Wednesday, June 12, 2019

casper and democrats 3


CASPER AND DEMOCRATS 3
Okay, we covered the beginning of the decline of racism and centralized government.  Racism is a centralizing concept, above nationalism.  Globalism is taking centralization far too far.  Democracy simply doesn’t work because it is a feminized form of governance, one based on emotionalism.  It is also never really used beyond propaganda.  If the rubes think they have a say, they will remain passive.  Democracy was also a great way force equality, which is how you disenfranchise the productive members of society ( hence controlling them for your profit ).  In Bisonia, commies AND Democrats will be bayoneted.
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( Here is a fun filled fact.  In 1918, there was a communist civil war in Finland. Yeah, the Nordic country.  Finland wanted its independence from Russia-prior it just had autonomy-and since being Red was the new popular kids thing, the commies wanted the new government molded in their image.  The Whites threw most of them in concentration camps where they died.  As a percentage of population, it wasn’t until Rwanda that a country saw such a death count in such a short period of time.  From Jared Diamond’s new book-which is marginal )
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But more importantly, democracy is NOT how you run a tribe.  A tribe has more equalitarianism, but the best warrior needs to be in charge, for the tribes survival ( with former great warriors acting as a council ).  If every stupid dumb bitch ( “but war is icky!” ) and young inexperienced buck ( “attack everyone!”, or even worse “Big Boob Bertha says I should give peace a chance” ) was allowed a say in matters, the tribe would NOT survive all that much longer.  Most people are retarded, and the young and emotional make retards look smart.
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Let’s switch over to national armies versus guerrillas.  Back in the day, guerrillas were actually quite successful against conventional armies.  And a large reason for that was that their victory benefited one of the Cold War superpowers.  Today, there are no more superpowers ( no, Spanky, the US is no longer a global hegemon.  Not militarily and certainly not economically.  Neither is China.  One of the side effects of switching from conventional oil to Fake Fuels is the inability to control the energy supply as well as one used to.  The supply is both more diffuse and easier to disrupt.  This weakens conventional militaries ).
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And guerrillas are now, without as much assistance, becoming more successful.  The decentralizing trend in energy and military might ( is not a missile defeating an aircraft carrier a weakening of centralized power? ).  As political power goes from centralized to decentralized ( the states more often able to flaunt the Fed’s dictates.  Just because the Federales want the same thing is not why this is happening.  The Feds know better than to set such dangerous precedents ), as energy availability shrinks, long distance and protracted anti-guerrilla campaigns become more problematic.  Afghanistan is NOT successful.
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And I don’t mean because that country is the graveyard of empires.  Which it is.  Nobody is going to completely take over the country ( not even the Taliban ).  No one expected us to, from the beginning.  Unless it was some Army officers.  But they are dumb asses to begin with.  The problem is that we are trying less, spending more, and slowing losing ground.  It started as grand strategy and has degraded into Military Industrial Complex corporate welfare.  It is a defeat because that is how the rest of the world sees it.  Stupid is as stupid does.
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Will nation states continue to defeat local guerrillas?  Sure.  What is happening now is that empires are not able to defeat guerrillas in colonies.  Local guerrillas against local governments don’t have that long logistics tail to defeat.  But of course, soon enough, as the world shrinks, then yes, guerrillas will become more successful as nations shrink to more manageable and natural sizes.  Somethings, a region will get independence even if it doesn’t want to.  One wonders how much longer England will care to subsidize Scotland, for instance ( which is only fitting, historical pay-back for exporting Scots and settling sheep ).
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What about urbanization?  This isn’t actually a centralizing trend, but the opposite.  You’ll notice this more, the poorer a country it is.  This is due to lack of resources.  Granted, the trend started from colonializing agricultural countries.  Land was taken from peasants, the peasants went to the city if being in poverty there was an improvement from illegally slash and burning wilderness areas for sustenance crops.  But besides economics, another basic reason remains resource availability.  It takes less profit to support a robotized operation than to use human labor.  The further away from the city this is, the more expensive.
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Squeezing profits from shrinking energy and resources, machines have been turned farmer and people are encouraged to move to the city.  It takes less to support them in urban areas than far away rural areas.  It is cheaper to run a rail line out into the jungle than to provide villages full of workers, with the food imports ( the land is for commodities only ) and sewage and schools and police.  In the cities, you can leave people to rot in poverty, allowing gangs to police them at no state cost.  And no one can sabotage the farm or mine machines.
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Where is the worst depopulation and economic decline rurally in the US?  The grain growing Midwest.  I can only conclude this was deliberate, as a social engineered method of food control.  The robots farm, the populace is safety jailed in urban poverty where if they revolt, food will not be available to them.  Food Stamps aren’t a generosity.  They are further population control-one of the cheapest available.  Centralized farms do NOT always produce more grain per acre, but a lot of times less.  At higher resource cost per bushel.  But overall, robot farming uses less resources per person.
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What looks like population centralizing is merely decreased energy use for an expanding population.  Remember, and never forget, that the per capita total energy use globally peaked in 1979.  That is all energy, from nuclear which is running out of uranium, to hydro with silted up dams ( and sometimes falling water levels ), as well as oil.  The BTU’s per person have been falling.  Falling energy leads to less complex, less energy hungry organizations.  Decentralization.  Whenever you are confused about the direction of the future, merely think “decentralization”.  That is all.
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25 comments:

