tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83580392024-03-18T00:54:42.532-07:00Captain CapitalismRantings and tirades of a frustrated economist.Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger8791125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-84533171062274071182023-10-26T17:29:00.007-07:002023-10-26T17:29:52.934-07:00When Laziness Was Our Friend<p>As is usually the case with writing a book, you will write something brilliant, but it just doesn't fit into the book. You don't want to let it go, but it has to go on the cutting floor because while interesting, it doesn't serve the interests of the book.</p><p>So I decided to post it here so it wasn't lost to the cutting floor. The book should be published in November. Keep an eye out for "A World Without Men"<br /></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Laziness was once one of humanity's best
friends. It was a survival mechanism that kept us alive by making
sure we didn't expend more calories of energy than there was to eat
during times when food was not plentiful. It was not immoral or
unethical, it was prudent. Laziness was an intelligent cost-benefit
analysis to make sure we did not squander our caloric resources so
that we didn't starve. </span>
</p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">However, since those times laziness has
mutated into the most evil cancer that infects humanity today.
Because whereas in times past, laziness was a means by which to
ensure your efforts were not wasted, it has now evolved into a
universal fear of work. And not just a fear of work, but an
all-controlling, instinctual, crippling fear as it was so critical to
our survival in the past. It is arguably even more powerful than the
male sex drive. And this all-consuming fear has cost humanity nearly
its entire potential, as well as rendered the vast majority of human
lives pointless and wasted.</span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">For example, I've had many clients who
lived in abusive homes. When I asked the simple question, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>"Well,
why don't you move?," </i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">they
</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">all invariably responded,
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>"But I get free rent."</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
People will tolerate actual abuse before getting a job. Their fear
of work is more powerful than the pain of abuse. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Millions
of young people every year major in the liberal arts, business, and
social sciences. When you ask them </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>"Why
don't you major in Accounting or Engineering?"</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
they all say, </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>"Well
I don't like math."</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
They are so afraid of work they'll waste 4 years of their youth and
cripple themselves financially with student debt to avoid it. And
this says nothing about the lost potential had they chosen to do
something productive or great instead.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We could
go on, but the point is the fear of work is so powerful, it not only
forces people to make decisions that hurt them, but it also holds
people hostage so tightly it prevents them from achieving anything
good or great in their lives. This consequently ruins most people's
lives as they both achieve nothing and suffer the entire time. And
women are no exception. They are just as much a slave to laziness as
any one else.</span></span></p>
<p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-8720164707327579232023-05-04T09:11:00.006-07:002023-05-04T09:26:06.909-07:00Why Do We Put Education Behind a Pay Wall? (aka - How to Make Free Education a Right)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOb3IeB8OLivZEzrQBqvqiadwIIm1gliYJqG1CHWkGc_ezIfwIpZBBIMewdDWApdbFYRKD-GsZilp20BXfUnm42q69YIattSZ-mZcIGrgJFHSmrrMYjJlDHBpoZ6Nobh3Tu_Gi5TQ_w697HNXv5kGaYGNu3AYRtJnLixSM1LjSZ1kc_XAPdg0/s889/education%20not.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="889" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOb3IeB8OLivZEzrQBqvqiadwIIm1gliYJqG1CHWkGc_ezIfwIpZBBIMewdDWApdbFYRKD-GsZilp20BXfUnm42q69YIattSZ-mZcIGrgJFHSmrrMYjJlDHBpoZ6Nobh3Tu_Gi5TQ_w697HNXv5kGaYGNu3AYRtJnLixSM1LjSZ1kc_XAPdg0/w493-h278/education%20not.jpg" width="493" /></a></div><b><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Americans Are Just Too Stupid, But...</span></span></b>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
20 years ago when it became apparent that most office work could be
done over the internet, I had one, simple question – why do we
commute?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
It was not an idealistic question. It was not a naive question. It
was a very simple, logical, and ultimately correct question. And the
reason it was a simple, logical and ultimately correct question was
because it exposed the simple fact that commuting was obsolete for
about 70% of the labor force.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
What is fascinating, however, is how long it has taken the western
world to capitalize on this simple opportunity. In reality, it should have
taken no more than two years' time to migrate white collar work to
people’s home offices. Office buildings should have been converted
to residential living spaces long ago. And the past 20 years
Americans should have enjoyed increased standards of living, lowing
living expenses, less carbon/pollution, lower stress, increased
health, stronger families and less traffic fatalities.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
But here we are in 2023 pulling the teeth of a baby boomer corporate
managerial class that should have retired long ago. An instead of
allowing us to enjoy a new golden era in American labor, we’re
still stuck commuting, tepidly asking our boss if we could
telecommute, as if we were asking him if we could bang his wife.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Now working in banking I learned long ago that today’s American
leaders are too stupid, short sighted, and ultimately set in their
ways to capitalize on the tremendous opportunities technology has
laid in front of us. And me pointing out these opportunities over
the past 20 years was a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Housing-Crash-Confessions-Insider/dp/1439204063">colossal waste of time </a>that has not resulted
in a single, tangible change. But whereas my original goal in<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1467978302/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1467978302&linkCode=as2&tag=captaicapit0b-20&linkId=6JZGO4M6W7N57ZHC" target="_blank">highlighting these opportunities</a> was to be a good economist and
DRAMATICALLY improve our standards of living, today I merely point
these things out for posterity AND to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1480284769/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1480284769&linkCode=as2&tag=captaicapit0b-20&linkId=IOTN6LBE2CO6YSSQ" target="_blank">take great joy watchingAmericans unnecessarily suffer</a> because of their ignorance,
short-sightedness, and sloth. I’d like to see the day politicians,
employers, corporate leaders get their heads out of their asses and
make life DRASTICALLY better for all of us. But we are just too damn
stupid. And so I am relegated to take joy in other people's misery.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
To continue my enjoyment of watching stupid people suffer, let me
highlight another opportunity Americans have squandered. An
opportunity that would no doubt usher in a new golden era of American
standards of living. An opportunity that would solve damn near all
of our financial problems. Not to mention an opportunity we've been
squandering the past 20 years. But one I am completely confident
Americans will fail to avail themselves of.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Making higher education truly free.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;">The Nature of Education is Free </b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Whether you realize it or not we have the technology to make
education free. And not in the sense that democrats, labor, or
socialist parties mean wherein the tax payer pays added taxes for
truly average westerners to get <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1467978302/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1467978302&linkCode=as2&tag=captaicapit0b-20&linkId=6JZGO4M6W7N57ZHC" target="_blank">laughably stupid degrees</a> in the
liberal arts or social sciences. But in the sense of
revolutionizing the concept of education from that of a <i><b>product
into a constitutional-right</b></i>. And to understand this concept
of education as a right, it helps to understand what education is at
its atomic level versus how we currently provide an education to the
people.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
First, understand that all education is, is information. Whether it
was learning your ABC’s in kindergarten or learning how nuclear
fusion worked in grad school, it’s just previously-established
information being passed onto and installed in a new brain. And this
information unto itself is free. No individual or school owns that
fact that 2+2 = 4. No university or college owns the information of
how HTML code can be used to build a website. And so no person or
institution can charge for facts or information, because these facts
"just are." Information is self-evident, information is
universal, information is free.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Additionally, the acquisition of this information can be free. I can
go to the library and read books. I can learn from other people as
they share their information with me. I can watch documentaries on
nearly anything. And with the advent of the internet ALL human
knowledge is now accessible for every one on the planet. And so
today ANYONE can learn ANYTHING for free and no one (be that a
person, government, guild, or university) can stop them. In this
sense, information and therefore education, is a right. I have the
right to know anything I want. I have the right to know facts,
processes, and details. And no one can stop me from educating
myself.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
The problem comes where we as a society have allowed various
institutions to determine whether or not the information someone has
acquired qualifies as an “education.” And not just an education,
but a certified education that is worthy of employment.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
This is not entirely irrational. First, without some form of
standards people could self-declare they are educated by essentially
lying on their resume. Most of us would be reluctant to hire a civil
engineer to build a bridge who claims he “totally educated himself,
HONEST!” as opposed to one put through a formal civil engineering
program. Second, until recently, schools were the most efficient way
to educate masses of people. You can tutor an individual student one
on one, or an individual student can grab a book on economics and
teach himself at the library. But having an expert in front of a
class of 200 students, clearly conveying specialized information is
much more efficient than tutoring one-on-one or an individual
inefficiently trying to educate himself on something completely new
to him. So it is only rational that in a pre-internet era schools
and universities would form as the most efficient way to educate
people. But there are several problems with having physical
institutions disseminating information and thus education, as well as
what our education system has morphed into today.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
First, you are going to incur costs. In having physical locations
where information is disseminated, you need teachers, property, and
buildings, replete with equipment (labs, desks, paper, etc), all of
which cost money. Information may be free, but it's going to cost
you if you wish to have people convey it to you in the form of a
certified credential/education.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Second, even though a loud teacher with a powerful PA system can
speak to a hall of 2,000 students (Willey Hall, U of MN, 1993),
there's still a limit to the number of students a teacher can teach
at any one time. And while it is impressive you can educate 2,000
students about Psychology 101 all at the same time, the technology
exists that one YouTube video of that professor's same lecture could
educate all the people in the world for free. Physical schools are
not only costly, but obsolete.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Third, while no one individual school or college has a monopoly on
education, the education industry as a whole does. Not necessarily
out of malice or design, but in the fact that society more or less
requires a formal education to even be considered remotely employable
today. Worse, modern employers reinforce this unconscious monopoly
by granting it nearly<i><b> total intrinsic</b></i> value by making
NEARLY ALL employment contingent on receiving an accredited and
authorized education from this system. This makes <b>everyone's job</b>,
and therefore <b>everyone's financial lives</b>, and therefore <b>NEARLY
ALL OF OF THE US ECONOMY</b> wholly dependent on this monopoly. And
with ALL of the nation's economy and ALL of people's financial lives
dependent upon this system, an incredible and unacceptable amount of
power has been centralized into this one industry.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Fourth, this power has proven too tempting for people in the
education industry and they have predictably abused it. The reason
tuition costs so much (when its true informational nature is free) is
because those employed by the education industry have morphed the
education industry from one that educates, trains, and prepares
generations of young people for success in the real world, to one
where they absolutely fleece young people out of a lifetime of money.
