesla cult, the Global Warming cult, now the Covid cult, the BLM cult, the Trump cult, etc... etc...

Individuals create their own false reality on Fuckface and Instaghoul. They don't really exist anymore.

Food "shortages" and a System Run Amok

 The way we live in the United States is retarded.... the technocrats' solution is to make it even more retarded. Some sack of shit like Bill Gates wants a system that totally controls people's lives to cut CO2 emissions or restrict population growth or to avoid the never-arriving Malthusian doomsday prophesy those scumbags are selling at the moment. Billy Gates and the central planners will kill millions of people if they get their way, perhaps not from malice of forethought, but from bumbling fumbling stupidity.

They claim that meat production with cows and chickens is too energy intensive, so people will need to eat fake meat grown in factories... somehow that's going to be less energy intensive than allowing animals to walk around outside and eat grass?

If our goal was to make a less energy intensive, more natural food production system, the obvious, easiest solution is to let large areas of the United States revert to a more natural condition. Ohio, for example, used to support herds of bison, elk, and deer. All those animals were displaced to make room for cows and sheep. Some areas of the US aren't really amenable to cattle, since there's too much rain, so herds need more management and pastures need more management.

Anyway, Billy and his cronies just want to extract wealth and exact control in the name of helping humanity, same as it ever was.

The "elites" really don't make the culture or produce anything of value. Bill Gates is not a scientist. He's not an engineer. He's not an innovator. He's a collector and salesman. If we allow the US to turn into a top-down oligarchy, we'll enter a new dark age.

What's the Covid Hoax About?

 The Covid Hoax appears to be a war-by-other means attempt at conquest of entire nations by central banks and corporations.

It seems like their plan is to basically nullify governments, and replace them with an electronic monitoring and control system.

It's central planning with computers and tracking and control of everyone. This is their "utopia".

The Fauci and Billie Gates Fraud: How To Manufacture Consent

The covid hoax shows how easy it is for the governments of the world "manufacture consent". It relies on a couple of really bad human weaknesses.

1. People think they know more than they do.

The fraud of Covid is really obvious if a person spends a little time looking at the data. The data's been available since at least February of 2020. A paper was released by Italian doctors very early on that exposed it. Patients died "with Covid" rather than "of Covid". So if you had cancer for example, then got this flu, you had a much higher chance of dying than a normally healthy person, who had basically no chance of dying. The CDC website shows the data.

People are too lazy and stupid to look at the data and to form their own conclusion. Instead they believe they know about covid because celebrities and TV people told them what to feel about Covid. They mistake that opinion/feeling for knowing. Since other people have the same opinion, their sense of "knowing" is reinforced. The reality is they know nothing.

The TV provides ersatz friendships and social connections. The celebrities who talk about something  like Covid are really important in this process. They're the "trusted friend" and confidante of people in the audience. People will believe them over their own eyes.

2. People trust "authorities" for some reason.

Bill Gates has a PR firm that promotes his reputation. He's supposed to be a tech guy/software engineer, but really he was a rich kid from a rich family that had corporate connections. He's a "businessman". However, the PR firm turned him into Bill Gates the vaccine/epidemic expert/global warming/population expert.

The Rotted Out Western Empire

I'm trying to save my rusty old F-250 from the junk yard.

As I'm working on the thing, it provides an almost bewildering amount of information, not only about its construction and design, and the flaws of that design versus the weather in snowy areas of the country, but also about the typical "man of letters" life, and also the cycles of Empire growth and almost immediate death.

There's barely an interim period of stability. It seems like the Post WW2 Anglo/Jew/American Empire grew after the turn of the 19th century, then bloomed and peaked out between WW2 and the early 1970s. It's been on decline since then, and on a turbo-charged downward trajectory since the scam of 9-11-2001, and now is on the funeral pyre of the covid hoax.

