Western World committing demographic sooeee-cide - Part 3
Posted On: Saturday - November 11th 2017 11:55PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity The Future
Londonistan, England? You won't be able to tell in a few more decades.
Let us continue with Peak Stupidity's discussion of the demographic suicide of the Western world cultures from a week back, which discussed the decreasing fertility, hence decreasing population of these lands (not a bad thing in and of itself). We also gave just one example of the types of inhabitants of our lands who this society is raising who are ill-equipped and not capable of changing the situation.
Again, if it weren't for a whole lot of the rest of the world, specifically Africa and the Moslem lands, along with India, it would be not only NOT a problem that population may peak out, but a good thing. It could have lead to that bright future written about in the science fiction books of the 1960's and 70's, mentioned a while back. It was a future in which people were few and far between, but as opposed to the same situation back in the stone age, we had the knowledge, technology, and smarts that we DO have today in the Western World (and the Orient). Yeah, you didn't have to work long hours, and when you did work, it was something very intellectually challenging. The robot took care of the drudge work, but we weren't completely bored because our careers involved discovering and exploring. We'd take our hover-cars over to the distant neighbors for dinner and discussion of our interesting and fulfilling days. It' really kind of the life a lot of science/engineering/computer people aspire to right now, except for the "not crowded" part, and most do not see what's coming.
What that earlier post about that imagined future concluded was that this could have all happened if (American, for example) society had stayed arranged (politically) such that the intelligent industrious people were the ones to thrive and procreate. The welfare state along with immigration stupidity, coincidentally (?) started at the same time in history, turned this arrangement on its head! We won't have that imagined future anytime soon.
The welfare state assured that we have plenty of human problems to take care of in our own lands. With the automation of the drudge work, you'd think that it'd be OK - we can take care of everybody. The problem is that the unintelligent do not take well to being mostly idle, while the intelligent always find uses for their time that aren't hurtful to society (well, except for the Globalist elites, I suppose). In addition to that, because the Western world has been altruistic in spreading all of the results of science and engineering around the world, the medicines and the modern agricultural have resulted in 3rd world populations being enabled to grow rapidly. Even without the suicidal ideas of letting in all the world to our lands and feeling guilty for not doing MORE, the huge impending ratio of undeveloped and unintelligent population to that of our lands will create a huge pressure to take care of them.
It'd perhaps have been better to have a graph of these population increases (past and projected) broken up by culture, not continent, but this still gives the idea. We will be overwhelmed.
Keep in mind also, that the current and future population numbers shown of Euro and N. American (which more pessimistically includes Mexico) lands include residents from other cultures already! Yeah, I'll post another more appropriate graph for this issue when I can.
As a related digression here: To confuse this issue, one will read a lot about the Japanese and how their society is dying - lots of old people, decreasing population, blah, blah. I'm not really a Japophile, though I am very turned on by the language as spoken by pretty stewardesses on overseas flights, for some reason! However, I see absolutely NOTHING wrong with the way Japan is headed. They have a fairly small land area to begin with, slightly less than that of California, with still 1/2 the population of the US (with ours growing due to immigration, and theirs slowly decreasing). Japan has 4-5 TIMES the population of even present-day overcrowded California! They need more space - that can only be a good thing.
The Japanese don't let other people in to stay. I mean, the immigration control is VERY tight (they let in something like 5 refugees, not 5,000, but 5, during the latest round of this business), and even 2nd-generation Koreans, who look about the same, are still not considered Japanese there. As to the 2nd problem, the welfare state, I do wonder whether Japan's type of socialism is going to work out in the long run due to it's inherent moral hazards described here on Peak Stupidity. You do hear about a lot of antisocial weirdos over there, but I don't have first-hand knowledge.
Anyway, don't let people tell you Japan's way is a bad thing. They may be the only place on Earth right now moving toward the brighter science fiction future discussed here. We could learn some lessons about inviting the whole world in from them. One is that the immigrants that we have invited are many times, the ones from the Moslem lands and Africa anyway, the types that will have lots of kids (the conservative* lifestyle of the Moslems and the care-free, OK, irresponsible life-style of the Africans). We may be overwhelmed from within before as we are also overwhelmed from without
Next week: We need, I think a short summary as Part 4.
* Not American good-conservative like your Barry Goldwaters and general American population of days of yore, but they are conservative of their own culture - that's not something one could say about lots of Americans right now!
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Is Frau Angela Merkel Obituary Shopping?
Posted On: Friday - November 10th 2017 2:04PM MST
In Topics: Commies Pundits Globalists
Heh! Mr. Nicholas Stix over at VDare wrote a great article, "Is the Final Solution To The German Question At Hand?", about his 5 years spent living in Germany in the early 1980's. It is a very readable article with his personal anecdotes, and he relates his German girlfriends' anecdotes involving their families during all the large-scale disruption during the WWII and Cold War era. The subject of the Commie/Globalist Angela Merkel, profiled here and here and here on Peak Stupidity, come up from this relating of personal histories in Germany. (There was a long very detailed history article on Takimag a couple of months back giving the life history of the evil Angela Merkel.
Regarding Merkel, Stix says:
I don’t buy the notion that Frau Merkel was too stupid to know what she was doing. She had to know that not only were the Syrians completely incompatible with German society, but that they would turn Germany into a Moslem state in a generation’s time.Obituary-shopping!, ha! That is a good one, and you may see it again (on here most likely, swiped like everything else on the internet). That's a great term; someone in that position of fame or notoriety may care more about that obituary than what happens to the poor German people. It doesn't help that she is a commie atheist - there's nothing else to aspire to but to be noted after her death to have been a good Commie and destroyer of Western culture.
The “refugee crisis” had to be a broad, coordinated, criminal conspiracy to commit democide, with Angela Merkel at the center.
At the time, I figured that Merkel was obituary-shopping, willing to sacrifice her country for positive write-ups from Leftist media operatives.
However, I later learned that Merkel’s father was a Protestant minister who in 1954 had taken his family and fled freedom in the West to return to Communist East Germany.
I then learned that Merkel had lied about her role in the youth group. Other former East Germans contradicted her, maintaining that she was involved in promoting Marxism-Leninism and “brainwashing,” and that her position was as secretary for agitation and propaganda. [How Close Was Merkel to the Communist System?, Spiegel, May 14, 2013.][link lost, but bold added.]
I'm sure Peak Stupidity can come up with an appropriate o-bitch-you-are-ehh for this Globalist Commie scum. We are very busy with other chores, but would still be glad to write in, what, early next week maybe?
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Western World committing demographic sooeee-cide - Part 2, Snowflake girls
Posted On: Friday - November 10th 2017 11:16AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes The Future Female Stupidity
This part 2, continued from here is kind of an intermission between the story of the problems with Western low-fertility societies and the 3rd-World (at least big parts of it) high-fertility societies and the demographic transition possibly unavoidable and already in progress. I would say the Orient lies somewhere in between all this (maybe another post, but too many on the back burner already!)
Here, I want to talk about certain types of people that just exemplify the reasons the West is has such a low fertility rate. 5 possible non-sequential and non-conflicting reasons were presented, and the feminism one alone could rate a lot more discussion. The topic is the "Snowflakes", not all women, but for this post that's what I've seen recently and will write about. The two women I have met recently under work circumstances are not students, per the "Student Snowflake" topic key, but, hey, it'll suffice.
