By the by, this guy is rapidly approaching mid-10s Scott-tier for me. Scratches almost the same itch. Almost every time he releases a podcast essay, I end up re-listening a few times, and it lingers in my mind for weeks. (The interview podcasts are less interesting.) I recommend "The Frontier Was Always Closed (To you)", "How the Taliban Won", and his review of Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
erwgv3g34 3mo ago
I read the first one and it's really just the usual paranoid, millenarian boo-outgroup screed I've seen from rightists about a million times now. A far cry from early Scott.
the enemy has transmogrified from self-dealing hustlers & zealots into a cabal of literal blood-drinking pedophile satanists in command of the entire Western order
As the divide becomes more dangerous, They will be more insistent to know which side you’re on, & institutions with the power to reveal that knowledge will lose the pretense of impartiality.
You know what is coming for this culture. It’s going to be destroyed - & long before it is destroyed, it’s going to become an unbearable hell. Maybe you were hoping to time your exit, make a little more money, watch a little more Netflix, eat a little more plastic meat - but maybe your plan would have come too late. If God calls you out of Babylon ahead of schedule, you don’t ask questions & you don’t look back.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
No_one 3mo ago·Edited 3mo ago
Even that one veers into fantasies about confiscatory taxes, conspiracy, and collapse.
Tax debates in our lifetime have mostly been about the moral rectitude of redistribution — what’s “fair” or what people “deserve” — but for our grandchildren, it will be a question of who lives and who dies. The young will not be able to support their own families alongside dozens of unrelated dependents, even as far as the basics of food and shelter.
Paradoxically, this will unfold in a world with abundant land and capital lying unused, because there will be so few competent, able bodies to operate it. Survival will be a straightforward matter of saying “no” to all of these demands — building for your own people, and protecting what you build.
Unsourced tweet from dprk enjoyer about Amish cell phones
for the powers we wrestle against, sterility is the point.
Once you understand the 'Social contract' in shrinking societies, 'Day of the Pillow' or more likely 'Just letting state pensioners slide into utter poverty' starts looking downright appealing.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
No_one 3mo ago
There's some truth to the meme, but unlike in Europe, in the US the social security age is raised on a regular basis without everyone flipping out and burning busses. Finances are also not the reason that people aren't having kids, it's entirely cultural and the fact that people simply prefer the DINK lifestyle. Per capita income tax is recently high but until covid has been flat for 20 years. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-money-does-the-government-collect-per-person/
And certainly nobody is going or will go hungry or homeless due to taxes, what a ridiculous exaggeration.
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By the by, this guy is rapidly approaching mid-10s Scott-tier for me. Scratches almost the same itch. Almost every time he releases a podcast essay, I end up re-listening a few times, and it lingers in my mind for weeks. (The interview podcasts are less interesting.) I recommend "The Frontier Was Always Closed (To you)", "How the Taliban Won", and his review of Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.
It's a shame he's not anywhere near as prolific.
Does he have written things?
He has a blog called Bennett's Phylactery. I really liked "You’re Going to Be Doxxed", "Evils & Designs", and "Breeding Our Way Out".
I read the first one and it's really just the usual paranoid, millenarian boo-outgroup screed I've seen from rightists about a million times now. A far cry from early Scott.
Maybe the others are better.
I only read the last one. I'd not rate him anywhere near Scott, but he's reasonably smart and the third essay is very much worth reading.
Even that one veers into fantasies about confiscatory taxes, conspiracy, and collapse.
Like I said, downright millenarian.
Once you understand the 'Social contract' in shrinking societies, 'Day of the Pillow' or more likely 'Just letting state pensioners slide into utter poverty' starts looking downright appealing.
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There's some truth to the meme, but unlike in Europe, in the US the social security age is raised on a regular basis without everyone flipping out and burning busses. Finances are also not the reason that people aren't having kids, it's entirely cultural and the fact that people simply prefer the DINK lifestyle. Per capita income tax is recently high but until covid has been flat for 20 years. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-money-does-the-government-collect-per-person/
And certainly nobody is going or will go hungry or homeless due to taxes, what a ridiculous exaggeration.
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