He’s a scam artist and I don’t like him, but this actually just looked kinda cool and I’m tired of pretending it didn’t. This moment and the moment with Grimes were literally the only times in his life he looked cool, sorry.
Ironically I think one of the main problems with our society is that for most of the latter half of the 20th century, people have just been too happy. They had it too good. When you have it good, you’re not going to rock the boat. Consider the whole mass immigration thing. Even the leader of the socialist party in the Netherlands now insists there has been too much immigration.
So why didn’t people do anything about it? Why did they readily send their kids to school with traumatized third world war refugees, from countries where they remove their daughter’s clitoris and rape “beardless boys”? You see the occasional commentary, of US troops who were traumatized because they opened the wrong door and walked in on adult Afghan men raping boys. Well, there are 61,000 Afghans in the Netherlands today, along with 40,000 Somali and 165,000 Syrians.
Why did people accept this? Because they had it too good. Why rock the boat, why have your neighbors see you as “the racist”? You have a good easy life, your kids are going to go to school with traumatized war refugees, who commit 80% of stranger rape in Sweden, but who cares, right? Just obey your wife, go to your shitjob, watch the TV, go through the motions, eat your steak.
So now we’re living through the backlash, the whole Western world is now run by a bunch of meme-brained South African tech billionaires who saw firsthand what happens when you become a minority (genocide). The thing with complaints about fascism, is that fascism never emerges in a vacuum. It emerges when the old system allowed problems to fester unimpeded.
The weird thing about modern techbro fascism is that it isn’t even really about the United States. The illegal Mexicans in America become victims of what’s going on in Europe. When I was in Stockholm I had a 5 feet tall brown American veteran in his twenties complain to me about all the refugees entering Europe, who will destroy the continent demographically according to him.
Unfortunately the Germans are basically mentally ill. They have a kind of collective mental illness and you can’t really discuss this stuff with them without some kind of bizarre mental breakdown where they start crying. The Germans act like a boy who’s forced to choose between killing his puppy and his father, when you point out to them that all these Syrians did not behave very nicely in the rape-tunnel. And because Germany is the biggest most prominent country in the EU, we’re all kind of screwed. The Swedish have their own thing going on that I don’t comprehend, only the Danish seem remotely normal among Western Europeans.
But German mental illness is just a small part of the story. The bigger problem is really that the post 45 generation, the ones who never consciously experienced the war, just had it tóó good. If I could go back in time, I would focus all my effort on just making the babyboomers less happy. Their happiness is the main source of every problem we face today.
You sound like one of the Zeihan fans here, thinking that the world wars were something to aspire to. If you had a time machine and an unhappiness ray and used it as much as you like there would be no change to the timeline of peak oil, alas.
>If I could go back in time, I would focus all my effort on just making the babyboomers less happy.
They boomers are paying for their happiness right now, very few of them are smiling anymore. The problem with the baby boomers is that their typical ideology and lifestyle led to them being unable to age gracefully.
The majority of boomers failed as parents for numerous reasons, so their children don’t like them; so they feel unloved and sex can’t fill that void for them anymore. There’s all these modern issues like transgenderism, AI, the housing crisis, and environmental collapse; for which normie boomers aren’t ideologically or biologically equipped to understand, and hearing about these those things simply simply makes them upset and confused. The typical boomer diet and sedentary lifestyles means that by the time they reach old age they suffer numerous health issues, physical ailments, and mental disabilities. The happiest boomers seem to be the Jesus freaks who disassociate from the physical world and typical consensus reality as much as possible while waiting for heaven.
If you want to believe in a God that transcends this world who has a plan, the results of the boomers lifestyle on both the societal and individual level are a good lesson on what not to do. No one wants to listen to the message though it seems, people are still too attached to way the system works even as it takes more and more and gives less and less. It’s gotten to the point the people running things are telling the peasants that they won’t be able to own a home, and that the only purpose for the economy is to destroy the environment and replace humanity with robots and how this is acshually a good thing; and normies still think you’re a piece of shit if you’re not working 16 hours a day at McDonalds and Door Dash just to barely be able to afford a room.
The people running things aren’t telling the truth about their goals to the peasants like you say they are. They tell their true goals to the people one step removed from power, the client journalists wih aristocratic pedigrees and the hedge fund managers, who tell their stories to the people one rung further down. The only reason the people on the bottom have vague understandings of the top is because these layers of emanations are leaky and information falls out of them from time to time. The people at the bottom have a normal distribution of how much they listen to the messages they are intended to receive versus how much they ignore them, because most people can only handle a small amount of truth at any one time before they go fight/flight.