The reason for the use of the term snowflake is that we, well you readers, probably have all seen them, and they are beautiful but very fragile, and that's how these women are in personality. Wait, the fragile part, at least. Because I did not meet these 2 together, as it was some months apart, yet I encountered the same phenomenon, I will just relate this as if it were one woman.
I met this lady in the work environment, and luckily this was not a long-term arrangement. We had to talk to each other, and yes, I was the boss. However, it was very hard to even talk to her about normal work stuff without seeing a scared look like I was getting out of her little world in her head too far. I saw this time and again, as some remark I made when I wasn't smiling really brightly and talking really slowly brought on a scared look. If everything was going really smoothly, she could do her job, but she didn't want to hear anything bad - no, no bad thoughts. It really looked like she might cry and quit a few times just due to .. what?
How does one get that way? Sure, there are spoiled kids, but this is not exactly due to just being spoiled and demanding. I think this woman had been kept, and kept herself after leaving home, away from anything that might cause her to have to think about the real world. Some of these types are in college, hence the student snowflake moniker, and most parts of the college environment just make this behavior worse. This woman had not, and was in a blue-collar snowflake phase. I wish I could describe it better, and I don't want to put any specific pictures in, so this post may be just kind of vague.
The point here is (being Part 2 of this particular series) is that women like this could never handle being in any long-term relationship with kids. She would be lucky to keep a cat long-term without too much stress. How about raising a kid or two? It's not likely, in my opinion. Now, there are men like this too, as you've read about or seen on funny youtube clips (well, funny to me). However, they really aren't going to get very far with the ladies anyway. There are plenty of other guys who will, but not with these snowflake ladies, and I think there are more than just these two, and it's the women that are the bottleneck, so to speak (haha), in the whole fertility business.
This is an example of why the white American, and Western in general, fertility rate is low. Yeah, there are lots of other reasons, but this stuff doesn't happen in the 3rd world. There's just no call for snowflakes there - they will melt before they hit the ground.
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Watching Andy
Posted On: Thursday - November 9th 2017 11:03AM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Americans Race/Genetics
Because the previous post had references to the great old "Andy Griffith Show" from the days when TV did not suck 24/7 (
Oooh, that just reminded me that I went to look up a particular local story on the local TV news' website, and it had become about as sick as yahoo (Peak Stupidity take here)! No kidding, there were just heavily biased headlines with easily-understood agendas alongside pictures. That has changed just within the last 5 years ... last time I can be sure I even looked at it. Now the TV news back when I watched Andy was a little less slanted; I am sure of that. Additionally, I was probably not quite as hip to the Lyin' Press, as Peak Stupidity is proud to be nowadays.
Anyhow, I'd have my root beer or maybe a ginger ale, and watch Andy after the local news people said goodnight. It was a good ritual, and I kind of miss that. Hey, I know the country was not as wonderful as that seen on a 1960's Hollywood-produced TV show, yet, Hollywood made shows back then that did not degrade the white American people. That was something that's hard to fathom now. Also, the country WAS a lot better of a place back then, in ways one can see in the show. Yes, people in small towns left the doors un-locked. Yes, you would talk to your neighbors. Yes, the Sheriff DID NOT wear body armor and have 5 kinds of weapons and 3 communications devices strapped to various parts of his body. Yes, it was a better place, and even when I used to watch the repeats, it rang more true-to-life than it would now.
Andy Griffith does NOT come on at that hour anymore, but how would I know?
We get pretty offensive and truthful and stuff here, even with stuff as sensitive as race. With all that, though, it is still important to think of individuals as, well, individuals and not part of some group that has just been defined on-line recently. A few days back, a black lady co-worker, 40-something years old or so had her phone playing loud enough for me to catch the sound. I found it hard to believe I heard:
Listen while you finish reading. Yeah, I was really surprised that a black lady liked the show. Should I feel bad that I'm really surprised that a black lady likes the Andy Griffith show? No, it IS really surprising that a black lady likes the Andy Griffith show, but sure enough, she was watching another episode the next day. I would say that that made my day.
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You can't even discuss the weather anymore.
Posted On: Wednesday - November 8th 2017 12:59PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Global Climate Stupidity Curmudgeonry
Floyd and Andy - "Yeeeepp, might be a cold front gonna blow through, Andy..."
What is usually the one topic you used to be able to discuss with a complete stranger, just to make conversation? That would be the weather, of course. No, it's still NOT under our control, and we can't predict it more than 4 days out very well, at best. Everyone likes a nice day, or at least a change once in a while.
This is not Mt. Airy, North Carolina, but it is pretty friendly where I live, so a remark about the weather will break the ice, along with a lot of other remarks. The weather remark though, would not, or COULD NOT have been taken badly, and start an argument, back in the past. Now with the Global Climate DisruptionTM nonsense having been blasted at everyone for the last 15 years like a fast-moving blast of sub-arctic(?) air out of a low trough colliding with a 200 millibar pressure peak from hell (OK, that was just some bullshit there), you never know anymore.
Andy: "It sure looks like we got a cold front a-comin' thru; don't you feel it in your bones, Floyd?"
Floyd: "Yeah, this weather is so variable now, due to that there global warming thingy that guy from Raleigh told me about."
Andy (louder): "I said COLD, Floyd, is your hearing aid OK? I can run by the drug store and pick you up some batteries, while I get Ope an ice-cream soda and try to pick up the new girl in town."
Floyd: "I hear just fine, Andy. The whole climate is just crazy, now Andy, due to people like YOU and that deputy of yours driving around in that gas guzzling sheriff's car! Y'all are killing the planet!"
Andy: "Well, I'm just sorry I asked. Now, how 'bout you just cut my hair, Floyd and shut the fuck up!"
Disclaimer: This was not from the original Andy Griffith show series. This is from the new prequel, with a younger, hotter Aunt Bea.
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Lyin' Press, TV-branch getting desperate
Posted On: Wednesday - November 8th 2017 11:26AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Media Stupidity
This stuff comes in the mail twice a month, yet, I'm already a customer of
$19.95 is the price to add on TV service to some bundle, or my existing fairly high-priced, by this point, internet connection. I'm not going to open this crap to find out the details.
However, with the NFL brouhaha, of which I really couldn't give a damn about, and President Trump's calling out of the Lyin' Press, I think this junk-mail advertising is not just about the money. Big Gov. and big Business need Americans to stay on the TV. All the narratives they have been weaving will not take, if a majority of the American population cannot be force-fed the lies. Yes, there are some new angles they've got, the USA Today doormat of the hotel room project, the force-feeding in the dentist/doctors and used-car dealer lobbies and the cucked-out radio announcers pining after their favorite stars of the grid-iron to get us in front of the tube Monday night. They've got about a dozen news channels chock-filled with infotainment, a "conservative" one, a dozen or so cntrl-left propo-tainments channels, yet lots of people have had enough.
It's very important to the elite that run things that people NOT give up the cable, especially. This is one small thing that you, the reader, can do to hurt them. It's not just the money. Peak Stupidity thinks that the press will be propped up by government, as is the case in any totalitarian society, no matter how much money they end up losing. At the
1) The reason we use the term Gov't Media lots is due to the current relationship between media and government - by far most importantly the US Feral Gov't. This government has gotten so huge that the LP can completely make enough of their news on this government alone to fill the 24 hours in a day. It is in the best interest of the LP that the US gov't stay huge and keep making laws and arbitrary regulations that have big effects on people's lives. Why? This is because a viewer or reader nowadays has a need to pay attention, because every day of the week could bring another change to his life or livelihood due to some gov't bullshit program or another.Yeah, Lyin' Press, I won't take your subscription for ONE stinkin' dollar. Your junk-mail, however is a welcome addition to the paper trash bin for it's use in fire-starting, what with this cold front and all.
