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I agree. Men have no physical advantage over women. Men are women are physically equally strong. This means that rape victims – which are overwhelmingly women – are all liars. Rape doesn’t exist.
Or does it?
Either men are physically stronger than women, or they aren’t. If they aren’t, rape doesn’t exist.
I’m refusing all requests from the press to talk about the collapse at my university. The only reason I’m refusing is because the union asked the membership to do that. The union has its own press strategy, the leadership says, and please to let them unfold it.
I’m putting a lot of trust in the union here. Let’s hope it doesn’t sell us out.
I don’t know, am I being dumb trusting the union as much as I do?
I don’t believe that ditching neoliberalism will work, unfortunately. We’d all have to become a lot more disciplined, consume a lot less in every way, acquire a lot less cheap plastic stuff, cheap plastic relationships, cheap plastic entertainment. Learn to make things, feelings, relationships, ideas last. I don’t think there’s a large collective wish for any form of self-restraint.
I started reading what seemed a reasonable article on the complexities of bringing American manufacturing back. The argument seemed to make sense until it degenerated into the favorite neoliberal idea about the low quality of Americans compared to other, more adequate humans:
Chinese manufacturing labor isn’t just cheaper. It’s better.
In China, there are no people who are too fat to work. The workers don’t storm off midshift, never to return to their job. You don’t have people who insist on being paid in cash so that they can keep their disability payments, while they do acrobatics on the factory floor that the non-disabled workers cannot do.
Chinese workers much less likely to physically attack each other and their manager. They don’t take 30 minute bathroom breaks on company time. They don’t often quit because their out-of-state mother of their children discovered their new job and now receives 60% of their wages as child support. They don’t disappear because they’ve gone on meth benders.https://x.com/Molson_Hart/status/1908940952908996984?t=iSCBRb-Ecf8jTQRB7p5gFw&s=19
It goes on in that vein but I think we get the general idea. The only conclusion we can draw from the description of these utterly horrible, useless Americans is that things would be enormously better if they could be replaced by better-quality humans.
It’s interesting that nobody ever explains when exactly Americans went so bad. Was it before, during or after their jobs were shipped overseas? Were they always such exceptionally low-quality people or is this a new development?
By the way, I found the link on Curtis Yarvin’s X account. He’s wealthy and doesn’t like Trump’s tariffs. I’m mentioning this to inject some complexity into people’s thinking.
Also, for additional complexity, the quote I posted is an almost verbatim rendering of parts of JD Vance’s autobiography.
Yes, the neoliberalization of the soul is just as bad as that of the market. It’s a package deal. It changes the workplace, the family, the self-perception.
That’s why people who are doing well economically and have been impacted very positively by offshoring manufacturing jobs are just as depressed and overmedicated as everybody else. That’s why every social class is living its own version of a moral collapse. That’s why the children of the rich are as lonely and lost as those of the poor.
We have faculty members who routinely teach individual study courses to help students graduate faster or learn material that would be individually useful. These courses are uncompensated.
What does this mean? It means that a professor works with 1-3 students per semester completely for free. Creates a syllabus, assignments, everything, completely for free. As a gesture of kindness and caring, such a professor donates free work in order to be helpful. Of course, students still pay for these courses. The price is exactly the same as for a regular course.
This sounds extremely profitable to the university, right? Get the students to pay while spending nothing on labor. The neoliberal university should love such professors, right?
Nope. Not right at all.
These professors are now being singled out for firing. They are being told gleefully that they deserve whatever they get for teaching these low-enrolled courses.
“But I did it to help! I only did it to help!” bleats a poor confused professor.
This is how the system works. Anybody who works for free is a sucker, a loser. Anybody who is kind, charitable and helpful is the worst of suckers. And suckers must be punished.
Money is not the main object of desire. Instead, the goal is to weed out the remnants of the previous era who still think in terms of community, helping others, and all that outdated, unnecessary stuff.
The existing world order died.
And you have to be either blind or an overly sentimental idiot to think that Trump is destroying something that is actually alive.
He is not destroying anything.
He is simply dragging a stinking corpse into the light.
This is not a revolution.
This is sanitary work.– Oleksiy Arestovych.
It’s true. The post-1991 world order is dead. Globalization, hopes for the end of history that would make Western-style democracy uniform around the world, confident free-marketeering – they are all completely and utterly bankrupt.
This experiment failed. Let’s take that lesson and use it never again to fall into the same trap.
Prostitutes have joined the neoliberal “free trade” brigade:
Yes, let’s not bring manufacturing back because being a whore is more fun anyway.
This depends on where you are in your inner development and how self-indulgent you are. It looks from the question that you are very advanced and not mired in self-indulgence like most people. That’s great, and I congratulate you.
The only thing that I’d correct here is the idea that following one’s whims is natural. We live in a whim-friendly culture, so we perceive indulgence as the norm. But it doesn’t have to be.
I recorded this video today, less than 50 hours after the surgery. I’m on no medication, so everything I say is completely conscious.
It’s about tariffs, and you have heard all this here on the blog first. But still, appreciate the discipline, appearance and self-control. If you see my eyes glaze over at times, it’s because I’m breathing through the pain.
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