If you stand athwart history yelling “Stop” you will be run over – by a club-wielding mob of Mostly Peaceful Protesters. The younger generations are mad as hell for good reason. Their futures have been mortgaged to appease Grover Norquist. Their brains have been crippled by leftist educators. Their careers have been outsourced to China, India, and evil robots. Homes in safe neighborhoods to start families have become ridiculously expensive.
I agree overall with what you say but have an issue with your clubbing India with China. I am an Indian Conservative and we are facing the same issues as you folks ..
I'm not blaming India (or China) here. I'm blaming our trade policy, which is effectively subsidized outsourcing. See Rule 2.
And one reason I [will] favor tariffs over some alternatives is that I'm OK with some subsidized outsourcing to countries trying to make the jump into the industrial age -- especially in Africa. China has completed the jump and is moving into the imperial stage.
I'm not sure where India fits in this policy. From what I see you have made great strides in the last couple of decades. And India has long stood as an outlier in managing to be democratic, while diverse and poor. I prefer that the world see India as an emerging industrial success story than national socialist mainland China, so if the US overshoots in subsidized outsourcing to India, this isn't necessarily a bad thing (from the US perspective).
Well, India isnot really " poor" too. That's a misconception many Westerners have due to the biased projections by your MSM . It's actually home to some of the world's wealthiest billionaires and is an economic superpower in the making. The problem is one of sharp inequalities between the very rich and the not so rich.
If you are interested read columnists in swarajya.com and commentators like Swapan Dasgupta to get rid of the misconceptions about India.
And I would also suggest that it's your globalist and greedy corporates who are outsourcing to India to reap windfall profits. Most of whom are tied in with CCP and Soros etc
I wrote "long stood" because India managed to remain democratic back when it was still poor. Just about every country in history has gone through a phase of huge inequality when it first got traction with industrialization -- even communist countries. (Being in a slave labor camp is about as unequal as it gets.) From what I read it looks like you are going through your Gilded Age now. Or maybe you are moving into your Progressive Era.
I admit to not being fully up to speed. While I am happy that people outside the US find useful information here, my emphasis is on the US. The US is dangerously divided and needs to get its own house in order.
All nations place little value upon individual Natural Rights while allowing for massive unequal legal/social standing among the classes/castes. This of course results in a Collectivist society which minimizes peace, prosperity, and liberty.
In time along this path, these nations grow in resemblance toward one another to a point where there is little difference between them.
Hmmm... that sounds like a recipe for Globalism! (dang, where's that tin foil hat emoji?!? oh well, this will have to do: 🔮)
India has been changing, a lot, but not in ways compatible with American values. Outsourcing services to India has the same pitfalls of outsourcing manufacturing to China. The issue is not against outsourcing, per se; it is about the scale and depth of it. I wrote this article way back, in 2004 and got a lot of flak for it but it is worth rereading this.
As a Boomer with a late Gen X son and 3 grandkids, I have to agree. Boomers has become a derisive term because of our complacency and our ossification, especially among Gen Z and Millennials. Rightly so, as we have mortgaged their future, and their kids, our grandchildren.
BTW, I speak from the experience of being raised in SoCal middle class suburbia during the 60s and 70s. Our US WWII generation and early Boomers became absentee parents, creating latchkey kids, relying on our public schools to assume the role of creating responsible citizens. I lived it, to some extent.
"This is where things get ugly. 4D chess is a rough and dirty game."
Thanks for the article. What is your awareness of extrajudicial targetting? I strongly suggest that your rules or traditions include specific bylaws and duties for trusted servants who can identify and deal with outside interference from informants and alphabet agencies in a timely manner within legal means. 28 years experience.
While I have recently written about a Secret Society of Swell Reactionaries, that's mainly a metaphor -- and a pitch for getting paid subscribers. Much of what is written here can be carried out by semi-independent actors.
And I'm being very scrupulous about avoiding illegal actions. While it is true that a small cadre of daring actors could put the kibosh on the Maoist feedback loop if they applied the correct strategy, I'm not going to reveal that strategy as it is illegal, and I dislike doing jail time. Instead, I want to recruit a larger number of people willing to do the patient hard work. Less glamorous, more tedious, but no jail time.
But as I point out in my latest posts, some of the actions are potentially profitable.
