I have been a firm believer for quite some time that our culture and our country as a whole is withering. It is a combination of factors that are rooted to the very prosperity that we worked so hard to achieve. Unfortunately a large part of the human nature bell curve can tend to be greedy and lazy assholes.
I've tried to make my argument for this but my own words always seem to fall short.
FF to a friend posting a link to a Bad Cattitude article about this very thing on Substack. Written as an expansion and reply to The Drunk Republican, I think he says it perfectly.
I copied the text from the article, stripped the pictures and ads out of it and have pasted it below.
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FERTILIZING THE MORON FARM
The other day, gatopal™ “the drunk republican” was pointing out one of the odd contradictions of modernity.
But i wonder: is this a contradiction at all? I suspect it is not. I suspect it is, in fact, a sort of emergent property from plenty and wealth and the societal and individual incentives that seem to come with them.
Let us explore this emergent stupidity excursion as, like all such phenomenon, this highly complex and varied structure appears as though it may be well explained by only a few simple causal drivers.
Consider the possibility that the advent of moronical modernity finds its roots in a simple tenet of economics:
when, all else equal, the price of something drops, people choose to consume more of it.
the price of being moronical declined and so consumption of this "good" increased.
Pre-enlightenment, people were poor and life had more notable tendencies toward "nasty, brutish, and short."
It was a time full of severe selectors any of which would both cull you from the herd and assure future generations that genes like yours would not be around to commit further foibles.
The price of moronicality on both the individual and the societal levels was severe and rapid. A world near the edge of its structural carrying capacity to support its humans is a world with small margin for error.
Didn’t lay in enough food or firewood this winter? Guess what happens now.
Allow the nature of your society to become inconsistent with human flourishing and supportive of dependence and predation, and guess what happens then?
How many who fell for “communism could totally work if we just get the right people in charge this time!” are no longer with us to fall prey again?
Such calamity used to be near instant. Now it is a slow burn through the sizable fat reserves of the once replete civilizational success that made everyone so comfortable in the first place.
The “plenty” of the post enlightenment removed these penalties . . . even replacing them with welfare state subsidy.
That's how you fertilize a moron farm.
It's also how you drive and enable antisocial behavior and open up a society to conquest and collapse.
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If anyone cares to read it direct from the source instead: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/...GY_SBv96FRA-a7D5Oc_aem_iEbRBfTqrgjFx3bqYXf5cQ
I've tried to make my argument for this but my own words always seem to fall short.
FF to a friend posting a link to a Bad Cattitude article about this very thing on Substack. Written as an expansion and reply to The Drunk Republican, I think he says it perfectly.
I copied the text from the article, stripped the pictures and ads out of it and have pasted it below.
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FERTILIZING THE MORON FARM
The other day, gatopal™ “the drunk republican” was pointing out one of the odd contradictions of modernity.
But i wonder: is this a contradiction at all? I suspect it is not. I suspect it is, in fact, a sort of emergent property from plenty and wealth and the societal and individual incentives that seem to come with them.
Let us explore this emergent stupidity excursion as, like all such phenomenon, this highly complex and varied structure appears as though it may be well explained by only a few simple causal drivers.
Consider the possibility that the advent of moronical modernity finds its roots in a simple tenet of economics:
when, all else equal, the price of something drops, people choose to consume more of it.
the price of being moronical declined and so consumption of this "good" increased.
Pre-enlightenment, people were poor and life had more notable tendencies toward "nasty, brutish, and short."
It was a time full of severe selectors any of which would both cull you from the herd and assure future generations that genes like yours would not be around to commit further foibles.
The price of moronicality on both the individual and the societal levels was severe and rapid. A world near the edge of its structural carrying capacity to support its humans is a world with small margin for error.
Didn’t lay in enough food or firewood this winter? Guess what happens now.
Allow the nature of your society to become inconsistent with human flourishing and supportive of dependence and predation, and guess what happens then?
How many who fell for “communism could totally work if we just get the right people in charge this time!” are no longer with us to fall prey again?
Such calamity used to be near instant. Now it is a slow burn through the sizable fat reserves of the once replete civilizational success that made everyone so comfortable in the first place.
The “plenty” of the post enlightenment removed these penalties . . . even replacing them with welfare state subsidy.
That's how you fertilize a moron farm.
It's also how you drive and enable antisocial behavior and open up a society to conquest and collapse.
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If anyone cares to read it direct from the source instead: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/...GY_SBv96FRA-a7D5Oc_aem_iEbRBfTqrgjFx3bqYXf5cQ