>The problem with the baby boomers is that their typical ideology and lifestyle led to them being unable to age gracefully.
I don’t think there is such a thing as aging gracefully.
It’s always painful to age. Much better to die young.
I always felt obliged to outlive my parents but I envy those who don’t.
Ageing is always a issue and painful but you can tell that some old people are happy and healthy in ways that most boomers are not.
https://youtu.be/zSDKXkWpYTQ
At the very least there’s a certain dignity some old people possess when they take care of themselves, are intelligence, and healthy.
One absolutely must outlive one’s parents. It is the only thing one must do for them without fail.
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You lie.
The boomers I know in real life aren’t paying any attention to transgenderism, environmental collapse, AI or the housing crisis, so they are not distressed or confused by these issues. What I am seeing is a subset of boomer women who have an astonishing sense of entitlement; they think everyone should be their servant. I have a relative by marriage and she is also GenX (but younger than me; I am oldest GenX) and we just visited her mom in a facility. Although her mom deserted her and her sister, she is nonetheless expecting great service from her and from all the workers in the facility. And even though she never saved any money (despite having a good job) she is expecting Medicaid to give her a fabulous assisted living place, not a subpar one. My GenX relative and I agreed that we’ve never expected much of anything.
I always felt obliged to outlive my parents but I envy those who don’t.
I lost my best friend at age 32, 11 years ago, we had a wonderfull youth and young adulthood.. i often think that Wouter is in a better place, he hasn’t missed anything, the quality of life degraded very fast
My sister died young. I never wanted to grow older, even as a child.
But I couldn’t do it to my family, therefore Outliving.
I, sadly, agree with the stance on german mass delusion, mental illnesses.
Greetings to the mandatory Rundfunkbeitrag..
You want to see the path to collective consciousness unfold over a lifetime, that’s impossible. We’re not going to be around if it happens. I don’t think we’ll reach that point. The most conscious people today don’t have children, for one. No Eckhart Tolle Jr. The happiest person alive doesn’t seem to have any either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthieu_Ricard
Evil seems to multiplie with ease though.
I disagree strongly on everything you have mentioned Swizzl. I actually am the happiest man alive and challenge you to support that first sentence of your post.
I have 3 children and plan on more!
Agree, the Boomers are entitled. The real elites, the owners, couldn’t have engineered their psychology better if they wanted to, which they did.
Sorry, I’m about to go on a rant. . .
There was a period after WWII where the working class of the west was given a better deal than they ever enjoyed before. They were bought off, so they wouldn’t follow the good example of the communists and eliminate their capitalist overlords.
That deal has been eroded, faster and faster after the fall of the collapse Soviet Union. End of history! Sure. No choice but disgusting neoliberal capitalism! Yeah, right. That thinking died pretty quick, didn’t it? But anyway, back to that better deal. . . it didn’t take too long before the capitalist elites started deleting the benefits line by line, with the inequality giving rise to conditions amenable to the rise of fascism.
And who is there to stand against them? The entitled, decadent and obscene Demoncrats, along with their kind everywhere else in the west, who took things like the free education they were offered, the government housing, the free healthcare, the good pensions, got a solid head start in life and then they pulled up the ladder behind them for the generations to follow?
No, those Ponzi Lords won’t come to the rescue – they’re not fighters for the lower classes. They’re their landlords now! Living on rents and unearned gains! The ultimate revolting betrayal of the working class (who they despise), and increasingly the middle-class.
Why didn’t they do anything about immigration? Because the elites they serve were making money out of it, and so were they, and because they hate the working class and the poor who they exploit.
It’s not enough to blame this on lack of exposure to war, or them getting it too soft, no, they gave themselves to the dark side willingly. It’s worse than just having it too easy, they willingly transmorphed from mere entitlement into ruthless, greedy exploiters.
Now comes the part with the reaping, which while necessarily ‘difficult’ must happen for a juster, fairer, and more equitable system to emerge.
Oops, I meant to post this in reply to Karenica
I don’t see how near universal dementia in all age groups is going to lead to a more equitable system. I think it will mean the nuclear power plants melt down.
The young people I know aren’t any better as humans than the boomers; they eat just as much meat and travel overseas as much as they can. You will miss the boomers when they are gone; they are more kindly than the following generations, even if they are mostly stupid.