Empires have an age of expansion. The technology, knowledge and organizational techniques of one people allows them to dominate others and to bring them under their system. The people who lord over Empires are all of the same kind. They only understand novelty, growth and expansion. The more humdrum day-to-day tasks of maintaining things and the bottomless pit costs of maintaining all of the new infrastructure of their domain doesn't appeal to them at all. They like shiny new buildings and monuments and seemingly lack the ability to preserve things. You see this behavior at all levels of society from the wealthiest oligarchs down to the most mundane administrator of some small government agency.

It's fitting that the financial system we are subjects of is a tool of growth and building and hiding maintenance costs of all kinds. It apparently has almost zero capability to preserve things, or to foster durable construction or long term infrastructure projects. Since it extracts wealth via debt payments and dilution of currency, it has to always "run". Everyone ends up on a perpetual treadmill.

The "man of letters" of the Empires all look the same, too. The hangers-on and courtiers of these systems are all of a kind. Rather than toil or labor, they sit, talk and influence. You get an Aristotle hanging out with the Macedonian court, for example. They end up in service of that expansion, too.

Anyway, it's not a surprise that Empires suddenly perish. They fall apart all at once; the accumulated sunk cost and maintenance outstrips the productivity of the whole thing, plus the dirtbags who run the Empire are continuously plundering it from within. The Afghanistan invasion and occupation is a great example--it cost more to wage the war and occupy the country than its possibly worth, and it seems like the plunder of that country, including the opium is all going into private hands. The "graveyard of Empires" is apt.

It seems like the dirtbags that run the western Empire are making a desperate attempt to keep their dominion over their people with the Covid scam. I wonder if there's any similar con job that went on in Britain during the waning days of that Empire.

Christianized Europe, Jews and Normans

Christianity dissolved the tribal European cultures and amalgamated people into nations. The religion of Christianity was also transformed along the way, and became European. That process took hundreds of years. There were still people worshiping Odin as late as 900AD/1000AD in northern Europe.

The Jews show up pretty late in that process, at least in England. They arrived with the Normans and William the Conqueror. Their mutual history is pretty murky. The Normans were the Danish people (the Vikings) who settled in Northern France after hundreds of years of warfare and raiding from their base in northern Europe. That's anachronistically depicted in the History channel series Vikings where Rollo settles in France after the Vikings after Ragnar sack Paris.

It's possible the jews identified the Normans as the "Tribe of Dan" from the bible. (It's also possible the bible was all written retrospectively and is entirely counterfeit.) If anything in the bible is historical, then possibly the Normans were related to the Phoenicians, and the tribe of Dan. Their runes and the Phoenician alphabet seem similar. The Normans as the "Tribe of Dan" might explain the obsession of Europeans with the dusty old Levant and Israel. The timeline doesn't match up at all with the Biblical account.

Anyway, the European tribes had been in conflict for hundreds of years--really probably thousands of years. In fact, all of history prior to Christianity was tribes fighting with other tribes. At times, multi-ethnic Empires popped up, like Alexander the Great, or the Romans. Those Empires were a sort of blueprint of how to rule a multi-ethnic state: replace the religion and tribal identity of the people with worship and idolatry of the new rulers. None of those Empires really held up, though.

Over time, the christianized Europeans become one people, but the Jews didn't meld into that group and retained a separate, and thus adversarial identity. The Amish are sort of similar today, and maybe other ethnic/religious groups of European people like the Mormons are similar. Their religion reforms them into more of a tribe and sets them apart.

It seems like at least some jews converted their cultural identity into maintaining a secret adversarial/hostile stance against their European neighbors, and they invest all their energy in trying to subvert and dominate those people. The Europeans were freed from their tribal history, and engaged in solving universal problems, and to engage with nature and the universe more directly, instead of being bogged down in endless scams and schemes.

Scams like communism and banking are an attempt to launder the hostile beliefs of one of the European tribes, the "jews", into "universal" ideas, when in fact they're just a scam and propaganda. That process of brainwashing people for generations seems to be, for some sect of humanity, the way to glue together an arbitrary group into a new ersatz tribe. Maybe the progenitors of this scheme were the Macedonians and the Greek philosophers. This method of building an Empire was utilized by the Ptolemy family in Egypt.