Everything from 2 years of unnecessary prereqs to get a Bachelors
degree, to credits that cost $300 each, to college textbooks that
cost $500, to refusing to recognize credits from different schools,
the TRUE nature of the higher education industry in America is to
extract as much money out of its students as possible in exchange for
a permission slip to work (and for most college degrees, not even
that). Nowhere (bar say, <a href="https://www.wgu.edu/" target="_blank">WGU</a> and ASU Online) are schools trying to
make education more affordable. Everywhere education has become a
means by which teachers, professors, and administrators enrich
themselves off the young.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
And finally, corruption. Making matters worse is that in having such
power centralized in one industry COMBINED WITH THE FACT nearly all
American children must go through this system, other institutions,
industries, and people who have harmful ulterior aims are too tempted
not abuse this system. Whether you are a democrat or republican, it
is PAINFULLY obvious the K-college system indoctrinates young people
to become socialists and victims more than they do teaching them how
to <a href="https://theclareyschoolofeconomicphilosophy.teachable.com/p/the-dad-you-never-had-what-your-dad-should-have-taught-you-but-didn-t" target="_blank">program a computer, fix a car, or do their taxes</a>. More modernly,
various trait-based groups have infiltrated and abused the education
system to promote their trait based politics (be that race, gender,
sexual preference, mental illness, etc.) to future generations, which
does absolutely nothing to help young people (of all traits), but
rather mentally impairs them with defeatism, victimhood, hatred, and
no real employable skills. Employers are only more than happy to
arbitrarily require more education as it allows them to unload
on-job-training costs to schools and students. And everyone who's
ever attended college are fully aware of the credit card companies
and banks who line up during freshman orientation and graduation to
get you to sign up for a credit card or a 7 year, 18% car loan.
Young students are viewed as a captive audience to be butchered like
cattle, not the generation society will rely upon to carry us
forward, who need to be invested in.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
When we add up all these costs, the price is tremendous.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;">The Costs of an Obsolete, Corrupt, and Truly Stupid System</b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Explicitly, we spend $671 billion dollars on our higher education
system ($764 billion on K-12) per year. 85% of this money is
outright wasted on degrees that have no employability. And unless
your skill or trade requires a physical lab or hands on instruction
(trades, engineering, physics, etc) worthwhile degrees such as
computer programming, actuarial science, accounting, etc., can all be
learned online or through self study. While it would require looking
up data on the NCES (National Center for Educational Statistics), we
can safely assume nearly 90% of this $671 billion is simply wasted
money (and an argument can be made that with homeschooling, self
study, and the internet a significant chunk of the $764 billion in
K-12 is wasted as well). In other words, in using a system that
allows people to self study from the comforts of their own homes, we
could save about $600 billion <i><b>every year</b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(more if you consider K-12)</span></span><i><b>.</b></i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
To put this into context and to show you just what a tremendous waste
this has been, 3.5 million American children are born every year. If
we j<i>ust gave them this money</i> it would be $175,000 per student,
more if we were to allow students to self-study out of the K-12
system. And though the average home in the US goes for about
$400,000, a ball park $200,000 per child would not only guarantee
some basic level of housing, it would guarantee housing for a
lifetime (and don't even get me started if we put that money into the
S&P 500 at the time of their birth and let compound growth do its
magic).</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
This is not an argument to defund education and instead <i>give
everyone in America a house </i>(though it would ABSOLUTELY be a
better use of the money). But it is to show you just how much money
we are wasting on an obsolete and outdated system putting education
behind a paywall. Not to mention just how much more we could do if
we spent this money more intelligently.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
What is arguably worse, however, is the non-financial costs we pay
using this outdated education system. The fact we force children to
attend school for 13 years AND THEY STILL DON'T HAVE AN EMPLOYABLE
SKILL, is bordering on a human rights violation. The fact we require
4-8 more years of education on top of that is simple robbery and
stupidity. And the fact most jobs that require a college degree
could be done with an 8th grade education, means nearly half of these
children's' lives have been wasted. If these kids were equipped with
an employable skill at 16, allowing them to work instead of waste
even more time in high school and college, a generation (assumed to
be 20 years of births) could amass an additional $17 trillion in
added economic production. Production that would enrich them rather
than impoverish them (like student loans/college do today), and
production that would eliminate nearly all of our economic problems.
And this says nothing about the psychological benefits that would
come with not having your entire childhood wasted in government
buildings or your entire financial life crippled by student loans.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;">The New System</b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
But like traffic jams and commutes, this nightmare can end tomorrow.
We can usher in a free and new educational system quite literally in
6 months' time. And we could do this by <i><b>legally recognizing an
education is information, not how the information was acquired.</b></i>
Meaning no employer, government, or corporation <i><b>could
discriminate against how you got the information.</b></i> They could
only discriminate based on whether you had the adequate
information/education to do the job. This would allow people to
educate themselves for free (aka - becoming "autodidacts")
in whatever manner they choose (likely the internet, but books, self
study, groups, etc.), liberating them from the corrupt, inefficient,
costly, and obsolete education system we have today. And quite
literally overnight making us all $1 trillion a year richer and
saving every person born in America 6 years of unnecessary education.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
In practice education as a right would require two things. First,
congress and the states would have to pass laws recognizing that
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
1) information is free, universal, and therefore everyone has a right
to it,
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
AND
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
2) that information is the same regardless of how it was acquired</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
AND</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
3) therefore discriminating against how that information was acquired
is a violation of that right.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
This would make education free to all of us as employers would no
longer be able to require a college degree as a condition of
employment. It would require employers test for knowledge, aptitude,
or experience, not whether you have a degree. (Or, if I could be so
bold to suggest that employers maybe train their own damn employees).
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Second, congress and the states would have to make make laws
requiring employers, trade groups, industries, and professions to
come up with tests that allow the self-educated to "test into
employment" much like the Accounting profession has the CPA exam
or California has it's bar exam. It would require each industry have
a certification system like the IT profession has where people take
tests to get certified in different fields. It would also require
governments have some kind of enforcement arm to make sure employers
are not giving preferential treatment to college graduates over the
self-educated (or vice versa). But these costs would be a small
fraction of the nearly $700 billion we piss away on the current
system we have now.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Finally, there is a compelling civil rights argument that the current
education system compared to this newly-proposed one unfairly
discriminates against minorities, women, and other disadvantaged
groups...<i>because it quite literally does.</i> Requiring the poor
or otherwise disadvantaged to acquire an employable education through
today's inefficient and costly education system, when technology
allows for an equal education to be acquired for free AND in a much
shorter time, is denying them the ability to avail themselves of that
opportunity. And in forcing all people to go through the inefficient
institutional system of education, regardless of the disparate impact
it has on the disadvantaged, is one of the rare-but-real forms of
institutional discrimination on minorities. I am no scholar on
discrimination law or the Civil Rights Act, but because of the time
and financial burden our current education system requires in order
to be qualified to work, minorities (as well as poor people in
general) are very much being discriminated against by today's
education system, as opposed to <a href="https://www.edinamn.gov/" target="_blank">those who can afford to leisurely and luxuriously spend 20 years getting an employable education</a>.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
In the end the new system would simply be one where colleges and
universities (even some high schools) would be replaced with tests
and certifications no different than the GED, COMPTIA, or CPA exams.
Four year $150,000 college degrees replaced with one-time $500 tests
in an afternoon. And the veracity and employability of these
certifications would be enforced by the state and federal governments
through the recognition that education is a right, regardless of how
it was acquired, thereby making it illegal to discriminate against
how that education was acquired. You technically don't even need the
federal government to do this. A bold and caring (and likely "red")
state could do this for its citizens tomorrow. Or an ethical company
could realize just how immoral it is to require every young person
have 17 years of education, and offer training programs instead. But
as said before, American employers and leaders are truly stupid
people. And so it's likely going to require the force of law to make
any of this happen.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;">Stupid Americans Who Are Going to Get in the Way</b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
There are no words that can convey my complete and total hatred for
the people I am about to list below. They have prevented me, you,
and the past three generations of Americans from even achieving 30%
of our full potential. They are unnecessary, self-serving, wasted
bureaucratic bloat, and some I would say are outright evil. Removing
these people from society (in terms of their profession, not their
lives...though there is the argument) would liberate us and the
American economy to produce easily 3 times the amount of GDP we do
today. It would also liberate future generations of children from
wasting ALL of their youth in school, and instead allow the majority
of Americans to be earning a living wage by the age of 16 and retire
at 58. We are literally one law and one year of retooling away from
a DRAMATICALLY better future where we are trillions of dollars better
off, wealthier, happier, and education is truly free. And these
despicable people are absolutely going to get in the way of that.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
First, those currently employed in the current education system are
going to be vehemently against making education free. Everyone from
special ed teachers in pre-K to tenured professors at our highest
ranked universities will be against this. And the reason is simple -
99% of them will lose their jobs.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
I personally have no pity for the system and the people who have
fleeced and impoverished three generations of Americans selling them
information that should have been free just so they could have cushy,
9-months-per-year teaching jobs. I have no pity for the K-12
teachers who failed to give American children ONE employable skill
after having them for 13 years. I have no care for college staff who
enriched themselves by enslaving generations of Americans with
student loans for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1467978302/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1467978302&linkCode=as2&tag=captaicapit0b-20&linkId=6JZGO4M6W7N57ZHC">worthless degrees</a>. And I have a particular contempt for all of them as
they've used the education system as a tool of government
brainwashing for socialism, not education.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
These grievances aside, the case against those currently employed in
today's education system is much simpler - these people are obsolete.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Just as the horse and buggy industry died out because technology
introduced the car, the internet has made most teachers obsolete.