People come up with reasons that death is good because they are guided by bad spirits. The death comes, and then things are even worse. You will not get your juster system as a result of the evil you are wishing on others.
I won’t miss the boomer overlords any more than I will miss capitalism when it finally dies.
The system is out of lockstep with reality, and fundamentally wrong, so it has to go.
The good news, from my point of view, is that the system appears to be self-terminating – it creates the instability and various horrors that will lead to its own destruction
My feelings are not going to change what happens – the evil has brought on its own demise, but thanks for gaslighting me over this impending historical inevitability.
I unashamedly wish for a better world for all and look forward to the completion of the process, so a new and better system can replace it that will enable people to live in better conditions and in harmony with the Earth.
In this sense, death can in fact be good.
Without death, there would be stagnation and no room for anything new and good to happen.
How am I gaslighting you? I think Rintrah is right about the medical effects of covid and the covid vaccines and I am seeing it happening already. I’m not targeting your political views; the same point would hold if you were supporting capitalism. If you could come up with a convincing reason to think that widespread dementia would improve things I’d be thrilled. Unfortunately animals are also getting dementia from covid; there were experiments on dogs in Korea and they all developed severe brain damage after being infected with covid.
Also unfortunately this is going to go on for a very long time; Rintrah has pointed out the severe population bottleneck 20,000+ years ago from the last comparable pandemic. The last such bottleneck sure didn’t lead to Utopia.
“How am I gaslighting you?”
You attempted to manipulate me by inferring that I am somehow evil for wishing for a new and better world, because that necessarily means suffering as the current one ends.
Thanks for that.
On the specific covid angle, it was not me, for example, who driven by profit incentives decided to create the pandemic that is eating everyone’s brains.
So please, don’t attempt to psychologically manipulate me into thinking that what happens is somehow my fault through me succumbing to the influence of evil spirits.
The capitalists beat me to that. The spirit they communed with is called Mammon.
I will not miss that system one dot.
First of all, I didn’t say that you were evil. I said that you were being influenced by evil spirits.
Second of all, if you affirm an evil means to something, you are affirming evil. The fact that you want something good as a result does not change that. Saying that you thought that torturing a puppy would bring about a good world does not mean that it is okay to torture a puppy.
I most certainly don’t think the covid pandemic is your fault.
I empathize with your dislike of capitalism, but unfortunately humans are pretty terrible no matter what economic system they live under. Mao killed off 80 million of his countrymen. Stalin killed about 35 million. Genghis Khan killed 40 million. Then there’s Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Ceausescu, the Japanese in WWII killing Chinese and their hideous human experiments, the Turks killing the Armenians. NONE of these were capitalists.
I agree people are flawed, there is no utopia – unless you are talking something miraculous from God that is yet to come.
Capitalism is a monstrous system – I could point to any number of examples, including the brain eating virus you are concerned about. It is insatiable and would consume the whole damn planet for heaven’s sake.
But that aside, you still don’t get it do you?
My dislike of capitalism is perfectly rational thank you very much – there is no requirement for evil spirits influencing me for me to form that view whatsoever.
Suggesting otherwise is gaslighting as it is to suggest that there is something wrong with me, the victim, for being damaged by something capitalism, which is the actual systemic evil perpetrator here, has done.
I restate that the evils of capitalism are not my fault. If it is brought undone by its own workings, then so be it. I am fine with that, and I disagree that this makes me ‘affirming evil’. Instead, it just makes me pleased to see the root cause of many evils go away.
From where I am sitting it is also perfectly reasonable, and not evil at all, to be pleased to see that system go.
It’s strange that you think you need to say that the evils of capitalism are not your fault. No-one said that they were your fault and it would be lunatic to think they were.
It is possible to think that a system is evil, and still not want a particular evil that could get rid of it.
When this washes out you and I will dead, and so will huge numbers of humans and animals. That is not something to celebrate; a wasteland of death is not a good thing even if it gets rid of a particular economic system. What arises will be nothing especially good, unless people become kinder. You don’t get to a kinder system by way of mass death; you get to a more brutal system that way.
A historical example would be the Protestant Reformation. People were really convinced that it would lead to some sort of Utopia, and they did not care that there would be terrible death and damage required to bring that about. Lo and behold they got rid of that “evil” system of Catholicism (which indeed was badly flawed), by way of plenty of deaths, and yet things got worse instead of better. Because humans had not changed.
