We need to gradually whittle immigration down like we would with any other addiction.
I’m not saying we’d end up like nationalist space-age Japan with its highest life expectancy in the world and public that refuses to spend money on trivial things. The trains may run on time but Japan actually has a shortage of shops and idle consumer spending. If I was Japanese I would be a liberal considering the circumstance, but I’m not Japanese. Our society is distorted in the complete opposite way.
A slightly different example is the mail order bride ensuring the western man a partner regardless of what kind of man he is. What good has this done for anyone?
This policy of trafficking enables a new low both morally and professionally because it’s too easy to do it. Foreign desperation may initially seem fortunate to us but it’s a monopolistic curse where we win even if we are losers. This is a bad thing.
Immigrants work so that Brits can be far more fanciful in what they choose to do with themselves. We are worth so much more than them at birth that behaviour in the west resembles that of a trust fund baby - for a generation or so nothing it does needs to be practicable and today we are coming off the back of the terrible middle class that was.
Not all the country relies on immigrants to do what needs to be done and the rest can adjust.
Low interest rates, credit cards and remedial university courses can be done away and we sack all the people employed by money we don’t have. The fake white middle class and it’s aversion to materially resourceful work is a symptom of mass immigration.
They suit the decline of the high street and middle class. Discount stores have lost the image that you’d only go there if you were a pig in a western worlds newfound sense of resourcefulness.
English, Scottish and the rest of it are not that big a distinction globally. Which is fine. The fame that was British empire helps us punch well above our weight. If you toned-down the American he wouldn’t be incredibly unEnglish.
Giving woman the advantage was the idea that you come up with the right words instead of a slap in the face. And basically the renaissance is now so established that there's never been a worse time to be Baldrick. That is the real loser when women have rights.
What we officially want is not necessarily, or even very often, the thing that makes us happy. Being a mystery to ourselves I expect there's quite a lot we don't, who we really are takes us by surprise even someone who lives spontaneously and reflects about it afterwards will never know thyself completely.
The 1960s was that moment where new options met the old-fashioned ability to concentrate in a perfect union of choice and staying power which today has lead to a dangerous division between the man who uses long words and the man who can throw a punch. It should be the same man.
Which is why we can find nothing better than classical music to use on film and TV. We no longer produce a sound that would cover the rich tapestry of life for a reason. The arts were more creative, more soulful when the masculinity of the masses wasn't in question and I can't help but feel that heavy metal is trying to compensate for something. And to a lesser extent rap. The commercial cheeriness of effeminate consumer society has a type of passive rage beneath it.
But then there's classical music. That's more emotional than first world man can be now, since the 1960s there would be very few who could understand classical music which is nothing to do with life being more manly. It's not.
For all the machismo of Latin America they still cry. All the earthier peoples of the world behave more like a Brit or American would do after 3 or 4 alcoholic beverages.
Men not expressing any emotion is a cultural thing to some extent. The nerd protestant countries are built around professionalism and commercial cheeriness, what passes for emotion is painted on which is very different to a man from Spain. Or Africa or Latin America. No, the nerd protestant countries are the most like the borg, a borg with a penchant for customer service.
20% older than her, your maturity and experience counts up to the value of 20% older than her. Any older than this and it's not your experience and maturity beating the insecure and whining younger man whose leadership skills leave a lot to be desired, but the money you've made through maturity and experience.
You care who you are just as much as we don’t care who you are. A stranger would have a better guess at how intelligence you are but only a vague and general idea of what makes you tick.
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.”
Socrates
What we need to move away from is the completely useless consolation that I must be better than you because my grief is greater than your grief.
What I do believe is that a life of ease will invent its own problems like Eve and that bloody snake. A developed society will make or imagine itself a victim in an attempt to prove grit. There’s a high maintenance that feels like hard work but is it really true?
If the life of you and others around you was really that hard, how would you know?
In the old days a life nasty, brutal and short was for everyone. That kind of life just happened to you like a fate. The real weakener is feeling that “this is happening to me and nobody else” and “oh it could have been so much different”. The traditional life of collective fate is a lot tougher than the modern life of personal choice. Yet there are timeless hardships that don’t make you stronger - polio and serious hunger to find ourselves lacking in the most primitive of needs. And even in the modern world I doubt that air pollution will make people stronger.
Early on I believe in not really caring about the outcome because you score with beautiful women all the time. Later on is the time to start minding about things. I told my lady that I expect her to get a damn job, that doing this would make me very happy - and I was right.
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RE: BoJo wants to stop immigration.
We need to gradually whittle immigration down like we would with any other addiction.I’m not saying we’d end up like nationalist space-age Japan with its highest life expectancy in the world and public that refuses to spend money on trivial things. The trains may run on time but Japan actually has a shortage of shops and idle consumer spending. If I was Japanese I would be a liberal considering the circumstance, but I’m not Japanese. Our society is distorted in the complete opposite way.