2) At this late stage of the US Gov't Beast, the LP has good reason to believe that they will all be bailed out by the remaining US taxpayers theft victims, were they to start losing so much money as to be unable to even operate. The government has a big interest in letting these Lying Presstitutes keep putting out their lying words. They are, in the words of future congressional bailout committees, "too duplicitous to fail".
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Little joke in Big China... I think it was the Strayins!
Posted On: Monday - November 6th 2017 7:02PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor China
This has really nothing to do with anything written recently but is humorous nonetheless and gives me a reason to feature more music from a certain nation down-under. I came to thing of this just from mentioning t-shirts in the previous post - white t-shirts. I want to state right now that, because I normally like to have some type of image to go along with each post, and this one would have been great, I do not have one, as I'll explain.
The thing about clothing in China is, you can't seem to get t-shirts with Chinese characters. Yeah, I wanted something clever in Chinese, that I could explain to people like, say, "I went all the way to China, and you people can't even read this shirt"... well, maybe something better than that, but you get the idea. Sure, it's a stupid way to have a written language, but when in Rome... uhh, buy a shirt? Anyway, in China they don't really like t-shirts with their own characters on it. I could not find one for myself. They like English letters and usually English-language words on their shirts- whether they make a whole lot of sense or none is immaterial - they sell pretty well.
Now to the
There are THOUSANDS of people around in any public space in China, and that's how it was on the sidewalk of this bridge. Here came a 40-50 year-old (who knows, right?) Chinaman alongside his middle-aged wife, wearing a t-shirt in English that said "What I really need right now is a beer, some coke, and a fucking blow job". "Hey! Did you seen that guy's shirt?", I asked the young lady I was with. Her English was good, but not good enough, and it was just too crowded to go back there for a picture. Rats! I'd have put it all over the net, in the hopes that the perpetrators of this cruel, funny-as-all-hell joke could feel some real pride in accomplishment. Kudos, guys!
It's the kind of prank that can be funny to just think about later. Imagine the guys that made the shirts and got them sold for extra cheap for quick sale themselves imagining JUST ONE of these guys making it to Shanghai or somewhere there were enough westerners around, proudly wearing the shirt he got a primo deal on. "What?" he'll ask, when he gets a chance to ask someone to translate. "Why were people laughing?" "Oh, that kind of humor just doesn't translate very well. Don't worry - it's a nice shirt."
Because of the slight Australian angle, I wanted to put Australian music up. As much as AC-DC would rock, I will put a song from band this is unfortunately mostly known from their disco-era days, a while after most of their best music. This one, Massachusetts, is from 1968 off their album Horizontal. That is almost a decade before the disco-Bee Gees, It wasn't that all their disco songs were even bad, but it was so popular, that it encouraged the band to come out with some real high-pitched crap. Luckily this whole era was terminated with extreme prejudice by rockers like this guy.
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Is it OK to be white, or what?
Posted On: Monday - November 6th 2017 5:26PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left Anarcho-tyranny
That's what a bunch of posters say, having been surreptitiously placed in formerly safe spaces all around by some bad people... well, wait, if it's bad to write that ... then well, ....
Let me first say before my comments that the renowned Steve Sailer, along with his commenters, has been all over this in his usual biting semi-sarcastic style, and I'll list them all out by title, since there's no way I could cover 1 % of the good commentary on the unz.com iSteve blog:
Canada Besieged by "Racist Pumpkin Incident"*
Is It Okay to be White? (I'm Just Asking for a Friend)
Washington Post: Not Okay!
Harvard Law School Dean: NOT Okay
Not OK to be White in Toronto
It's Not Okay to be White in Saskatoon (Man, this one appeared during the writing of this post. I can't keep up with this freaking guy!)
Because Peak Stupidity could not cover all this great commentary, I'll just summarize what I've read so far on that site and also add a little bit that might help in understanding this "meme battle". At first, as others (say, commenters on iSteve) wrote also, this "It's OK to be white" bit just seems pretty wimply. If we want to stand up to all the abuse, and more like anarcho-tyranny, going on today, we don't want to wimp out from the get-go. The slogan sounds like something one's therapist or school councilor would say - not a good thing to take seriously, something from a therapist or school councilor. Why not get a little more bold and catchier with it, like "White is Alright!" or "White make Might", or well, you think of something!
That's just a first reflection, as now, upon thinking it over, the originator(s) was quite clever. The thing about this slogan or "meme" is that it is so bland and non-offensive in any possible way, that one can't rationally find it "bad!" This puts the cntrl-left types, the ones basically running the institutions between a proverbial rock and a hard place. OK, that terminology should be used for things in reality, not in a meme war, but it fits here.
These people can't let these posters slide. Why? They absolutely do not want white people to be allied on something; they need devisiveness. First it's posters, then what? T-shirts and hats, that's what! This solidarity by the former majority that built the country cannot be tolerated. If the cntrl-left doesn't raise hell about these simple innocuous posters, then "perpetrators" will get bold and maybe not even sneak around in the dead of night putting up more of them.
On the other hand, the cntrl-left is falling into the trap by raising hell about it. This is due to the fact that "It's OK to be White" cannot really be argued with without the arguer showing himself to be an actual racist. Some who have tried to give the left, antifa, and other misfits the benefit of the doubt will "Get Woke", and not bad-woke this time, but good-woke. The easy-going white guy will think "Hey, if I can't say even this, maybe I AM living in some kind of PC, Orwellian society. These people really want me and my kind gone. Enough is enough."
Read through some of Sailer's and others articles about this. The Harvard administration says "HLS will not let that happen here." OK, the next is Canada, but we read "We were alerted to the posters by members of the community, and immediately notified Campus Police, who have also notified Toronto Police,” You read a flyer you don't like, and you call the police? OK, but what about the flyers about the Communist party meeting, the BLM racist posters, and even the pizza coupons. Does the phrase Anarcho-tyranny ring a bell now? Is it time to wake up, yet.
Yes, by telling us "No, it's not OK to be white - I'm callin' the cops", the cntrl-left are showing their true colors now, along with their stupidity. I don't say stupidity as a perjerative here, as the rank-and-file cntrl-left are just stupid to really believe that they can suppress the white population into submission, dejection, addiction (to opiates or what) and still have a country left worth living in. They somehow thing that things will still run in a 1st world manner, maybe on their own some how, without 1st-world people. As a future post (promised, like 1/2 year ago!) will discuss, there is a lot of ruin in a nation.
* No, this is not an upcoming prequel to The Blair Witch Project
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Western World committing demographic sooeee-cide - Part 1
Posted On: Saturday - November 4th 2017 6:31PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity History The Future
It's not like this is some new revelation, nor is the article linked to here unique or even recent. The decline in population of the civilized Western World and even the civilized Orient compared to the huge increases still going on in Africa and the Moslem world could have been and were forseen (by some) 3 decades of more back. It's just time to write about it here on Peak Stupidity, as this demographic suicide that is on-going is indeed the peak of stupidity. (This Zerohedge article is not an original, so here is the original source from the Gatestone Institute.
