

There is shockingly little truth in any of the normal outlets in America.
Universities, mainstream media, common conversation — they all focus on
their own particular vector and spin on truth. And often they’re not even
lying: they’re just biased and wrong.
So let me give my version of biased and wrong — hopefully with less bias and
less wrong. Caution: this is a single-flow draft; it’ll be sloppy.
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The jobs aren’t coming back. The world has changed. There are fewer jobs
due to automation, we’re far less competent as a worker pool, and the
poor overseas are now able to compete with us directly for the few jobs
that remain. This will get FAR worse, not better. -
Most of the rich and successful in America don’t give a fuck about this
country, and as a result they make choices that will help them get more
rich (like outsourcing) at the expense of our workers. There is no
loyalty to America at the top — only the sad assumption that everyone
could be where they were if they just tried, and an unwillingness to
share what they’ve received. -
Obama has been outplayed and neutered by extremely cunning and selfish
Republicans who have only their own interests in mind. He is dangerously
close to being an idealist who is impotent in a field of dangerous
opponents. His only option is to actually fight. He may still lose, but
at least he’ll lose as someone standing for something. -
The Tea Party is the funniest sad thing in America. It’s supporting base
is a mass of poor people fighting for the right of those who don’t care
about them to treat them like slaves. And they love it. It’d be a lot
more funny if some of these fucking lunatics didn’t have strong poll
numbers. -
Education is our real problem in America, and the problem is obviously
multi-faceted. First there is the teacher problem — where far too many
enter into the field because it’s a good way to have steady work. Fuck
that. In Scandinavia the teachers get advanced degrees and compete
fiercely to become a teacher. But at least as bad is the fact that
teachers are not supported in the classroom by parents. Parents used to
support teachers as an extension of the home’s authority, and now
parents defend their manipulative children against the teachers, and PC
has made it so that the teachers and schools are on the defensive. -
Parents these days are increasingly children, only worse. I think it’d
be better for a child to be raised by a 15-year-old in Scandinavia than
a 25-year-old in NYC. Why? Education. The stupider our parents get the
more failure we produce in our children, and it’s reaching the point of
mass child abuse. The poor and uneducated create and propagate the same
worldview, superstition, indifference to education, and lack of focus
that they have, and it’s destroying our country. The blame does not fall
with the poor and uneducated, as they are doing the best they can. The
blame falls on those who know how disadvantaged the kids of these
completely unqualified parents are, yet they say nothing for fear of
reprisal. The blood of unemployment, wage slavery, and crime is on their
cowardly hands. Shame on them. The creation of masses of uneducated poor
people is a tragedy beyond any other being talked about. We’re starved
for resources, jobs, education, and yet we sit by while those who are
suffering the most bring more of those likely to suffer just the same
into the world. It’s sickening. -
We have too many fucking people. When we’re starving for water,
education, land, and every other important thing to a healthy society,
why are we continuing to make more people? Are we completely blind? We
just crossed 7 billion people. Why? Don’t we see that we’re increasing
the amount of pain in the world? Fewer people means less competition for
resources. We’re standing on each other. The cities are overflowing.
There are no jobs. And those with the most are having few children and
taking a hands-off approach to the wage slave uneducated procreating en
masse. How exactly does that NOT exacerbate our problems 1000-fold? It’s
inhumane and it’s patently stupid. Unsupervised Learning —
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what’s happening in security and tech—and why it matters. -
It’s time to reject foolish ideas outright. If you don’t believe in
evolution you should be laughed at. Wide open laughter, while pointing.
If you think the world is 5,000 years old, you should be considered
somewhat dangerous due to your ability to avoid and deny scientific
evidence. People of this type should not be allowed to drive school
buses, let alone run for office. People running for office should be
given 6th grade science tests. If they can’t pass they should be
ridiculed and passed over. -
Multi-culturalism in the western world should be completely
re-evaluated. It has become a massive liability to the health of
civilization. We have too much diversity in what is deemed acceptable
behavior. Diversity should be used as spice to a defined, calculated
culture of behaviors and norms that is protected by the entity
supporting it. We should decide on the types of behaviors that we
embrace, e.g. politeness, tolerance of other races and cultures,
openness and kindness, secularism, focus on education, striving to
improve oneself, etc. Those who don’t believe in these values (whatever
they are) should be rejected outright. Denied. Turned away. Shunned.
Your race, your religion, your food — none of these things matter. But
your behaviors matter. Your support of our values and our behaviors
matter. Multi-cultural societies are divided societies kept together by
a highly tenuous adhesive — an eroding vestige of the homogeneity that
used to exist. It will soon be gone and the various city-states will
emerge and start to battle each other. The only solution is to unify
behind a set of values and behaviors. -
We must learn how to want less. The concept of more is destroying us.
“Economic growth” is the standard. Why? Who said we need to grow? Why
are we not where we need to be? What’s with this obsession with more?
Bigger TVs, more money, nicer cars, higher GDP. Shut the fuck up and
read a book. Stop making so many damn kids and relax. Paint a picture.
Write an essay. Explore the universe. Stop watching so much television,
which is nothing less than a way to make you want things you don’t have.
Reject it. -
We need more focus on secular humanism. We need to look down at the
earth from orbit. Everyone. We’re a rock flying through space with some
people on it. People with guns, who don’t like each other, because
they’re stupid. That’s unacceptable. We need a bit of astronomy in all
of our lives — especially the religious. -
Art and literature need to lead the way again. Science and technology is
a means, the liberal arts are the purpose. WordPress is nice, but it’s a
tool for sharing ideas and creating beauty in this cold world. Let us
not celebrate the saw and the chisel. Let us celebrate the sculpture,
and the poem, and the novel.
Enough for now. Sorry for the low quality. Too many things to say. ::
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