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People often tell me “you talk about a lot of problems but you don’t offer solutions.” The thing is, what if there aren’t solutions? WW1 is about to start. What’s the solution to that? The Black Plague just entered your city. There’s no solution, you just have to watch it kill people. We think all problems can be solved by a McGuffin, some hack that can fix things. The reality is often that life just sucks and you need to endure the suffering until things get better. I’m not going to make up fake solutions. If I see one I’ll say it, but if I don’t, I won’t lie to you. 

I remember growing up as a child authorities kept on coping about horrifying things with solutions that weren’t real. Ohh, you’re entire area de industrialized. The government will offer free coding jobs to those displaced, which they never did. A school shooter enters the school. We would have drills where we’d hide under your desks so he didn’t find you. There’s no chance that would work. I’d rather they just told us we were fucked and no lie to us about solutions that weren’t real. 

I’m here just to figure out what’s going. If I succeed and share this info widely, we can register how many resources or power we have, as well as how the situation has changed, and from there figure out what to do. I’m here to tell you what I think, not what you want to hear. If a hurricane is coming through I’ll tell you, but I’m not gonna lie and say your house will be fine.

PS: there are sometimes solutions on an individual basis. If it’s the Black Death, you can flee to the countryside, like many people did. That’s the plot of the Decameron lol. If it’s WW1 you can flee from Europe to Argentina before the war. That being said, I have literally made multiple videos on how to deal with this on an individual basis. On the collective basis there often aren’t though. The natural order needs periodic horror to keep its balance. 

Final note. Whenever I bring up some vast collective issue, people always respond “but I can ignore this on an individual basis.” You folks know that has literally nothing to do with what I’m saying. Rome is falling. Cool, you can flee to Byzantium. I’m happy for you but that has nothing to do with the important point that Rome is still falling. As a society, how have we lost the ability to think about the collective seriously. Our grandparents fought in WW2 to protect the collective not that long ago but now their descendants won’t raise a finger. 

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Why do so many people want to move into the woods and become independent farmers or ranchers in order to avoid the modern world? Meanwhile their ancestors left for the cities for the opposite. What changed?

Ironically Spengler predicted this a century ago during WW1. He said that in the 21st century people would flee the cities to the countryside. Society would feel sterile, mechanistic and nihilistic. Birth rates would crash. The West would fall to Caesarism and would face mass immigration from the Third World which would cause a crisis of identity 

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If you have children will you let them smoke weed? 

Which city should we move the capital to if we hypothetically moved it to the center of the country? 

Should we return to the Hays code, or the policies of Hollywood from 1934 to 1968 which banned nudity, extreme violence, degeneracy, immorality and other things from films so as not to promote bad values? 

There’s been all this viral discourse about asking women if they’d prefer on a solitary trail in the woods to run into a man or a bear. The irony is that most women say a bear. I don’t normally get involved in stuff like this but I think I have a unique perspective about this as a person who hiked 600 miles on the Appalachian Trail after high school. That’s exactly  the kind of situation where this exact calculus happens daily. I have lived through this situation hundreds of times, in that I ran into lots of women and bears on the Appalachian Trail alone in the woods. 

Firstly, I think a lot of this is city people massively miscalculating off very bad knowledge. Keep in mind most young women are leftists who live in cities. I think a lot view bears as cuddly, friendly things. The reality is that the black bear is a 600 pound muscle bound killing machine. Seeing a bear in person is remarkable to see how physical force they have. They generally leave people alone unless you’re not too close to them physically or threatening their offspring. I did end up in like 3 situations like that on the trail though. I’m a tall, relatively strong guy and I wouldn’t take on a bear even with a rifle since I’d only have two shots at most before it rips me apart. Bears are a big park of hiker culture on the AT. You hang your bags up in the trees each night by rope so bears don’t follow your back to your tent to get your food. If you see a bear ahead of you on trail, turn back and walk a mile or so. Return in a couple hours. Don’t take it lightly.

Secondly, I don’t these people understand how peaceful rural America is. I can understand worrying about this sort of thing late at night in the city. That being said in almost all of rural America there’s basically no crime. The chances you run into some psychopath in the middle of the mountains are so unbelievably low. In the towns on the trail you can leave your pack in a cafe or a shop and basically be certain no one will steal it. The people in those towns are incredibly kind and generous. It’s a genuine white pill and they’ll do a lot to help the hikers. You’ll probably run into some dad whose hunting or just on some walk to clear his head. I ran into hundreds of people on the trail and never really had a single negative interaction. 

About 1/3-1/4 of the hikers on the trail are women. I met dozens. Gossip spreads up and down hiker groups so you basically know all the news that’s occurred among hikers in the group. I never heard about sexual harassment or anyone ever being attacked at any period on the trail. The culture is generally very respectful. The culture of Apallachian Trail hikers and the neighboring towns is one of the best I’ve seen anywhere. You’ll have female and male hikers sleeping in the same campsites and nothing will happen. Everyone will maybe talk for a little around the fire and then go to their tents. 

With all of this said, this bear thought experiment isn’t a rational thing. It’s not actually a question about what it’s about. I can’t believe people are actually delusional enough to take the bear over the man. I can’t believe people’s mental models are that off. I think this is a shit test or a kind of test women throw at men to question their masculinity. Men evolved to have their primary duty to be to protect women against the wild. Thus, I think women are saying they prefer the wild to say they symbolically prefer the wild to men. To say our men are so in masculine that they’re useless.


Edit: Another thing I thought of after writing this is that women often have hyper inflated obsession with security. Like worrying about crime in a totally safe suburban neighborhood, worrying about kids playing outside, stressing over the safety of traveling to a tourist friendly country, or obsessing over the chances that they could be oppressed for being a woman. I remember this with the whole helicopter parent culture that existed when I was a child, which was obsessed with mitigating risk. 

What do you think will turn out to be the most important year of the 21st century so far?