The system of congregating people in one area to audibly be informed
and instructed, has been replaced with firing up your phone in bed
and listening to the same lecture minus the bus ride, bullying,
school drama, $75,000 tuition bill, and sermons about men having
periods. But to show you how much more these people care about
themselves than all of society, they will absolutely fight tooth and
nail to make sure the rest of society continues paying the
unnecessary $650 billion - $1.4 trillion (depending on how you want
to measure it) to keep the old system going because it's <i>more
important they don't have to find new jobs, than allow society to
advance</i>. It would be no different than buggy makers preventing
the rest of the country to avail themselves of cars because they're
too damn lazy to retool and find a new profession. Those employed in
today's education system will gladly hold the country's progress
hostage so they can keep their pointless jobs. Some I guarantee will
even do so violently.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Second and closely-related, employers.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Employers love colleges and universities because it lessens, if not,
eliminates their training costs. If you have ever heard "Bachelors
required, Masters preferred," or "hit the ground running"
or "steep learning curve," that is employer-speak for "We
aren't going to pay for any training." This is not only unfair,
but highly inefficient. Unfair because in requiring college degrees
employers offload their training expenses to the education industry
(those costs ultimately borne by the combination of students,
parents, non profits and the tax payers who all pool in to pay for
college degrees). And HORRENDOUSLY inefficient because they require
people waste 4 years and $125,000 getting a degree for a job that in
all reality only requires 2 weeks and $1,200 in training.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Still, no matter how much employers claim to be about "work life
balance," they will gladly force generation after generation to
go into life-long debt to get college degrees as opposed to dropping
a few pennies on training programs. Worse, you'll find many
employers want their employees in debt because financially destitute
people make more loyal and lower-paid employees.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Third, the democrat party.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Though obviously the American democrat party will be against any
parring down or eliminating of the current education industry, this
goes for any of the major and minor left-leaning parties of western
nations. The reason is very simple - this is where they get future
voters.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
This isn't conspiratorial. This isn't an edgy take. Leftist parties
of the western world completely rely on their education systems to
pre-install socialist politics in children and certainly college
students so that they can groom future voters and stay in power. And
in letting people educate themselves, they potentially lose this
voter farm, facing the same horror that keeps teachers and professors
awake at night - losing their election and have to get a real job</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Tragically (for the democrat party anyway) this proposal delivers
what they've long promised, but failed to deliver - a right to a free
education. But it does so by bypassing the education
system that the democrats (and lefter leaning parties globally) rely
on to get re-elected.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Here you may see some genuine and caring democrats rejoice in that
there is a real and viable way to make education free. Here you may
see a rare bit of bipartisanship where democrats and republicans come
together to make our lives MARKEDLY better. And here democrats can
deliver on a promise to minorities and the poor to make their lives
TREMENDOUSLY and TANGIBLY better.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
But the vast majority won't. And the reason why is the same reason
why teachers, professors, employers, and college administrators are
going to be against a free education - because it's<i> more important
they keep their jobs than advance society</i>. It's more important
they stay in power than help the people who voted for them. It will
be fun to see what reason and rationale the left comes up with to be
<i><b>AGAINST</b></i> a bill that would make education a right, but I
eagerly look forward to it anyway.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
And then finally, HR.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
I've never understood why HR has to power-trip over those who are
unemployed and less fortunate than they are. I don't know why HR has
impoverished, indebted, and financially crippled generations of young
Americans requiring progressively more and more education for jobs
that could be done by 8th graders. And I don't see the incentive,
reason, or motive for HR to be the insufferable, power-tripping
bitches (men included) that they are.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
I guess I just don't understand evil.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
And because I don't understand evil, I guess I won't know why the HR
profession will be against people having a right to a free
education...but I know they will be.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Thankfully, however, "Becky" in "human resources"
will be powerless to stop it if education as a right is passed into
law. Karen and Her Coven of HR <strike>Witches</strike> "Professionals" will no
longer be able to prevent people from advancing in their careers by
requiring absurd amounts of education...or by simply not liking your
shoes. And though Becky and the HR profession will raise
hell at the prospect of taking away their little fiefdoms, they are
thankfully the least powerful of all the groups who will stand in the
way of the nation's progress. Still, they are going to raise a stink about people having a right to a free education if it denies their ability to power trip over job applicants. But once again we see the common thread that unites all these evil people - it's more important they keep their power than the rest of society advance.<br /></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;">This Isn't Going to Happen</b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
I'd like to say, "Tomorrow, literally tomorrow, we could make
education free in America and provide the legal frame work by which
other countries could do the same." I'd like to see kids
enjoying their childhoods instead of being sequestered in government
buildings for 13 years. I'd like to see young people being able to
educate themselves for free, and being able to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1494463180/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1494463180&linkCode=as2&tag=captaicapit0b-20&linkId=QTM5OYMWOORSUEQQ" target="_blank">earn a living wage at18</a>. And I'd like to see a country that has no debts, no deficit, no
student loans, double the economic growth, and double the standards
of living. But I don't think you, me, or anyone else is going to see
this dream come true. And the reason why isn't because of the
predictable resistance we'll see from teachers, democrats, Boomer
Bosses, or Becky's, as much as it will be the American ignorance that
has become endemic in our cultural psyche.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
For whatever reason Americans are addicted to the status quo. They
demand better, but will only accept better if it requires no work or
change of behavior on their part. And even if a road map is clearly
drawn for them to a better world, if it requires changing their
behavior or even something as simple as thinking differently, they
won't do it. They will remain the sheep they are, remaining in a
world they claim not to like, because intellectual laziness and sloth
is more comforting than change.
</span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
That being said, I really hate the Beckys. And I will forever hate
the teachers who took my childhood away from me. I am certainly no
fan of the democrats. And I loathe the baby boomer bosses who forced
me and now three generations of Americas to commute unnecessarily
these past 20 years. And while I am not optimistic about the chances
of making free education a right (and the wonderful world that would
usher in), nothing would make me happier than to see these people
rendered obsolete...and forced to get jobs like the rest of us.
Therefore, I would still kindly ask you to contact your congressman,
contact your state legislator and see if we as Americans can't make
this happen in our lifetimes. Take the 3 minutes to send this
article to your representative, or just explain the concept of
education being a right, and therefore discriminating against how one
acquired said education is a violation of that right, and we can get
those few politicians who actually care about Americans to make this
idea a reality.</span></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">_____________________</span></span></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Find more of Aaron's stuff below:</b></span></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.assholeconsulting.com" target="_blank">Asshole Consulting</a></b><br /><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Aaron-Clarey/author/B00J1ZC350?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" target="_blank">Books</a></b><br /><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronClarey" target="_blank">YouTube Channel</a></b><br /><b><a href="https://theclareyschoolofeconomicphilosophy.teachable.com/courses" target="_blank">Courses on GETTING YOUR FINANCIAL SHIT TOGETHER</a></b></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /></p>
<p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-23552232114437299752023-03-15T21:14:00.002-07:002023-03-15T21:14:58.987-07:00The Case for IQ Based Segregation - by TJ Martinell<p><i>TJ as you know is a colleague of mine and he asked if I would post his thoughts, inspired in part by my book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1522813756/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1522813756&linkCode=as2&tag=captaicapit0b-20&linkId=2ALZB2ECX7ULK2F4" target="_blank">Curse of the High IQ</a>" (and no doubt inspired in part by his intellect). I have not read it yet so don't come complaining to me if you don't like it. I'm just assuming the guy's smart enough that I can rely on him to write a good piece.<br /></i></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The Case for IQ-Based Segregation
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">In the dystopian
short story <i>Harrison Bergeron</i>, one of the ways the tyrannical
government maintains equality is by interfering with the brains of
those more intelligent. They continually receive shocks to the brain
that prevent extended train of thought. The reason: if intelligent
people could think for long enough, they could achieve more than
those less intelligent, and that would make society “unequal.”
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">In effect, equality
meant dumbing down the smart to the lowest common denominator.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">It’s a notion I’ve
thought about ever since I put down Aaron Clarey’s Curse of the
High IQ, which I finally got around to read. There are a lot of
things that could be said about the book, but I’d like to focus
specifically on the role intelligence plays in social relations.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Simply put,
significant IQ differences amounts to an impenetrable barrier between
the high IQ and ordinary people. Things that an intelligent person
takes for granted and assumes everyone else recognizes is beyond the
comprehension of most.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">However, rather than
recognize this and structure society accordingly, we subscribe to the
idiotic notion that everyone is the same, that everyone is <i>tabula
rasa</i> – a blank slate with equal potential for achievement.
Thus, intelligence is not accounted for, at least honestly, in how we
arrange institutions.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">A high IQ boy does
not belong in the same classroom as ordinary kids. He does not belong
in the same higher education system as ordinary young adults. He does
not belong in the same groups in which he is treated as a peer to
someone a standard deviation below his IQ. He does not belong in the
same workplace environment as people less capable as he. He does not
belong in the same dating pool as those who can’t process the
notion of long-term thinking and low time preference, as he is
looking for a woman almost a separate breed compared to those sought
out by men who, like in <i>Harrison Bergeron</i>, can’t hold a
thought for more than a few seconds.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Trying to force the
smart to integrate with the dumb is cruel for all parties involved.
