I just read this as a repost on Larry Johnson's website. An exceptionally good read, my favourite this week. I look forward to your next opinion. Welcome to Substack!
Count me as a new fan, and I will subscribe. This analysis is one of the most novel and insightful explanations for what ails us as a society that I have read this millennium. And if I may, I would like to contribute a small bit of irony.
For the reasons you have stated, the West (and in particular the USA) cannot keep the plates spinning forever with incompetents at the helm and a collapse of some sort is therefore inevitable in my opinion. Very likely, when Russia defeats Ukraine, this could trigger this long overdue correction. Russia rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union but it took a decade of Hell (1990s), and the emergence of a strong leader (Putin), and two more decades of hard work, but they have bounced back pretty nicely. Hopefully we can experience a similar fate, and if so, the credit may well belong to Putin and the Russian military.
Your analysis on ‘competency’ is right on target. During my 50+ years in state/local government, I have watch this creeping influence of moral degeneracy spread inconspicuously through our socirty and culture. It needs to be exposed to light and transparency.
I worked as a Marine Engineer for decades and you missed one important segment - The commonsense intelligence factor.
I was tasked with expanding a company's line and they wanted to move from their 41-foot yacht to a new 44-foot yacht. So I laid out the lines and was setting up the shop when an old-timer came to be and said why don't we just stretch the old boat?
He was right so we took the old plug, built a rial system under it, cut the boat in half and stretched it out to the design size of the 44 foot hull. filled in the gap then did the same to match the new beam. Saved the company at least 6 months of prototyping.
Over the years I found a lot of skilled craftsmen had that one special skill.
I work in factory design and I see first hand parts bring over designed and fully custom because it works better or what ever they try say when a nut will do they use a tapped plate, when an off the shelf part would do they get it machined in stainless when a plastic bearing housing would do
I will argue about the IQ tests. Although I am biased considering my grandmother was part of the Princton crew that originated the IQ test. Fact is she used to say that person is smart as hell but doesn't have a lick of common sense.
It’s not the average Russian who designs hypersonic vehicles. Iran has a low average IQ but an amazingly capable caste of intellectuals, now all of whom live in exile. Iran also has hypersonic vehicles.
Beautiful. So satisfying to see what I kinda try to explain around me being layout so well. The feminisation of the universities and the RH departments had a huge impact on the collapse of the capabilities of the leadership. Their social status is based on agreeableness and conformity. I see it everyday in my town and at my job. At the end ‘ you can deny reality but not the consequences of denying reality’. We are not a postmodern society anymore, women took us back to a premodern society where ‘moral’ principles trump reality. Reason is out. It s just not the bible anymore, rather the globohomo petite bourgoisie left dystopia based on hatred towards white men.
This essay fails to note the most omnipotent lobby, the complex of organizations devoted to putting Israel--- and all it embodies-- First. The veto power afforded this lobby in hiring decisions throughout the upper echelons, in business cronyism, in media content, in nominations and awards and contracts and on and on is often left unstated, as is the case here. Play it safe much? This unwillingness to court penalty by mentioning the elephant in the room is a big part of the demise of the West. Please try to address this facet of the big themes you raise. Or play the role of gatekeeper and protect your "freedom of speech."
I agree with the facts you state re: a certain desert tribe.
However I disagree that everyone at all times must shout those facts from the rooftops to the detriment of other messages they might be trying to get out. A post like this should be seen as an opportunity to put your message in to people that might be receptive to that message, rather than lambasting the author because he didn't hit your topic of choice.
For example, you could reference Mearsheimer's "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy" to highlight their disproportionate influence on US foreign policy. Or bring up some stats on their disproportionate influence within society, such as this article:
Thanks for the suggestions Zorost. I just published a piece featuring Mearscheimer and his praise of the South African case accusing Israel of committing genocide. Any thoughts?
This comment is preposterous. There's no elephant in the room. This comment expresses intense animosity against Israel and the Jews but does not contain a shred of evidence that they are in any way responsible for the decline in Western competence. If Hamas gets its way and Israel and the Jews are wiped off the face of the earth, it's not going to make a bit of difference. The problems will be the same. You will just have to find another scapegoat
The comment is not preposterous. The jews are another ideological lobby who are fighting against the 1.5/8. Don't feel so bad, you're in 'good' company with Indians, LGBT, atheists and so on.