How to Reboot The United States

 The United States is now an oligarchy that's surrounded by the trappings of the former republic. The federal government is 100% corrupt. Both parties are corrupt and controlled. There's no saving that thing. It's owned and infiltrated by a foreign fifth column. The state governments are in a similar situation. Ohio's a pretty corrupt basket case, unfortunately. The governor's a weirdo who's been cycled through every office in the state and federal level for some reason. The state legislature is apparently criminally corrupt, evidenced by a $60M bribery scandal involving the speaker of the house--another creepy looking dude. I'm guessing his vices don't stop a greed and gluttony.

However, since the foreign occupying power is a tiny oligarchy, it can be contained and ultimately extirpated. In the meantime, the US can reboot and reform on the local level and probably most effectively at the county level.

The Antifa Arsons in Oregon and California provide a hint how to do that. While the feds and the states won't at minimum investigate and interdict Antifa, which is funded by the fifth columnists, local authorities can stop them, and can investigate and disclose what they find. Authority can move to the county level by an act of will of the citizenry.

The same is true of the covid madness. In Ohio, the mandates of the government have no "force of law" (and who cares if they did?). The counties can just nullify the orders by an act of will of the citizenry.

To me, this seems like a viable path forward for the yeomanry population of the US. The federal government is a useless, destructive parasite. The state governments seem to be attached to that corrupted apparatus for the most part. Unfortunately, a large portion of the population is in their thrall, but really who cares about them? They'll just go along with anything anyway.

A big portion of the centralized  control is the central banking financial system. There's no need to abolish that. The more important thing is to shift behavior, and consciousness to the local level. Ideally we'd get that parasite out of our affairs, but that's probably a longer term fight.

Antifa Arsons in Oregon?

 There's a bunch of fairly credible reports of Antifa people setting wildfires in Oregon. Those fires have killed several people and destroyed millions of dollars of property. The city and state governments have been inept and even collaborating with these organizations. The feds seem to be doing less than nothing to intervene in their activities.

Why? The feds routinely intervene and interdict other organizations, even fairly mundane ones, like businesses setup to promote barter as an alternative means of exchange.

Well, it's getting painfully obvious that the United States is really an oligarchy with the trappings of a republic. Some members of the controlling oligarchy run Antifa. People finger George Soros, but who knows how this group is really set up?

They own the shitty media and apparently many levels of government. So if people really want to win back the United States for themselves, the shortest route is probably to take it back from the oligarchs.

Maybe the local levels of government can establish order with the help of citizens. It might be necessary for people to form their own old-west style patrols in Oregon and California. The state authorities seem hopelessly corrupt and infiltrated. Maybe nullifying the state governments and moving all the authority to counties would be an option for fighting this current round of insanity in the US, including Covid and leftist retard violence.

Covid: Ohio Fails The Life Test

I always wondered how crazy historical events like Prohibition, or WWI happened, now I see it up close in real time. The herd is easily whipped along by liars and fearmongers. A little dose of fear can get the people to do anything; it doesn't matter how stupid, degrading, or awful and immoral it is.

It's fairly depressing how Ohioans went along with the corona bologna. There's a small number of people who seem to realize it's bullshit, but there's a vast mob of fearful stockholm syndrome retards. There's a weird partisan divide, too. It seems like the "left"/democrats are the dumbest, sheep like people. I think they'd handcuff themselves to a pole in their house if the TV democrats told them to do it. These people advertise their love of "the science" on their front lawns with little signs, but there's not a scientist among them. It's a weird little cult.

Ohio's population failed miserably. Sure there are some people who haven't been swept along by the hysteria, but the vast majority were, or lack any will or backbone to stand up against it, which is just as bad, really.

Other states are even worse. New York, and California seem like insane asylums by comparison to Ohio. They're run by terrible, corrupt administrations. Only a handful of states retained any semblance of sanity. The only one I can think of is South Dakota. A steady drumbeat of media lies was directed at the governors who didn't go along with the hysterics. Why do people still care about the liars on TV? It's very strange.

