Continued from the Preface…
This section looks at the bourgeoisie, secular, materialist aspirations of the Western masses and concludes that their lifestyles have been eroded massively over the past decades.
WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE WANT IN LIFE?
The general outline is the same everywhere. Most people, regardless of background, want to get married and have a family. They want to have a fulfilling career and make a positive impact on those around them. They want to own a home in a safe area with a sense of community. They want to have health insurance. They want a legacy they can pass onto their children, both morally and financially. They want to be able to send their kids to good, safe, clean schools and afford college that will prepare them for life. They want time for their hobbies, whether it is fishing, hiking, travel, reading, sports, etc. They would love to have the option of a one-working-spouse household. They want to feel like they are part of a community of like-minded people, with similar backgrounds and similar beliefs, and that their input matters and they are appreciated. They want to feel and be healthy. They want to be able to retire one day. They want to have trustworthy experts who can answer questions and offer guidance in their lives. They want to feel like their interests are being properly represented in government. They want some connection to God.
Most people especially want to feel that they are improving their situation in life, that their status – i.e. their standing in their communities, the amount of money they make and the impact they have – increases over time with the efforts they put in. To increase one’s status makes one happy; it increases one’s mating prospects and treatment by society while to decrease one’s status makes one feel depressed, that they are going in a bad direction. People inevitably take for granted their current status; they compare themselves to people on the “next rung up”, not those on rungs below them or far above them. See the Dunbar number where humans naturally maintain a maximum of ~150 relationships.
As a corollary, most people want to avoid ideas and influences which society perceives as low status. Being a recipient of “wrong-think” increases the odds of losing social status – of alienating friends and acquaintances, of risking one’s job and standing in their community – which could cause that person a great deal of emotional and psychological pain.
Because status is relative, there is a never-ending, zero-sum struggle against others regardless of society’s overall quality of life – there will always be a similar mate pool and social hierarchy to compete for. This is Nietzsche’s will to power, where in Beyond Good and Evil he states, “Even the body within which individuals treat each other as equals … will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant – not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power.”
COMPARED TO WHAT PEOPLE WANT, WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE IN SOCIETY TODAY?
Today sixty percent of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck with significant amounts of credit card, student loan debt, and mortgage loans and car loans (if they’re lucky enough to own a house and car). According to Social Security statistics, in 2018 33% of Americans earned less than $20,000 per year, 46% less than $30,000, 58% less than $40,000 and 67% less than $50,000. Two working parent households are required in order to try to pay basic expenses. Per a UBS report 44% of consumers don’t make enough to cover their bills.
The labor force participation rate for men declined from 87% in 1948 to 69% in 2012. Rates of housing and family formation have fallen enormously, divorce rates have skyrocketed (with pair-bond-challenged women initiating 80% of divorces given legal outcomes substantially favoring them) while children from shattered homes have much worse average life outcomes. People go to work in unstable 9-5 job with no pension and little if any retirement benefits and then lie down on the couch and watch Netflix and porn (or perform on OnlyFans) until bed. To the extent most people can retire it is only via social security, Medicare and Medicaid, systems that are bankrupt Ponzi schemes, and then when they get too old their children put them into old age homes where they gracelessly expire, neglected and covered in bed sores.
It’s worse for younger people. Most Millennials have been priced out of home ownership and they both have children later in life and have smaller families than prior generations. If they attended college they graduated with an average of $25-30,000 student loan debt and then had difficulty finding jobs because degree inflation has made college degrees useless (which in turn is causing an increasing number of youth to forego college entirely). The education system revolves around teaching the young to hate their past and genders, encouraging young boys to become girls and for young girls to become boys. Society is highly feminized with masculine behaviors banned — pranks (forbidden), childhood fights (forbidden), bullying antisocial elements (forbidden), and endless litigation tying the hands of educators.
On the social front everyone is atomized and social networks are shattered. People have few close friendships. Parents and grown children live halfway across the country from each other and see each other a couple times a year. There are no communities; except for a couple of religious outliers (religious Muslims, religious Jews and the Amish; Catholic fertility rates are basically at replacement and declining and Mormon fertility rates are also declining) all others have are gutted. The right of free association has been banned in America for decades; see Supreme Court cases Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964), Katzenbach v. McClung (1964), and Daniel v. Paul (1969). The southern border is wide open and many millions of illegals stream into the country each year with the approval of the US government, driving down wages, dividing communities and providing votes from a swelling underclass for the establishment.
Crime rates are massive and underreported, then manipulated further downwards. Even with these tactics the U.S. incarceration rate is by far the highest in the world. Trash and broken roads litter the streets as aggressive, drug addicted panhandlers lie down next to multi-million dollar high-rises. Neighbors distrust each other and the government spies on everything you do or read online. Citizens who defend themselves against violent criminals go to prison or lose their rights while arrested violent criminals are immediately released on their own recognizance without bail (a term called “anarcho-tyranny”). Speak your mind about these things and you will be banned from social media, lose your job, frivolously sued (causing stress and legal bills even if you eventually win) and in various western countries now such as the U.K. face imprisonment for having the temerity to share those beliefs publicly.1
Strange chemicals in the water supply are ubiquitous, especially estrogen and SSRIs; most restaurant food is drenched in dangerous industrialized seed oils; micro-plastics have leached into everything including significant amounts in the human body, testosterone levels have dropped dramatically in a generation and obesity rates have skyrocketed. Average IQs have dropped by an astonishing 14 points over the past 100 years. 5G cell towers, which may have unknown long-term ill effects on health are everywhere and help the government spy on its population. People are glued to their smartphones which have simultaneously destroyed attention spans, atomized people from in-person interactions and, despite the unlimited amount of information online, people are less intelligent than ever.