I wish to thank you on your excellent novel. It make some sense on me and what happen on me in my life. Well, all what you are write, I experience twice in my life. First I experience in my elementary srchool, I was in 5 grade class we have more advanced mathematics classes when I was sent from one school desk to another one. I must seat with a guy who is not so good at anything in school. I think that he have and average IQ (my IQ is in 1,5%) and maybe teachers intentions are good one, but results are worse for me. At first I have a very good grades in mathematics and physics, but when I was transferred in another desk my grades start falling and I am find myself in position that I struggling with adopting school material in mathematics and physics. With this approach of my teachers, I never have good start positions in mathematics for entire life and this is close my fate. IQ is not enough to overcome obstacle what is made before you, you will be all the time behind of rest. In secondary school all happen again and I am finish school like technician for electronics. Full four years of school. I tray to go on higher education but after short time I find it is useless, I can not withstand what I call "ass licking" of professors. To be honest, I been disgusted how professors behave, in his/hers behavior there is nothing academic at all, they are involved in personal enrichment, personal promotion, court intrigues.. Scientific development is non existent at all. That is in half of 80s. All what you are write in your novel, it is true for my country at that time. People are coming in positions because they are promoted by political organization or by family ties. In 90s, my country is dissolved in bloody civil war. Things start to be better, but soon everything is going in the same way like before. Than we come in European Union and things start to be worse than before. It is unbelievable how many stupid, "limited" peoples are held in higher positions, and f... intelligent people in brains with idiotic things. It is interesting, maybe it is mathematical solution to predict after how many years this situation will brake and there will be let me say reset of civilization.
I wrote my comment before reading yours. I think we're using different ways of expression to portray the exact same thing. I still can't fathom out though how this is meant to benefit anyone... except a truly evil small upper elite who want to shape everything to their own preference. The rest of us fulfilling non-player character roles.
Same here, still I read, no problem, cause I have personal experience too.
Different naturally, and no idea IQ, in fact spend years understanding simply
not stupid. Waste of resources and xtra umph-ed cause I sense intent all along. Much energy exonerating the innocent of my fury so this here downright calming. Just in time for the next front.
Thank you for this! You’re onto something there with regards to IQ and competency. Modern Russia is not your parent’s Soviet Union. They have lived with their mistakes long enough to have learned from them and now seem to be in a much better place.
Really very helpful article , I just could not explain to people what is happening to the west , I'm from Ireland and it is exactly as you wrote , here . I think I am wise to it because I have little schooling but plenty of street smart's . I have actually used the Phrase " HR are the trojan horse " to try get across how the ideology is weeping into companies. My wife is a quality manager and highly competent, but her battles every day is with the incompetence she is surrounded with , she has moved jobs four time's in five years and getting disillusioned and burnt out trying to do her job professionally . I think this article will be of great help to her . Another thing I have being pointing out over the last few years was that the only two real statesmen out their that you could really listen too are Lavrov and Putin .
Excellent!! I've written short notes related to the promotion of human capital being the goal of both a rational society and its government. As a historian, I'm curious as to the point where this controlling ideology became the aim of the elite to employ. I have a very good idea about that--the 1880s in England.
And as Mike said, Welcome to substack! I'm certain we'll interact in the future.
It is a false religion. They believe in the irrational things, like boys can be girls and vice versa. They persecute heretics, in the fine new England tradition, by doxing them, getting them fired, sued, jailed, etc. They call it woke.
Its more simple than that, the person the incompetent hates most is the competent addresses most of it. The language is just a way to mask it like excuses for why their homework isn't done. Its word play and mind games to hide their distain for competence.
"irrational things, like boys can be girls and vice versa"
Two-spirit is not irrational, rendering so is cultural myopia. Two-spirit is a third gender found in some Native American cultures, often involving birth-assigned men or women taking on the identities and roles of the opposite sex. A sacred and historical identity, two-spirit can include but is by no means limited to LGBTQ identities.