The high IQ person is frustrated and emotionally drained trying to
interact with someone unable to comprehend seemingly basic concepts,
while the midwits are humiliated and embarrassed by having someone
actively having to dumb themselves down just to communicate with
them. It’s on par with forcing special Olympic athletes to join the
regular Olympics and getting angry when the normal sprinter outruns
the special needs man in the 100-meter dash by 15 seconds and insists
he go slower to not humiliate a mentally retarded competitor.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">In a saner world,
people with high IQs would be identified as early as possible and
separated from others in environments where intelligence is an
important factor. Like an intellectual aristocracy, they would be
raised with the understanding that they are different, that these
differences do not confer moral judgement either way, and that the
best solution is for them to associate with others of similar
intelligence in most settings.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The problem, as
Clarey points out, is that our society is not tailored for the
intelligent, but the midwit. Virtually all mainstream spaces cater to
the median intelligence or low IQ individuals. To be sure, there are
opportunities to mingle with people of similar IQs, but the events
and venues are often expensive or more exclusive in nature. In a
world that sees discrimination of any kind as evil, the only way to
maintain boundaries is through prices or secrecy, i.e. an invite-only
cigar lounge.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The challenge with
this is that while intelligence and wealth have some correlation,
they’re not intertwined. A high IQ boy from a poor family will not
have access to these amenities in the same way a midwit from a trust
fund family will. This is in part how so many institutions lose their
prestige by admitting people based on wealth, rather than ability.
They get dominated by arrogant midwits who think they’re entitled
to things by virtue of merely existing.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">In a sane world, the
solution to the problem is segregation by intelligence, with spaces
reserved only for the high IQ so that they can have meaningful,
fulfilling social lives around those like them, just as median IQ
people are more capable today of forming relationships because they
have opportunities to meet like-minded people.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">But, we don’t live
in a sane world and that’s not likely to change. In an age when
people suffering online censorship have been told to “build your
own platforms,” it would do well for the high IQ to accept that if
they want a space to belong in, they’ll have to create it
themselves. I’m thinking not only in terms of what is practical,
but in an actual sense, rather than formal manner.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">For example, if you
wanted to create a male-only gym, you don’t put up a sign that says
so and make it official. You simply make the aesthetics appealing to
masculine men and unfriendly to the yoga pants wearers. You play
1980s heavy metal, have darker, greyer color paint on the walls, lots
of bodybuilding equipment, and posters of related stuff that appeals
to gym rats. You’re not explicitly denying women entry, but they
will naturally go elsewhere since they can’t change these things
because they don’t control it. If there are women there, they will
be few in number and intuitively grasp that they have to adhere to
masculine norms, because the gym isn’t there for them.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">In contrast, setting
up a “men only” sign and actively trying to kick women out will
accomplish nothing but a lawsuit and negative media publicity.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The same applies to
IQ-based segregation. A high IQ space needs the aesthetics, décor,
and environment that caters to people with greater capacity for
thought, sophistication, and finer preferences. It filters out by
intelligence, not income or purchasing power. It’s a space that
feels inviting for the smart, not those who <i>think</i> they’re
smart.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">While it doesn’t
have to be hostile toward the average person, they should
instinctively and unconsciously sense that it’s not an appropriate
place for them or does not appeal to their tastes. And because they
have no say and there are no actual rules discriminating against
lower IQ people like themselves, there’s nothing they can do but
leave.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">How high IQ spaces
are created and what that space looks like precisely is an aside. The
gist is that smart people need to have their own places and
experience a sense of belonging by being in close proximity with
others who speak the same language, i.e. intelligence. Further, these
spaces adhere to the standards and norms of the highly intelligent,
rather than placating those with a 90 IQ. Most importantly, they need
to be able to keep out people whose presence there is inappropriate
by nature of their IQ, someone who if allowed to remain will
undermine the standards and norms for that space to accommodate them.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">We need to abandon
the notion of egalitarianism and equality by recognizing the harm
it’s caused to pretty much everyone and the unnecessary conflicts
that result from it. Among the worst aspects of it, is that it
creates unrealistic expectations for the dumb and conceals from the
intelligent the options at their disposal. The other issue is that
the mere presence of high IQ people provokes insecurity and envy
among malicious halfwits and midwits, who then seek to sabotage the
lives of the high IQ. By separating them, these feuds are avoided.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Critics will say
this is elitist, and all I can say is that they’re right. We’re
not pretending that halfwits are equal to that of someone with a 130
IQ or should be treated the same any more than we treat those who can
run a 4:15 minute mile the same as a 300 lbs. defensive lineman. The
difference between segregation and what we have now is that currently
the halfwits and midwits get to project and impose their standards
and preferences onto people more intelligent than they and whose only
desire is to fully realize their own potential.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> This won’t cure
the curse of a high IQ, but it will alleviate some of the worst
aspects.
</p>
<p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-36135871888447571562023-02-17T13:16:00.000-08:002023-02-17T13:16:10.881-08:00Vladimir Putin's Speech<p><i>Below is a speech that was given by Vladimir Putin to the Russian legislature. I had to post it here for reference as I received a request to give my opinion on this speech, but the speech was inaccessible from western computers/internet. I have no allegiance or opinion on Russia, Ukraine, Putin, etc., but I do have an opinion on the freedom of speech in America. The fact this speech was obstructed to get to and read is proof America and some Americans are against free speech. It is also an insult to Americans that we need to be protected against foreign thoughts or propaganda on account we are not able to make our own decisions. Again, I do not support nor do I condemn Putin. But a mighty fuck you to the people who decided for me that neither I nor anyone else should be able to have access to this speech. You are no different a dictator than those you criticize.</i></p><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">President
of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, citizens of the Donetsk
and Lugansk people’s republics, residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson
regions, deputies of the State Duma, senators of the Russian Federation,
<div><br aria-hidden="true" />
</div>
<div>As you know, referendums have been held in the Donetsk and Lugansk
people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The ballots
have been counted and the results have been announced. The people have
made their unequivocal choice.</div>
<div><br aria-hidden="true" />
</div>
<div>Today we will sign treaties on the accession of the Donetsk
People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye Region and
Kherson Region to the Russian Federation. I have no doubt that the
Federal Assembly will support the constitutional laws on the accession
to Russia and the establishment of four new regions, our new constituent
entities of the Russian Federation, because this is the will of
millions of people. (Applause.)</div>
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<div>It is undoubtedly their right, an inherent right sealed in Article 1
of the UN Charter, which directly states the principle of equal rights
and self-determination of peoples.</div>
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<div>I repeat, it is an inherent right of the people. It is based on our
historical affinity, and it is that right that led generations of our
predecessors, those who built and defended Russia for centuries since
the period of Ancient Rus, to victory.</div>
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<div>Here in Novorossiya, [Pyotr] Rumyantsev, [Alexander] Suvorov and
[Fyodor] Ushakov fought their battles, and Catherine the Great and
[Grigory] Potyomkin founded new cities. Our grandfathers and
great-grandfathers fought here to the bitter end during the Great
Patriotic War.</div>
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<div>We will always remember the heroes of the Russian Spring, those who
refused to accept the neo-Nazi coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014, all
those who died for the right to speak their native language, to preserve
their culture, traditions and religion, and for the very right to live.
We remember the soldiers of Donbass, the martyrs of the “Odessa
Khatyn,” the victims of inhuman terrorist attacks carried out by the
Kiev regime. We commemorate volunteers and militiamen, civilians,
children, women, senior citizens, Russians, Ukrainians, people of
various nationalities; popular leader of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko;
military commanders Arsen Pavlov and Vladimir Zhoga, Olga Kachura and
Alexei Mozgovoy; prosecutor of the Lugansk Republic Sergei Gorenko;
paratrooper Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov and all our soldiers and officers
who died a hero’s death during the special military operation. They are
heroes. (Applause.) Heroes of great Russia. Please join me in a minute
of silence to honour their memory.</div>
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<div>Thank you.</div>
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<div>Behind the choice of millions of residents in the Donetsk and
Lugansk people's republics, in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, is
our common destiny and thousand-year history. People have passed this
spiritual connection on to their children and grandchildren. Despite all
the trials they endured, they carried the love for Russia through the
years. This is something no one can destroy. That is why both older
generations and young people – those who were born after the tragic
collapse of the Soviet Union – have voted for our unity, for our common
future.</div>
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<div>In 1991 in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, representatives of the party
elite of that time made a decision to terminate the Soviet Union,
without asking ordinary citizens what they wanted, and people suddenly
found themselves cut off from their homeland. This tore apart and
dismembered our national community and triggered a national catastrophe.
Just like the government quietly demarcated the borders of Soviet
republics, acting behind the scenes after the 1917 revolution, the last
leaders of the Soviet Union, contrary to the direct expression of the
will of the majority of people in the referendum of 1991, destroyed our
great country, and simply made the people in the former republics face
this as an accomplished fact.</div>
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<div>I can admit that they didn’t even know what they were doing and
what consequences their actions would have in the end. But it doesn't
matter now. There is no Soviet Union anymore; we cannot return to the
past. Actually, Russia no longer needs it today; this isn’t our
ambition. But there is nothing stronger than the determination of
millions of people who, by their culture, religion, traditions, and
language, consider themselves part of Russia, whose ancestors lived in a
single country for centuries. There is nothing stronger than their
determination to return to their true historical homeland.</div>
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<div>For eight long years, people in Donbass were subjected to genocide,
shelling and blockades; in Kherson and Zaporozhye, a criminal policy
was pursued to cultivate hatred for Russia, for everything Russian. Now
too, during the referendums, the Kiev regime threatened schoolteachers,
women who worked in election commissions with reprisals and death. Kiev
threatened millions of people who came to express their will with
repression. But the people of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson weren’t
broken, and they had their say.</div>
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<div>I want the Kiev authorities and their true handlers in the West to
hear me now, and I want everyone to remember this: the people living in
Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye have become our citizens,
forever. (Applause.)</div>
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<div>We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire and all
hostilities; to end the war it unleashed back in 2014 and return to the
negotiating table. We are ready for this, as we have said more than
once. But the choice of the people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and
Kherson will not be discussed. The decision has been made, and Russia
will not betray it. (Applause.) Kiev’s current authorities should
respect this free expression of the people’s will; there is no other
way. This is the only way to peace.</div>
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<div>We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have,
and we will do everything we can to ensure the safety of our people.