It isn't that the Globalist elites, the childless European leaders, the American political scum, and the Chinese and Japanese don't know this. Most. of them either don't care at all or even want this to happen. The only ones speaking up are the un-PC leaders in eastern Europe and alt-right guys like Geert Wilders (a Dutch outcast for his truthful habit), per the ZH article:
The Archbishop of Strasbourg Luc Ravel, nominated by Pope Francis in February, just declared that "Muslim believers know very well that their fertility is such today, that they call it... the Great Replacement. They tell you in a very calm, very positive way: One day all this, all this will be ours..."Now, I little bit of personal recollection of American history is in order here. The "Baby Boom" era is considered to be from the very end of WWII, summer 1945 until roughly 1963, but there was no abrupt end, but more of a gradual decline from rates of over 120 births/100 women yearly toward the lower 60's (same units) from the early 1960's to the early 1970's. Having experienced part of the era, I can give some decent speculation here on why the next generation did not have so many kids.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just warned against a "Muslimized Europe". According to him, "the question of the upcoming decades is whether Europe will continue to belong to Europeans".
"In the coming 30 years, the number of Africans will grow by more than one billion people. That is twice the population of the entire European Union... The demographic pressure will be enormous. Last year, more than 180,000 people crossed in shabby boats from Libya. And this is just the beginning. According to EU Commissioner Avramopoulos, at this very moment, 3 million migrants are waiting to enter Europe". — Geert Wilders, MP, The Netherlands, and leader of the Party for Freedom and Democracy (PVV).
I can think of five factors:
1) Feminism played a large part in encouraging women to try to be like men, and not pop out bunches of kids. Even those who recovered from this stupidity did so at an age when their bodies told them that IT'S NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE!, and therefore could only realistically have 1 or 2 kids.
2) Even for those without the large doses of feminism, I believe the large number of kids that were around all the time gave the young parents (quite a bit younger on average than today's) the impression that things were always this way, and they didn't really put in much effort in encouraging their kids to procreate.
3) Along with this went all the hype during the era of "ecology" from the early 1970's on, with the stories of the "population bomb" (more on this shortly). All of this added reasons for parents NOT to encourage their kids to have the nice 3-5 kid families that they had (and going up to 11 or so for the Catholics, quite often!). There really were so many children around back then. I had to be taught the meaning of "only child" in grade school, as I may not have known any children without brothers or sisters until then.
4) The economic times, even though, family-formation-wise, were much better than today, were still seen as rough compared to the very prosperous times for America in the entire 1950's and most of the 1960's. However, when compared even to the depth of Great Depression 1.0 in the mid-1930's, with seriously bad times, the fertility number in the US was almost 20% higher than then it has been all the way since the mid-'70's!
5) Due to the lack of strong emphasis on family formation from both their parents and from media, the young adults of the 1970's learned to enjoy more wild times than the folks, and realized that having kids would interfere with this. This type of selfishness, I think, was even more prevalent in western Europe, and their birth rates declined well before Americans' did.
Now, expanding out even more, to the Orient, China's one-child policy, instituted in the late 1970's, after the death of Mao had an obvious 20 - 40 year (a generation to 2) consequence there. I don't know all the history of Japan's low fertility rates, but the country was and still is, pretty damn crowded, as is China.
None of this stuff would be a problem in itself though. It's all relative. During the time the developed world had the big declines in fertility, the undeveloped world was being given the ability, via Western medicine and Western agricultural advances, to increase their numbers as never before. Had the world on the same page, AND the globalist elites not hae been allowed to open the floodgates to the West, AND (at least in America) the welfare state not imposed by guys like this, the future could have become bright for all, as this old Peak Stupidity post on the effects of automation, excerpt here:
Back to the science-fiction story, the future told by optimistic stories, in the 70′s and 80′s, during my enjoyment of this literature, looked more like a sparsely-populated world (along with other worlds we we might want to hang out) where we got around in flying machines, lived in our hand-picked beautiful environments far away from our fellow man until we wanted a change, worked a few hours a day at the work we loved, and worked on cool intellectual projects of all kinds with our copious spare time (due to the automation). It sounded great to me, though I never thought that much of the automation would come in my lifetime. That was wrong on my part. What was wrong on the part of the science-fiction writers however, was one big assumption about the people in this future world.Yeah, the educated people of the West, Japan believed the population bomb stuff and were virtuous enough (1 of the 5 points above) to do something about it. The uneducated 3rd world was left to procreate like mad and erase all of the improvement made in the West and moreso. (The Chinese were basically forced into low fertility by the strong Communist hand.)
The future people were all intelligent, and even 50 years ago, one might still rightly assume that the intelligent people would get ahead in the world and produce the bulk of the people of this bright future. Well, I should say “rightly” only if one didn’t see the welfare state and the degradation of the culture coming. This assumption was way, way off. The bulk of the population of this world is not the intelligent and well-educated crowd, we all know that by now.
This is the bind we are in, people. Among the destruction of serious borders by the elites, the creation of the welfare state, and the low fertility rates while helping the poor 3rd world to achieve high population growth, the West has indeed implemented a cultural suicide.
On a lighter note, the post title was taken from an old TV show called Green Acres, in which one of the stars, a pig named Arnold, was said to be contemplating soo-eee cide in one episode. I can't find that on youtube, so here's some other footage on Arnold Ziffel:
What a way to end the week, huh? Part 2 will have more on the reality of the demographic replacement-suicide and how it will go down (if not reversed very soon). This post focused on the low birth rate people in the West and Orient, while the 2nd will focus on the high-birth people in Africa and the Moslem world.
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Journey again - another Gregg Rollie/Steve Perry duet
Posted On: Thursday - November 2nd 2017 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Music
If you liked the 2 songs Feelin' that Way and Anytime you want Me from Journey posted yesterday, here is more of the same sound. This is Just the Same Way off of Evolution, about a year after the music from yesterday.
Yes, straight men DID wear their hair and clothes like that in the 1970's. You just had to let that sort of thing slide if you were going to hear some great rock.
Now one can waste a lifetime in a few weeks reading comments on youtube, but I got sucked in OK? With commenting, you're gonna' have arguments, and it was about Rollins vs. Perry's singing. (Perry is by far the most familiar to non-groupie listeners to Journey, as he sang many songs by himself.) I hate to do this, as Peak Stupidity is a family website, but, I'm sure not going to sign up on youtube tonight just to reply to this guy... so I'll do it here:
rick henn, 7 months agoListen, Mr. Henn, from my 3 minutes and 5 seconds of viewing the members of the band here, I could believe any one of those guys' throats were full of semen. It was the 1970's, dammit!
Nah...Rolie [sic] sucks. Weak voice. Sounds like his throat is clogged with semen. Can't hold a candle to Steve Perry. Perry is well known as one of the best voices in rock and roll of all time. It's like comparing a fucking donkey (Rolie) to a thoroughbred (Perry). If you can't hear it, you need to get your ears checked or are tone deaf.