I know we are supposed to think every culture is at least as good as that developed in Europe for 2,500 years, but that is silly. The so-called native Americans had not even figure out the use of a wheel. I hardly think their confusion about the X and Y chromosomes are worthy of adapting. Of course, you are free to believe what ever you want but your feelings don’t change fundamental biology.
b) As the above genetic range suggests, the molecular biology that underlies gender identity, the development of gonadal and genital anatomy, and the factors that define sexual behaviour is proving unexpectedly complex and is still incompletely understood. It is now evident that humans cannot be characterized as member of 1 of 2 clearly defined units: male or female. In fact, individuals exist on a continuum: those who do not conform unequivocally to the dyadic view of human sex in terms of anatomy, gender identity, and/or sexual behaviour should be characterized as having variations in rather than disorders of sexual development. Such individuals can no longer be regarded as anomalies to be rejected, condemned, and, if possible, “corrected” either psychologically or anatomically. As such concern over the impacts of ‘trans’ people – who are significantly disadvantaged compared to ‘non trans’ people – far outweighs the tiny fraction of the global population they are.
c) Other cultures have acknowledged the scientific reality that sex in humans is not binary without imploding. India has a long history of recognising a third gender – Hijras were well-respected and revered in ancient India, and since 2014 legally recognised in India.
e) However, the biological reality of a non-binary genetic / cultural spectrum of sex and / or gender in human beings does not support nor imply a proposal that genetic tests should be required for registering one’s sex and / or gender in formal or legal binary (male or female only) processes.
"The so-called native Americans had not even figure out the use of a wheel."
Wrong: "Wheel and axle – Mesoamericans invented wheels but only used these as toys. The oldest wheeled figure to have been uncovered in Mesoamerica is a crowned, dog-like figure in Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, dated ca. 100-200 CE. The most common examples of the Mesoamerican wheel and axle are Aztec clay wheeled toys"
Is that really your arguement? They made toys with wheels but were not smart enough to use them to save human labor? Genius. I wish I would have thought of that. Reminds me of the time Henry Kissenger was flying over a chinee mining operation and asked his Chinese counterpart why there were no tractors. His Chinese counter part said China could employ more workers that way. To which, Kissenger suggested why not let them mine with spoons?
Of course, it was on wikipedia which everyone know is the final arbitor of truth.
I was simply responding to YOUR original comment, which did not exclude the use of toys: "The so-called native Americans had not even figure out the use of a wheel."
Further, you were not "smart enough" to specify there was a condition to your arrogant snorting: "save human labor" in your original comment.
Further still, you are not "smart enough" to offer us anything here but sarcasm and spelling mistakes "final arbitor [Arbiter] of truth" to have bothered to check the wikipedia link I gave showing a "List of [many hundreds] of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of Indigenous Americans" where you would have noticed that a) there is reference given by wikipedia for the toys observation :-
And b) that those people were extraordinary creative in comparison to the condescending arrogant racist ignorant snorting you offer here, which is entirely and blindly embedded in the context of our current fossil fuel civilization - which is soon to collapsing now after only ~250 years c/w the thousands of years the pre-Columbian and Indigenous American cultures lasted before genocide by your ancestors wiped them from this pale blue dot.
And were you "smart enough" to have bothered to do a wider search of "so-called native Americans" and their use of "wheels" you would have learned that just because archaeologists have only found "toys" does NOT exclude the possibility that those people didn't also use full sized wheeled objects to do "work".
Please elaborate. I think Gaius may have kept the term 'ideology' generic deliberately because, in some senses, it genuinely doesn't matter. As long as it is coherent and understood by the 'administrators'... but to hear some guesses would be really useful. I would add that maybe 'ideology' and 'egregore' are the same in all the essentials.
This is like a doctor identifying a range of symptoms, say, a fever, rash, blood in urine, elevated liver enzymes and white cells, and severe headaches, which indicate some underlying infection that is affecting multiple systems, but no idea what that infection may be. If I treat symptoms I may get temporary relief, but unless I fight off the infection nd my body can repair the damage, relief is only temporary and may even mask symptoms that might be diagnostically important.