It seems like a good idea for all the pro-freedom people to get to one location in the nation. If you had a critical mass of them in a state, they could protect their liberties and their futures. Since they're spread out around the nation, now, they'll have a hard time doing that.

Why Empires Go Insane

 A while ago, I wrote about "belief" as an expression of genetics.

Belief in a group, especially a genetically related group, shapes, or maybe is a precursor of laws. The commonly held beliefs about the way people should live, about what's fair, or how land can and should be used for example, would evolve into practice, then into a legal system to settle disputes without violence and conflict.

The laws and beliefs of a genetically similar group will seem rational and just, and will fit with their way of being, the same way the environment of some particular animals fits their way of life and their habits. If you took some raccoons from the woods and put them in a desert they would be stressed and probably would just die off.

A nation that's built on a genetic grouping of people is a more natural arrangement for people than an Empire, which is a pile of genetically unrelated people.

There's probably no way to reconcile different basic beliefs into a legal system.

We see that in the United States today, and in the "West", formerly Germanic, world. A great example is the nonsensical disputes about transsexuals, well, at least nonsensical from my perspective. There's an assertion by some group, let's face it, it's jews, that people can "change" their gender by plastic surgery and hormone treatment. That's opposite of a belief in a natural order.

That topic shows how the legal system, and associated institutions and practices can rot out in no time. Trying to reconcile the notions that are nonsensical in one group's understanding with the beliefs of some other group creates some lowest common denominator pile of garbage.

Was DHS Setup to Be A National Police Force?

 It's probably not a coincidence that police forces are retiring and resigning en masse.

I'm guessing the next step in this insanity will be to "nationalize", aka kosherize, the local jurisdictions under the DHS.

If that's the case, we're streaking toward a war. It seems pretty obvious that some faction--the Globalists--are trying to impose a new government on the people of the US without their consent or even their knowledge.

A Gibbering Pile of Insanity

 The mainstream media is starting to sell a story about "white supremacist" terrorists in the United States. This is based on a report from the Department of "Homeland" Security. (Which Homeland are they securing?)

I think if there are any white supremacist terrorists, half of them are FBI agents, and were they all to get together in one place, they wouldn't have enough people to play football.

The "white supremacist" terrorist trope dates to the Oklahoma City bombing. People like James Corbett have covered that whole thing in great detail.

It seems like the DHS is pretty thoroughly corrupt and infiltrated. It's one of the carbuncles that attached to the US after 9/11 of course.

Anyway, it seems like these scumbags are setting up a false flag. They really hate "white" people.

How Pop Culture Replaced Real Culture

 Before mass media, when people were bored they went to events, or just sat around and read or talked.

Among the population of a town or a neighborhood, there might be thousands of people, but there would only really be a handful of types of people. By mixing altogether socially and being somewhat known, people could form natural associations and affinities and pass along cultural knowledge. This still happens today, of course, but it seems likely that this process is attenuated.

That natural cultural activity couldn't compete, apparently, with mass media like TV and radio and even newspapers. The fairly plain and humdrum lives of people in a small town: the real life, flawed versions of archetypes, e.g. a wise old man, couldn't compete with the fictionalized/idealized version on the TV. For example, the Uncle Jessie character on the Dukes of Hazard could replace real life Uncles for many people.

The phony archetypes and narratives of TV and movies replaced the fairly boring real life versions in no time. An alien story line replaced the story line of a people. The actors know a handful of tricks to draw attention and keep it for a while, while the real life people are just interested in living their own life rather than "playing" a role.

The dead culture, and dead social life is a very serious problem. It's way more dangerous than the oligarchy, or the commie SJWs. A whole nation of people is lost, and has no direction. It's pretty sad and amazing.

Clara Kraebber and Kyle Rittenhouse: Stupid People and Stupid Causes

 The Kenosha Kid, Kyle Rittenhouse, and the Aristocrat Commie Clara Kraebber suffer from the same malady. I've suffered from it too, so I recognize it: they think their life is meaningless and they believe larger movements and causes are significant and meaningful.