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Some Flake from Arizona steals the late great Barry Goldwater's book title
Posted On: Thursday - November 2nd 2017 6:01PM MST
In Topics: History Pundits Books
Why do decent states like Arizona and South Carolina keep electing these anti-American Conservatism, Inc. guys to the Senate? You've gotta know that these Senators have a lot of power and big power corrupts bigly, right? Is it that R next to their names - there are things called primaries, people - duckduckgo that stuff, please! Arizona
Jeff Flake is the guy's name and Pat Buchanan wrote an excellent column (on VDare and here on unz with most comments accidentally expunged last week via Ron Unz's top men at the server farm). Besides shedding light on soon-to-be-former-Senator Flake's in "Sorry, Jeff Flake, It’s Trump’s Party Now!, he nails the establishment Republicans.
Jeff Flake is saddened or something, that American politics has been "coarsened" due to Donald Trump. After the amount of ruin to all American society and economics the establishment R's have done in concert with the other wing of The Party, coarsening is going to be the least of our problems going forward (or "at the end of the day" or something). Per Mr. Buchanan:
This is a struggle about policy, about the future. And Trump is president because he read the party and the country right, while the Bush-McCain Republican establishment had lost touch with both.Heck, I'll just skip a tad, to:
How could the Beltway GOP not see that its defining policies — open borders, amnesty, free trade globalism, compulsive military intervention in foreign lands for ideological ends — were alienating its coalition?
What had a quarter century of Bushite free trade produced?
About $12 trillion in trade deficits, $4 trillion with China alone, a loss of 55,000 plants and 6 million manufacturing jobs.
We imported goods “Made in China,” while exporting our future.
What did the democracy crusades “to end tyranny in our world” accomplish?Well, that's the meat of Mr. Buchanan's article, so my minor point to add is simply:
Thousands of U.S. dead, tens of thousands of wounded, trillions of dollars sunk, and a Mideast awash in blood from Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, with millions uprooted and homeless. Yet, still, the GOP establishment has not repudiated the mindset that produced this.
With the Cold War over for a quarter of a century, what is the case now for America, $20 trillion in debt, going abroad in search of monsters to destroy?
Consider. Bush-Obama “open borders” brought in tens of millions of Third World peoples, legally and illegally, to rising resistance from Americans forced to bear the economic and social costs.
What was the GOP establishment’s reply to the opposition to amnesty for illegals and calls for a moratorium on legal immigration, to assimilate the tens of millions already here?
To call them nativists and parade their moral superiority.
How does this guy Jeff Flake get off stealing the title of a book by the late, great Senator Barry Goldwater from 5 decades ago!? Barry Goldwater was a Senator from Arizona also, who ran for US President against the scumbag Lyndon Johnson discussed just this past Saturday here at Peak Stupidity. What a difference in quality of men there was in that 1964! People like Lyndon Johnson, those who sell out the country to Socialism or (the current big thing) Globalism for votes or money are a dime a dozen nowadays (not even a silver dime, as were still minted in 1964, in fact!).
Men like Barry Goldwater were few and far between, at least at the high levels of political power even back in 1964. The understanding of the American idea, the US Constitution, and the pure integrity and guts in Senator Goldwater make Dr. Ron Paul look like a piker. No, Ron Paul isn't a piker (whatever that means), but think about the fact that Mr. Goldwater opposed the Civil Rites Act on purely Constitutional grounds, the right to freedom of association. That was gutsy even in 1964.
If you don't know much political history of the US, you may think Donald Trump was the 1st Republican candidate to be vilified by many in his own party. No, this goes back along ways, basically to any candidate who wants to be a true conservative. Ronald Reagan had most of the establishment against him when he ran in the primaries, yes, and the Lyin' Press, in both 1976 and 1980. Barry Goldwater was far from the R-establishment's choice, like a 52-year precursor to "The Donald".
Oh, about the book, yeah, that takes a lot of damn gall on the part of "The Flake". "The Conscience of a Conservative" was the title of Barry Goldwater's book from 1960, and it was well written, not by a damn ghost either, and well received. Flake could have picked many titles, as Mr. Goldwater's was pretty specific. To mooch off the fame of Goldwater's book, while being not 1 % of the man he was, is just pathetic and shameful. It's like something a Clinton would do. As Pat Buchanan's article is really about, we need to make a real opposing political party that is against all of these Flakes.
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Journey - must be played together
Posted On: Wednesday - November 1st 2017 8:38PM MST
In Topics: Music
These two songs from Journey's 1978 album Infinity both feature the singing of not only Steve Perry, with his familiar falsetto voice, but also Gregg Rollie, who may not be as familiar to those only casually acquainted with this '70's - '80's band's music. What great rock this is!
Here's the thing - Feelin' that Way and Anytime that you want Me must be played together mainly because they always have been. That last a cappella "Feelin' that way!" at the end, should have that 1 second pause, then "Oooh-ooh any time that you want me" a cappella part right before the great guitar kicks in. If this does not happen, things are not right with the world. This is not the only case of this in rock music. Queen's Bicycle Race MUST be followed by Fat-Bottomed Girls (though, granted, the latter of those two may be played alone). Another pair of songs by them, We will Rock You and We are the Champions must also go in sequence.
Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker MUST be followed by Livin' Loving Maid (she's just a Woman), both off of Led Zeppelin II because it's just always done that way. There's Jackson Brown's Load Out followed by Stay (just a little bit longer) (a cover song), the band YES's Your Move followed by I've seen all good People (a great tune with lyrics consisting of one long run-on sentence repeated over and over!) ZZ Top's Waitin' on the Bus followed by their awesome version of Jesus just left Chicago is the last one I'll mention for now, but I found a forum with lots more here.
OK, you get the point. I was pulling into the driveway and Feelin' that Way, turned up to full volume of course, was just finishing. I had to sit in the driveway to listen to the follow up song "Oooh ooh, any time that you want me..." Hey, what? Another song came on! You just don't do that - you on-air broadcasters are supposed to be the professionals, damn it! Well, needless to say, the first thing I did inside the house is to get on-line to look up the number of this so-called radio station.
Yes, it had been a while since I had called any station to make a request or be the 20th caller to win a, what we used to call "record album". This DJ let the phone ring for about the length of 2 more songs before he finally answered. "What the hell are you people doing over there?! You always have to play Anytime after Feelin' that Way. How can you do that?" After some hemming and hawing the guy tells me that I should break that to the station manager. "It's not up to me." he goes. Whatever, the entire episode was highly agitating. This kind of crap is what drives people to
Let's do it right. here on Peak Stupidity:
Don't the 1st 7 seconds of piano remind you of the intro. to Elton John's Tiny Dancer?
Journey was:
Steve Perry - Vocals
Gregg Rolie - Vocals, piano, keyboards
Neal Schon - Lead guitar
Ross Valory - Bass guitar
Aynsley Dunbar - Drums
BTW, the site linked to above mentions many combinations of Dead songs, some of which indeed were expected to be played together, as in Scarlet Begonias/Fire on the Mountain. However, The Dead were known to seque between songs at the spur of the moment, so they are sort-of an exception to the rule here.
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Customer
Posted On: Wednesday - November 1st 2017 9:43AM MST
In Topics: Humor Curmudgeonry Customer Care
First rule of the Curmudgeon Club:
You do not talk about how stupid it is that some of these modern movies don't make any damn sense unless you watch them 2 or 3 times, and I'm not gonna pay 10 damn dollars to get in and 5 more for a bucket of popcorn with only 1/2 of the grease and salt that you used to get ... and, wait. That's Fight Club - "You do not talk about how hard the movies sucks!"