The actors I have dealt with on the other team are using classical conditioning cues, fear anchors, provocation and street theatre. Unbelievable timing and synchronicity possibly some form of AI enhanced, interactive game barely distinguishable from magick. Testing, threat assessment, humiliation, initiation and recruitment. I'm not sure how you would keep your cadre a secret with total info awareness. I can see some type of creative collective using memetics and street theatre to wrestle for the narrative, reverse "revelation of the method" or "merry prankster." I attended a Bill Ayers chat about 10 years ago and asked him about the covert targetting of activists. He came across as smug, humorless and narrow minded. We can do better.
In my opinion it was not Gramsci that marched through the institutions but TV and the advertising industry which was and is the most powerful culturally formative propaganda vehicle that ever existed.
Everything was both stripped of any kind of depth, and reduced to a saleable product a mere thing.
TV created a nation or more correctly a mass of zombified consumers.
Then of course there was/is the all-pervasive influence of the most powerful institution in the US, and by extension the rest of the world. The death-saturated values of which control and pattern every aspect of US culture and by extension the entire world - namely the Pentagon based military/industrial/"entertainment"-propaganda complex.
McLuhan told us that the "medium is the message". What then is the in-your-face-message of "beautiful bombs" and the world-wide network of thousands of US military bases both in the US and in almost every country on the planet.
Regarding the base thing: containing communism was probably necessary. Communists without opposition can easily lapse into genocide mode.
Our problem today is institutional inertia. Pushing NATO into territory that was part of the Russian Empire prior to WWI is absolutely insane. And forcing democracy down the throats of people who have no tradition of democracy as we know it, but do have deep traditions of tribalism, often leads to incredible strife. The Evil Emperor form of government can be superior. Hated minority groups make for great henchmen to the emperor.
Gramsci was the guy who tweaked Marxism to make the march successful. He deserves his place in history, and infamy. Let's not forget the evil he has done and is still doing. Kudos to Fabius for mentioning him.
I agree overall with what you say but have an issue with your clubbing India with China. I am an Indian Conservative and we are facing the same issues as you folks ..
I'm not blaming India (or China) here. I'm blaming our trade policy, which is effectively subsidized outsourcing. See Rule 2.
And one reason I [will] favor tariffs over some alternatives is that I'm OK with some subsidized outsourcing to countries trying to make the jump into the industrial age -- especially in Africa. China has completed the jump and is moving into the imperial stage.
I'm not sure where India fits in this policy. From what I see you have made great strides in the last couple of decades. And India has long stood as an outlier in managing to be democratic, while diverse and poor. I prefer that the world see India as an emerging industrial success story than national socialist mainland China, so if the US overshoots in subsidized outsourcing to India, this isn't necessarily a bad thing (from the US perspective).
Well, India isnot really " poor" too. That's a misconception many Westerners have due to the biased projections by your MSM . It's actually home to some of the world's wealthiest billionaires and is an economic superpower in the making. The problem is one of sharp inequalities between the very rich and the not so rich.
If you are interested read columnists in swarajya.com and commentators like Swapan Dasgupta to get rid of the misconceptions about India.
And I would also suggest that it's your globalist and greedy corporates who are outsourcing to India to reap windfall profits. Most of whom are tied in with CCP and Soros etc
Corporations do what they are paid to do. See Rule 1.
I wrote "long stood" because India managed to remain democratic back when it was still poor. Just about every country in history has gone through a phase of huge inequality when it first got traction with industrialization -- even communist countries. (Being in a slave labor camp is about as unequal as it gets.) From what I read it looks like you are going through your Gilded Age now. Or maybe you are moving into your Progressive Era.
I admit to not being fully up to speed. While I am happy that people outside the US find useful information here, my emphasis is on the US. The US is dangerously divided and needs to get its own house in order.
Actually we are now where the US was in the 1950s.
All nations place little value upon individual Natural Rights while allowing for massive unequal legal/social standing among the classes/castes. This of course results in a Collectivist society which minimizes peace, prosperity, and liberty.
In time along this path, these nations grow in resemblance toward one another to a point where there is little difference between them.