This is the great liberating mission of our nation.</div>
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<div>We will definitely rebuild the destroyed cities and towns, the
residential buildings, schools, hospitals, theatres and museums. We will
restore and develop industrial enterprises, factories, infrastructure,
as well as the social security, pension, healthcare and education
systems.</div>
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<div>We will certainly work to improve the level of security. Together
we will make sure that citizens in the new regions can feel the support
of all the people of Russia, of the entire nation, all the republics,
territories and regions of our vast Motherland. (Applause.)</div>
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<div>Today I would like to address our soldiers and officers who are
taking part in the special military operation, the fighters of Donbass
and Novorossiya, those who went to military recruitment offices after
receiving a call-up paper under the executive order on partial
mobilisation, and those who did this voluntarily, answering the call of
their hearts. I would like to address their parents, wives and children,
to tell them what our people are fighting for, what kind of enemy we
are up against, and who is pushing the world into new wars and crises
and deriving blood-stained benefits from this tragedy.</div>
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<div>Our compatriots, our brothers and sisters in Ukraine who are part
of our united people have seen with their own eyes what the ruling class
of the so-called West have prepared for humanity as a whole. They have
dropped their masks and shown what they are really made of.</div>
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<div>When the Soviet Union collapsed, the West decided that the world
and all of us would permanently accede to its dictates. In 1991, the
West thought that Russia would never rise after such shocks and would
fall to pieces on its own. This almost happened. We remember the
horrible 1990s, hungry, cold and hopeless. But Russia remained standing,
came alive, grew stronger and occupied its rightful place in the world.</div>
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<div>Meanwhile, the West continued and continues looking for another
chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia, which they
have always dreamed about, to divide our state and set our peoples
against each other, and to condemn them to poverty and extinction. They
cannot rest easy knowing that there is such a great country with this
huge territory in the world, with its natural wealth, resources and
people who cannot and will not do someone else’s bidding.</div>
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<div>The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial
system which allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to
the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect an actual
tribute from humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned
prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The preservation of this
annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. This
is why total de-sovereignisation is in their interest. This explains
their aggression towards independent states, traditional values and
authentic cultures, their attempts to undermine international and
integration processes, new global currencies and technological
development centres they cannot control. It is critically important for
them to force all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the United
States.</div>
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<div>In certain countries, the ruling elites voluntarily agree to do
this, voluntarily agree to become vassals; others are bribed or
intimidated. And if this does not work, they destroy entire states,
leaving behind humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of
wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster
zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies. They don't care. All
they care about is their own benefit.</div>
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<div>I want to underscore again that their insatiability and
determination to preserve their unfettered dominance are the real causes
of the hybrid war that the collective West is waging against Russia.
They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do not
want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a
free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.</div>
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<div>They see our thought and our philosophy as a direct threat. That is
why they target our philosophers for assassination. Our culture and art
present a danger to them, so they are trying to ban them. Our
development and prosperity are also a threat to them because competition
is growing. They do not want or need Russia, but we do. (Applause.)</div>
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<div>I would like to remind you that in the past, ambitions of world
domination have repeatedly shattered against the courage and resilience
of our people. Russia will always be Russia. We will continue to defend
our values and our Motherland.</div>
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<div>The West is counting on impunity, on being able to get away with
anything. As a matter of fact, this was actually the case until
recently. Strategic security agreements have been trashed; agreements
reached at the highest political level have been declared tall tales;
firm promises not to expand NATO to the east gave way to dirty deception
as soon as our former leaders bought into them; missile defence,
intermediate-range and shorter-range missile treaties have been
unilaterally dismantled under far-fetched pretexts.</div>
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<div>And all we hear is, the West is insisting on a rules-based order.
Where did that come from anyway? Who has ever seen these rules? Who
agreed or approved them? Listen, this is just a lot of nonsense, utter
deceit, double standards, or even triple standards! They must think
we’re stupid.</div>
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<div>Russia is a great thousand-year-old power, a whole civilisation,
and it is not going to live by such makeshift, false rules. (Applause.)</div>
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<div>It was the so-called West that trampled on the principle of the
inviolability of borders, and now it is deciding, at its own discretion,
who has the right to self-determination and who does not, who is
unworthy of it. It is unclear what their decisions are based on or who
gave them the right to decide in the first place. They just assumed it.</div>
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<div>That is why the choice of the people in Crimea, Sevastopol,
Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson makes them so furiously angry.
The West does not have any moral right to weigh in, or even utter a word
about freedom of democracy. It does not and it never did.</div>
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<div>Western elites not only deny national sovereignty and international
law. Their hegemony has pronounced features of totalitarianism,
despotism and apartheid. They brazenly divide the world into their
vassals – the so-called civilised countries – and all the rest, who,
according to the designs of today's Western racists, should be added to
the list of barbarians and savages. False labels like “rogue country” or
“authoritarian regime” are already available, and are used to
stigmatise entire nations and states, which is nothing new. There is
nothing new in this: deep down, the Western elites have remained the
same colonisers. They discriminate and divide peoples into the top tier
and the rest.</div>
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<div>We have never agreed to and will never agree to such political
nationalism and racism. What else, if not racism, is the Russophobia
being spread around the world? What, if not racism, is the West’s
dogmatic conviction that its civilisation and neoliberal culture is an
indisputable model for the entire world to follow? “You’re either with
us or against us.” It even sounds strange.</div>
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<div>Western elites are even shifting repentance for their own
historical crimes on everyone else, demanding that the citizens of their
countries and other peoples confess to things they have nothing to do
with at all, for example, the period of colonial conquests.</div>
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<div>It is worth reminding the West that it began its colonial policy
back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, the
genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India and Africa,
the wars of England and France against China, as a result of which it
was forced to open its ports to the opium trade. What they did was get
entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire
ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting
people like animals. This is contrary to human nature, truth, freedom
and justice.</div>
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<div>While we – we are proud that in the 20th century our country led
the anti-colonial movement, which opened up opportunities for many
peoples around the world to make progress, reduce poverty and
inequality, and defeat hunger and disease.</div>
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<div>To emphasise, one of the reasons for the centuries-old Russophobia,
the Western elites’ unconcealed animosity toward Russia is precisely
the fact that we did not allow them to rob us during the period of
colonial conquests and forced the Europeans to trade with us on mutually
beneficial terms. This was achieved by creating a strong centralised
state in Russia, which grew and got stronger based on the great moral
valuesof Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well
as Russian culture and the Russian word that were open to all.</div>
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<div>There were numerous plans to invade Russia. Such attempts were made
during the Time of Troubles in the 17th century and in the period of
ordeals after the 1917 revolution. All of them failed. The West managed
to grab hold of Russia’s wealth only in the late 20th century, when the
state had been destroyed. They called us friends and partners, but they
treated us like a colony, using various schemes to pump trillions of
dollars out of the country. We remember. We have not forgotten anything.</div>
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<div>A few days ago, people in Donetsk and Lugansk, Kherson and
Zaporozhye declared their support for restoring our historical unity.
Thank you! (Applause.)</div>
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<div>Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring
freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from
the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited,
and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar
world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and
hypocritical through and through.</div>
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<div>The United States is the only country in the world that has used
nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
in Japan. And they created a precedent.</div>
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<div>Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced
Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble,
without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to
repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with
the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and
the rest of the world.</div>
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<div>The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of
Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and
chemical weapons.</div>
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<div>It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of
Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and
allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows
that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that
their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for
those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly
swallow this arrogant behaviour.</div>
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<div>They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals
Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the
use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical
research.</div>
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<div>It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have
unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure
hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach
Europe.</div>
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<div>They are exporting grain from Ukraine now. Where are they taking it
under the guise of ensuring the food security of the poorest countries?
Where is it going? They are taking it to the self-same European
countries. Only five percent has been delivered to the poorest
countries. More cheating and naked deception again.</div>
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<div>In effect, the American elite is using the tragedy of these people
to weaken its rivals, to destroy nation states. This goes for Europe and
for the identities of France, Italy, Spain and other countries with
centuries-long histories.</div>
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<div>Washington demands more and more sanctions against Russia and the
majority of European politicians obediently go along with it. They
clearly understand that by pressuring the EU to completely give up
Russian energy and other resources, the United States is practically
pushing Europe toward deindustrialisation in a bid to get its hands on
the entire European market. These European elites understand everything –
they do, but they prefer to serve the interests of others. This is no
longer servility but direct betrayal of their own peoples. God bless, it
is up to them.</div>
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<div>But the Anglo-Saxons believe sanctions are no longer enough and now
they have turned to subversion. It seems incredible but it is a fact –
by causing explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas pipelines
passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually embarked
on the destruction of Europe’s entire energy infrastructure. It is clear
to everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are responsible, of
course.</div>
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<div>The dictates of the US are backed up by crude force, on the law of
the fist. Sometimes it is beautifully wrapped sometimes there is no
wrapping at all but the gist is the same – the law of the fist. Hence,
the deployment and maintenance of hundreds of military bases in all
corners of the world, NATO expansion, and attempts to cobble together
new military alliances, such as AUKUS and the like. Much is being done
to create a Washington-Seoul-Tokyo military-political chain. All states
that possess or aspire to genuine strategic sovereignty and are capable
of challenging Western hegemony, are automatically declared enemies.</div>
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<div>These are the principles that underlie US and NATO military
doctrines that require total domination. Western elites are presenting
their neocolonialist plans with the same hypocrisy, claiming peaceful
intentions, talking about some kind of deterrence. This evasive word
migrates from one strategy to another but really only means one thing –
undermining any and all sovereign centres of power.</div>
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<div>We have already heard about the deterrence of Russia, China and
Iran. I believe next in line are other countries of Asia, Latin America,
Africa and the Middle East, as well as current US partners and allies.