2nd rule of
You CANNOT go wrong writing something about customer service, which is called Customer Care now, to feminize it to match with society.
Anyway, yes, you, as a curmudgeon, could have written a post criticizing bad customer service even in the 1950's, most likely . "The lady at the hula hoop store took 4 rings to answer the phone! She seemed kind of short with me too, and only talked with me for 5 minutes. Sarah, get me another hula hoop store on the blower, please, Ma'am. Thank you, Sarah... yeah you can hang up now."
Yes, I guess they had their problems back in the day, but this morning it was a call to the mobile phone company. Mashing 0's until the noise stopped worked pretty well, I will admit. I was first able to first talk to Alice in the Philippines. She did not answer my first question which was just "is that really your given name?" due to the language barrier. Although helpful enough, she wasn't able to help me switch plans, so she switched me back to the US ("Sarah, plug me back into Mt. Pilot, please, thanks Sarah.") to ...
... a pretty chipper black lady in the US. I didn't appreciate the folksy tone really, as it was just fake. Maybe it helped here out with some customers though, but not for me; this was business. It was not as big a feat as I thought to get her to say "ask", not "axe", so that was a pleasant surprise. I have seen lately, that for a black person to say "ask" correctly, is just too damn much to axe of him. Apparently it is the white man's way, and must be never uttered unless in real Dire Straits, such as in front of the judge during a sentencing hearing. Anyhow, we both got through it, and it turned out she couldn't really help me, so she switched me to ...
... an Eastern European young lady who couldn't understand English so well. I gave her my name, then the account number. Then she asked for my name. "It's the same one I just told you. It hasn't changed since I last said it" "OK, James ..." "No, not James." She heard changed as "James", so I guess my last name was "Since". Why come I don't have a tatoo, then?
OK, if it hasn't appeared already before, that is the best Idiocracy (Mike Judge movie) scene, and I can see lots of opportunities to plug that in in the future too.
Because the protagonist, who was a man of exactly average intelligence in 2005, ended up in the year 2505, he is so smart as to be diagnosed as a retard by the doctor you see. The Doc is very reassuring though:
"Don't worry, scro, there's lots of 'tards out there living pretty kick-ass lives. My ex-wife... retarded. She's a pilot now."
Oh yeah, back to the story, I just said goodbye to the E-Euro girl after realizing we weren't going to be able to communicate enough to help me at all. I do wonder whether that cell company is coming out ahead in the long run by the outsourcing and insourcing. They may have lost a long-term customer, not due to this particular episode, really, but just due to the lack of a solution for better plan.
Now, they keep trying to call me back for some reason, but here I am, busy blogging ....
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On Gentrification and Burglary
Posted On: Tuesday - October 31st 2017 8:20AM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism Race/Genetics
While walking through a really nice historical neighborhood while in a small city on the coast a few days back, I thought of all the hard work and money it takes to keep all of these old houses and the nice
I have got a friend who bought a house in an inner city neighborhood in a fairly large city in Ohio a few years back. (Yeah, Ohio has a number of fairly large cities, so that doesn't pin it down, I guess). This guy's move to that neighborhood, near where his family lived long ago is a part of the a phenomenon called "gentrification", which really means "making a neighborhood decent again". Yeah, the house was old and had not been kept care of, as old houses need to be, and needed a lot of work, which my friend and his wife were quite capable of doing.
I wouldn't call this guy one of the usual types who are at the forefront of gentrification as he is a family man. I have read, and seen somewhat also, that it the gays first and then young, usually childless couples that move into to decrepit neighborhoods first to try to make a decent life in what is initially still "the hood". Let's see why that is.
As mentioned on Peak Stupidity before, Americans, in general, like to have their space as opposed to the Chinese, for example, who do not feel themselves unless packed together like sardines. It's who they are. Anyhow, Americans now have lots of distain for the cities partly because over the last 50 years, what used to be very livable places have turned into ghettos. Almost every big and medium sized city has the inner core filled with ghetto blacks. You'd have to be pretty old to even remember a time when a family could live safely DOWNTOWN.
Now, it's easy to confuse the cause and effect - did the people just move out to the suburbs due to the ease of car travel and their desire for bigger houses and more space? Sure, many did. Families like to have some peace and quiet and more room for the kids to play. Yet, why did even most of the young white couples and single people move out? You will usually see them only in locations near a University. The exodus of decent people from the cities, black and white, has not been just due to the automobile. The violence and trashed-out public spaces created by just the minor part of the black community that had taken over these cities 30-50 years back (depending where) is what has had people (ironically both black and white) flee to those suburbs, and now exurbs, for that same amount of time. These exurbs you see now, that are 10-20 miles from downtown were made to get people away from the riff-raff, to enable them to send their kids to decent schools and to get the whole family far enough away from violent crimes.
There is a lot of risk involved in being one of the "pioneers", the first ones, to try to make a decent life in an inner city by fixing things up. It starts with the housing. The cost to get in is low, as the houses aren't worth much due to crappy schools due to the type of people that live there, and the general decrepitness of the area due to the culture (caused by genetics) of the black community. In GENERAL, they just aren't very good at taking care of stuff. Hey, I'm somewhat in the middle here. I kinda like old couches on the porch, and some cars being worked on in the yard under the tree here and there and hate the neighborhood association business. However, you've still got to take care of stuff. For some of these gentrifiers, the general easygoing-ness is part of the charm. Yes, most of these inner-city black guys are people one can deal with too, but there are just TOO many that are up to no good.
That's brings up the other hand, the risk for these urban pioneers in moving there is that the violence is still around until the riff-raff can't afford to live there anymore. That only happens after most of the gentrification is done. By that point, the house prices have all gone up, as the place has become desirable again. It's in the interim that things like getting completely cleaned-out by a burglary are more likely to happen. That's what happened to my friend's place. "Cleaned-out" means they didn't just suffer the indignity of someone getting in there and throwing all their stuff around looking for cash, jewelry and electronics. That would be enough, but this means most of what was of value and easy enough for a couple of guys to pick up was gone.
As a slight digression here, I'll just say that my friend had needed to be out of town for long periods of time. He was far away when this happened (yes, I know 2 miles away and what's the difference?) From some experience, I believe that many crimes are more of an "inside job" than people think. It could be just one well-meaning friend who told another one who mentioned things to some other guy who was not particularly well-meaning and noted the address. You've really got to be careful whom you tell personal things too, not due to the listener's trustworthiness, but due to his ability to keep his mouth shut at certain times. Keep your old cars, in the driveway. It helps a lot to have a car or two around for this reason: Due to Americans' still-extant right to keep arms, burglars are much more afraid to break into an occupied house than they would be in most other parts of the world. They are much more afraid of a 9mm round than Johnny Law. That's a good thing.
With all that said, the existing community doesn't WANT things to be fixed up nicely:
This is the curmudgeon in me coming out, but I CAN understand why even the decent people in these ghettos don't want change. They don't want different types of people to move in (you know diversity is really not our strength and everybody knows that.) Though I get that, the people such as my friend bought their houses fair-and-square, just as the granddads of the current black residents bought their houses fair-and-square from the white owners that didn't want them there either many years back. Nobody wants this kind of change, it seems.
Diversity - what is it good for? Absolutely nuthin! Huh!
