I wonder if technology is lowering IQs in the Far East. I'm sceptical whether technology per se makes a person dumber, but I'd be willing to believe that technology allows for a softness of living which over time becomes engendered into a culture of soft attitudes which then creates this dysgenic effect.
As for marijuana, perhaps this could be, my own generation is more against drugs in total than the boomers but then again the marijuana of today is far more potent than it used to be.
We used to have what was called the 11+ exam here which decided whether you went to a practical or academically-oriented high school. Since the Boomer Leftoids decided that this system was mean and unfairrr not to treat all children as equal, and abolished the widespread use of the system 32(I think)years ago, student attitudes towards education have worsened significantly, social mobility has dropped through the floor, industry has collapsed and I'd say there's been a general depreciation in intelligence across the millennial generation(although this may have as much to do with soft modern parenting as it does with education).
Ok, instead of saying intelligent and hardworking, shall we say gifted or has potential with a proven track record of applying themselves?
And it isn't really free for the student is it? The idea is that the student will ultimately pay this back and more throughout their professional career. The question is of which kids are worth investing in.
I'm torn on the matter of to what extent we subsidise art because it's so difficult to measure its positive effects and even more difficult to ascertain whether higher education is what creates the artist.
“One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.” - Oswald Spengler
Universities should consider the above. And we should all ask ourselves whether meaningful art can co-exist with a meaningless age? Or is it all just a pretentious fad?
I think it's a graver disappointment when a privileged person from untroubled suburbia wastes their higher education in this way.
Also, because the expectation to have a degree is greater amongst the middle class it is the middle class that harbour a much higher frequency of this needless credentialism. If we are to look at this country's worst performing universities, then we see that these are not populated by working class kids from the slums, but are chiefly comprised of pseudo-intelligent middle classers - the nouveau middle class which are products of Thatcherism, modern parenting and the baby-boomer's dash for debt.
I think it's better to cut out the inevitable bureaucracy of assessing what is and what isn't affordable to one person or the next, and just make it free for those whom are hardworking and intelligent - and considering your valid point on demand for certain professions - that choose a materially resourceful degree of use to the economic and/or social good.
For instance, I wouldn't make law degrees totally free, even though law students are generally intelligent and hardworking, because it's a saturated profession and the UK(with the exception of the financial sector)is seeking to deregulate its economy and lawyers have a corrupt self-interest in increasing bureaucracy and the regulation of life as this creates more work for them.
Nietzsche was certainly a dark character. But was he larger than life in that cool and charismatic way? Could Nietzsche ever be described as a leader of men? I'd have to say not. Nietzsche was the supreme omega(read:social dregg), and although I know nothing of his sister, I do know that women are seldomly, if ever, heroic of any sort.
I'm going to add Lord Byron seen as he was the precursor who embodied and romanticised the anti-hero.
I'm for having both because it limits the infantile narcissism and self-importance of voters.
What separates the mechanical moronic masses of Britain from those in other western(particularly English speaking)nations is a willingness to take account of, and responsibility for, the gravity of the national situation. Yes, we do have widespread apathy and yes we do have certain industries(academia, media and finance)possessed by the same ideological fanaticism, Left & Right, as in other nations.
But the British layperson is not so enthralled to this as say those on the continent or those across the pond, and I believe this is partially because of the British monarchy, because we have a political influence that cannot be disposed of every few years in favour of the next charlatan means that we're not always looking for the next easy way out and fool's paradise. The constancy of Monarchy has a maturing and stabilising effect across the island in total.
How to square this circle? Remember the rationalization hamster, and you will find your answer. The hamster is the errand-rodent of the ego, the most powerful source of energy in the universe. The hamster spins as ruthlessly for believers in universal human biological equality (which in the present cultural milieu necessitates a belief in white male nefariousness) as it spins for girls with a reputation in mind who want their romantic surrender minus the messiness of personal agency.
It is no less incomprehensible to those who have been around the block more than a few times that an ideologically ego-invested Bryan Caplan will live in an all-white collar white bubble while clamoring for open borders than it is that a nice girl will sleep with a taciturn, tattooed bike messenger while claiming she wants a niceguy who’s sensitive to her needs and loves poetry.
The Cathedral is one of those mutli-use terms that has come to symbolize to the current Radical Realtalkers — and has in fact always symbolized more or less in colloquial usage — any social or political superstructure advancing a school of ideas, especially ideas anathema to the general welfare of those and their posterity who are without a voice or a lever of power. Thus, I find no problem employing it.
However, the Hive neologism works as well. Many equalists are quite stupid and unaware; marching morons blaring a tired, tinny tune because it feels good, and people pat them on the back for their embrace of willful stupidity. Good worker bees, they buzz and buzz while the queen grows strong on the relentless toil of her drone army. A Hivemind you could call this. The Hivemind does not know logic unless its deployment advantages them, does not care for inconvenient facts, does not countenance empathy for those outside the hive. All the Hivemind knows is wagon-circling; the hive (i.e., the ego) must be protected against any and all attacks, and it will snark and sting (c.f. Richwine) in unison, on command, and won’t stop until the telepathic, telecommunications network that propels the Hivemind is severed at multiple points and various neuronal substations are taken offline.