After all, we know that when they are displeased, they introduce
sanctions against their allies as well – against this or that bank or
company. This is their practice and they will expand it. They have
everything in their sights, including our next-door neighbours – the CIS
countries.</div>
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<div>At the same time, the West has clearly been engaged in wishful
thinking for a long time. In launching the sanctions blitzkrieg against
Russia, for example, they thought that they could once again line up the
whole world at their command. As it turns out, however, such a bright
prospect does not excite everyone – other than complete political
masochists and admirers of other unconventional forms of international
relations. Most states refuse to ”snap a salute“ and instead choose the
sensible path of cooperation with Russia.</div>
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<div>The West clearly did not expect such insubordination. They simply
got used to acting according to a template, to grab whatever they
please, by blackmail, bribery, intimidation, and convinced themselves
that these methods would work forever, as if they had fossilised in the
past.</div>
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<div>Such self-confidence is a direct product not only of the notorious
concept of exceptionalism – although it never ceases to amaze – but also
of the real ”information hunger“ in the West. The truth has been
drowned in an ocean of myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely
aggressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbelievable the
lie, the quicker people will believe it – that is how they operate,
according to this principle.</div>
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<div>But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros. You can't
feed them with those pieces of paper, and the virtual, inflated
capitalisation of western social media companies can't heat their homes.
Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less
so: you can't feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can't heat
anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.</div>
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<div>That is why politicians in Europe have to convince their fellow
citizens to eat less, take a shower less often and dress warmer at home.
And those who start asking fair questions like “Why is that, in fact?”
are immediately declared enemies, extremists and radicals. They point
back at Russia and say: that is the source of all your troubles. More
lies.</div>
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<div>I want to make special note of the fact that there is every reason
to believe that the Western elites are not going to look for
constructive ways out of the global food and energy crisis that they and
they alone are to blame for, as a result of their long-term policy,
dating back long before our special military operation in Ukraine, in
Donbass. They have no intention of solving the problems of injustice and
inequality. I am afraid they would rather use other formulas they are
more comfortable with.</div>
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<div>And here it is important to recall that the West bailed itself out
of its early 20th century challenges with World War I. Profits from
World War II helped the United States finally overcome the Great
Depression and become the largest economy in the world, and to impose on
the planet the power of the dollar as a global reserve currency. And
the 1980s crisis – things came to a head in the 1980s again – the West
emerged from it unscathed largely by appropriating the inheritance and
resources of the collapsed and defunct Soviet Union. That's a fact.</div>
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<div>Now, in order to free itself from the latest web of challenges,
they need to dismantle Russia as well as other states that choose a
sovereign path of development, at all costs, to be able to further
plunder other nations’ wealth and use it to patch their own holes. If
this does not happen, I cannot rule out that they will try to trigger a
collapse of the entire system, and blame everything on that, or, God
forbid, decide to use the old formula of economic growth through war.</div>
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<div>Russia is aware of its responsibility to the international
community and will make every effort to ensure that cooler heads
prevail.</div>
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<div>The current neocolonial model is ultimately doomed; this much is
obvious. But I repeat that its real masters will cling to it to the end.
They simply have nothing to offer the world except to maintain the same
system of plundering and racketeering.</div>
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<div>They do not give a damn about the natural right of billions of
people, the majority of humanity, to freedom and justice, the right to
determine their own future. They have already moved on to the radical
denial of moral, religious, and family values.</div>
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<div>Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. Now I would
like to return to what I said and want to address also all citizens of
the country – not just the colleagues that are in the hall – but all
citizens of Russia: do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia,
“parent number one, parent number two and parent number three” (they
have completely lost it!) instead of mother and father? Do we want our
schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school,
perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum
into their heads the ideas that certain other genders exist along with
women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery? Is that
what we want for our country and our children? This is all unacceptable
to us. We have a different future of our own.</div>
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<div>Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets
all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves.
This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means
to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the
suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” –
pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon
on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous
fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but
also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.</div>
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<div>The world has entered a period of a fundamental, revolutionary
transformation. New centres of power are emerging. They represent the
majority – the majority! – of the international community. They are
ready not only to declare their interests but also to protect them. They
see in multipolarity an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty,
which means gaining genuine freedom, historical prospects, and the right
to their own independent, creative and distinctive forms of
development, to a harmonious process.</div>
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<div>As I have already said, we have many like-minded people in Europe
and the United States, and we feel and see their support. An essentially
emancipatory, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is
taking shape in the most diverse countries and societies. Its power will
only grow with time. It is this force that will determine our future
geopolitical reality.</div>
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<div>Today, we are fighting for a just and free path, first of all for
ourselves, for Russia, in order to leave dictate and despotism in the
past. I am convinced that countries and peoples understand that a policy
based on the exceptionalism of whoever it may be and the suppression of
other cultures and peoples is inherently criminal, and that we must
close this shameful chapter. The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is
irreversible. And I repeat: things will never be the same.</div>
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<div>The battlefield to which destiny and history have called us is a
battlefield for our people, for the great historical Russia. (Applause.)
For the great historical Russia, for future generations, our children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We must protect them against
enslavement and monstrous experiments that are designed to cripple their
minds and souls.</div>
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<div>Today, we are fighting so that it would never occur to anyone that
Russia, our people, our language, or our culture can be erased from
history. Today, we need a consolidated society, and this consolidation
can only be based on sovereignty, freedom, creation, and justice. Our
values are humanity, mercy and compassion.</div>
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<div>And I want to close with the words of a true patriot Ivan Ilyin:
“If I consider Russia my Motherland, that means that I love as a
Russian, contemplate and think, sing and speak as a Russian; that I
believe in the spiritual strength of the Russian people. Its spirit is
my spirit; its destiny is my destiny; its suffering is my grief; and its
prosperity is my joy.”</div>
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<div>Behind these words stands a glorious spiritual choice, which, for
more than a thousand years of Russian statehood, was followed by many
generations of our ancestors. Today, we are making this choice; the
citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and the residents
of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have made this choice. They made
the choice to be with their people, to be with their Motherland, to
share in its destiny, and to be victorious together with it.</div>
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</div>The truth is with us, and behind us is Russia!<br aria-hidden="true" />
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<p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-49021469379343321702022-10-03T11:44:00.002-07:002022-10-03T11:44:50.274-07:00Violence and Revenge in Modern America<p>I received a request at <a href="http://www.assholeconsulting.com" target="_blank">Asshole Consulting</a>, and I thought it would be of benefit to the few readers I still have on the ole blog. I edited it a bit to be more thorough, but since many of you are no doubt angry, I have found solace in how people just absolutely destroy themselves being lazy, criminal, incompetent or just egotistical. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1480284769/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1480284769&linkCode=as2&tag=captaicapit0b-20&linkId=IOTN6LBE2CO6YSSQ" target="_blank">Enjoy the Decline</a>!<br /></p><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi XXX,</div>
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Well here is my policy on the use of physical violence.</div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First,
can I even use it without going to jail? This limits the use of
violence to only self defense, and in some states, not even that. Some
states you have to let the criminal into your house and YOU have to
leave. But this more or less sets the entire tone of my policy on using
violence, making it not a moral issue, but an entirely practical one -
WILL I END UP IN A CAGE? If the answer is yes, then I do not use
violence. If the answer is no, and I'm being threatened, then yes, I
use violence.</div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Second,
outside having my life threatened, I may have a desire to be violent to
people (slow drivers, dumb people, leftists etc). but since I end up in
jail, there isn't much I can do to these people no matter how much I
want to hurt them. This forces me to take a stoic approach to the dumb,
parasitic, even outright evil people in the world as their actions may
prompt me to desire violence, but it is at the same time not an option.</div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
then manifests in karma, poetic justice, and just letting the
evil/stupid/egotistical suffer, which is where my current philosophy is. MOST evil
or stupid people will suffer at their own hand. Be it a single mom
whore who's always on welfare. A criminal. A lazy fat ass NEET. A
student loan bail-out receiving feminist. Whoever it is, the reason most people want to commit violence
upon those people is they are violating society in one way or another.
However, while these people may get away with crimes against humanity
(whether they're illegal or or just socially frowned upon), that doesn't
mean they don't pay a price. Specifically, immoral and unacceptable
behavior is detested by society at large, and while these people may not end up
in jail, other people will have nothing to do with these people.</div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br aria-hidden="true" />
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
results in an ostracization of the stupid and evil from the rest of
society. Or at least forcing them to be with other low quality humans.