  1. Correct on many items Jim. Decentralization or a modified Balkinization of areas or regions, for whatever the on the ground reasons are, may not result in a utopian redoubt complete with flir rifled unicorn cavalry units for estate security and swooning church ladies. Not likely. They will have to, by interconnected just in time and supply dependance that is now and will be for a long transition phase period, be joined at the hip logistically, culturally, politically, to other tribe and sub units. It would be best to have the strong alpha command structure and force projection capability; but also have that stupid state department, emmissary, gypsy trader type to be the go between, and grease some wheels of trade, mutual defense, bride exchanges!,etc. That is the dynamics of human walking uprights, which should rightfully encompass all of those dynamics in the Bisonia field manual.

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    1. Damn, now I'm lusting after swooning church ladies.

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  2. re:
    silting reservoirs behind dams

    Thank you for recognizing the inevitable.

    Silting is one result of clear-cutting forests. Our quite minor species seems intent on reducing this particular planet to an uninhabitable desert.

    A look at maps and geographical studies of The Fertile Crescent (not a reference to 'swooning church ladies') immediately shows the results of human interference since the invention of agriculture and its disgusting sibling 'civilization'.

    The great depopulation is inevitable. It may come in weeks, months, or a few decades. The course was set 10,000 years ago after hunter-gathering nomads were exterminated by priests and nobility/'ruling elites' and other miscreants.

    Energy surplus merely extended the interval between the adoption of agriculture and the return to small mobile extended family tribes.

    The worst abomination I can imagine is a city.
    Is 'concentration camp' another way of stating 'city'?
    Why do city-folk go to the trouble of dragging their garbage to a dump? Any city is a dump!

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    1. Couldn't agree with you more. Of course, cities can be better or worse depending on the point in time of that civilization. Even NYC or LA at one time was a really nice place to live. Not to invalidate the point we'd be better off without agriculture.

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    2. Yeah true dat guys. The cities do suck ass in many ways. The takeaway element to the cities and burbs of say the latter part of the last century or infant years of this century is that a very astute Minion or adherent to the hard copy version of the Bisonia field manual can stock and stack the fracking crapper out of the table top crumbs and largess remaining of the gluttony empire. A Monk's like approach and disciplined effort can gear up a fellow from city pickings, real business like, with effort. Aside in general there will be many stationed lilly pads of agri biz, Cottage crafts, and Hopsing mercantile enterprises with a trader gypsy type as well around. Find where you fit, in the new dynamic. Easy peasy...

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    3. Concentration camp=city. Might steal that, Marge.

      James, yeah. Average work week in Europe before agriculture? Like 10 hours. AND THEY HAD BEER!

      But no tobacco.

      No wonder I like camping.

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    4. I thought beer was a byproduct of agriculture. Interesting.

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    5. 6:08-so, in a way, no different than usual, finding your way in society. Just betting on low instead of high tech.

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    6. "Nestled inside the walls of some smaller enclosures are six barrel- or trough-shaped stone vessels. The largest could hold 40 gallons of liquid. The archaeologists suggest that they were used to brew a basic beer from wild grasses." -Göbekli Tepe, which predates agriculture.

