Wouldn't call it the Brahmin Question. Indians from all castes who come to the US are highly selected, and some aren't even Hindu and therefore don't even believe in caste. The Indian government released a document recently where it said it should use the influence of its diaspora in the Anglophone world to serve New Delhi's strategic interests. So, there's going to be a group of elite diaspora Indians who are uber liberal national propositionalists in America but who support the right-wing BJP and Hindu nationalism in India. The Indian document suggested the Israel lobby as a model.
The Tom Swift Academy is devoted to implementing Point 15. Even while wider society slides into Paleolithic oblivion, I do believe it is both feasible and worthwhile to reverse these trends at a local scale, preferably within those flyover states where the cost of living is still bearable. Creating alternatives to the degenerate oral monoculture will be a necessity if a high level of technological development is to be maintained. It is unlikely that artificial intelligence will replace the more physical aspects of technical careers, as it tends to perform poorly when confronted directly with the caprice and variety of real world environments. Therefore, in order to build a corpus of engineers necessary to colonize other planets, or even to develop fusion power, it will be of paramount importance to promote a positive technical culture within the middle ranks of men .
I would disagree with Point 18, as low skilled immigration tends to disincentivize automation, as well as promote agricultural consolidation. As is demonstrated in the history of medieval Europe and the American North, labor shortages are one of the most potent drivers of technological development. This issue will be explored further in an essay regarding the still-birth of Greco-Roman industrial technology. In the Nebraskan context, low-skilled migration has led to the expansion of modern-day latifundae in the form of agribusinesses at the expense of small, independent farmers. This has led to most Nebraskans moving to the suburbs and becoming button-clicking drones, abandoning their traditional way of life.
I don't know if anyone else has put this out in the open, but the English language has really degenerated in the past decade as well, and I think you are the only one who can agree with me on this. I propose the Latin language undergo a revival. I seriously would rather World War III or a Mad Max apocalypse than this dystopia we're heading into.
I wholeheartedly agree with your view on Point 18. Many of my Arizona friends are from Nebraska or other parts of the Midwest, and that low skilled immigration drove and still does drive many Midwesterners to the Sunbelt (I don't support high-skilled immigration either for the matter and am for a total ban on immigration 100%, along with mass remigration).
Don't the Nordic countries still not have that much of an oral culture as the Anglosphere does?
It's not just the reparations poison pill, but also your old "Move the capital to the Midwest" proposal as well.
Also, to piggyback no 20:
On every US moral awakening the US is not a rational foreign policy actor.
Solving no 17 (Reparations pill & move capital to Midwest) should be a central issue to the US today.
---------
Also, if I would add for no 21:
Florida should be the center of US relations to non-WEIRD areas / cultures, similar to British Indian colonial officers are forced to learn Urdu and overwhelmingly came from Scotland / Ireland + Chinese diplomats to SEA are overwhelmingly came from the provinces.
Because as Wally B says Florida is one place where Puritan WASP morality makes zero sense, and this is the very key to understanding why despite everything Trump is very good for Arab States & Indonesia: Because Trump don't whine about human rights.
That WASP Aryan morality literally CANNOT work in places like SEA - you'll be genociding the entire area (You don't have enough nukes for this) or getting the entire SEA to China in a silver platter.
So my recommendation:
The US needs a place for its people to learn how to deal with non-WEIRD cultures. Florida is the best "bridge" for this.
- Put all diplomats to non-WEIRD countries training centers & policymaking training centers for dealing with non-WEIRD cultures to Florida
- Research centers to non-WEIRD cultures = Move to Florida universities
- Indopacific Command, 7th Fleet etc generalship & general staff -> Overwhelmingly staff with Floridians
- Diplomat to Arab states & SEA countries: Overwhelmingly Floridians
- EAP (East Asia, Southeast Asia & Pacific) directorate in State Department = Overwhelmingly Floridians
This is the same logic with
- Britain used the Scots & Irish to govern India, then force these Scots & Irish to learn Urdu
- Chinese diplomats to SEA overwhelmingly came from the provinces
This is for naked interest reason alone:
**Trump is INSANELY good for third world countries, Arab states, Indonesia etc. Because he didn't whine about human rights.** This is your own transactionalism / honor culture in practice; I just recommend how you can expand that to foreign policy
As for the dealing with fellow Western countries like Europe & Canada, the Northeast Puritan establishment are expert at this to the point where they identify with Western European countries more than their own countryman in the Midwest - which is why Trump pissed them off so much.
If anything these people need check and realization that they are not the center of the universe and has to represent America somewhat - hence "Move the capital to the Midwest".
