As for our meddlesome, cultish and inept politicians ... we need to institute mechanisms of accountability; they are doing great damage to our societies due to their vanity and hybris.
And 'Snotgreen' is Word o' the Week.
In local news, our Labour PM was soundly heckled by palestine activists during his Labour Day speech to his comrades today. Ironically befitting since his lot are fully in bed with the muslim death-cultists. I'm all for solidarity among working men - that idea has been a game changer - but this bunch of impostors and usurpers are so lost in some ideological fog that they have to invent grievances to ineffectually try to redress (by regualation, taxation and repression, obviously). They'll be the death of us.
Great minds, and all that jazz. I'd missed this post of yours - that and the film are fascinating.
And, yes, the threat posed by the religion of peace and their political followers is reaching new levels here, too. As you say, they will be the death of us if we don't wake up very soon.
Yes, that old 'Irish hands-film' is quite good -- a window into a bygone era. But how to relate to it? I'd like to think you know me well enough by now to know that, despite having chosen an old-timey trade as 'bürgerlicher beruf', I'm not one of those soft-souled nostalgic dreamers who pine for yesteryear -- in my case, it's more that I expect us to be back there before we have time to say 'intersectional grievance studies' or whatever fashionable 'intellectual' fad grips the public domain -- re: Spain's recent power outage. We will not be able to maintain our highly complex, high-tech-dependent societies with the (declining) human resources we have at our disposal. Abstract thought presupposes a relatively high average IQ population. A Weberian, universal, impartial bureaucracy is an incredibly abstract concept, while might-makes-right is rather more readily grasped, as is the concomitant corruption ... as anthropology tends to bear out.
A Scandinavian (or Anglo-style?) social-democratic welfare state is only possible so long as a large majority of the population adheres to a basically Lutheran work-ethic: In the sweat of your brow shall you eat your bread ... Add a fifth of shameless, freeloading heathens to the population -- blatantly taking advantage! -- and watch the native population become disillusioned, dispirited and demoralized. Let them rape your underage, working class girls on an industrial scale and ignore the outrage ...
Nothing good will come of this. That our politicians -- all across western Europe -- would seem to think so is damning evidence of their ideological indoctrination -- amazing what a university education will do to you ability to think for yourself!
Which leaves a nasty jewboy-goy like me to ponder how foul bedfellows he would countenance in order to avert an even greater calamity? Never again will we be helplessly slaughtered. Not an enviable predicament. I do not as yet know the answer to that question, but I will tell you this: I cherish peace, productivity and comity above all, but if you threaten me and mine I WILL BURY YOU!
I am peaceful, but far from harmless. I fear the future.
I mean no disrespect - au contraire! - but you've lived a long life, seen lots of things change and are obviously clever enough to make sense of a lot of it. I liked reading your descriptions of growing up in post-war Britain, but you seem to have stopped your autobiographical writing (for the most part) when you began your working life.
Now ... I am, obviously, in no position to pressure you to do anything at all, but I am rather curious about how England/London was in your heyday. I'm not interested in your business successes (sorry!) but rather in life, culture, sexuality and society in those years. My father spent a formative decade in London in the late fifties/early sixties ... after having disembarked as a Norwegian Merchant Navy telegraphist (had to get out from under his overweening mother) ... bedsit in Bayswater Road ... an Indian friend called Alvin Patel, whose signed books on Zen and Hindusism I still keep in my shelves ... he also left me a first edition of Huxley's 'Doors of Perception' ... My Father was a Norwegian gentleman -- there are not many of those, except among the sailors, who have seen the world.
Would you not please write some more about your working life? Not the business nitty-gritty, but the soul of the age? What was England like in those days?
Wow! That is a manifesto ... and one that I agree with.
I'll respond at greater length in due course, probably in an actual post. But I have to say, right now, how taken I am by your point that "A Scandinavian (or Anglo-style?) social-democratic welfare state is only possible so long as a large majority of the population adheres to a basically Lutheran work-ethic:" How true, how true. Which makes it all the more inexplicable that our so-called leaders unilaterally embarked, without any mandate, on the high-speed deindustrialization that they did from the 1990s. Things went rapidly downhill.
This very day, as it happens, we're getting the results of a whole raft of local elections that took place yesterday in the UK. And Reform, the new political party of dissent from the mass uncontrolled immigration model is storming to victory after victory.
What a surprise ... not. It's inevitable that this shift will be labelled 'far right' but it is surely an inevitable reaction to the disasters of the past few years.
To conclude(?) this 'political' train of thought: Seems Reform did quite well ... for what it's worth (can you tell how jaded I've become?) Still; anything that bloodies the complacent noses :-)
Glad you enjoyed Rammstein. They're the most clever 'cultural operators' in the Germanic safe-space. If you peruse their back-catalogue of videos I'm confident you'll be able to detect the consistently high level of subversion on display ('friktions-orientiert'). It's not about the 'logical argument' -- never was -- but about persuasive effectiveness. (Did I mention that I specialized in rhetoric while studying linguistics at Uni? That, and pragmatics) No, they are not nazis, they're outraged at the ridiculous level of government repression and enforced nonsense -- like any good, freedom-minded, democratic citizen ought to be! Also; they court controversy as a basic marketing ploy -- goes without saying. I wonder if this is what an AfD-victory will look like:
I've also published a post with that very same title, also regarding Ireland. How curious!
https://walteregon.substack.com/p/something-for-the-weekend-sir
As for our meddlesome, cultish and inept politicians ... we need to institute mechanisms of accountability; they are doing great damage to our societies due to their vanity and hybris.
