“It’s important to explain the problem accurately: it’s not that crime is out of control in New York or America. It’s not. The problem is that crime is neither deterred nor dealt with when it occurs.”
You hit the nail on the head here. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to claim that this trend accelerated after the 2020 riots. Before that, the idea of talking smack to the police or flagrantly shoplifting in the middle of the day struck most people as ludicrous. Surely you’d get promptly arrested and turn your life upside down, right? But how many social media videos of violent mobs and mass burglary do people need to see before they ask themselves why they can’t get away with a thrilling crime, too? Why not loot your local Target if the whole neighborhood is in on it? Why not burn a police car when everyone your age is acting like a hooligan and no one’s getting arrested? And once that idea goes away—that the police will respond immediately and forcefully to blatant transgressions—how much worse can it get?
I’ve started to appreciate how civilization is fundamentally an idea, much like money. The U.S. dollar only has value because enough people say it does. There might be a fringe out there who hates fiat currency and trades only in gold, but because they’re such a small group, it doesn’t change the underlying dynamic: the dollar has value because our neighbors by and large believe in it.
The same can probably be said of order in general: the authorities only have power because enough people believe they do. There’s an equilibrium whereby most folks regulate their behavior with the expectation that they’ll be promptly corrected, whether by their peers or by the police. But when you see countless examples of people getting away with brazen crime, or with law-abiding folks getting hounded by the authorities, it creates a positive feedback loop: fewer people believe the law will be enforced, which encourages more flagrant lawbreaking, which leads fewer people to believe the law will be enforced, which leads to more flagrant lawbreaking, and so on.
I’m not saying the country will become Escape from New York. But it seems to me like we’re training ourselves to accept a lower quality of life by demanding less from each other: less from our children, who are held to lower academic and personal standards than earlier generations, and less from our neighbors, who are told to keep their heads down while the welfare of their neighborhood plummets.
I think you're right about demoralization as a demoralized individual will react very differently from one confident in gaining their desired outcome. To illustrate, there was incident at a community group in which I viewed a child (visiting from the outside) attack another child of the group in a very deranged way. I informed that person's parent, but they were just nonchalant because they thought the group's leadership would do nothing. Then, later, that same disturbed child threatened my own child. I immediately started going up the chain of command of leadership demanding meetings and an expulsion of this threat. They hemmed and hawed but eventually the disturbed child was banned. If one has lost the will to fight for oneself and one's loved ones, it's rare for others to do so! What an apt observation. That habitual criminal who accosted that woman was once like that disturbed child, but he received the excuses of well-meaning authorities and tact permission to continue his aggression from the "Just Be Kind!" bumper sticker crowd. These women who excused their attacker and wished to give him a second chance are often just giving the criminal a second attempt to do even worse to another victim!
I think that whole "Karen" phenomenon is part of a demoralization effort. They're trying to discourage people, White women in particular, from ever demanding people and businesses from living up to their end of the agreement. The fear of being known as a "Karen" is worse than standing up for yourself.
They're also creating a world where someone who chooses to fight the power will do so alone. It used to be that if one person stepped up, others followed suit. That's becoming less and less common now. So if you decide to step forward and be the man, you're going to do so on your own and if you lose the fight, nobody else will come to your aid. But they'll definitely get it on video! It's a cruel society demoralization has created.
Yes. Smearing those who hold any type of standard produces a cascade effect in which all standards rapidly decline. The ease with which “Karen” rolls of a person’s tongue speaks to the power to hate people who wish to live in an orderly and respectable way. They do not wish to reevaluate what prompted the criticism and wish to just blow off the complainer. As we saw with the subway restrainer of the “Michael Jackson impersonator,” some other men did get involved but only Daniel Penny appears to be charged. So even when others step up, the state will target an individual to inspire fear in any one else who would try to defend others. The first-actor of defense is targeted for prosecution. It is one more reminder that anyone will be held out alone and punished for the crime of self-defense.
Those in authority are generally not natural leaders. They have never commanded a squad of soldiers. They have not entertained willingly into combat to defend another person. They lack physical and spiritual courage. No one would pick them out of a crowd to follow. They hate therefore the Daniel Penny’s of the world who so clearly remind them of their inadequacies and trigger that hilariously named “impostor syndrome.” I speak of personal experience where the petty people instinctively dislike me and often try to sabotage even genuine attempts that would indirectly expose their foolish beliefs and approaches.
