Doing low-skill construction tasks was one of my primary means of income as a teenager. One time, I was removing a chain link metal fence from around a house. What could go wrong?
When I got to a particular post, I did the usual digging around the footing and started yanking, figuring I’d already dug deep enough for it to come out easy. I kept yanking harder, employing the customary profanity. Eventually, I dug some more and found that this thing was cemented directly on top of a pipe.
I called the boss. He came over and remarked, “Oh shit, that’s the gas line.” If we hadn’t realized what we were doing, ruptured the thing and taken a cigarette break, the whole place could’ve been blown to hell. This was probably a two-man job. One idiot must’ve held the post in place while the second poured the footing. Did they know it was the gas line? Did they care? Were they aware this was an improper procedure for installing anything?
I have no idea, but I doubt they’ve had a lot of success in life. We’ll never have to worry about these guys running a construction company where they could do some real damage. Still, they’d be competent enough to run our country into the ground if only they were the sort of people who specialized in not doing honest manual labor.
From a personnel standpoint, a couple things are required to keep society from crashing down on our heads. First, positions must be awarded based on competence and merit. The second thing would be to hold influential people accountable for what they get wrong. Since this is essentially White Nationalism, it’s never going to happen under the current system.
Once you realize that the people at the top didn’t get there through merit, you understand why these insane, downright idiotic catastrophes, like Ukraine or hyperinflation, occur while folks with far less esteemed resumes can make accurate predictions. The average guy I know from dissident politics is a clairvoyant compared these elite thinkers.
When you further realize that these same people at fault are above accountability, it becomes apparent that this is the toxic combination propelling us from one debacle to the next as the consequences keep increasing. It will eventually dawn on you that some form of collapse is inevitable. Finally, you’ll notice that it’s in progress everywhere.
Noticing the lack of shame these people have about what they did will piss you off even more. With a bit of exposure to dissident content, it becomes crystal clear why the same thing happens to them every single time. You’ll start looking for dissident content when you realize that mainstream content, which is their content, doesn’t provide you with any plausible explanation for why you’re getting screwed over. Somehow, they can’t see how they drive this process rather than dissidents.
In East Asia, there’s a delightful shame culture in which important people who screw up or commit a transgression must call a press conference where they express their deep remorse and bow repeatedly in shame before the cameras. If they’re holding office, their resignation and departure from politics are also announced.
It’d be wonderful to see Yellen and all of her kind responsible for these intertwined disasters call a press conference on the steps of the capitol. They’d acknowledge they’re to blame, apologize and promise that their hands will never go near the levers of power ever again before they start bowing. They’d then head home to await prosecution while the rest of us get to work peacefully resolving the problems they created. This is a pretty wild fantasy, but it’s honestly the best way this could all end for them and their ethno-religious menace to humanity.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
Ain’t that the truth. I used to say that, for all their supposed “brilliance” and high IQs and whatnot, they must be the stupidest people on the planet since all they know how to do when everyone else not them starts to catch on is to double and triple-down on the stuff that got them into a bind to start with.
Great article. I certainly see it in my workplace. They don’t want competent self-starters in positions of authority because they’re more difficult to ‘manage’. Richard Weaver, as is so often the case, put it well:
“A conviction that those who perform the prayer of labor may store up a compensation which cannot be appropriated by the improvident is the soundest incentive to virtuous industry. Where the opposite conviction prevails, the tendency is for all persons to become politicians. In other words, they come to feel that manipulation is a greater source of reward than is production. This is the essence of corruption.” p. 126.
Richard Weaver, ‘Ideas Have Consequences’
This society has learned that manipulation pays rather than excellence, and we’re seeing the results.
“This society has learned that manipulation pays rather than excellence, and we’re seeing the results.”
Yes. No electricity, running water, or food. Or anything else that really matters, or has real value.
Winston Churchill is a prime example of a System that puts forth incompetents above those with merit. The Brits don’t even have their own nation now as a direct consequence of Churchill’s criminal decisions.
Right you are! And he obviously knew better, but sold out to those who compensated him for his financial losses in the stock market crash of 1929. Reference Gerard Menuhin’s “Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil”.
We had a discussion about people admitting that they had been wrong, that they had assailed someone in the past for opinions and ideas that they later came to understand to be true.
Note: If you are reading ID today and you berated someone for ideas that you now embrace, humble yourself and let them know. It will lift a burden.
Father Dabney,
Admitting that you are wrong (obviously only when you are actually wrong) and taking steps to right that wrong is just part of being a man. It is a shame that we exalt those who would never even think of doing this.