“It is possible to think that a system is evil, and still not want a particular evil that could get rid of it.”
I unashamedly want that system to go away to be replaced by something better – I am not talking about a utopia here, as I recognize that man is fallen, but I do believe something better is possible.
It seems to me that it is possible that the backlash of forces against capitalism, which it has created and unleashed upon itself, will make it go away one day – it seems unlikely to me that it will be just the one thing, instead, it’ll probably be numerous things. It’s not at all strange for me to say that this is not my fault, as you think I am under the influence of demons to support this happening. This has happened quite independently from me. If you are going to accuse anyone of being influenced by demons, how about you accuse the architects of their own demise.
I would argue that the system creates more evil than good, so I’m not going to miss it.
There also seems to be a question of agency here that needs to be addressed.
Despite what you say about agreeing that this is not my fault, it seems that you think what I feel or want can somehow change the outcome in this matter, but in my view how I feel about this particular issue makes no difference whatsoever to the big picture.
It’s a happy coincidence for me that I don’t like capitalism, but that it appears to have sown the seeds of its own destruction and will therefore go away. I might add that I’ve been opposed to it sowing those seeds for, like, my entire adult life, but that hasn’t made one dot of difference so far to the system obsessively and compulsively spurting seeds of doom everywhere.
On the back of that experience, I must conclude that I have no significant influence or control over what has happened or will happen in this matter whatsoever.
And now that those innumerable seeds have sprouted and are maturing, I am just as powerless to change anything.
So it goes.
I could be pleased by what is going to happen, or displeased, and it would make about as much difference as me attempting to control the tides by ‘affirming’ or ‘disaffirming’ them.
Given the forces at play, and my own insignificant level of power and importance in the scheme of things, it would be a monumentally vain delusion for me (or anyone else) to believe otherwise, but just in case there’s still some question that my affirmation, or lack thereof, can change events (as if these events were subject to a cosmic vote or whatever) and to remove suggestion that I am under demonic influence, then I am more than happy to hand my vote over to God.
Thy will be done God, whatever that happens to be, in whatever way you want to do it.
I am totally good with it.
I appreciate that this might seem callous, so for what it’s worth, I’m sorry for the dementia you see in your friends. You and they have my sympathy, as does everyone with dementia and all those who will develop it as a result of this virus or some other cause.
The virus is just one of the seeds the beast has sown, there are plenty more, and all those countless millions and billions of other outraged victims of capitalism also have my sympathy, and I wish them success in their endeavours.
Whether the system stays or goes, we can be sure that there will be blood and consequences.
So, I tell you what, I won’t accuse you of being influenced by demons if you are pleased by the ongoing existence of Babylon if you won’t accuse me of being influenced by demons for wanting it to go away.
It actually has nothing at all to do with people being ‘too soft’ or ‘too happy’ or whatever. All human civilizations as we know them are inherently built on exploitation from the ground up, and the forms and outcomes of that exploitation inevitably end up permeating every layer and aspect of society, and the suffering which goes along with all of this is inherently baked into the arbitrary laws which govern this reality. Suffering should not exist – it is always a sign of disease where it appears. And we’re on a hyperdimensional cosmic farm run by archons – the farmer is not hurting us because life was getting too nice, he’s doing it because we’re on a cosmic farm.
One last thing. . .
Capitalism is in crisis! Yes! Finally, some good news.
As Mao said “There is great disorder under heaven. The situation is excellent.”
I welcome the harbinger of capitalism’s doom – the great orange chaos monkey!
Agree 100% with this post. How do the Germans think? Speaking as a USAian who’s visited Germany often for business trips (as well as many other European countries, Netherlands only once but hoping for more), I find that German psychology becomes only more incomprehensible the more I get to know them. While World War II was one of the largest outbursts of unnecessary destruction in human history, WWII Germans seem so sane and level-headed compared to 2025 Germans. Everything they do seems like a terrified, frozen-minded reaction against what they did in 1944, yet somehow they’ve figured out how to be even more self-destructive as humanitarian liberal environmentalists. And their politics is a farce that could never pass as fiction (too unrealistic). Somebody please explain what’s going on in their heads?
Where to go though, what would you advise?
To a german trying to grasp together material wealth to possibly run?
Though, seeing as 1933 is arriving, should I already be gone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyQeMshz0CM
Famous Chinese Economist: Trump is sacrificing its allies to save the US dollar!
Pretty good video about whats going on in the US from a Chinese perspective.