And 'Snotgreen' is Word o' the Week.
In local news, our Labour PM was soundly heckled by palestine activists during his Labour Day speech to his comrades today. Ironically befitting since his lot are fully in bed with the muslim death-cultists. I'm all for solidarity among working men - that idea has been a game changer - but this bunch of impostors and usurpers are so lost in some ideological fog that they have to invent grievances to ineffectually try to redress (by regualation, taxation and repression, obviously). They'll be the death of us.
Great minds, and all that jazz. I'd missed this post of yours - that and the film are fascinating.
And, yes, the threat posed by the religion of peace and their political followers is reaching new levels here, too. As you say, they will be the death of us if we don't wake up very soon.
Yes, that old 'Irish hands-film' is quite good -- a window into a bygone era. But how to relate to it? I'd like to think you know me well enough by now to know that, despite having chosen an old-timey trade as 'bürgerlicher beruf', I'm not one of those soft-souled nostalgic dreamers who pine for yesteryear -- in my case, it's more that I expect us to be back there before we have time to say 'intersectional grievance studies' or whatever fashionable 'intellectual' fad grips the public domain -- re: Spain's recent power outage. We will not be able to maintain our highly complex, high-tech-dependent societies with the (declining) human resources we have at our disposal. Abstract thought presupposes a relatively high average IQ population. A Weberian, universal, impartial bureaucracy is an incredibly abstract concept, while might-makes-right is rather more readily grasped, as is the concomitant corruption ... as anthropology tends to bear out.
A Scandinavian (or Anglo-style?) social-democratic welfare state is only possible so long as a large majority of the population adheres to a basically Lutheran work-ethic: In the sweat of your brow shall you eat your bread ... Add a fifth of shameless, freeloading heathens to the population -- blatantly taking advantage! -- and watch the native population become disillusioned, dispirited and demoralized. Let them rape your underage, working class girls on an industrial scale and ignore the outrage ...
Nothing good will come of this. That our politicians -- all across western Europe -- would seem to think so is damning evidence of their ideological indoctrination -- amazing what a university education will do to you ability to think for yourself!
Which leaves a nasty jewboy-goy like me to ponder how foul bedfellows he would countenance in order to avert an even greater calamity? Never again will we be helplessly slaughtered. Not an enviable predicament. I do not as yet know the answer to that question, but I will tell you this: I cherish peace, productivity and comity above all, but if you threaten me and mine I WILL BURY YOU!
I am peaceful, but far from harmless. I fear the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaxDxHUWP8
"... a window into a bygone era."
I mean no disrespect - au contraire! - but you've lived a long life, seen lots of things change and are obviously clever enough to make sense of a lot of it. I liked reading your descriptions of growing up in post-war Britain, but you seem to have stopped your autobiographical writing (for the most part) when you began your working life.
Now ... I am, obviously, in no position to pressure you to do anything at all, but I am rather curious about how England/London was in your heyday. I'm not interested in your business successes (sorry!) but rather in life, culture, sexuality and society in those years. My father spent a formative decade in London in the late fifties/early sixties ... after having disembarked as a Norwegian Merchant Navy telegraphist (had to get out from under his overweening mother) ... bedsit in Bayswater Road ... an Indian friend called Alvin Patel, whose signed books on Zen and Hindusism I still keep in my shelves ... he also left me a first edition of Huxley's 'Doors of Perception' ... My Father was a Norwegian gentleman -- there are not many of those, except among the sailors, who have seen the world.
Would you not please write some more about your working life? Not the business nitty-gritty, but the soul of the age? What was England like in those days?
Yes. I think you've given me the nudge I needed :-)
Wow! That is a manifesto ... and one that I agree with.
I'll respond at greater length in due course, probably in an actual post. But I have to say, right now, how taken I am by your point that "A Scandinavian (or Anglo-style?) social-democratic welfare state is only possible so long as a large majority of the population adheres to a basically Lutheran work-ethic:" How true, how true. Which makes it all the more inexplicable that our so-called leaders unilaterally embarked, without any mandate, on the high-speed deindustrialization that they did from the 1990s. Things went rapidly downhill.
This very day, as it happens, we're getting the results of a whole raft of local elections that took place yesterday in the UK. And Reform, the new political party of dissent from the mass uncontrolled immigration model is storming to victory after victory.
What a surprise ... not. It's inevitable that this shift will be labelled 'far right' but it is surely an inevitable reaction to the disasters of the past few years.
And thank you for making me aware of 'Mein Land'!
To conclude(?) this 'political' train of thought: Seems Reform did quite well ... for what it's worth (can you tell how jaded I've become?) Still; anything that bloodies the complacent noses :-)
Glad you enjoyed Rammstein. They're the most clever 'cultural operators' in the Germanic safe-space. If you peruse their back-catalogue of videos I'm confident you'll be able to detect the consistently high level of subversion on display ('friktions-orientiert'). It's not about the 'logical argument' -- never was -- but about persuasive effectiveness. (Did I mention that I specialized in rhetoric while studying linguistics at Uni? That, and pragmatics) No, they are not nazis, they're outraged at the ridiculous level of government repression and enforced nonsense -- like any good, freedom-minded, democratic citizen ought to be! Also; they court controversy as a basic marketing ploy -- goes without saying. I wonder if this is what an AfD-victory will look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnSh3QlpbQ&list=RDGMEMJQXQAmqrnmK1SEjY_rKBGA&index=1
Will read your latest post later. Must eat something.