If we don't choose our beliefs then we shouldn't listen to any argument since beliefs are not chosen, just an automatic process. If we can be influenced, the "non-choice" of not reading is the only thing that can prevent the automatic process of influence. But really, determist philosophy runs into this problem of what exactly do you think you're doing when thinking through and arguing rationally for things if you negate the reflective capacity to do so as your ground of the psyche? It is nonsensical in that way.
I explained this at length in my 32 Things piece. Arguments are fake and gay window dressing for post hoc rationalization. In a frictionless oral culture esp correspondence doesn't matter much and it's basically all just closed loop narc cult mythmaking. The only way to meaningfully move people these days is by grooming them essentially. Sophistry is good but philosophy as such is a dishonest waste of time. Anyway if you want to debate me bro on any of this come on my pod and we'll get into the Talmud of it.
That's what happens when you outsource our manufacturing to Asia and Latin America, which should have NEVER been done in the first place. That and the education system we adopted too in the first place (based on the Prussian Model of Education) was a bad idea (and as I remember telling John Arcto, allowing Germans and Italians to immigrate to the U.S. was just as detrimental to the allowing of Asians and Latin Americans to immigrate too).
A generation that is about 1/6 functional illiterates going to take on their elders, the generations that created the tech and systems the yoinguns are supposedly be using for their attempt to grab power from "the Boomers"?
Laughable, really.
Especially since the idea of "Boomer-hate" was planted and reinforced as soon as it became obvious that White Americans and various native European peoples were getting fed-up with the Grosse Lüge of multi-kulti and racial equity/equality.
Did you never ask where that idea originated, or why it became wide-spread at a certain time?
The reason it was planted and spread is this:
If one accepts blood&soil as a Truth, then the logical and immediate follow-up is to ask: "Who filled the land of my people with hostile foreigners that wreak ruin on all around?" and the answer to that is: the capitalists, the neoliberals, the bankers, and their bought politicians.
And from that comes the demand for revenge and justice. Can't have that, angry men and women betrayed since the 1970s (European time-line, 1950s for the USA) by their supposedly democratially elected representatives who in reality are nothing more than the HR-department for global corporate capitalism.
(Same as in the 1920s by the way, only more efficient today thanks to a) the internet and b) increasing ignorance among the populace.)
Imagine millions of age 20-45 men and omen realising that their birthright were sold before they were born. That every day of hard labour that their ancestors had to make it through, since before tools were made of iron, had been despoiled and made worthless by bankers, stock brokers, insurance agents - by corporate capitalists.
Can't have that, indeed. Best introduce ideas that focuses the blame-game on some generis but also safe-to-blame group. Can't use the Jews this time - to much social conditioning remaining. Can't use moslems, too much business entangled in the MENA nations (hence the invention of the term "islamism", a thing that only exists in the media outside fully islamic nations). Can't use China, that's where we make our cheap shit. Can't use India, there's too few Indians (for now) around in the West. Can't use the Negros of Africa because of social conditioning making people equate Negro with either "victim of racism" or "cool dude". Trans-, homos- and dykes are out too for the same reason.
Age! Age is safe! Can't get called any kind of acknowledged brand of -ist or -phobe for that!
And the younger people, at least among the Substack writers daring to be a bit critical of some things, have swallowed it without thinking.
Since I'm guessing your readership is a bit short in the teeth, I'm tossing in a caveat:
Pointing out that it is global corporate capitalism (neoliberalism to be technical, based on bastardisation of Hayek&Mises hypotheses) is not endorsing communism; esp. not since I'm old enough to have become an adult before Die Mauer came down - I saw it "irl" as the kids say.
9. I’m going to add an asterisk there, Women and feminine men whilst they do not have direct agency. They hold influence and narrative forming power which you have talked about in the past.
Women are the thing the high status man works for. They get the benefits of his status without any of the responsibility or work. We’ve all seen men who work like a dog to support their live in girlfriend. Who’s the dominant one there?
"Men are always the Girardian scapegoats" this is a very modern Western thing to say I suspect. Witch hunts historically were not directed at men for example.
Your writing is frenetic, like you're on a permanent coke-bender, but the words you use are a delight.
That said, this statement in your number 2:
"Platonic forms don’t exist in any objective sense, and the same applies to all categories, aggregative heuristics, and even contiguous objects as such...";
and this one, immediately following:
"...in the language of materialism (which is to say the scientific map with the greatest explanatory / predictive precision—clearly a wholly different thing from the map of lived experience) the cosmos is basically just a frothing orgy of quarks and gluons and strings..."
are self-contradictory: "materialism", "cosmos", "quarks", and "gluons", are all "categories", "aggregative heuristics"(??!!), and/or "contiguous objects".