Poor people fuck and breed poor people who perennially live off of welfare. Criminals have no stable
relationships because they're always stealing from family and friends. Dumb leftists/political
parasites never have true friends as their parasitic and lazy nature bleeds into all relationships,
preventing quality people from wanting to hang out with them. And lazy
people are always desperately tying to find a way to live off of others,
which deters all people in all aspects of their lives, and condemns them to poverty.<br /></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br aria-hidden="true" />
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
short, yes, you desperately may want to beat the shit out of some
welfare trash thug or ram some slow driving RV boomer fuck off the road, and no doubt you have every moral right to.
But how much worse would you make these people's lives REALLY? The boomer fuck who can't drive the speed limit can barely go to the post office without it being a huge mental challenge. The welfare mom spitting out kids and living off the taxpayer, she's going to be forever poor and never experience love. The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084QKMZTJ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B084QKMZTJ&linkCode=as2&tag=captaicapit0b-20&linkId=fa8e349e2314b3e2c45028a86af0344f" target="_blank">40 year old millennial</a> receiving a $20,000 student loan bail out, still has $80,000 left and no work ethic to EVER achieve a normal standard of living. And man-hating feminists will live an entire life blaming men for their non-existent love lives.<br /></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once
you view it through that lens, you kinda don't really care about the
stupid, lazy or criminal. You just let them be and their entire lives
will be <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08K744FJX/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=captaicapit0b-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B08K744FJX&linkId=cc2f126a329706d727a94fe376aa29e3" target="_blank">one of pain and misery.</a> You couldn't cause them more harm than they're causing themselves.<br /></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Best</div>
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is obvious to many of us that the system (the status-quo blend of
government, corporations, academia, and media) generally does not
support the interests of pro-capitalist, pro-liberty, pro-nationalist,
and small government Americans. So what is to be done about it?</p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">As long as America remains a republic governed by a democratic process, the most popular position will win. But many of the popular positions are dysfunctional and reinforce the status-quo. It
is also doubtful if spending your time trying to change the broad
opinions of the people will produce results; sheer social inertia,
indifference, or election tampering may get in the way. But there is another faster and more practical option: withdraw your support from everything you oppose.</p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The system requires your cooperation in order to keep functioning. It has many defenses against attack. But it has none against abandonment (Quinn, 1992).</p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I repeat: the system has no defense against abandonment.</p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I
do not mean to abandon your actual responsibilities, or to fail to live
up to your objective legal obligations (like paying taxes), or to break
contracts that were freely made. I do not mean to abandon a geographical region either, although this can be an option. What I mean is, you do not have to actively give the system your support. </p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Instead, you can withdraw your support from every sphere where it is not explicitly required. Indeed,
you can take advantage of your natural laziness and simply refuse to
engage with a system that does not represent your interests.</p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Below (in alphabetical order) are some ideas of how to withdraw support from the system. <b><u>This is not intended to be a list of recommendations</u></b>, nor is this list anywhere near complete. It is only intended as a thought-experiment to get your creative juices flowing. You must decide for yourself what is best for you, and in what manner to act.</p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Businesses </b></p><ul><li>Are businesses more concerned about virtue-signaling than about producing products and services? Then stop shopping at those businesses.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>If a business is using the labor of illegals and not hiring American citizens, then don’t shop at that business.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Is a business behaving in a disgusting way? Then refuse to work for them. Refuse to give them manpower, and encourage others not to work for them.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Is a business asking you to round up at the checkout to throw money at an intractable social problem? Then don’t round up – ever.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Busybodies & Beggars </b></p><ul><li>Does an environmentalist want you to sort your own garbage/kitchen waste/yard clippings and waste your time? Ignore him. Dump all your garbage into one big trash bag in a manner consistent with law.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are homeless people begging you for money? Don’t give them any. Saying “I only have a credit card” works fine.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Does a miserable activist have a grievance de jour? Don’t sign the petition. Don’t listen to their speech. Don’t give any money.</li></ul><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b> </b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Culture </b></p><ul><li>Does viewing porn make you vapid and weak? Then stop watching porn. Meet actual people instead. </li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Is somebody rewriting old books and/or movies in order to infuse them with a modern, ideological agenda? Then don’t purchase those rewritten products. Keep and preserve the old.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Are you tired of throwing hours of your time away on the television? Then stop watching television. Get involved in the community around you instead, in any small way.<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" /></li><li>Is a social movement trying to inspire racial or gender guilt in you? Then abandon those people! Refuse to accept unearned guilt.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Dating & Marriage </b></p><ul><li>Is the present contract of marriage bad for men? Then don’t sign that legal contract – talk to a lawyer and create your own contract instead.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are feminists in your community insufferable? Then don’t date them. Don’t give them any attention. Ignore them & refuse to engage with them.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Did a woman deliberately cheat on you? Then dump her. Don’t give her a second chance.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Are women in your community fat? Then don’t even approach them.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Does a single mom want you to take care of her kids? Then run away fast in the other direction!</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are you throwing money at a pretend girlfriend online? Then stop! Save your money & find a real live girl in meatspace instead.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Finances (Warning: Nothing in this section should be considered to be financial advice) </b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b> </b></p><ul><li>Are you constantly buying stuff you don’t need? Then stop buying stuff you don’t need. Take greater pleasure in life from nature, companions, art, music, and free books & DVDs from the library.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Do you really need that overnight delivery? Or are you just spending money on stuff you don’t need?</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Do credit card companies charge too much interest? Then pay off your credit cards each month so you don’t pay the interest. Use cash for most transactions instead. Using cash also deprives the credit card companies of the fee they charge businesses for using the card. </li></ul><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are your concerned about how large banks may misuse your money? Then consider moving your money into smaller, more local banks and credit unions. </li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>If
you don’t like what banks are doing with your money, consider putting
some of your money into a safety deposit box where nobody can use it. Every deposit or investment you make is an act of volunteering your money for other people to use. </li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are US politicians behaving irresponsibility with their money-printing? Then exchange some of your US dollars for other currency. Consider getting a foreign bank account (beware of IRS reporting requirements, which can have severe penalties). Consider getting some cryptocurrency. Consider buying some land. Purchase some gold, or silver, or precious stones. Buy tangible items of high quality and lasting value. </li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Is a payment processor deplatforming people due to their political views? Then stop using that payment processor.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Health </b></p><ul><li>If businesses push alcohol on you, then refuse to make drinking alcohol a habit.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Does the local drug dealer push drugs on you? Then refuse to purchase drugs.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are unhealthy industrial foods being pushed on you? Then refuse to purchase that kind of food.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Do you need that sugary, corn syrup drink? Water works fine instead.<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" /></li><li>Is medical care too expensive? Then say “No” to that expense by keeping yourself in great shape. Pay a doctor for an annual checkup. See a dentist regularly. Invest
in preventive medicine to avoid shelling out the big bucks to treat
medical conditions that arise from self-neglect or poor hygiene. </li></ul><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b> </b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Media </b></p><ul><li>Are movies terrible? Then stop buying movie tickets. Stop spending your precious time watching that garbage. Cancel your TV subscriptions. Only purchase films that you actually like. Go to a used goods store & buy several dozen used DVDs at a time. Trade
and share them amongst friends. You can also rewatch old classics:
there is a world of great film and animation that was made before the
modern era. Download them by legal methods.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are social media companies practicing censorship? Then stop using those social media companies. Keep a mailing list and email your friends and family instead. Or better yet, start your own website, write a paper letter, or go visit them in person.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Is a tech company firing people who don’t deserve it? Is that company selling your data and violating your privacy? Then quit using that tech company’s services. Use alt-tech services instead.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Is an online bookseller censoring books? Then stop using that online bookseller. Use your public library instead.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Does the news media constantly lie? Then don’t watch their television shows. Don’t click on their websites. Don’t purchase their newspapers or magazines. Don’t read their articles. Don’t buy the products in their advertisements. Go to alternative sources if you want to know what it going on in the world. </li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Politics </b></p><ul><li>Did the politicians think it was a good idea to fight undeclared foreign wars? Do those wars seem nonsensical to you? Then don’t volunteer to fight those wars.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Is your State enforcing anti-property rights or anti-liberty laws? Then don’t volunteer to work for that State. If you are on a jury, you can vote to acquit the victims of State aggression.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Do political parties not represent you? Then don’t donate money or time to those political parties.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are you unhappy with your choice of political candidates? Then don’t vote for them. Write-in “none of the above” instead.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are athletes politicizing sports? Then stop watching sports. Stop buying sports paraphernalia and other useless junk. Go play sports with your friends instead.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Is there a protest occurring in your city somewhere? Don’t waste your time with a counter-protest. Ignore the protesters and don’t give them any attention. </li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Did a riot destroy lots of local businesses because the political leadership refused to act? Then don’t volunteer to clean it up. Better yet, refuse to live in that kind of city.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Is a politician offering you free stuff? Then take the free stuff, and afterwards, refuse to vote for that politician.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Are the homeless a problem in your city? Do politicians refuse to address homelessness in a meaningful way? Then don’t volunteer to work at the soup kitchen, homeless shelter, or free medical clinic.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Religion </b></p><ul><li>Do religions ask you to accept the absurd? Then don’t support organized religions. Don’t attend those institutions, and don’t give them your money. Seek guidance in philosophy instead. Seek fellowship with other like-minded people.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Does
