I attended an event this past weekend where the question was raised as to how it would be possible to convince a majority of individuals to adopt an economic position that is currently considered fringe.
I just got done reading the book 'No Country for Old Men'. The movie is fantastic. The book is exquisite, and spends more time (about 1/3rd per character) on Sheriff Bell. Much of the time is his lament of what has become and what once was......and this book takes place in 1980, when I was 11 years old. Towards the end, they are discussing the demise of Llewellyn Moss and how he was a Vietnam veteran. Bell paraphrases an old timer: 'Some say that Vietnam was the event that started the demise of this country. It was not. It started when people stopped saying "Yes, Ma'am. Yes, Sir. No Ma'am. No Sir'. The implication being that the culture changed, the mores changed and then people changed for the worse. He talked about a man who had carved a water trough out of rock, by hand, on an old property. The house that was there was long gone, but the trough was there. Too heavy to move and would be there for hundreds of years. He said: 'This land at that time (1870s) was full of violence and war. What made that man take the time to make something like that?'. He asked it with no answer. I would say it went back to the former point about the culture and mores. Even though he was surrounded by uncertainty and the possibility of violent death, he still knew the beautiful, the value of hard work, honor, deference and respect.
What does that have to do with this post? I don't know. Maybe it's that it all depends on the types of the 100 people you have who shape and change the destiny of the rest. I liked those men who did so in the late 1700s, even if a lot of what happened is romanticized. They sacrificed, lost everything, even their lives.
Honor, faith, loyalty and sacrifice will be part of what builds a new society from the trash we are in now, Peter.
I read once that in the northeast the average man and woman gets called sir or madam for the first time in their late 30s. In the south it's around 18-20.
Because that never happened to me until now that I am an old man with grey hair, I still feel strange when someone calls me 'Sir'. As a side note, you mentioned the book 'Imperium' in last night's stream. I looked up the book and was going to purchase it, when I realized that I had already done so......nearly two years ago. Probably as a result of Stack's recommendation. I had forgotten I purchased it, and found it in my library. Starting to read it now. The guy apparently wrote the book from memory. No footnotes, no references, nothing. Just from what was between his ears. His writing style is beautiful. It's not stilted, boring or overdone. I am only on the first chapter, but am fascinated by its content. Too bad he was demonized and eventually took his own life. Much like what Thomas said, his viewpoint was made illegal at Nuremburg. I grew up with the typical anti-German opinion, because the victors write the history books. My opinions have changed vastly and drastically. I am just a normal man, but I know now that most of what I was taught when I was young was a lie.....just a fucking lie. Now I am buying banned books by the ton......in print form.
Organize organize organize. Find your people, coordinate, and bully degeneracy in your area. Do not fear conflict with others. They will follow the tides. As Pete has mentioned many times, examine how they responded to the coov.
I used to think that i understood economics and had a positive vision for what I wanted. Now, I don't want to be bothered.
The enemy isn't idealogical and because of that, they are able to abuse, misuse and ignore idealogical actors at their whim. None of these swamp monsters give a fuck.
I just got done reading the book 'No Country for Old Men'. The movie is fantastic. The book is exquisite, and spends more time (about 1/3rd per character) on Sheriff Bell. Much of the time is his lament of what has become and what once was......and this book takes place in 1980, when I was 11 years old. Towards the end, they are discussing the demise of Llewellyn Moss and how he was a Vietnam veteran. Bell paraphrases an old timer: 'Some say that Vietnam was the event that started the demise of this country. It was not. It started when people stopped saying "Yes, Ma'am. Yes, Sir. No Ma'am. No Sir'. The implication being that the culture changed, the mores changed and then people changed for the worse. He talked about a man who had carved a water trough out of rock, by hand, on an old property. The house that was there was long gone, but the trough was there. Too heavy to move and would be there for hundreds of years. He said: 'This land at that time (1870s) was full of violence and war. What made that man take the time to make something like that?'. He asked it with no answer. I would say it went back to the former point about the culture and mores. Even though he was surrounded by uncertainty and the possibility of violent death, he still knew the beautiful, the value of hard work, honor, deference and respect.
What does that have to do with this post? I don't know. Maybe it's that it all depends on the types of the 100 people you have who shape and change the destiny of the rest. I liked those men who did so in the late 1700s, even if a lot of what happened is romanticized. They sacrificed, lost everything, even their lives.
Honor, faith, loyalty and sacrifice will be part of what builds a new society from the trash we are in now, Peter.
I read once that in the northeast the average man and woman gets called sir or madam for the first time in their late 30s. In the south it's around 18-20.
Because that never happened to me until now that I am an old man with grey hair, I still feel strange when someone calls me 'Sir'. As a side note, you mentioned the book 'Imperium' in last night's stream. I looked up the book and was going to purchase it, when I realized that I had already done so......nearly two years ago. Probably as a result of Stack's recommendation. I had forgotten I purchased it, and found it in my library. Starting to read it now. The guy apparently wrote the book from memory. No footnotes, no references, nothing. Just from what was between his ears. His writing style is beautiful. It's not stilted, boring or overdone. I am only on the first chapter, but am fascinated by its content. Too bad he was demonized and eventually took his own life. Much like what Thomas said, his viewpoint was made illegal at Nuremburg. I grew up with the typical anti-German opinion, because the victors write the history books. My opinions have changed vastly and drastically. I am just a normal man, but I know now that most of what I was taught when I was young was a lie.....just a fucking lie. Now I am buying banned books by the ton......in print form.
Organize organize organize. Find your people, coordinate, and bully degeneracy in your area. Do not fear conflict with others. They will follow the tides. As Pete has mentioned many times, examine how they responded to the coov.
I used to think that i understood economics and had a positive vision for what I wanted. Now, I don't want to be bothered.
The enemy isn't idealogical and because of that, they are able to abuse, misuse and ignore idealogical actors at their whim. None of these swamp monsters give a fuck.
Great article Peter!