Just off the top of my head, I can imagine all that he describes could be caused by a Marxist materialist ideological belief in "late stage monopoly capitalism," OR an idealistic ideology looking at past oppressions and how they were resolved, and identifying current oppressions that must be addressed by radical means, OR a socio-financial analysis looking at laissez-faire ideology running wild and leading to an over-financialized society with all that implies, OR an evolution in modes of thought from Kant to Hegel to Marx to the Frankfurt School to the post-moderns and now, "wokeism." 4 very distinct ideologies with different roots, and that is without any effort at all; I am sure others are plausible.
As each plays out it will begin to overlap then others and eventually each covers the range of what he describes. But they are different, they come from different places and while they may be delayed by addressing the "symptoms," a real solution requires addressing them at their base.
If one thinks the answers are obvious, I suggest they are focusing on symptoms, not causes, and/or are implicitly assuming they know the root cause (but may be very wrong).
Those are good points and thanks for offering some possible frameworks. I found the third and fourth more convincing but, as you say, ideologies evolve/articulate/rearticulate. The epithet 'liberal' (capitalised or not) has come to mean something rather different. Originally much closer to laissez-faire than it is now. Unpicking them is far from obvious, indeed.
The enemy is doing black magic on the world according to an ancient formula and script where the world must be drawn into an ultimate crisis which precipitates the advent of the final avatar as savior to bring about heaven on earth. If you want to know “who” is behind this... the list is very, very long but ultimately it is the enemy within that must ultimately be dealt with.
The underlying ideology that drives all this is Evil... COSMIC EVIL. That’s it and that’s all. This is a SPIRITUAL battle, nay... THE Spiritual Battle at the end of [this cycle of] Time.
MHJ, you need Curtis Yarvin‘s, “brief explanation of the Cathedral” on his gray mirror substack.
He explains the mechanism of how this world works: all of human polity. It is nothing less than a breakthrough. He re-purposed Darwin’s theory of natural evolution.
For human society the mechanism that propels us forward is “the selective advantage of dominant ideas and the inability of recessive ideas to compete.” There is no directing mind. It just happens, it evolves. The ideology evolves, it is fluid and no one is in charge.
I call it the intersection of practical considerations and natural human ambition. We are like a leaf on a stream.
Well the West is experiencing accelerated population reduction and de-growth due to the mRNA-injections so partially at least this crisis is being solved.
Emotional intelligence may not be required if the people you are working with/leading possess the other 3 traits, as they will come to the same conclusions and not introduce friction. However, it is good for herding sheep.
I just read this as a repost on Larry Johnson's website. An exceptionally good read, my favourite this week. I look forward to your next opinion. Welcome to Substack!
Same here!
Same here, but for much longer than a month
Hi Mike, I wondered what happened to you. Nice to see you here.
Can't recall a Sunface Jack?
Followed your Knysna fight. Uit die selfde land is ek
11-year fight, but they fucked me up good, and the baddies got promoted despite rulings in my favour. Our system is as corrupt as the USA's.
Count me as a new fan, and I will subscribe. This analysis is one of the most novel and insightful explanations for what ails us as a society that I have read this millennium. And if I may, I would like to contribute a small bit of irony.
For the reasons you have stated, the West (and in particular the USA) cannot keep the plates spinning forever with incompetents at the helm and a collapse of some sort is therefore inevitable in my opinion. Very likely, when Russia defeats Ukraine, this could trigger this long overdue correction. Russia rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union but it took a decade of Hell (1990s), and the emergence of a strong leader (Putin), and two more decades of hard work, but they have bounced back pretty nicely. Hopefully we can experience a similar fate, and if so, the credit may well belong to Putin and the Russian military.
"The best way to suppress a rational person is to subject him to an existence of total and constant irrationality."
... absolutely
Your analysis on ‘competency’ is right on target. During my 50+ years in state/local government, I have watch this creeping influence of moral degeneracy spread inconspicuously through our socirty and culture. It needs to be exposed to light and transparency.
I worked as a Marine Engineer for decades and you missed one important segment - The commonsense intelligence factor.
I was tasked with expanding a company's line and they wanted to move from their 41-foot yacht to a new 44-foot yacht. So I laid out the lines and was setting up the shop when an old-timer came to be and said why don't we just stretch the old boat?
He was right so we took the old plug, built a rial system under it, cut the boat in half and stretched it out to the design size of the 44 foot hull. filled in the gap then did the same to match the new beam. Saved the company at least 6 months of prototyping.