the funeral industrial complex want to rip you off by selling expensive
caskets, embalming the body of a dead friend or relative, and selling a
plot in a graveyard? Then go for cremation instead. Scatter those ashes! Create your own funeral rituals that don’t involve you getting fleeced. Talk
to your friends and relatives well ahead of time on how they want their
bodies to be disposed of after they shuffle off this mortal coil.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Schooling </b></p><ul><li>Are you a student under the age of 18 who hates school? Then leave! Work with your parents & try to set up a homeschooling, or tutoring, or community-college situation. Even a partial solution would be beneficial. Alternatively, you can study hard and graduate from school early. No public school system can prevent students from demonstrating their understanding through sitting proficiency examinations. If you want to get out early, hit the books!</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are the universities charging too much tuition? Then take as many AP courses as possible and skip a year of college via earning AP credits. You can also refuse to take student loans. Try to get your general education courses completed at a community college and subsequently transfer to a 4-year university. Work a job, search for scholarships and grants, and pay as you go.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>If you really must go to a university, at least major in a STEM field. Try to get around the liberal arts requirements as much as possible. Only give what is required to get the grades and degrees you need, and then get out.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Remember that liberalism on University campuses requires volunteers. Don’t volunteer for any cause that advances the institutionalization of nonsense. Don’t staff their interest-booths. Don’t go to their guest lectures. Don’t sign up for their mailing lists. Don’t register for their useless courses. Don’t attend their protests. Don’t answer their surveys. Don’t put up their posters. Don’t have drinks with your nutty professor. Don’t give them a single penny, calorie of energy, or moment of your time beyond what is required.</li></ul><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Taxes </b></p><ul><li>Are income taxes too high? Hire an accountant and take advantage of every legal way to reduce your burden. </li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Is the sales tax too high? Then stop buying stuff you don’t need. Find alternative ways to get the things you want. Secondhand shops, garage sales, give-aways, swaps, or online sellers are options to consider.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Tech </b></p><ul><li>Are cell phone companies tracking you? Then stop using a cell phone. Get an old-school landline and answering machine instead. Keep a cell phone around for emergencies only. If you must have a cell phone, check it only once per day. Keep it turned off otherwise.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><ul><li>Are you tired of watching advertisements on the internet? Then switch to a browser with an ad-blocker or install one.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Does American tech censor you, deplatform you, or manipulate search engine results? Then build your own platforms, or make use of those in a different country.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Transportation </b></p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"> </p><ul><li>Do you hate your daily commute? Then say “no” to that experience by changing jobs, working online, or finding a place to live closer to work.<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" /></li><li>Are you flying somewhere? Pack goodies in your carry-on in order to avoid the expensive airport food. Take an empty water bottle & fill it up after you pass through security.<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" /></li><li>Does an airline charge you for checked bags? Then limit your belongings to a carry-on, whenever it is practical to do so.</li></ul><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>Conclusion </b></p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I hope that these examples have shown that the system requires your voluntary participation to continue. Very few things are actually required and the power indeed lies in your hands. You get to decide your level of participation and what is acceptable to you, and what is not.</p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">However, while there are many ways to say “no” to the system, saying “no” is not the same thing as saying “yes.” One cannot reasonably live a life based upon the things you refuse to do. One must primarily pursue goals and achieve something distinct. You
cannot just reject that which is stupid, destructive, or wicked; you
must also court, nurture, build, and encourage the good, but that is the
subject of a different essay. </p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Withdrawing your support isn’t a sexy strategy and it may not directly make the world a better place. But
saying “no” in countless, tiny ways will give you more of a sense of
agency and lead to greater satisfaction and peace of mind. The world might indeed be going mad, but you don’t have to participate in that madness. </p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">You can walk away.</p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>References </b></p><p aria-hidden="true" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Quinn, Daniel (1992). Ishmael: A Novel. Bantam Books.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-29110077743776212222022-05-27T13:36:00.000-07:002022-05-27T13:36:00.728-07:00How Worthless College Degrees Caused Inflation<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/douMQwQ-LMg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-33915439693844465752022-05-27T13:34:00.005-07:002022-05-27T13:34:50.464-07:00A Nice Lady Interviews Cappy About Women<p>Wanted to promote this gal that had me on her show. She was very nice and I think is a bit of evidence that some women are at least becoming aware that all is not well in the dating world.</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t5mMkSKkBNs" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-85849835766335524692022-05-24T09:47:00.003-07:002022-05-27T13:29:36.035-07:00An Intellectual Conversation with Linda Gross<p>If you can believe it, ole Cappy has time to post on his blog. Hopefully this trend continues as the housing chores abate and Cappy slowly gets his life back.</p><p>Today's post is a link to a show I did with Linda Gross where we had quite an intelligent and succinct conversation about the realities of marriage and the dating market today. You'll enjoy it and<a href="https://www.blogtalkradio.com/dtlindagross/2022/05/21/the-menu-w-aaron-clarey-1" target="_blank"> can </a><a href="https://www.blogtalkradio.com/dtlindagross/2022/05/21/the-menu-w-aaron-clarey-1" target="_blank">watch it here.</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-85076261238375853492022-04-28T06:44:00.002-07:002022-04-28T06:44:11.189-07:00Marriage is as Dangerous as Smoking Cigarettes<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Me6cL7CasH0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-12911248798641042062022-04-28T06:43:00.002-07:002022-04-28T06:43:10.973-07:00Supporting a Family on One Income - It's a Choice<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0r-qZgpNvvE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-82095657817586450052022-04-28T06:42:00.002-07:002022-04-28T06:42:16.900-07:00Cappy's Map to Maximizing Hedonistic Pleasure<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T3Lf1v6inrE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-35078603473020200322022-04-04T08:57:00.001-07:002022-04-04T08:57:04.251-07:00"The Menu: Life without the Opposite Sex" Now Available for Sale!<p>You can buy it <a href="https://amzn.to/3J91wtl" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3J91wtl" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="221" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNduf2CE_dDWmg1ROirfvH_mbXf8mKF1nSA8bCkImBoWe6htpqz5Y3Fkgp86diFE5fiXr0HXVAo3g9vRCCih3zGrM0ndeNZRJgav3-LmlNfppnzGCUIe_ad3Yzy1Wc9nLMqkGlKimNAUHEI5zgHoN34WLIEVvgrroVZAWgSGVcJqGnOXgIpBM/s1600/menu%20blog.png" width="221" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-86127508577973089722022-03-01T10:33:00.004-08:002022-03-01T10:33:33.921-08:00Everything You Need to Know About Investing<p>In one simple podcast:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NnxS24VDZqY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">HHR4HM7ZPMV3</div>Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-44537066984671720452022-02-24T09:13:00.004-08:002022-02-24T09:13:48.272-08:00The Economics of Grifting<p><i>This is an e-mail consultation I did for a client who wondered about the red pill/manosphere and grifting. I've obviously made my money selling various books, classes, and consulting services, but because of my economics background, I believe I have a more accurate and unique take.</i></p><p>Dear Client,</p><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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Here's the underlying economics of what's happening with all these guys and classes and grifters etc.</div>
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The United State and west in general has failed to raise the past three
generations of men. If you think about that, that is a TON of time
parents did not invest in their children. We are talking multiple
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So this is a MASSIVE economic undertaking, not only in the programming
and reintroduction on an entire life philosophy for an entire sex, but
also we ourselves had to research, test, recompile, and reconstitute
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Now, yes, modern day technology allows for the quick dissemination of
that information making it free, but we're still early on in the
relative compliation and reconstituting of this information. And so the
vast majority of the information out there IS available
for free, but it is not categorized or organized like a library would
have it. THAT is the current stage we're at now, essentially organizing
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So the main service people are paying for in classes is for an expert in
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So this is what you're seeing where people are all up in arms screaming "THIS IS FREE!!!!! IT'S ON THE INTERNET!!!!" <br aria-hidden="true" />
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Yeah, but do you have the 40 hours to listen to all of Stephen
Molyneux's podcasts to get the 45 minutes where he talks about The Non
Aggression Principle? Or are you willing to spend $15 for a book or
even $100 for a teachable class to have it condensed and
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And that's why I think people are offering these class AND people are
paying. It's more of a convenience of time saving issue. Say you're
some immigrant coming to America to study engineering and want to get
laid. You do not have the time to listen to all
of Rollo Tomassi's podcasts about American women. But you do have the
time to buy his book, take MLD's dating course, and Troy Francis' pick
up school. May set you back $1,000, but that's better than 3 months of
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That being said I think as time goes on, the internet will naturally
organize these things into digestable, specific and FREE information
packets and you can already do that somewhat already. I KNOW nearly
every one of those guys are sick of talking about
the same damn thing (hit the gym, get a good degree, do the work, diet,
etc. etc.) and is why you see them branch out. BUt also in their
defense, they are BUSY trying to onboard all these young lost guys
because they just keep coming. We literally cannot
unplug these young men faster than the rate single moms are producing
them. And we only have so much time. So there IS a higher demand than
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So I think what a lot of young men in the red pill communtiy fail to see
is THEY'VE BEEN A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND OVER YEARS have picked up
this information for free. Which is great, but a lot of new people are
coming in, there's only so many of us, and
nobody is putting a gun to anybody's head to force them to take it, so
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Finally, I'm of the firm belief that people don't do anything unless
they pay a price. And I get sick of red pill theoreticians who will
read books, take classes, consume YEARS of podcasts only to not execute
on the advice therein. And though it doesn't directly
hurt me or any other content producer, the hypocrisy still pisses me
off. Thus, why I charge not only for my time, but the near-guarantee
these people AREN'T going to DO THE WORK. I make them pay a price so AT
LEAST they have a financial incentive to DO THE
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But overall, the much simpler explanation is it's a free market and
people are paying for it. "What price do you charge? - What the market
will bear." But also "more than what my next highest opportunity will
pay." And right now there is nearly infinite
demand for red pill truths from nearly ALL western men alive today who
have been fed nothing but feminist lies and marxist propaganda their
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Think of nearly every penny, hour, and dollar that was invested in these
men over the past 50 years, and realize it's going to take an
equivalent amount of work, effort, resources, and time to undo all that
programming and give them an operating system that
funcitons in reality. It's a monumental amount of work and there is
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