The Hivemind and the Cathedral work together synergistically. Right now the Hivemind is at the apex of its power. Like an alien borg, it operates at the behest of a central master brain, aka the ruling globalist and message-maker elite. The Hivemind guards the perimeter, assimilates the weak-minded assimilable, drives out the free thinking. You do not defeat the Cathedral by attacking its Hivemind hordes. All that will do is summon more replacements, which are for practical purposes, infinite in number. The master brain — the root of it all — must be attacked directly, and then the Hivemind will fall apart like unattended drones powering down.
That is how you destroy the lords of lies who perch in their gated, honey-dripped throne rooms. Don’t hack blindly at their winged servants, futilely dodging stingers and forced into defensive maneuverings. Drive the tip of your spear, straight and true, into the meat of the hive, through the colony of mental eunuchs buzzing their labyrinthine sophistry, until you hit the beating Heart of Lies. Then, drive it it further to deliver the mortal thrust.
I was about to say non-specific urethritis, but then I remembered buying a Sega Saturn games console which turned out to be a complete flop(thank you very much Sony Playstation). I hope Sega realise just how many newspapers I had to deliver to pay for that although I bet they wouldn't even lose an hours sleep. Selfish.
I think you have an admirer. Or maybe he's the world's worst P.I. So long as he's doing you no harm, the cool and graceful thing to do is absolutely nothing.
Putin, the alpha-iest alpha who ever alpha'ed... Who says a strongman at the top has to be a bad thing? Maybe the real reason the West isn't working is because of all the mewling losers and because baby-boomers mortgaged posterity for a lifetime lease in fantasyland?
I say we should stop blaming politics for our problems when we know damn well the rest of the world is a lot smarter, works a lot harder and has far more common sense than we do. And maybe this is why they're wiping the floor with us? Just a thought.
I'd say drug addiction is a habit of prosperity as well as poverty. Either the individual is so miserable that they turn to drugs, or, the individual is so decadent that they turn to drugs. You're either too hopeless and poor to care about the consequences of your actions, or, you're so wealthy and privileged that you become removed from the consequences of your actions - drugged-up tramps and drugged-up playboys respectively.
Your friend sounds like a woman in love. Maybe this guy just has more important priorities than her(which will be one reason why she loves him so). But if(IF!)he's really that bad then slyly belittle the guy, sow those seeds of doubt with subtlety, never explicitly state that you don't like him or that you think that she should find someone else because, like a small, immature and poorly developed child, she will act in absolute contrary to your advice.
Note: Belittling him requires you to be more charismatic/interesting than him for this to work, as you're a woman I expect this not to be the case, but if you have a beneficent alpha male amongst your social circle then maybe he can more aptly perform the task of poisoning your friends relationship.
Dysgenics: The biological study of the factors producing degeneration in offspring, especially of a particular race or species.
It's the kind of crass comedy that makes you want to declare "Hmm Betty! The cat's just shat out the worst sitcom of all time". I would even go so far as to say that Brendan O'Carroll is the worst thing to happen to Ireland since the potato famine.
UKIP don't need to win. Farage just needs to beat Clegg to avoid having a trio of socially liberal parties as our big three, to avoid the only difference between our main parties being a meagre variance on how much debt we're willing to get into.
Never trust a woman without a sense of humour and never trust a woman who doesn't like kids. Those are the rules. I'm particularly repulsed by the women who have voted no.
But thanks for adding to the mountain of evidence(debt, low birth rate, open border chaos etc)of how White/Western people have abandoned the future to serve their immediate pleasure(s).
I can bet my life savings that strong & healthy races across the non-western world would much more likely answer yes to this question.
Spin, hamster, spin! That's self-serving rationalisation if I've ever laid eyes upon it. Let's just be glad that our ancestors didn't feel like this and did feel that it was right to have children, but then they were far superioir to what we are today... Don't people realise just how self-annihilating it is to answer no to this question.
Excerpt from my profile; "I always do crazy stuff when I’m in a relationship for a pleasant surprise. I would let you have a go of the TV remote. I would let you decide what we have for dinner every third Thursday of the month. I would even let you choose your own clothes. I’m a crazy romantic like that. This one time I woke my ex-girlfriend up dressed as a clown screaming I was going to kill her.... that was pretty crazy. She started seeing Alejandro not long after that..."
I'm pleased to say that I am not 100% true to this.
Up until the 1960s actors - especially film actors - weren't taken seriously by anybody. And let's not forget that we're talking about the Greeks here - philistine and useless modern Greeks, not wise and cultured ancient Greeks(who were a different race) - what are they going to do with these marbles? Eat them?
Instead of marbles I'd suggest we send them all fishing rods if it wasn't for the fact that they'd break them up for firewood.
I completely respect Clooney's right to express his views on the Elgin marbles, just as I'd respect Iggy Pop's opinions on the CERN particle accelerator.
This bit is critical because "time" is so banal to point out. Yes you do need time to recover, but if you don't get yourself back out there then this time to recover becomes time to dwell. And it is better for the first dates after the break-up of a serious relationship that you don't like the other person all that much - you want rebound fun and not a rebound relationship.
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RE: University education
I wonder if technology is lowering IQs in the Far East. I'm sceptical whether technology per se makes a person dumber, but I'd be willing to believe that technology allows for a softness of living which over time becomes engendered into a culture of soft attitudes which then creates this dysgenic effect.As for marijuana, perhaps this could be, my own generation is more against drugs in total than the boomers but then again the marijuana of today is far more potent than it used to be.