Over the years I found a lot of skilled craftsmen had that one special skill.
Commonsense intelligence.
I work in factory design and I see first hand parts bring over designed and fully custom because it works better or what ever they try say when a nut will do they use a tapped plate, when an off the shelf part would do they get it machined in stainless when a plastic bearing housing would do
Tiara boats?
That was Egg Harbor - also worked at Viking, Ocean, Silverton and Princess in Plymouth
Aye, Aye, captain 😉
I will argue about the IQ tests. Although I am biased considering my grandmother was part of the Princton crew that originated the IQ test. Fact is she used to say that person is smart as hell but doesn't have a lick of common sense.
It’s not the average Russian who designs hypersonic vehicles. Iran has a low average IQ but an amazingly capable caste of intellectuals, now all of whom live in exile. Iran also has hypersonic vehicles.
Beautiful. So satisfying to see what I kinda try to explain around me being layout so well. The feminisation of the universities and the RH departments had a huge impact on the collapse of the capabilities of the leadership. Their social status is based on agreeableness and conformity. I see it everyday in my town and at my job. At the end ‘ you can deny reality but not the consequences of denying reality’. We are not a postmodern society anymore, women took us back to a premodern society where ‘moral’ principles trump reality. Reason is out. It s just not the bible anymore, rather the globohomo petite bourgoisie left dystopia based on hatred towards white men.
This essay fails to note the most omnipotent lobby, the complex of organizations devoted to putting Israel--- and all it embodies-- First. The veto power afforded this lobby in hiring decisions throughout the upper echelons, in business cronyism, in media content, in nominations and awards and contracts and on and on is often left unstated, as is the case here. Play it safe much? This unwillingness to court penalty by mentioning the elephant in the room is a big part of the demise of the West. Please try to address this facet of the big themes you raise. Or play the role of gatekeeper and protect your "freedom of speech."
I agree with the facts you state re: a certain desert tribe.
However I disagree that everyone at all times must shout those facts from the rooftops to the detriment of other messages they might be trying to get out. A post like this should be seen as an opportunity to put your message in to people that might be receptive to that message, rather than lambasting the author because he didn't hit your topic of choice.
For example, you could reference Mearsheimer's "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy" to highlight their disproportionate influence on US foreign policy. Or bring up some stats on their disproportionate influence within society, such as this article:
https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2020/05/17/jewish-influence-on-american-politics/
Thanks for the suggestions Zorost. I just published a piece featuring Mearscheimer and his praise of the South African case accusing Israel of committing genocide. Any thoughts?
https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/on-the-need-to-include-the-study?utm_source=activity_item
Wow, that covers a lot of ground. Fascinating stuff, left a comment.
Thanks Zorost. Looked for your comment. Could not find it.
Anyway, news of the Netanyahu-Hamas relationship certainly surprised me.
Shot of reality. Not what I expected.
But so far nobody's addressed the core contents. Wanna the mic and start explaining it all.
Should have said, "WILL leave a comment" as I hadn't quite finished it yet. ;)
I saw it. Thanks. What are your thoughts on Israel and the UN Convention process against Israel? I take it very seriously.
Satanic Talmudic Sabbatean Frankists
This comment is preposterous. There's no elephant in the room. This comment expresses intense animosity against Israel and the Jews but does not contain a shred of evidence that they are in any way responsible for the decline in Western competence. If Hamas gets its way and Israel and the Jews are wiped off the face of the earth, it's not going to make a bit of difference. The problems will be the same. You will just have to find another scapegoat
The comment is not preposterous. The jews are another ideological lobby who are fighting against the 1.5/8. Don't feel so bad, you're in 'good' company with Indians, LGBT, atheists and so on.