Unless, of course, you have recondite definitions for all of those terms. Which I doubt.
But that is as may be: perhaps you've read Bas van Fraassen. Empiricist, par excellence: every scientific theory, or "paradigm", is just a story we tell ourselves about what we (think we) perceive.
Your analysis is excellent, however your solutions are short-term bandaids to keep the corpse of Western Civ shambling along for another generation or 3.
The only long-term solution is to unite into 1 people, with similar ethics and expectations. The only way to do that is racial nationalism. Everything else still boils down to individuals and tiny groups fighting to get one over on all the other groups, with the result of what we see now in the West.
I haven't been able to comment at all recently or even use Substack since it won't let me log-in on my Mac laptop, but the Windows computer will let me.
14. You don't seem like someone who thinks the collapse is inevitable.
15. know a lot of lower and lower middle class folks who are doing their part too (especially with Millennials, unlike with Latchkeyers or Zoomers)
16. impossible? pleez
18. I will be against any immigration and will advocate for a total moratorium for at least 100 years (with possible exceptions for unmarried single adults only). This is why I advocate for Cascadia or the South (re)gaining independence (that and places like Novgorod, Tibet, and Sonora absolutely should too).
20. What are your plans if states and/or regions of the U.S. decide to gain independence? And I don't think we are exporting inflation to our allies, our adversaries are exporting inflation to us!(what do you expect when you export our manufacturing to China and India?)
Oh, and I notice that you're excuses for Russia and for the Global South as a whole is sickening me. Maybe I should use something other than Substack, especially something that could teach me to code.
Wouldn't call it the Brahmin Question. Indians from all castes who come to the US are highly selected, and some aren't even Hindu and therefore don't even believe in caste. The Indian government released a document recently where it said it should use the influence of its diaspora in the Anglophone world to serve New Delhi's strategic interests. So, there's going to be a group of elite diaspora Indians who are uber liberal national propositionalists in America but who support the right-wing BJP and Hindu nationalism in India. The Indian document suggested the Israel lobby as a model.
Dinesh D'Souza and Ravi Zacharias come to mind and are one of the hugest supporters of President Trump (and they both grew up Christian).
The Tom Swift Academy is devoted to implementing Point 15. Even while wider society slides into Paleolithic oblivion, I do believe it is both feasible and worthwhile to reverse these trends at a local scale, preferably within those flyover states where the cost of living is still bearable. Creating alternatives to the degenerate oral monoculture will be a necessity if a high level of technological development is to be maintained. It is unlikely that artificial intelligence will replace the more physical aspects of technical careers, as it tends to perform poorly when confronted directly with the caprice and variety of real world environments. Therefore, in order to build a corpus of engineers necessary to colonize other planets, or even to develop fusion power, it will be of paramount importance to promote a positive technical culture within the middle ranks of men .
https://swiftenterprises.substack.com/p/tom-swift-academy
I would disagree with Point 18, as low skilled immigration tends to disincentivize automation, as well as promote agricultural consolidation. As is demonstrated in the history of medieval Europe and the American North, labor shortages are one of the most potent drivers of technological development. This issue will be explored further in an essay regarding the still-birth of Greco-Roman industrial technology. In the Nebraskan context, low-skilled migration has led to the expansion of modern-day latifundae in the form of agribusinesses at the expense of small, independent farmers. This has led to most Nebraskans moving to the suburbs and becoming button-clicking drones, abandoning their traditional way of life.
I don't know if anyone else has put this out in the open, but the English language has really degenerated in the past decade as well, and I think you are the only one who can agree with me on this. I propose the Latin language undergo a revival. I seriously would rather World War III or a Mad Max apocalypse than this dystopia we're heading into.
I wholeheartedly agree with your view on Point 18. Many of my Arizona friends are from Nebraska or other parts of the Midwest, and that low skilled immigration drove and still does drive many Midwesterners to the Sunbelt (I don't support high-skilled immigration either for the matter and am for a total ban on immigration 100%, along with mass remigration).
Don't the Nordic countries still not have that much of an oral culture as the Anglosphere does?
This whole post could have been written in one word: nihilism. The rest is just pseudo-intellectual bloviating.
> On no 17
It's not just the reparations poison pill, but also your old "Move the capital to the Midwest" proposal as well.
Also, to piggyback no 20:
On every US moral awakening the US is not a rational foreign policy actor.
Solving no 17 (Reparations pill & move capital to Midwest) should be a central issue to the US today.