For Kyle, the cause was defending lives and property from the likes of Clara Kraebber--the exact likes of Kraebber--in Kenosha. I think he shot 3 jewish social justice warriors. One of the guys he shot--Rosenbaum was a literal sex offender, literal child rapist by the way.

Clara Kraebber, the daughter of a wealthy family: an Ivy League academic in psychology and an architect--probably the two most pretentious vocations possible--thinks "Death to America" for "racism" or patriarchy or whatever nonsense is going to make her life meaningful. The completely nonsensical idea that the US is a boiling cauldron of hatred for black people and minorities and only Super Jew can save the poor, helpless blacks from evil whitey.

The total cultural collapse of the western world since WW2 is breathtaking. For most people, myself included, the ties to any sense of tradition are completely dissolved. Pursuit of some dumb cause replaced any sense of spirituality or connection to nature and to a larger flow of history. Instead, splashy, retarded movements like Black Lives Matter, or the ersatz movements on the phony right are the replacement.

Without a functioning culture, there's no chance to save this thing. Decades of crappy popular culture and propaganda destroyed it, rusted it out like the body of an old pickup truck.

There's a nation of people who are ripe for the plucking by death cults like Communism, or who can easily be worked over by charlatans like Bill Gates and Fauci or by scumbags like George W Bush, Bill Kristol, or whatever neocon shitbirds are currently appearing on TV.

China--Leading the Way into Hell

 OK

Now we can see the end game of the Covid scam in sight.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-parties-it-2019-patrons-pack-pool-parties-nightcubs-bars-wuhan-beijing

In China, the slave people are partying it up and having a great time: because they've been completely enrolled in the contract tracing/testing/vaccination system. They're owned.

Now they'll serve as the propaganda "gold standard" for whatever is left of  the Western world as the model for future slavery. Just be tracked and traced all the time and submit to whatever vaccines or any treatment the party--er the government wants you to take and you can have pool parties too!

So, it seems to be about on like Donkey Kong. The fraud is too obvious. Sure, most of the people in the United States seem to be complete dupes, but millions aren't.

The Globalist Menace

The globalists built out what's basically a religion that involves climate change, "racism", and now disease-life: the idea that everyone (not them) is going to live out their days wearing gloves and facemasks while living behind plexiglass barriers. Additionally, constrained resources mean you'll eat bugs and have your use of energy severely constrained while Bill Gates and his family and the other oligarchs fly around in their private jets and tow horses around to horse events.

The globalists have been concocting these scams and schemes for decades.  It seems the Bill Gates faction of the globalists are actually carrying out their scheme. A group of people who was basically a debate and networking circle jerk club is now a malignant danger to everyone.

White Liberals Think They're One of the Oligarchs

 It's getting more obvious every day that Corona is a huge fraud, but it seems like the globalist psychopaths like Fauci and Gates plan to release more deadly pathogens in the coming months and years, apparently to reduce population. Fauci is some sort of "environmentalist" on top of being a fraud actor "scientist".

What's the appeal of these psychos to the average people who follow them?

I think the average Joe white liberals who follow along with the ideas of these maniacs think they're part of the oligarchy. When the population gets reduced, for example, they think they'll be one of the people who lives because they "trust the science" or whatever nonsense they think, now.

The reality is the middle class/yeomanry of the United States has been fighting parasites like Gates and Fauci for hundreds of years, and it looks like we're going to have to do it again, like now.

Everyone Should Do This

 There's a group of black families in Georgia who are building their own community from scratch.

This is the future: the frontier is everywhere. Our current culture and political and economic system is a pile of garbage that exists to feed parasites.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/build-it-scratch-19-black-families-buy-land-create-safe-city-black-people

Black Lives Matter and Corona and White Liberal Retards

I don't know how many white liberals will be left in the United States after a few more weeks and months of corona bologna and BLM chimpouts in cities. Sure, some are complete dummies who can't look at things with their own two eyes and need some TV person on MSNBC to tell them what to think, but I don't know how many of that particular type of fool there is.