Dear Sir,
I wish to thank you on your excellent novel. It make some sense on me and what happen on me in my life. Well, all what you are write, I experience twice in my life. First I experience in my elementary srchool, I was in 5 grade class we have more advanced mathematics classes when I was sent from one school desk to another one. I must seat with a guy who is not so good at anything in school. I think that he have and average IQ (my IQ is in 1,5%) and maybe teachers intentions are good one, but results are worse for me. At first I have a very good grades in mathematics and physics, but when I was transferred in another desk my grades start falling and I am find myself in position that I struggling with adopting school material in mathematics and physics. With this approach of my teachers, I never have good start positions in mathematics for entire life and this is close my fate. IQ is not enough to overcome obstacle what is made before you, you will be all the time behind of rest. In secondary school all happen again and I am finish school like technician for electronics. Full four years of school. I tray to go on higher education but after short time I find it is useless, I can not withstand what I call "ass licking" of professors. To be honest, I been disgusted how professors behave, in his/hers behavior there is nothing academic at all, they are involved in personal enrichment, personal promotion, court intrigues.. Scientific development is non existent at all. That is in half of 80s. All what you are write in your novel, it is true for my country at that time. People are coming in positions because they are promoted by political organization or by family ties. In 90s, my country is dissolved in bloody civil war. Things start to be better, but soon everything is going in the same way like before. Than we come in European Union and things start to be worse than before. It is unbelievable how many stupid, "limited" peoples are held in higher positions, and f... intelligent people in brains with idiotic things. It is interesting, maybe it is mathematical solution to predict after how many years this situation will brake and there will be let me say reset of civilization.
I wrote my comment before reading yours. I think we're using different ways of expression to portray the exact same thing. I still can't fathom out though how this is meant to benefit anyone... except a truly evil small upper elite who want to shape everything to their own preference. The rest of us fulfilling non-player character roles.
Massive paragraphs with no line breaks are impossible for my old eyes to read. Please keep in mind for the future.
Same here, still I read, no problem, cause I have personal experience too.
Different naturally, and no idea IQ, in fact spend years understanding simply
not stupid. Waste of resources and xtra umph-ed cause I sense intent all along. Much energy exonerating the innocent of my fury so this here downright calming. Just in time for the next front.
Is your name Harrison Bergeron?
Read that book gazillion years ago, don't remember it, but the major premise is often referenced on these blogs.
You should read it again.
Thank you for this! You’re onto something there with regards to IQ and competency. Modern Russia is not your parent’s Soviet Union. They have lived with their mistakes long enough to have learned from them and now seem to be in a much better place.
Really very helpful article , I just could not explain to people what is happening to the west , I'm from Ireland and it is exactly as you wrote , here . I think I am wise to it because I have little schooling but plenty of street smart's . I have actually used the Phrase " HR are the trojan horse " to try get across how the ideology is weeping into companies. My wife is a quality manager and highly competent, but her battles every day is with the incompetence she is surrounded with , she has moved jobs four time's in five years and getting disillusioned and burnt out trying to do her job professionally . I think this article will be of great help to her . Another thing I have being pointing out over the last few years was that the only two real statesmen out their that you could really listen too are Lavrov and Putin .
This was an outstanding piece, thank you.
Agree.
Another outstanding article is "Russia's CBDC - Exploring the Truth of Russia's Central Bank."
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russias-cbdc-exploring-the-truth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Thank you Redford, interesting read
The notification is sitting in my mailbox, I just haven't found time to go read it yet but I'm looking forward to it.
There's a reply to the post by Simplicius here that bears reading as well to get another point of view: https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/elvira-nabiullina-is-the-kindest
Excellent!! I've written short notes related to the promotion of human capital being the goal of both a rational society and its government. As a historian, I'm curious as to the point where this controlling ideology became the aim of the elite to employ. I have a very good idea about that--the 1880s in England.
And as Mike said, Welcome to substack! I'm certain we'll interact in the future.
Brilliant essay, but what is the underlying ideology that drives all this? You don't specify, and I can imagine several possibilities.
If you wish to know who rules over you, look to who you are not allowed to criticize.
It's actually the organized crime syndicate that hides behind them that's the problem. There's plenty of Jews who are pissed off about this BS.
More than a few European old money shitbags collaborating with them as well. I'd say it's 50/50.
It is a false religion. They believe in the irrational things, like boys can be girls and vice versa. They persecute heretics, in the fine new England tradition, by doxing them, getting them fired, sued, jailed, etc. They call it woke.
Its more simple than that, the person the incompetent hates most is the competent addresses most of it. The language is just a way to mask it like excuses for why their homework isn't done. Its word play and mind games to hide their distain for competence.
