tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post2748026735647452532..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: What the snow shows - *rapid* technological declineBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-8048051353830433842018-03-09T13:11:51.136+00:002018-03-09T13:11:51.136+00:00@rolo - Yes, we cannot take anything seriously jus...@rolo - Yes, we cannot take anything seriously just because it is real! Bureaucracy is now built-in and immoveable (indeed, as if a fact of nature); and the priority is always political correctness first, and everything else must be fitted round it. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-14856538017328783112018-03-09T13:07:38.835+00:002018-03-09T13:07:38.835+00:00From a U.S. angle, I would consider the incredible...From a U.S. angle, I would consider the incredible ongoing failure of the F-35 as exhibit A of our inability to do great things. With all the engineering talent the U.S. possesses and all the hundreds of billions thrown at the project it's been fun and terrifying to watch just how incapable we've become. rolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02730638295719408767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-33400703209782659852018-03-08T18:47:38.054+00:002018-03-08T18:47:38.054+00:00A small example: farmers are forbidden by law from...A small example: farmers are forbidden by law from using their agricultural machinery run on red diesel on public roads for any use other than the production of food. Any trip on the public highway must be as a result of an agricultural operation taking place somewhere - going to plough a field for example, or transporting grain from field to store. People who break these rules are prosecuted and receive hefty fines.<br /><br />Yet in the recent snow falls, we saw the police using Twitter to ask farmers to use their tractors and forklifts to help clear roads of snow and to assist in pulling out stuck vehicles. Suddenly that particular law is disregarded as the weather has provided a swift dose of reality. Yet the same police will at some point in the future be manning checkpoints run by HMRC and VOSA in order to catch people doing what they themselves were asking people to do a few weeks or months earlier. And using the very same Twitter feed to crow about the 'criminals' that have been caught.Sobershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11407417389022146963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-75977168264555232912018-03-07T10:47:16.342+00:002018-03-07T10:47:16.342+00:00Yes, both are a way of disarming opposition and es...Yes, both are a way of disarming opposition and establishing conformity.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-7548780643160896312018-03-07T10:44:32.274+00:002018-03-07T10:44:32.274+00:00@William - in a sense (not entirely) that is the s...@William - in a sense (not entirely) that is the same as saying it is a more bureaucratic society. Bureaucracy - with its committee systems - is an abstract formalisation of the peer consensus by which women spontaneously operate in groups. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-35507574421029996952018-03-07T10:39:17.094+00:002018-03-07T10:39:17.094+00:00I'm afraid a lot of this is a consequence of b...I'm afraid a lot of this is a consequence of becoming a more feminised society in which people are afraid to take risks and the mediocre is prized more than the exceptional because no one must be made to feel bad about themselves. That's not the whole story by any means but this is one of the ways that those managing the decline bring it about. We are kept in line by being emasculated.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-50173770987383821952018-03-07T06:05:52.065+00:002018-03-07T06:05:52.065+00:00@weka - The point is that, at present, hardly anyb...@weka - The point is that, at present, hardly anybody wants to be 'rescued' from this Brave New World - just as nobody wants to be married and have a family. Nor do they want eternal life in Heaven. It is not that they don't believe in eternal life in Heaven, so much as would not want such a thing even if they did believe it. Apparently, this hendonistic inertia and despair is a consequence of The West having now being an atheist society for several generations, especially among the upper classes. <br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-53556049558789556562018-03-06T23:16:12.031+00:002018-03-06T23:16:12.031+00:00Again, I am quoting you.
What will happen is tha...Again, I am quoting you. <br /><br />What will happen is that there will be those who rebel. They will talk: they will make an undernet, a new samzidata. <br /><br />The official social mass media will be more and more limited. the Police more akin to the Stazi than the old fashioned copper on his beat, and England will get worse.<br /><br />Until we have another peasant's revolt: we already have the Wat Tylers of the next revolt in England's frozen and regulated land. <br /><br />And the current poltitical elite, again, are pelted with cow pats and engine grease. <br /><br />For I don't trust the academic managers (I have too many scars) nor our politicians. I do trust the contrary, bloody minded nature of the English. <br /><br />And, more than that, God. Who will rescue our church from the Oxbridge graduates who want to manage Christ out of it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-19405744946763451832018-03-06T21:11:04.592+00:002018-03-06T21:11:04.592+00:00You paint a terrifying picture...all the more terr...You paint a terrifying picture...all the more terrifying because of its credibility. During the recent deluge of moderately severe snow, I ventured to my local tescos on food to discover the shelves bare of bread, eggs and other daily essentials. The queues of customers were remarkably large. I remember having a strong day-dream like impression (as I am prone to do) of a kind of pre-collapse situation, perhaps in response to a global or national incident promoting a temporary shut down of normal day to day business before the big crunch of outright panic. The kind of panic that would happen if the eggs and bread vanished for more than a few days, prompting panic buying and massive shelf-clearing. The onset of a dominoe effect nuclear bunker mentality. A sobering thought. It strikes me that most of us are blissfully unaware of how close we could be to a total nightmare scenario unfolding. After the food went or the lights went out on the media or internet with a global catastrophie it wouldnt be long before outright panic, looting, violence and the baser suppressed side of mankinds vilest nature would come to the fore. The recent snow 'catastrophe' really brings home how we live on a fragile egg shell of stability.David Balfourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12099160562774064281noreply@blogger.com