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More on Socialism in American history
Posted On: Saturday - October 28th 2017 7:32PM MST
In Topics: Music History US Feral Government Socialism/Communism Dead/Ex- Presidents
We could go back to the Frankfort "School" or Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt and Great Depression 1.0 and all that, but If we're going to point fingers at just one man who was a big part of the implementation of Socialism in America, Peak Stupidity could do no better than to stick our index finger in the face at this bastard:
Note first, that the topic key "Socialism" has been modified to "Socialism/Communism" just to show the relationship between these forms of economic/political stupidity. Now, we have just begin to plumb the depths of this "flavor", if you will, of stupidity, here at Peak Stupidity, starting with the post about the stuff you should have learned in kindergarten. It is time for just a little bit of history, as the implementation of socialism in America (oh, we call it the "welfare state") is a big part of what is responsible for the ruinous state we are in now here.
There is one thing that would help to explain what went on in 1960's America, including the support for the welfare state, and that is simple, it was the richest and most powerful country the world had ever seen, with emphasis here on richest. Even with the logistics involved in fighting a war with 1/2 a million soldiers/sailers/airmen completely on the other side of the world in Vietnam, millions more defending Western Europe from the Soviets, the left wanted lots more money spent on making a "Great Society", meaning a huge expansion in the already burgeoning welfare state. Yeah, the money was there too. The borrowing to afford all this didn't have to start in earnest until the 1970's. At the beginning, due to the manufacturing might of the United States, the "Guns and Butter" could be paid for, and the welfare state in it's modern form began.
This Great Society per President Lyndon Johnson's (the statist scumbag in the picture above) was a step way out of the Constitutional role of the Federal Government, as defined very simply in Amendment X - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Well, that didn't concern too many people, except it was still understood by a few liberty-lovers on the right like the great Barry Goldwater, who had unfortunately lost the 1964 presidential election to Johnson. In the meantime, Johnson was recorded (his words, not mine) as saying "this will keep the niggers voting Democrat for the next 50 years". OK, then, the welfare state idea was not a stupid one for Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Democrat party, just for the American people.
Well, time goes by, and now that it's been over 5 decades of the welfare state, not only is the country broke, national-debt-wise, along with a myriad other ways, but the irresponsibility supported and encouraged by it has borne it's fruit. There are families that having been living as dependents of Uncle Sugar for 3 generations now.
Yet, some of the modern conservatives, the alt-right included, rag on the libertarians and anyone who really understands why the founders of America wrote that Constitution. They, and the voters who've put up with the steady expansion of US Feral Government and the welfare state dependency of Americans, may point fingers at some of the guys that started it. Unless you've been standing up for liberty though, you've got 3 fingers pointing back at you, like the song says:
"Because the heart that you break,
that's the one that you rely on.
The bed that you make,
that's the one you gotta lie on.
When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through,
you got three more fingers pointing back at you, yeah!"
"Solid Rock" by Dire Straits from their 1980 album "Making Movies". That's Mark Knofler singing and on lead guitar - last featured on Peak Stupidity here .
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Quick site note ... it's the Russians
Posted On: Friday - October 27th 2017 10:30AM MST
In Topics: The Russians Websites
Hey, we at Peak Stupidity don't believe the hype about "The Russians are coming!", and understand that Russia ≠ Soviet Union. However some spam comments that were ramping up toward a serious threat to the integrity of Peak Stupidity were mostly coming from "The Russians". All that may mean is that some losers with way too much time on their hands may have found spoofing Russian (and some Chinese) IP numbers to be the easiest route to spam-stupidity.
If any of our readers have seen them, they will understand how stupid this annoyance is, as the spam-comments were just about unreadable. Sure, we don't get a lot of comments, but that doesn't bother me personally, as I know we have quite a few regular readers now (that aren't moonlighting as Russian or fake-Russian spammers).
What's the point here, again? Oh yeah, if you are going to write a comment, please start the body of it with the two capital letters PS together. You can put a space after that, dashes, no space, or whatever, but please think of this before you hit SUBMIT. If you don't, the comment will just be lost.
The whole "capcha" thing can be incorporated, but I personally don't like using that system, as necessary as it may be on some busy sites. This way here was very simple to implement. It is sort of an experiment for me too, as I want to see what these spam-bots are all about. Does a human involved in such
We are not the Myth Busters, but, yeahhh, I think we can handle this experiment.
Posting will remain kind of light for a while, but as usual, due to time constraints more than lack of stupid ideas.
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[NOTE 10/28 AM:] I didn't want to add another post for this, but I noticed that unz.com is off-line this morning still, and this started Friday evening. Of the only 4 sites on the Peak Stupidity blogroll, this one is the most robust, with only rare occasional small bugs, and with a site "operator", Mr. Ron Unz, who is a computer guy himself and seems to take good care of the software. So, this is surprising.
If this is the cntrl-left and their minions doing a denial-of-service attack (maybe the easiest way to stop people from spreading the truth), you'd think they'd hestitate to block unz due to some of the stupid shit that unz features on there. There are out-and-out commies on there writing on Chairman Mao, as if that Commie butcher were the Mao's Meow. But, I guess for the cntrl-left, you've got to "break eggs" to make omelets and all that ....
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I'm just a cross-tie walker ...
Posted On: Thursday - October 26th 2017 7:44PM MST
In Topics: Music
... where the freight train runs.
Last week sometime early in the morning, we were riding through the outskirts of a fairly small town. Dawn had only started about 5 minutes earlier, and there was just enough light outside to see that it was still really dark along along the path of the railroad line that we were crossing.
I'm no hobo, mind you, but I've walked my share of cross-ties down the railroad tracks. It just looked so tempting that particularly nice morning. There was not a light from civilization down the tracks as far as my eyes could see. It just seemed like there was a place one could go and not be in view of anyone or any prying cameras. It's pretty hard to do that anymore, as privacy is becoming a thing of the past.
I could walk the tracks and go a long ways to nowhere without fences, or worse, modern-day curvy cul-de-sac neighborhoods where you can't get anywhere easily, and even if you spiral your way out, you will end up at a big box store or outlet mall. I'd rather just move along the tracks straight and level, and see the country and be happy that no one cares where I am at the time.
"If you see me a-coming, don't you waste my time.
Cause there's more miles between us, than the Santa Fe line...."
The band Creedence Clearwater Revival, featuring the lead singer John Fogerty with, in Peak Stupidity's opinion, the best voice ever in rock music, released "Cross-Tie Walker" way back 48 years ago (!!), in the summer of 1969 on the album "Green River".
This was written by John Fogerty, like most of the bands songs, and I like these lyrics a lot. I am shocked, shocked, I tells ya, the I've not posted any music by CCR until now. Like 75% of the music posted on Peak Stupidity, you can't listen to this one with the volume low, so don't even try.
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Are modern electronic devices making us gay?
Posted On: Wednesday - October 25th 2017 6:47PM MST
In Topics: Humor Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
Peak Stupidity's only post yesterday was about work for the mechanically-inclined in the computer-tech area. While writing it, I had some thoughts about the phones and tablets we are almost all using, especially the touch-screen aspect of it.
The interface that has been developed by possibly straight guys for these tablets and phones is problematic for a lot of us. Just the fact that almost everything on the screen is an area that will control this device or CHANGE SOMETHING is damned annoying. You try to hold it right on the edges, or some thing or other will just happen, that you may not know how to reverse. I've felt like clamping one of these things to a piece of 1" (nominal) pine with a handle, so I could just hold it with one hand that would not affect ANYTHING!