A bunch of people protesting decided it was a good idea to go harass and assault diners and destroy property at a restaurant. Why? What's their thought process? What does a restaurant have to do with some guy who was high on PCP getting killed in Rochester in March?

The disgust on the face of the diners who get up and leave epitomizes what's happening in the US now: a total loss of credibility of every institution due to the corona bullshit and to these commie rioters. The left wing of the invisible Empire is sponsoring all this nonsense and clamoring for more.

It's hard to guess how far it can go. At some point, you'd think people would snap out of it, but maybe they're all so dumbed down now that they lack even basic self-preservation skills. If they were "mandated" to wear two layers of masks they might.

Liz Warren is introducing some legislation to declare racism a public health emergency or some such nonsense. Somehow "racism" and corona are related. What clowns. They'll probably even manage to sell that bullshit to some of their more addled audience.

Why Are Cars Disposable while Bicycles Can Last a Lifetime?

 I bought a 1997 F-250 to haul stuff for our farm. It was only $1500. I spent another $2800 on repairs so it runs reliably. I planned all along to fix it up to cut my teeth on auto repair and improvement, and I'm finally delving into that.

This iteration of Ford trucks rusts out in the cab corner because they used some spray foam noise deadening stuff in there that holds moisture. It's like leaving a sponge on a piece of steel out in the elements. Eventually the sponge will burn right through the steel. Water, salt, and Oxygen eventually destroy metal objects.

By the time my truck was built, Ford had produced millions of trucks, and had invested many human-lifetimes in engineering and research, but their trucks are basically disposable items. Strangely, a truck or a car is probably more disposable than a bicycle.

Some people only keep a car or truck for 5 years or so, even though it's one of the most expensive items they own. There's some logic to that, because most of the expensive problems start showing up in cars or trucks after that time and the consumer economy has trained people to finance everything so they focus on monthly payments of something they finance as a cost of ownership, rather than large one time repair bills on an asset they own.

People who own and ride bicycles a lot can keep them basically indefinitely, even with lots of use and abuse, mainly because the materials used to make the bicycle, like aluminum, carbon fiber, and titanium aren't affected by rust.

If you're a cyclist and maintain your own equipment, what actually happens is the "bicycle" that you ride turns into a collection of components that evolves over time as they're damaged or upgraded. I suppose the same thing could happen with a car or truck, but the tools and infrastructure required for that is more expensive and takes up more space.

Anyway, do these industries evolve in response to their customer's needs, or do they shape the customers behavior? Truck makers focus on styling and features to sell trucks, rather than durability and simplicity, probably not so much because of the "market", but because of how the companies are financed, and how the employees make a living.

How the "Hero" Propaganda Works

 After 9/11, the media hyped the heroism of "first responders", i.e. police and firemen and EMS. At first they hyped the heroism of the NYC police and firefighters, but gradually they expanded the hero worship to all police and firemen.

The same thing happened in the corona hoax. At first, the media and government hyped the heroism of the doctors and nurses in NYC. If you can remember, during the first wave of propaganda about this fraud, there were dire videos of mass graves, and even fraud stories about the possibility of using Central Park to stack up dead bodies. That was all a lie, but it made the people who were dealing with corona seem especially brave.

It doesn't matter that the doctors and nurses who were treating corona patients in NYC were killing them in droves. They (or something in the hospitals) killed off more than 10x as many people as doctors and nurses did in other areas and hospitals fired doctors who questioned the methodology. But sure, they were all heroes. Then the media expanded that hero narrative to all "front line" workers. Of course, it's also possible that all the stats about deaths were just made up, and the doctors were as competent as other doctors around the country.

So in both 911, and in coronabologna, the media created new "terms of art", or an argot and slang peculiar to this event. Slang creation is common among gangs. It creates an in-group feeling. The new words are like a shiny new thing that sticks in the brain like an ad slogan. "Social distancing" is one such term. "Front line worker" and "first responder" is another. Not only does the new term create the in-group feeling, it also characterizes the event. For example, the "front line" suggests there's a war versus a  flu/cold bug.