Hmmm... that sounds like a recipe for Globalism! (dang, where's that tin foil hat emoji?!? oh well, this will have to do: 🔮)
India has been changing, a lot, but not in ways compatible with American values. Outsourcing services to India has the same pitfalls of outsourcing manufacturing to China. The issue is not against outsourcing, per se; it is about the scale and depth of it. I wrote this article way back, in 2004 and got a lot of flak for it but it is worth rereading this.
https://www.rediff.com/money/2004/apr/01guest1.htm
Regarding outsourcing, see Rule 1.
As a Boomer with a late Gen X son and 3 grandkids, I have to agree. Boomers has become a derisive term because of our complacency and our ossification, especially among Gen Z and Millennials. Rightly so, as we have mortgaged their future, and their kids, our grandchildren.
BTW, I speak from the experience of being raised in SoCal middle class suburbia during the 60s and 70s. Our US WWII generation and early Boomers became absentee parents, creating latchkey kids, relying on our public schools to assume the role of creating responsible citizens. I lived it, to some extent.
Count me in. 25 year old millennial college student here. Will work to re-educate my peers where possible. Awesome post!
"This is where things get ugly. 4D chess is a rough and dirty game."
Thanks for the article. What is your awareness of extrajudicial targetting? I strongly suggest that your rules or traditions include specific bylaws and duties for trusted servants who can identify and deal with outside interference from informants and alphabet agencies in a timely manner within legal means. 28 years experience.
While I have recently written about a Secret Society of Swell Reactionaries, that's mainly a metaphor -- and a pitch for getting paid subscribers. Much of what is written here can be carried out by semi-independent actors.
And I'm being very scrupulous about avoiding illegal actions. While it is true that a small cadre of daring actors could put the kibosh on the Maoist feedback loop if they applied the correct strategy, I'm not going to reveal that strategy as it is illegal, and I dislike doing jail time. Instead, I want to recruit a larger number of people willing to do the patient hard work. Less glamorous, more tedious, but no jail time.
But as I point out in my latest posts, some of the actions are potentially profitable.
"...a small cadre of daring actors.."
The actors I have dealt with on the other team are using classical conditioning cues, fear anchors, provocation and street theatre. Unbelievable timing and synchronicity possibly some form of AI enhanced, interactive game barely distinguishable from magick. Testing, threat assessment, humiliation, initiation and recruitment. I'm not sure how you would keep your cadre a secret with total info awareness. I can see some type of creative collective using memetics and street theatre to wrestle for the narrative, reverse "revelation of the method" or "merry prankster." I attended a Bill Ayers chat about 10 years ago and asked him about the covert targetting of activists. He came across as smug, humorless and narrow minded. We can do better.
All that is unnecessary. All that would be required is to disseminate the strategy. And it matters not if the enemy finds out.
But I'm not going that route. As long as we have some degree of democracy, we should do the Hard and Moral things.
Good plan. I will read your material and do what I can. Thanks!
> All that would be required is to disseminate the strategy.
We need more of this sort of thinking!
In my opinion it was not Gramsci that marched through the institutions but TV and the advertising industry which was and is the most powerful culturally formative propaganda vehicle that ever existed.
Everything was both stripped of any kind of depth, and reduced to a saleable product a mere thing.
TV created a nation or more correctly a mass of zombified consumers.
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-comes-to-life
Then of course there was/is the all-pervasive influence of the most powerful institution in the US, and by extension the rest of the world. The death-saturated values of which control and pattern every aspect of US culture and by extension the entire world - namely the Pentagon based military/industrial/"entertainment"-propaganda complex.
McLuhan told us that the "medium is the message". What then is the in-your-face-message of "beautiful bombs" and the world-wide network of thousands of US military bases both in the US and in almost every country on the planet.
Regarding the base thing: containing communism was probably necessary. Communists without opposition can easily lapse into genocide mode.
Our problem today is institutional inertia. Pushing NATO into territory that was part of the Russian Empire prior to WWI is absolutely insane. And forcing democracy down the throats of people who have no tradition of democracy as we know it, but do have deep traditions of tribalism, often leads to incredible strife. The Evil Emperor form of government can be superior. Hated minority groups make for great henchmen to the emperor.
Gramsci was the guy who tweaked Marxism to make the march successful. He deserves his place in history, and infamy. Let's not forget the evil he has done and is still doing. Kudos to Fabius for mentioning him.