Cold is a Good Teacher

Lately, when I have some time to kill, I watch bodycam videos. It's a glimpse into a world I fortunately do not have any contact with. I'd say half the videos are drunks and druggies, and half the videos are car chases. I'll get tired of watching these pretty soon, but for now, they're pretty dramatic and interesting.

They're interesting because there are obvious patterns that emerge among all the videos. For example, drunks seize on a single idea and rant about it throughout their arrest. Another example is many drunks act superior and entitled even as they slur their words, pee their pants and engage in felonies, especially if they have a "high status" job like a lawyer.

Based on these videos, I'd say the current "young people", that is the people who are currently in their late teens and early 20s, generation, I guess it's Gen Z, is pretty mind fucked. They imagine the universe revolves around their emotional state. They also imagine they're the only people in the world who aren't racist or sexist or whatever. In the videos, when they get pulled over for driving drunk, or causing an accident, or whatever, they melt down and have childish tantrums and scream at police for violating their imaginary rights not to be touched.

There are vast hoards of adults who have no idea there's an external reality that doesn't care at all about their inner world. This state of mind is depicted very well in the movie Demolition Man. I'd put all those people in the "urban/suburban housecat" category of people. There are vast bureaucratic institutions built on top of those people in the coastal megalopolis regions in the US. There are about 100 million people in just SoCal, San Francisco, and the northeast megalopolis and a large fraction of those fall into that urban housecat human category.

I think a major factor in that delusion is the environment is so controlled in those man-made regions, especially in la-la-land California. The very mild climate and paved landscape untethers an individual's ego from real world constraints, because there seem to be none. It seems like the only problems in the world are its deviations from an individuals desires and opinions.

Very cold weather, like single digit Fahrenheit, or sub 0F temperatures all day long provides a good reminder that the world goes on about its business regardless of your opinions or desires. If you want to continue to function in the cold, you have to adapt. The snow and cold forces a lot more responsibility on individuals as well.

If you want to go somewhere when there is a foot of snow in the driveway, you have to clear it away. You have to maintain your car more carefully in harsh weather, take care of pets, wear the right clothes, etc... If you want to exercise, you have to be very highly motivated. The list goes on and on. There's a strong correlation between cold and IQ all around the world for fairly obvious reasons. There's also a higher proportion of hunter-gatherer DNA further from the equator, at least in Europe.

The human housecat population will re-arrange every institution to revolve around their fantasy world and ideological religious predilections. The places those people live will descend into absolute chaos as a result.