Leadership and managership are two distinct concepts. I learned that as a child. As a society, we've chosen to privilege managership over leadership. Leaders are threatening because they're the people you willingly follow. Managers control.
I was a paleo-con up until around 2010, still believing in the "marketplace of ideas" and other illusions of multi-racial liberal democracy. I have since lost faith in those institutions and gained a better understanding of the "dissident right" and neo-reactionary canon (writers like James Burnham, Carl Schmitt, Samuel T. Francis, Patrick Deneen, Paul Gottfried, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin among others.) I still engage in electoral politics out of a sense of "supporting the team" but I do not believe we will vote our way out of the anarcho-tyranny regime. Only a post-liberal government (or governments) can impose order over chaos. How that government attains power without elections, I prefer not to elaborate more as I still hold a respectable day job ;-) In short, any population that can't change smoke alarm batteries shouldn't have a say over the rest of us.
My personal project is to delegitimize the regime on a broad front:
- distilling dissident ideas into simple memorable phrases or shareable memes
- demoralizing and humiliating progressives wherever they pop up to defend their position
- entryist outreach to the normie right to introduce them to more radical material
- exploiting all instances of infighting among the opposition
The goal is to undermine the regime enough to accelerate the process of a "Circulation of Elites" as modelled by Vilfredo Pareto.
"occasional reminder that there's a whole office under DOJ devoted to bullying the families of white murder victims into putting out these sorts of statements"
This is precisely the material that must be cross-posted on non-Twitter platforms like TikTok, Instagram, etc. Once viral, it generates a widespread expectation that every black-on-white crime story will be spun by the regime. If a seed of doubt is cast, it opens the viewer to more "powerful medicine."
"grieving relatives of white people killed by non-whites receive visitation and instruction from the Department of Justice’s ‘Community Relations Service’, which is trained to use moral guilt to coerce these statements"
There was a choice between Law and Order and we chose Law.
That is past.
There was a choice between Law and Civilization and we chose Law.
No we must choose between Law and Survival.
So decide.
“It’s important to explain the problem accurately: it’s not that crime is out of control in New York or America. It’s not. The problem is that crime is neither deterred nor dealt with when it occurs.”
You hit the nail on the head here. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to claim that this trend accelerated after the 2020 riots. Before that, the idea of talking smack to the police or flagrantly shoplifting in the middle of the day struck most people as ludicrous. Surely you’d get promptly arrested and turn your life upside down, right? But how many social media videos of violent mobs and mass burglary do people need to see before they ask themselves why they can’t get away with a thrilling crime, too? Why not loot your local Target if the whole neighborhood is in on it? Why not burn a police car when everyone your age is acting like a hooligan and no one’s getting arrested? And once that idea goes away—that the police will respond immediately and forcefully to blatant transgressions—how much worse can it get?
I’ve started to appreciate how civilization is fundamentally an idea, much like money. The U.S. dollar only has value because enough people say it does. There might be a fringe out there who hates fiat currency and trades only in gold, but because they’re such a small group, it doesn’t change the underlying dynamic: the dollar has value because our neighbors by and large believe in it.
The same can probably be said of order in general: the authorities only have power because enough people believe they do. There’s an equilibrium whereby most folks regulate their behavior with the expectation that they’ll be promptly corrected, whether by their peers or by the police. But when you see countless examples of people getting away with brazen crime, or with law-abiding folks getting hounded by the authorities, it creates a positive feedback loop: fewer people believe the law will be enforced, which encourages more flagrant lawbreaking, which leads fewer people to believe the law will be enforced, which leads to more flagrant lawbreaking, and so on.
I’m not saying the country will become Escape from New York. But it seems to me like we’re training ourselves to accept a lower quality of life by demanding less from each other: less from our children, who are held to lower academic and personal standards than earlier generations, and less from our neighbors, who are told to keep their heads down while the welfare of their neighborhood plummets.
