I like a lot of this piece but have you considered that the West has gone extremely anti-meritocratic since 1970? Like the elite institutions force feed less intelligent people into positions of power (for sake of ideological sycophancy). Not to mention we outsourced all our manufacturing overseas and regulated small business/ mew industries to death. Furthermore the powers that be have spent more energy pushing societal poisons onto us (social media, public school retardation, drugs, bad food, porn, useless foreign wars) than they have actually vested any interest in technological progress.
Im just saying that perhaps in a regime change or collapse of the imperial anti-meritocracy (enforced by credentialism at traitorous, brain-worm-inducing psuedo-universities) we would see a new generation of actually smart American men inventing stuff and maintaining a modern society. There are still tinkerers and brilliant young men who could be Edisons and Ford’s, but the globocorps and intentional demoralization of society have just shut down the possibility.
Architecture isnt ugly bc industrial society is failing, its ugly bc of Globohomo.
Food isnt poisoned bc agriculture is impossible to maintained, its poisoned bc they want you to be poisoned.
I think technological progress is possible if real american men are allowed to run society. However I do rather yearn for a return to epic battles of sword and bow and calvary charges, so Id be fine with technological regression too
Hell yes, I'm always glad to see Greer get mentioned on Substack.
I stumbled onto him in 2012, and what he was saying immediately clicked with me, and gave me context for the insanity I was seeing in Phoenix..
Good to see more Greer-pilled writers around here.
Great post, thank you. It reminds me of this comment from 4chan in 2013: https://ibb.co/yYk3nxc
How do you square the decline of cheap oil with the west's unwillingness to properly consider nuclear energy as an alternative? Germany is shutting down their last 3 nuclear power plants this weekend: https://www.foxnews.com/world/german-government-dismisses-calls-delay-shutdown-countrys-last-3-nuclear-power-plants
I like a lot of this piece but have you considered that the West has gone extremely anti-meritocratic since 1970? Like the elite institutions force feed less intelligent people into positions of power (for sake of ideological sycophancy). Not to mention we outsourced all our manufacturing overseas and regulated small business/ mew industries to death. Furthermore the powers that be have spent more energy pushing societal poisons onto us (social media, public school retardation, drugs, bad food, porn, useless foreign wars) than they have actually vested any interest in technological progress.
Im just saying that perhaps in a regime change or collapse of the imperial anti-meritocracy (enforced by credentialism at traitorous, brain-worm-inducing psuedo-universities) we would see a new generation of actually smart American men inventing stuff and maintaining a modern society. There are still tinkerers and brilliant young men who could be Edisons and Ford’s, but the globocorps and intentional demoralization of society have just shut down the possibility.
Architecture isnt ugly bc industrial society is failing, its ugly bc of Globohomo.
Food isnt poisoned bc agriculture is impossible to maintained, its poisoned bc they want you to be poisoned.
I think technological progress is possible if real american men are allowed to run society. However I do rather yearn for a return to epic battles of sword and bow and calvary charges, so Id be fine with technological regression too