---------
Also, if I would add for no 21:
Florida should be the center of US relations to non-WEIRD areas / cultures, similar to British Indian colonial officers are forced to learn Urdu and overwhelmingly came from Scotland / Ireland + Chinese diplomats to SEA are overwhelmingly came from the provinces.
Because as Wally B says Florida is one place where Puritan WASP morality makes zero sense, and this is the very key to understanding why despite everything Trump is very good for Arab States & Indonesia: Because Trump don't whine about human rights.
That WASP Aryan morality literally CANNOT work in places like SEA - you'll be genociding the entire area (You don't have enough nukes for this) or getting the entire SEA to China in a silver platter.
So my recommendation:
The US needs a place for its people to learn how to deal with non-WEIRD cultures. Florida is the best "bridge" for this.
- Put all diplomats to non-WEIRD countries training centers & policymaking training centers for dealing with non-WEIRD cultures to Florida
- Research centers to non-WEIRD cultures = Move to Florida universities
- Indopacific Command, 7th Fleet etc generalship & general staff -> Overwhelmingly staff with Floridians
- Diplomat to Arab states & SEA countries: Overwhelmingly Floridians
- EAP (East Asia, Southeast Asia & Pacific) directorate in State Department = Overwhelmingly Floridians
This is the same logic with
- Britain used the Scots & Irish to govern India, then force these Scots & Irish to learn Urdu
- Chinese diplomats to SEA overwhelmingly came from the provinces
This is for naked interest reason alone:
**Trump is INSANELY good for third world countries, Arab states, Indonesia etc. Because he didn't whine about human rights.** This is your own transactionalism / honor culture in practice; I just recommend how you can expand that to foreign policy
I would expand your proposed No. 21 further.
The West Coast should be our portal to the Asian world.
The Upper Midwest/Northeast should cultivate transatlantic ties with Europe.
As for the dealing with fellow Western countries like Europe & Canada, the Northeast Puritan establishment are expert at this to the point where they identify with Western European countries more than their own countryman in the Midwest - which is why Trump pissed them off so much.
If anything these people need check and realization that they are not the center of the universe and has to represent America somewhat - hence "Move the capital to the Midwest".
All this, particularly #18 and #19 stem from #1, i.e., from the fact that you are banging a jewette.
hard truth: this is dumb as hell
oh man i just said i was going to apply stoicism to comment sections failed once again
If we don't choose our beliefs then we shouldn't listen to any argument since beliefs are not chosen, just an automatic process. If we can be influenced, the "non-choice" of not reading is the only thing that can prevent the automatic process of influence. But really, determist philosophy runs into this problem of what exactly do you think you're doing when thinking through and arguing rationally for things if you negate the reflective capacity to do so as your ground of the psyche? It is nonsensical in that way.
I explained this at length in my 32 Things piece. Arguments are fake and gay window dressing for post hoc rationalization. In a frictionless oral culture esp correspondence doesn't matter much and it's basically all just closed loop narc cult mythmaking. The only way to meaningfully move people these days is by grooming them essentially. Sophistry is good but philosophy as such is a dishonest waste of time. Anyway if you want to debate me bro on any of this come on my pod and we'll get into the Talmud of it.
If you want to defend sophistry and I defend that philosophy is about truth, not just rhetoric, then I am up for it. “Philosophy versus Sophistry”
There is no honorable way to play the Holocaust Card, for obvious reasons.
Overproduction of useless people.
That is the problem ..distilled.
Everyone COULD be useful but they A) dont know how B) dont WANT to be and/or C) society discourages it.
That's what happens when you outsource our manufacturing to Asia and Latin America, which should have NEVER been done in the first place. That and the education system we adopted too in the first place (based on the Prussian Model of Education) was a bad idea (and as I remember telling John Arcto, allowing Germans and Italians to immigrate to the U.S. was just as detrimental to the allowing of Asians and Latin Americans to immigrate too).
Not hard enough it seems because not a single one of these claims pissed me off
A generation that is about 1/6 functional illiterates going to take on their elders, the generations that created the tech and systems the yoinguns are supposedly be using for their attempt to grab power from "the Boomers"?
Laughable, really.
Especially since the idea of "Boomer-hate" was planted and reinforced as soon as it became obvious that White Americans and various native European peoples were getting fed-up with the Grosse Lüge of multi-kulti and racial equity/equality.
Did you never ask where that idea originated, or why it became wide-spread at a certain time?
The reason it was planted and spread is this:
If one accepts blood&soil as a Truth, then the logical and immediate follow-up is to ask: "Who filled the land of my people with hostile foreigners that wreak ruin on all around?" and the answer to that is: the capitalists, the neoliberals, the bankers, and their bought politicians.