I think you're right about demoralization as a demoralized individual will react very differently from one confident in gaining their desired outcome. To illustrate, there was incident at a community group in which I viewed a child (visiting from the outside) attack another child of the group in a very deranged way. I informed that person's parent, but they were just nonchalant because they thought the group's leadership would do nothing. Then, later, that same disturbed child threatened my own child. I immediately started going up the chain of command of leadership demanding meetings and an expulsion of this threat. They hemmed and hawed but eventually the disturbed child was banned. If one has lost the will to fight for oneself and one's loved ones, it's rare for others to do so! What an apt observation. That habitual criminal who accosted that woman was once like that disturbed child, but he received the excuses of well-meaning authorities and tact permission to continue his aggression from the "Just Be Kind!" bumper sticker crowd. These women who excused their attacker and wished to give him a second chance are often just giving the criminal a second attempt to do even worse to another victim!
I think that whole "Karen" phenomenon is part of a demoralization effort. They're trying to discourage people, White women in particular, from ever demanding people and businesses from living up to their end of the agreement. The fear of being known as a "Karen" is worse than standing up for yourself.
They're also creating a world where someone who chooses to fight the power will do so alone. It used to be that if one person stepped up, others followed suit. That's becoming less and less common now. So if you decide to step forward and be the man, you're going to do so on your own and if you lose the fight, nobody else will come to your aid. But they'll definitely get it on video! It's a cruel society demoralization has created.
Yes. Smearing those who hold any type of standard produces a cascade effect in which all standards rapidly decline. The ease with which “Karen” rolls of a person’s tongue speaks to the power to hate people who wish to live in an orderly and respectable way. They do not wish to reevaluate what prompted the criticism and wish to just blow off the complainer. As we saw with the subway restrainer of the “Michael Jackson impersonator,” some other men did get involved but only Daniel Penny appears to be charged. So even when others step up, the state will target an individual to inspire fear in any one else who would try to defend others. The first-actor of defense is targeted for prosecution. It is one more reminder that anyone will be held out alone and punished for the crime of self-defense.
Daniel Penny is a leader. The state fears him for that. That's what they're doing - trying to remove leaders from circulation.
Those in authority are generally not natural leaders. They have never commanded a squad of soldiers. They have not entertained willingly into combat to defend another person. They lack physical and spiritual courage. No one would pick them out of a crowd to follow. They hate therefore the Daniel Penny’s of the world who so clearly remind them of their inadequacies and trigger that hilariously named “impostor syndrome.” I speak of personal experience where the petty people instinctively dislike me and often try to sabotage even genuine attempts that would indirectly expose their foolish beliefs and approaches.
Leadership and managership are two distinct concepts. I learned that as a child. As a society, we've chosen to privilege managership over leadership. Leaders are threatening because they're the people you willingly follow. Managers control.
I am so tired of having to live around these "people".
I was a paleo-con up until around 2010, still believing in the "marketplace of ideas" and other illusions of multi-racial liberal democracy. I have since lost faith in those institutions and gained a better understanding of the "dissident right" and neo-reactionary canon (writers like James Burnham, Carl Schmitt, Samuel T. Francis, Patrick Deneen, Paul Gottfried, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin among others.) I still engage in electoral politics out of a sense of "supporting the team" but I do not believe we will vote our way out of the anarcho-tyranny regime. Only a post-liberal government (or governments) can impose order over chaos. How that government attains power without elections, I prefer not to elaborate more as I still hold a respectable day job ;-) In short, any population that can't change smoke alarm batteries shouldn't have a say over the rest of us.
My personal project is to delegitimize the regime on a broad front:
- distilling dissident ideas into simple memorable phrases or shareable memes
- demoralizing and humiliating progressives wherever they pop up to defend their position
- entryist outreach to the normie right to introduce them to more radical material
- exploiting all instances of infighting among the opposition
The goal is to undermine the regime enough to accelerate the process of a "Circulation of Elites" as modelled by Vilfredo Pareto.
Related:
"occasional reminder that there's a whole office under DOJ devoted to bullying the families of white murder victims into putting out these sorts of statements"
https://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1724078674507436344
This is precisely the material that must be cross-posted on non-Twitter platforms like TikTok, Instagram, etc. Once viral, it generates a widespread expectation that every black-on-white crime story will be spun by the regime. If a seed of doubt is cast, it opens the viewer to more "powerful medicine."
"grieving relatives of white people killed by non-whites receive visitation and instruction from the Department of Justice’s ‘Community Relations Service’, which is trained to use moral guilt to coerce these statements"
https://twitter.com/ploughmansfolly/status/1704857968104378527