The praise that's heaped on some group by the media and politician scumbags stirs up a mild sense of envy in the public. The group that's getting all the adulation is put up on a pedestal, and their typically mundane and boring jobs are made to seem supernaturally special. At the same time, it makes the politicans and scumbag media seem very important because they are the ones bestowing the praise.

That sense of envy is sort of like a vacuum/attractor of the public. It makes them think the whole production is good. So in 911, the bravery of the cops and firemen that was praised by the criminals in media and government helped steer the public to want mass murder of people in Iraq, who had absolutely nothing to do with 911. In the covid panic, the hero worship of dancing tik tok doctors and nurses in their otherwise empty hospitals led to the public wanting everyone to be locked down and managed and wear masks forever.

One Last Swindle of the Boomer Generation

Cue the "Layla Piano Exit" music.

Reverse fade from black to historical footage of WWI and WWII bombs and death culminating in nukes.

Fade to scumbags of post WW2 era setting up the CIA. Lots of laughing establishment ghouls and murderers.

Short focus on Gulf of Tonkin coverage, then poignant interview of how that was a lie. Shift to montage of Vietnam war footage, heroin using soldiers, then footage of US military discarding tanks and helicopters.

Pan to Nixon ditching the gold standard. Lots of footage of laughing banker scumbags. Explosion of "pop culture".

Show 911, then Colin Powell lying to UN scumbags.

Dot com bust.

Housing bubble bust.

Masked "americans". People waiting in line for food handouts. Lying scumbag Fauci attempting to throw baseball.

Then fade to black as song ends.

Perverse Incentives of Finance Corporate World

I was educated and trained to be a corporate tech worker, but had cognitive dissonance basically since day one. It really took about 15 years to start crawling out of that mindset and world to get to a place of slightly higher consciousness about how I should be living.

Part of that learning process was a lot of DIY grunt work renovating my old house, and now several building projects upgrading my "new" home and property. As part of that, I started working on the old beater pickup truck I bought last summer.

The bed rusted out, and I was planning to replace it. I've slowly acquired the tools and skills to do that, so just this past weekend, I pulled the bed off and started to inspect the frame, brake and fuel lines, and exhaust.

Corrosion eats up the components of cars relatively quickly in Northeast Ohio because of our wet and snowy climate and the copious use of road salt in the winter and cars are engineered to be disposable crap. It'd be pretty trivial and not much more "expensive" to use materials that aren't subject to corrosion so a car or truck, even with a steel frame, could last for decades. Wear components would still need to be replaced, but everything else could last essentially for the life of the driver and beyond.

Back in the 70'sand 80's there were businesses that did undercoating to preserve car frames--but that rubberized undercoating sucked and actually rusted cars out. Maybe a more comprehensive business that modifies and maintains vehicles so they could last a long time would do well.

Anyway, the motive to "make money" versus doing useful and valuable things is the basis of crapflation. Similarly, the training of "consumers" to make bad choices over and over and over again, and to be governed by emotion and whim creates the appetite that drives the system.

 

Reality versus "Emperor's New Clothes" and "To Serve Man"

 When I was in elementary school we read the "Emperor's New Clothes" in class. That's the Hans Christian Anderson story about the Emperor who walks down the street naked because his advisors con him into believing he's wearing magnificent robes though he's really naked. The Emperor is deluded because he's so vain. In the story the crowd, en masse, sees the fraud with their own eyes and laughs at him.

The reality is the crowd is the most likely to believe the lies told by the Emperor's advisors even contrary to what their own senses say. That's the harder, but more sensible lesson children should learn.

The Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" is really the "Emperor's New Clothes". The horrifying fraud is revealed all at once. In that story humanity's credulity and vanity, and desire for novel experience is their undoing.

The real ending to that story would be the "it's a cookbook" moment, but the people in line shrug, then willingly climb onto the spaceship.