And from that comes the demand for revenge and justice. Can't have that, angry men and women betrayed since the 1970s (European time-line, 1950s for the USA) by their supposedly democratially elected representatives who in reality are nothing more than the HR-department for global corporate capitalism.
(Same as in the 1920s by the way, only more efficient today thanks to a) the internet and b) increasing ignorance among the populace.)
Imagine millions of age 20-45 men and omen realising that their birthright were sold before they were born. That every day of hard labour that their ancestors had to make it through, since before tools were made of iron, had been despoiled and made worthless by bankers, stock brokers, insurance agents - by corporate capitalists.
Can't have that, indeed. Best introduce ideas that focuses the blame-game on some generis but also safe-to-blame group. Can't use the Jews this time - to much social conditioning remaining. Can't use moslems, too much business entangled in the MENA nations (hence the invention of the term "islamism", a thing that only exists in the media outside fully islamic nations). Can't use China, that's where we make our cheap shit. Can't use India, there's too few Indians (for now) around in the West. Can't use the Negros of Africa because of social conditioning making people equate Negro with either "victim of racism" or "cool dude". Trans-, homos- and dykes are out too for the same reason.
Age! Age is safe! Can't get called any kind of acknowledged brand of -ist or -phobe for that!
And the younger people, at least among the Substack writers daring to be a bit critical of some things, have swallowed it without thinking.
Since I'm guessing your readership is a bit short in the teeth, I'm tossing in a caveat:
Pointing out that it is global corporate capitalism (neoliberalism to be technical, based on bastardisation of Hayek&Mises hypotheses) is not endorsing communism; esp. not since I'm old enough to have become an adult before Die Mauer came down - I saw it "irl" as the kids say.
9. I’m going to add an asterisk there, Women and feminine men whilst they do not have direct agency. They hold influence and narrative forming power which you have talked about in the past.
Women are the thing the high status man works for. They get the benefits of his status without any of the responsibility or work. We’ve all seen men who work like a dog to support their live in girlfriend. Who’s the dominant one there?
"Men are always the Girardian scapegoats" this is a very modern Western thing to say I suspect. Witch hunts historically were not directed at men for example.
I'm a new reader, and a fellow logophile.
Your writing is frenetic, like you're on a permanent coke-bender, but the words you use are a delight.
That said, this statement in your number 2:
"Platonic forms don’t exist in any objective sense, and the same applies to all categories, aggregative heuristics, and even contiguous objects as such...";
and this one, immediately following:
"...in the language of materialism (which is to say the scientific map with the greatest explanatory / predictive precision—clearly a wholly different thing from the map of lived experience) the cosmos is basically just a frothing orgy of quarks and gluons and strings..."
are self-contradictory: "materialism", "cosmos", "quarks", and "gluons", are all "categories", "aggregative heuristics"(??!!), and/or "contiguous objects".
Unless, of course, you have recondite definitions for all of those terms. Which I doubt.
But that is as may be: perhaps you've read Bas van Fraassen. Empiricist, par excellence: every scientific theory, or "paradigm", is just a story we tell ourselves about what we (think we) perceive.
Works for the physical stuff, anyway.
Your analysis is excellent, however your solutions are short-term bandaids to keep the corpse of Western Civ shambling along for another generation or 3.
The only long-term solution is to unite into 1 people, with similar ethics and expectations. The only way to do that is racial nationalism. Everything else still boils down to individuals and tiny groups fighting to get one over on all the other groups, with the result of what we see now in the West.
you ever get tired of repeating yourself?
Never
I haven't been able to comment at all recently or even use Substack since it won't let me log-in on my Mac laptop, but the Windows computer will let me.
14. You don't seem like someone who thinks the collapse is inevitable.
15. know a lot of lower and lower middle class folks who are doing their part too (especially with Millennials, unlike with Latchkeyers or Zoomers)
16. impossible? pleez
18. I will be against any immigration and will advocate for a total moratorium for at least 100 years (with possible exceptions for unmarried single adults only). This is why I advocate for Cascadia or the South (re)gaining independence (that and places like Novgorod, Tibet, and Sonora absolutely should too).
20. What are your plans if states and/or regions of the U.S. decide to gain independence? And I don't think we are exporting inflation to our allies, our adversaries are exporting inflation to us!(what do you expect when you export our manufacturing to China and India?)
Oh, and I notice that you're excuses for Russia and for the Global South as a whole is sickening me. Maybe I should use something other than Substack, especially something that could teach me to code.