      Theory is we developed cities as a way to make more beer. Really.

      https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/02/alcohol-discovery-addiction-booze-human-culture/

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    7. NeoGeo-another once fine Education For The Masses, degenerating into PC crap on a stick.

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    8. Nat Geo. One of this boys first exposures to the naked female breast (Aside from the old man’s porn stash). Dark, saggy, titty, with a little bone through the nose action, but beggars can’t be choosy :D

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    9. Oh, yeah, good times there, forty plus years ago. Much better than the ladies underwear ads/catalogs. My appreciation to NatGeo for that ( and the maps. The fold out map was a distant second attraction ) led me to excuse their decline until the early 00's when those dingus munchers pimped for the elite and tried to sell me Saudi Arabian oil production growth to satisfy global demand 'til 2030-2050. I never could look at them again, brown bouncing boobies or not.

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  3. Sir yes Sir, church ladies= can churn the butter, and can mash the potatoes. Nuff said.

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  4. Question for the panel : What is the optimum size for a 'tribe' ? How large (or small) a group that requires feeding - using and gathering resources - sanitation - housing - etc. ?

    How is it ruled - majority vote, or one/two members calling the shots ? How are tasks assigned ?

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    1. Optimum size, far below resources in the area ( accounting for population growth, failed harvests, etc ). Military rule, but NOT nation state military. Tribe military.

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    2. As I mentioned to our esteemed panel, I visited Sacramento California and Portland Oregon last month.

      My AT&T (American Telephone And Telegraph) telephone signal frequently crashed, so text worked (better).

      Bison explains:
      'the population exceeds the resources'.
      In that example, too many cellular telephone users for the infrastructure equals an unhappy LargeMarge.

      I think that makes cities a bad place to visit. Imagine seeking driving directions during normal times, or emergency information during not-normal times...

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    3. I wouldn't care about a cell signal, per se. As soon as I saw that city cops ran two to a car, I would judge the place to be a demilitarized zone. Good luck staying there, silly buggers.

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    4. re:
      optimal tribe size

      EatonRapidsJoe discussed that:
      http://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/2019/04/seven-cows-faq-nuclear-explosion-model.html?m=1

      He thinks (and after contemplating, I agree) bigger has the potential to be better.

      Trust your lieutenants to keep their stealing within reason.

      Trust your generals to be at least marginally competent.

      Trust your little people to support you because the alternative is worse.

      According to ERJ, instead of a city with sixty gangs, three warlords establish defensible boundaries, and keep their young studs occupied with other-than-battle activities.

      Instead of a remote / invisible hermitage, gather with enough firepower-folks to dissuade opposition. It worked for Stalin, it works for the squatters in Palestine. It works for Law Enforcement Officials.

      It wouldn't work for me; I avoid politicians like I avoid Ebola.

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    5. @LargeMarge - back in the day when I was in the field I was told that mobile phone towers routinely operate at 95% capacity.

      My wife sent me a text the other day. We were in the same room. I never received it. I sent a text to my parents warning them of a Police speed trap. They got the message the following day.

      In the aftermath of the Christchurch Earthquake the NZ gov asked people to refrain from phone calls because calls took up far to much bandwidth and everyone was trying to communicate. They said use text, the messages will get through but they'd take time.

      Lastly Singapore has the best telecommunications in the world. Why? It's owned by their Military. Come go time civilians lose their access. But as it stands today it operates at 65% capacity.

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    6. If I may quote on optimum tribe size, plus add in my own theory:
      https://wilderwealthywise.com/mental-illness-dunbars-number-and-the-divine-right-of-kings/

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    7. I think for the maximum size group, we are talking more long term stable environments. Not like during the coming collapse of extreme resource scarcity. That said, I had read that article before and hadn't grasped it fully. Reading it again-brilliant! Most excellent job.

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  5. Look to pirates for guidance in this matter. Pirate captains were voted into power and then ruled like, well, a captain. But, if the group didn't like it they voted in a new captain and the old one walked the plank.

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    1. Just like most ( at least early ) War Of Northern Aggression leaders. The voted in part, not the plank part :)

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    2. The age of pirates is actually quite interesting once you get away from the fictional parts. The reason piracy was shut down was because it was a way for ordinary go-getters to make serious money without owning land.

      Like the age of cowboys it was only a brief moment in history but the romance lives on today

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