Now we come to the gay part, the whole swiping business. The first time I saw someone do this double swipe, especially the one where you spread apart your fingers or finger and thumb, it just looked kind of faggy. I mean, no offense here to anyone, though, keep in mind Peak Stupidity is an Equal Opportunity Offender, but it's not a manly interface like, say, a torque wrench on a nut. Could the designers have just put a few more buttons on the face near the edge? You have to be so delicate with these devices just to use them properly - there's no way around that.
These touch screens are everywhere, but they are not bad to deal with on a fixed device like a monitor on a desk. For these mobile devices, well, to finally answer the question asked in this post's title. No, the electronic devices are not making us gay, say via radiation or subliminal images flashing in the night during our REM sleep - they are just making us LOOK gay.
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DIY and mechanical aptitude in Americans vs. Chinese - self rebuttal
Posted On: Tuesday - October 24th 2017 10:23AM MST
In Topics: Cars China Economics Americans
In this post on human capital / infrastucture in modern-day China vs. America, I wrote poorly of modern day America in this respect. In this short post, I want to add just a little bit of a rebuttal. The gist of it is the shift from mechanical things to electronics.
With modern day autos, whether in China or America, they are not meant really to have much work done easily by the owner. The "shade-tree mechanic" needs a whole bunch of technical knowledge, specialty tools, and electronics that can not be plugged into or lifted by a branch on that old live oak tree. This is just the shift to more economical, but more complicated cars (to the point of absurdity sometimes). It's a boon to the dealers too. I don't think you can fight this one.
However, the kids today do mess with so many pieces of digital electronics. Contrary to my first opinion on this, during early ownership of laptop computers and cell phones, these items can be taken apart and parts swapped, etc. No, it's not the same kind of "working with one's hands" as adjusting the alternator belt tension or balancing a tire, but it's not far off either. There is not that much analog real electrical engineering type knowledge needed, just as a car mechanic in the day didn't have to really understand the power and torque vs. rpm curves either to work on a car. A friend has gotten into to taking apart and repairing laptops part time and enjoys it. There are guys around replacing glass in phones, and there are other parts that can be swapped.
This is a bit different from older "working with your hands" in 3 ways. The first is just that everything is smaller and more delicate. It takes a different kind of finesse and I think a different kind of patience too. For the bolts on an old auto, things had to be jiggled around and it took some muscle and some scraped elbows. However, the parts didn't just snap on you. Now you need more skills with the fingers. The 2nd factor comes in right here. You could just try things and take them back apart without ruining stuff on an old car. For the electonics, well, we've got youtube now. It's a lot better to spend 15 minutes watching some instructional videos (and kudos to the great people that spend the time on that) than snapping plastic parts when you don't know exactly how they are delicately put together. The 3rd difference is the way we get parts. It's all the web now, I suppose, because as that previous post discussed, the infrastructure, the local hardware stores with know-how is mostly gone in America. You need to find it online. It's there, and ebay is the hardware store. It's different, but it's working well for my friend in this business.
Lastly, in reference to the Chinese, I don't think that they will ever get to the place where America used to be, where probably a majority of guys could work with their hands, even if it wasn't their living. In China, 3 factors work against this: Firstly, they probably don't genetically have quite the same aptitude, but that is debatable - hence the comments section here, and I am still leaning toward thinking about real mechanical work, as with cars/vehicles, not with electronics in this thought. Secondly, also with regard to automobiles, here and in China, the car culture will never be as it was in 1950's- 1970's America. In both countries, more people live in cities, hence can't afford and don't need cars so much. Lastly, the Chinese culture DOES NOT RESPECT hand labor. A better way of saying that might be that the Chinese ladies (the hot ones, where it matters) value a money-grubbing social-climbing, I'll-scratch-your-back type man over a simple honest hardworking hands-on guy. Because of that, Chinese men will aspire to be the former over the latter, which is a damn shame.
The gist of it is, the new hands-on guys are the laptop/phone repair guys, and I'm sure other areas of electronics too. Ebay is the new "local hardware store". It kind of sucks that you can't play with the stuff in the store though, and ask a question to a wise old guy there.
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Unitarian Stupidity - it's how they roll at the UU.
Posted On: Monday - October 23rd 2017 11:09AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Music Political Correctness Globalists ctrl-left Bible/Religion
These people take the cake. Most of the Unitarians are the nicest, not-necessarily hardest-working, educated people you may run into in any kind of so-called or actually-called church. Damn, though, they are exhibit A of the Peak Stupidity dictum (created Right Here, Right Now) - It takes a lot of intelligence to be really, really stupid. Ask your average Communist how many years he spent in grad. school. I guarantee you it'll be more years than you spent!
First they had the Invite-The-World signs up for a long time. Hey guys, you may bring in your token refugee that the tax-payers are supporting (OK, I GET IT, you are providing pastries, and not expecting any pledges from these people), but do you think they will grow up as, or remain Unitarian Universalists? Do you all think that they even understand your concepts of altruism? Do you think they believe in inviting the whole world into their countries? Is the Moslem "community" that has taken over most of Dearborn, Michigan inviting the Christians to come to their churches?
Many of the Unitarians don't have any kids. That may explain their cavalier attitude in destroying the culture of their country, one that puts up pretty well with their nonsense. (That'll only work, though, until the country is no longer a white Christian one, with rule of law still somewhat extant. After that ....) However, there are plenty of people without kids who still care about America. They go to various churches, but somehow the ones that end up as Unitarians just don't get what's coming due to the actions of groups that they support.
Now, there was the big Black Lives Matter banner up on a wall of the Unitarian Church, along with the other signs. Looking for token Black members are you? Or are you just trying to piss off the neighbors? This brings up a theory. This theory may explain and relieve the UU folks of some of the assumed stupidity, but that would make them more like evil. Maybe here's the deal. The church building needs a lot of work, maybe? Bills are coming due? Why not egg on all the neighbors you can, until one devil-may-care type decides he's had enough and burns down the damn building. Is that the idea? Possibly it's more like, let's see if we can get evidence of someone ripping down our sign. Then, we'll have it made! The story about this raciss bastard will be all in the news, and we'll be heroes!
Well, what's it gonna be, folks, are you stupid or evil, or a little of both?
Maybe if you "worshipped" in a real architecturally beautiful old-style church, like those in Boston, where U-all started out, you could get back to God and think about YOUR people. Instead, you hang out in this glorified butler building and talk about inviting the world to screw up everything that is good in your culture. Your altruism, whether real, or contrived for status-signalling, is still going to help turn this country into a place where trust and altruism will no longer exist. Then who will attend the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, huh?
PS. Why all the topic tags attached to this post? Well, it takes a lot to cover the various flavors of stupidity that are the tenets of the UU faith. The Bible tag is probably not necessary, as I don't think many of them have read it, but it has been underutilized here, as of late.
PPS. Hey, they are mostly nice people, as I said. They are interesting to talk to if you avoid the cntrl-left craptrap. Me, I can't.
"Mary Moon, she's a Unitarian, Mary Moon, Mary Moon"
Oh, OK, maybe it's "vegetarian", as it might be my chronic Lyricosis flaring up. That was Deadeye Dick with " New Age Girl" with that great harmony and lyric "She don't eat meat, but she sure like the bone". Whoa! I didn't even remember that part from this late 1990's song.
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