"irrational things, like boys can be girls and vice versa"
Two-spirit is not irrational, rendering so is cultural myopia. Two-spirit is a third gender found in some Native American cultures, often involving birth-assigned men or women taking on the identities and roles of the opposite sex. A sacred and historical identity, two-spirit can include but is by no means limited to LGBTQ identities.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/two-spirit/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit
I know we are supposed to think every culture is at least as good as that developed in Europe for 2,500 years, but that is silly. The so-called native Americans had not even figure out the use of a wheel. I hardly think their confusion about the X and Y chromosomes are worthy of adapting. Of course, you are free to believe what ever you want but your feelings don’t change fundamental biology.
Wow. Racism and ignorance on "fundamental biology" all in a few words well done! "X and Y chromosomes" are NOT a binary, its called intersex:
a) The six most common karyotypes of biological sex in human beings that do not result in death to the fetus:
X – Roughly 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 5,000 people (Turner’s )
XX – Most common form of female
XXY – Roughly 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000 people (Klinefelter)
XY – Most common form of male
XYY – Roughly 1 out of 1,000 people
XXXY – Roughly 1 in 18,000 to 1 in 50,000 births
https://www.joshuakennon.com/the-six-common-biological-sexes-in-humans/
b) As the above genetic range suggests, the molecular biology that underlies gender identity, the development of gonadal and genital anatomy, and the factors that define sexual behaviour is proving unexpectedly complex and is still incompletely understood. It is now evident that humans cannot be characterized as member of 1 of 2 clearly defined units: male or female. In fact, individuals exist on a continuum: those who do not conform unequivocally to the dyadic view of human sex in terms of anatomy, gender identity, and/or sexual behaviour should be characterized as having variations in rather than disorders of sexual development. Such individuals can no longer be regarded as anomalies to be rejected, condemned, and, if possible, “corrected” either psychologically or anatomically. As such concern over the impacts of ‘trans’ people – who are significantly disadvantaged compared to ‘non trans’ people – far outweighs the tiny fraction of the global population they are.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2470289718803639
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=variations+in+biologcal+sex+humans&t=ffsb&ia=web
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=how+many+trans+people+are+there%3F&ia=web
c) Other cultures have acknowledged the scientific reality that sex in humans is not binary without imploding. India has a long history of recognising a third gender – Hijras were well-respected and revered in ancient India, and since 2014 legally recognised in India.
https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2018/10/29/indias-relationship-with-the-third-gender/
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/busting-myths-about-sex-and-gender/
d) Native American cultures for thousands of years before Europeans murdered most of them encouraged their children to chose their own gender roles.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Native+American+has+a+third+gender&t=ffab&ia=web
e) However, the biological reality of a non-binary genetic / cultural spectrum of sex and / or gender in human beings does not support nor imply a proposal that genetic tests should be required for registering one’s sex and / or gender in formal or legal binary (male or female only) processes.
"The so-called native Americans had not even figure out the use of a wheel."
Wrong: "Wheel and axle – Mesoamericans invented wheels but only used these as toys. The oldest wheeled figure to have been uncovered in Mesoamerica is a crowned, dog-like figure in Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, dated ca. 100-200 CE. The most common examples of the Mesoamerican wheel and axle are Aztec clay wheeled toys"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-Columbian_inventions_and_innovations_of_Indigenous_Americans#W
Is that really your arguement? They made toys with wheels but were not smart enough to use them to save human labor? Genius. I wish I would have thought of that. Reminds me of the time Henry Kissenger was flying over a chinee mining operation and asked his Chinese counterpart why there were no tractors. His Chinese counter part said China could employ more workers that way. To which, Kissenger suggested why not let them mine with spoons?
Of course, it was on wikipedia which everyone know is the final arbitor of truth.
I was simply responding to YOUR original comment, which did not exclude the use of toys: "The so-called native Americans had not even figure out the use of a wheel."
Further, you were not "smart enough" to specify there was a condition to your arrogant snorting: "save human labor" in your original comment.