The gulf between rich and poor widens year after year. The top 1% now own 32.1% of the nation’s wealth, the top 0.1% own 22% of the country’s wealth and the top 0.01% own 11% of the country’s wealth. The value of the dollar has been inflated away into nothing, having lost 99% of its value in 100 years. The national debt stands at $31+ trillion with at least $11 trillion dollars printed out of thin air in 2020-2021 alone: $6 trillion of treasuries and mortgage bonds purchased and $5 trillion in CARES Act funds.
Belief in God is at an all-time low and depression is at an all-time high. The majority white population is demonized via relentless media and entertainment propaganda, racially discriminatory employment and education practices, while the most deviant elements of society are actively promoted (i.e. homosexuality and transsexualism). There is a marked lack of representation for white Americans in society and government. For example, despite making up 2% of the population almost the entirety of Biden’s cabinet is either Jewish, married with Jewish spouses (Kamala), or their children have Jewish spouses (all of Biden’s children). Obama, despite being elected on a “hope and change” platform, had his entire cabinet chosen by global bank Citigroup. Social media companies, cracking down on freedom of speech, are run by recently arrived H1B Indian immigrants with no respect for the American Bill of Rights or Constitution (to preempt a common counter-argument, while they are officially non-governmental corporations, the government tells them who to ban and censor). Whites are dramatically underrepresented in college admissions. Due to these and other discriminatory policies the white percentage of the American population has dropped from 90% to 60% in 50 years. There are similar but not as extreme trends in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the rest of western Europe. It is a slow rolling but historically breathtakingly fast white, western civilizational suicide. Those who point any of this out are called racist and sexist, de-personed and made to feel like an outcast.
Meanwhile the US military industrial complex gets involved in endless wars for the purpose of fleecing the public with obscenely overpriced military hardware and a bottomless hole of graft, while projecting coercive hard power with ~800 military bases in over 70 countries. It is unclear who is in charge; it’s not the president (Joe Biden has dementia and regularly flubs reading simple cue cards, and Trump battled the entrenched bureaucracy for four years to no effect) and it’s not any one specific governmental agency, so who is it? Many foreign governments view the United States as “agreement incapable” because there is no one clearly in charge, and even recently signed agreements are tossed out and ignored.
Whatever the case may be, the officials pushing these policies have stripped American citizens of their rights, dignities, and quality of life while enriching and empowering a small number of corporations and individuals who financially benefit. The combined effects of these policies is akin to a kind of Hell on Earth. These officials then export these policies worldwide to force a handover of every country’s sovereignty to globalized elites for exploitation. They do this by riling up a country’s underclass (whether it be women, ethnic minorities, or homosexuals) via deceptively “do-gooder” NGOs or otherwise overthrowing their rulers directly. This process is defined as “globohomo”, i.e. the combination of globalization plus homogenization, or alternatively the combination of globalization plus homosexuality.
All of these issues are consistently getting worse. Is there no limit to this depravity and degradation? The gulf between what people want and what they get from government has not been greater in living memory.
HOW DO PEOPLE RESPOND WHEN YOU TALK TO THEM ABOUT THESE ISSUES?
Based on a lot of anecdotal observation if you bring up these issues with most people and solicit feedback, it appear they become hesitant, unsure of how to respond. They seem to search in their heads for canned media lines they can repeat but come up short. Their ability to independently ponder, assess and organize political, social, and economic trends affecting their lives seems to be weak. Food prices are skyrocketing? Housing prices are increasing? Education and health care are unaffordable? How can one explain these things? Blame a nebulous “inflation”? Blame “Russia and Putin”? Blame “right wing religious fanatics” for opposing… abortion? Blame the “economic damage” caused by COVID, or by COVID vaccine deniers? Blame congressional “dysfunction”? Blame “political divisiveness”? Blame Trump’s “unpresidential demeanor” and “racism” (“Orange Man Bad”)? None of these explanations feel to normal people to be quite satisfactory, so it seems that they try not to think about it, are silent and either try to busy themselves with their personal lives, distractions like sports/television, or otherwise numb themselves with drugs and alcohol. Cast adrift in a stormy sea; waiting for a sign of calm to magically return.
To independently think about societal trends and link them requires a certain skillset: interest in politics, the ability to make inferences between seemingly disconnected issues; the ability to form hypothesis about common causes; the willingness to observe events and see if results fit into the hypothesis and if not to adjust one’s worldview until they become more predictable; the ability to reason independently of authority figures; the willingness to be comfortable with doubt/uncertainty for long periods of time; the ability to resist group pressure. It requires basically being autistic, anti-authoritative and politics focused, something most people are not.
In the next section we will look at how people think, how perspectives differ on a generational level, and the ethical theories that will be used for the rest of this essay.
1 “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” – Theodore Dalrymple
