Emerging societies are characterized above all by their enthusiastic support for every form and application of meritocratic values. It is the individual's driving force to assert himself in social competition and to earn his proverbial merits in a cursus honorum of society. Meritocratic elements can then be found everywhere around us: in economic comparison in competition on free markets, in sporting battles, in the excellence of culture and science, but also in the political segment, where only the best of the best are in charge of state affairs. Healthy, symbolically secure and growing cultures reassure themselves by creating the right incentives to promote precisely these values of individual ascent in order to prosper as a whole.
What we are experiencing in the present in large parts of the former 'Free West', take Germany and Canada as the poster boys of visible cultural decay, is hostility towards entrepreneurs, demands for taxation of wealth after disrespect for the work of individuals and their private property which is nothing less than the fundament of all efforts one would shoulder to grow in life. We are seeing organizations, so-called activists, who are deliberately directed against the economic foundations of our time, who in the hallucinated climate apocalypse that we see here, moralize against the well-justified investment and consumption demands of individuals and delegitimize them in their civilizational justification. They fight with the sharp sword of moralism against their supposed enemies, who are after all their breadwinners, which makes the whole thing an act of absurd sawing at the branch on which one sits with one's lazy and fat ass. It is the neglected heirs of industrious generations who, lacking and having lost all access to a will to rise, wantonly destroy what has been laid in their laps because we have taken it for granted as a life in final satiety.
Moralism is resentment manifested in thought and deed. It is the sharp sword of those who have fared badly against those who are supposedly more fortunate in their eyes. In the case of Germany and, to a lesser extent, Europe and North America we can trace its work in crystallizing political agendas. These empty forms of communication between the elite and the people have exclusively educational consequences and are devoid of any rationality, since the results they produce speak against them.
The national moralists who turn their fight for the good into a competition with non-participants are playing with fire and destroying the prosperity that is necessary to keep a complex society of diverse interest groups stable. This can be seen incorruptibly in the weak economic data on the general decline of countries such as Canada and Germany. In order to conceal this, the moralists in the entire media sector are fighting, as we are now seeing with Telegram, for example, against any form of free opinion-forming, simply because they cannot afford to have the truth about the failure of their moralism brought to light. Their social their socialist moralistic spook would be over quicker than they can fill their pockets with full hands and make a run for it as they usually do after these vandals have pulverized the work of millions of hardworking people.
In these falling societies, moralism is directed aggressively against the successful, stable middle class and is also expressed in the fight against the pillars of prosperity inherited from an older generation. Basically, socialist moralism wages its war against the four pillars of society: the family, private property, religion, free will, which includes free markets of information and art. What began in the revolution of '68 now leads to open socialism, wokism and interventionism of the state and control of public narrative formation. Many small rivers now form one big stream, which should remind us fatally of cultural-machist times.
The public critic, just like the successful entrepreneur, the heir, the free scientist who goes against the opinion of the state, is caught in the crossfire of criticism from moralists and is publicly dismantled. This is how moralism closes the cocoon around itself, a protective shell, armored. Thousands of mainstream media articles, the myriads of repetitions of lies and the moral element that have demoralized the people, lay down the leaden fog on the souls of the people.
But where do we go from here? The moralists will of course not voluntarily admit their defeat and their failure or even let go of their host animal, the sucked-out society, in order to free it from itself. The collapse is still a long way off, we are still under the illusion that we are waging wars or at least indirectly involved, although we can no longer afford to do so. We allow ourselves to be seduced by world-saving moralists into a state of unlimited migration and persuade ourselves that our social system is spewing money into the world from a never-ending cornucopia. We are successfully ignoring the demographic collapse, as well as the fact that all the lies about the climate apocalypse have been debunked before our very eyes.
The moralists are still at it, but perhaps they are only winning phyrrus victories these days without realizing it. Because does anyone seriously believe that the brutal attacks by parasites and moralists on our freedom of expression on Telegram and Twitter represent a victory for these people? They have exposed themselves coram publico for what they are: useless eaters who suck a dying social body dry and shun the truth like the devil shuns holy water. https://m.stacker.news/49279
Yeah, I know that there is, like you say, probably a solid majority of people with, as you put it, "hostility towards entrepreneurs, demands for taxation of wealth after disrespect for the work of individuals and their private property". Etc.
But I've managed to build a little cocoon for myself. I hang out here, on Stacker News, I subscribe to "my people' on Substack. So I manage to convince myself, occasionally, that there's lots of like-minded people out there, and we're not really going to hell in a handbasket. Until I check out mainstream media again, and then I think to myself, "wow, can people possibly believe this?"
I guess bottom line - we are probably going to hell in a handbasket.
What do you think, Tom, any hope for us? Or...where should we move to?
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55 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 2 Sep
Yes, it is indeed a very difficult situation. However, I personally believe that the USA, for example, will get back on a normal path once it emerges from this crisis. As for the European Union, I take a very critical view at the moment. I moved to Spain a few years ago, learned Spanish and opened a few doors for myself to go somewhere else if necessary. Perhaps it makes sense to take out money in Bitcoin, learn languages, network socially and become a bit more independent in this way.
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One thing I've been thinking recently is...even if you don't actually MOVE somewhere (or get a second passport or something), even just, say, VISITING a place that you may think of as a refuge, will give you an edge. It'll give you some information, and take away the complete unfamiliarity of a place. You'll meet some people.
I read a really interesting book a while back and just re-read it recently, it's I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer. It's the diary of a Jewish professor in Nazi Germany with an "Aryan" wife, so he was a little bit protected but in the end, not really.
Anyway, for years, all throughout the book, in the 1930's he's dithering around, constantly debating whether he should leave Germany or not, what it would be like, if he would have enough money, if he could learn another language.
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Is the Ghost of Truth person on nostr you or is the account just free-riding on your content?
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That's me
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Ok. I’m not a fed by the way….🙃
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That's what a FED would say @TomK, RUN!!!
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Wait, would that make me a Federal Agent? ...is the correlation bijective? :0
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The state is so wasteful maybe we are all agents from different departments!
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As long as I can brag about an official clearance, I'm in.
41 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 2 Sep
Lol. But where should I run??
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Go to the nearest FED HQ, they would never expect that. You're welcome.
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Lol. Good to know.
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OK that's a good way
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