Further still, you are not "smart enough" to offer us anything here but sarcasm and spelling mistakes "final arbitor [Arbiter] of truth" to have bothered to check the wikipedia link I gave showing a "List of [many hundreds] of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of Indigenous Americans" where you would have noticed that a) there is reference given by wikipedia for the toys observation :-
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FGSQOiy6uZUC&q=oldest+wheel+toy+in+mesoamerica&pg=PT58&redir_esc=y
And b) that those people were extraordinary creative in comparison to the condescending arrogant racist ignorant snorting you offer here, which is entirely and blindly embedded in the context of our current fossil fuel civilization - which is soon to collapsing now after only ~250 years c/w the thousands of years the pre-Columbian and Indigenous American cultures lasted before genocide by your ancestors wiped them from this pale blue dot.
And were you "smart enough" to have bothered to do a wider search of "so-called native Americans" and their use of "wheels" you would have learned that just because archaeologists have only found "toys" does NOT exclude the possibility that those people didn't also use full sized wheeled objects to do "work".
Please elaborate. I think Gaius may have kept the term 'ideology' generic deliberately because, in some senses, it genuinely doesn't matter. As long as it is coherent and understood by the 'administrators'... but to hear some guesses would be really useful. I would add that maybe 'ideology' and 'egregore' are the same in all the essentials.
This is like a doctor identifying a range of symptoms, say, a fever, rash, blood in urine, elevated liver enzymes and white cells, and severe headaches, which indicate some underlying infection that is affecting multiple systems, but no idea what that infection may be. If I treat symptoms I may get temporary relief, but unless I fight off the infection nd my body can repair the damage, relief is only temporary and may even mask symptoms that might be diagnostically important.
Just off the top of my head, I can imagine all that he describes could be caused by a Marxist materialist ideological belief in "late stage monopoly capitalism," OR an idealistic ideology looking at past oppressions and how they were resolved, and identifying current oppressions that must be addressed by radical means, OR a socio-financial analysis looking at laissez-faire ideology running wild and leading to an over-financialized society with all that implies, OR an evolution in modes of thought from Kant to Hegel to Marx to the Frankfurt School to the post-moderns and now, "wokeism." 4 very distinct ideologies with different roots, and that is without any effort at all; I am sure others are plausible.
As each plays out it will begin to overlap then others and eventually each covers the range of what he describes. But they are different, they come from different places and while they may be delayed by addressing the "symptoms," a real solution requires addressing them at their base.
If one thinks the answers are obvious, I suggest they are focusing on symptoms, not causes, and/or are implicitly assuming they know the root cause (but may be very wrong).
Those are good points and thanks for offering some possible frameworks. I found the third and fourth more convincing but, as you say, ideologies evolve/articulate/rearticulate. The epithet 'liberal' (capitalised or not) has come to mean something rather different. Originally much closer to laissez-faire than it is now. Unpicking them is far from obvious, indeed.
Elaboration equals antisemitism.
What? In Gaius’ post? Nonsense.
The enemy is doing black magic on the world according to an ancient formula and script where the world must be drawn into an ultimate crisis which precipitates the advent of the final avatar as savior to bring about heaven on earth. If you want to know “who” is behind this... the list is very, very long but ultimately it is the enemy within that must ultimately be dealt with.
The underlying ideology that drives all this is Evil... COSMIC EVIL. That’s it and that’s all. This is a SPIRITUAL battle, nay... THE Spiritual Battle at the end of [this cycle of] Time.
Prepare.
Egalitarianism.
MHJ, you need Curtis Yarvin‘s, “brief explanation of the Cathedral” on his gray mirror substack.
He explains the mechanism of how this world works: all of human polity. It is nothing less than a breakthrough. He re-purposed Darwin’s theory of natural evolution.
For human society the mechanism that propels us forward is “the selective advantage of dominant ideas and the inability of recessive ideas to compete.” There is no directing mind. It just happens, it evolves. The ideology evolves, it is fluid and no one is in charge.
I call it the intersection of practical considerations and natural human ambition. We are like a leaf on a stream.
It’s not original to say it, but it’s all starting to look a lot like the last days of the Roman Empire, only with electronic goods and whatnot...
Well the West is experiencing accelerated population reduction and de-growth due to the mRNA-injections so partially at least this crisis is being solved.
Emotional intelligence may not be required if the people you are working with/leading possess the other 3 traits, as they will come to the same conclusions and not introduce friction. However, it is good for herding sheep.
Fantastic article.