Q&A about Neocons

He didn’t, though. Look at his efforts to reward Russia with lifting sanctions in response to the overwhelming intel that Russia is helping Iran in the war. What kind of a neocon champions subservience to Russia?

I think it would be helpful at this point to abandon the outdated terminology about neocons and observe that this is something different. I’ve not found a coherent explanation of what’s happening that would take all of it into account. The US is fighting on both sides of the war in Iran. We are not fighting to win. That’s the only conclusion that accounts for all the facts. Beyond this, I’ve currently got nothing. But it’s more than most people are saying.

Impressive Students

What class were they taking? I’m desperate to find out what subject attracts such impressive students.

A Sad Visual

We went to Michaels to buy some balloons and got stuck in line at the register behind a group of meth addicts. They had black teeth, their body parts were falling out of skimpy clothing, and they were acting very erratically. One woman was stuffing her face with cotton candy, opening her mouth so wide I was afraid her jaw would pop.

“Now I understand why you keep saying drugs are terrible,” Klara said when we left.

I feel terrible for these people. The way the women looked, it was clear that they make the money for their habit by prostituting themselves.

Book Notes: A Better Life by Lionel Shriver

Hot on the heels of Edward McLaren’s Bothelford’s Gone, here’s another right-wing novel about the destruction of the Western civilization through mass migration.

A fussy liberal lady in NYC takes in a Honduran migrant to assert her leftist virtue to a right-wing pundit ex-husband and an anti-immigrant incel son. The migrant moves a bunch of gangsters into the Boomer activist’s expensive house and gives her a taste of reality. What follows is a domination ritual which the well-meaning and naive liberal lady brought upon herself because of her wide-eyed naiveté of a lefty do-gooder.

Shriver mocks Boomer cluelessness viciously. Zoomer helplessness gets its fair share of mockery as well. She’s not a great artist but you don’t need to try hard to portray the toxic empathy of women who use saccharine racial justice projects to plaster over the failures of their ruined marriages.

The rejection of leftism has gone mainstream, my friends. This is excellent news. Please read the novel and recommend it to others. A Better Life should be a movie or a TV series but there needs to be a production company that won’t weasel off and turn Honduran gangsters into evil Germans or Brits.

American Culture

At the gym, there’s a stand with small compartments at the entrance into the the weights and equipment room.

Everybody drops their stuff there before going on to exercise. Handbags, wallets, car keys. There are no locks because they aren’t necessary.

Respect for property doesn’t exist in isolation. Gym visitors are polite and respectful with each other. Nobody stares, nobody comments at other people’s performance. People take turns and wipe down equipment after each use. Nobody talks on the phone or listens to music without headphones. Women are completely safe from grabbing or lewd comments.

This is American culture. This is not the human default. It’s the opposite of human default. A very large number of cultural operations carried out across the span of many generations brought about this result.

Unfortunately, this culture comes with a built-in weak point where it’s likely to break down. This weak point is an effect of precisely the trust and the kindness that I described above. People leave their wallets out in the open because they assume everybody is equally honest and kind. They extend this assumptions to the entirety of humanity and backwards in history, assuming it’s the human default.

Focus Trend

This is shocking consistency:

I feel strangely proud of being so predictable.

The Fading of the Nation

The Bank of England will replace images of the country’s great men—Wellington, Churchill, etc—on its new banknotes with pictures of wildlife because it’s impossible to find any important figures who are not “exclusionary” or “divisive.”

A collective agreement on a roster of historic figures who symbolize the greatest achievements and the best qualities of a nation is one of the most basic attributes of a nation-state. The new banknotes will symbolize the end of Britain as a nation.

First Grade Memories

This is me in first grade:

We had to wear these white collars to school every day. Imagine keeping them clean and starched in Soviet conditions. In the photo, I’m wearing a festive day school uniform but the white collars had to be worn daily.

Strong Families

People should quit the vulgar habit of mocking their family members by posting videos of them for clicks. It’s low, distasteful and shows up the whole family as a collection of smug, clueless losers.

Also, the idea that adult children should pay rent for remaining in the family home is equally vulgar. Strong, happy families are our greatest civilizational advance. That’s why there are so many efforts to dilute our family bonds and some people buy into this brainwashing.

How to Earn Love

Remember our neoliberal administrator? The one who “doesn’t believe” in the concept of a department secretary? The one who refused to sign the janitors’ contract and the janitors left? The one who believes that physics is as outdated as typewriters?

Yes, that fellow.

This year, for the first time ever, he received brilliant evaluations from faculty members. Before, the evaluations were terrible. People hated him. But now, the year when physics was eliminated and secretaries and janitors left, suddenly the anonymous evaluations are mostly very positive.

Why?

Say thanks to Trump. One evaluation after another commends the administrator for continuing the DEI policies in spite of the pressure from the Trump administration.

Lemmings.