Comments on: Singapore

By: Lightning Round – 2015/01/14 | Free Northerner

Lightning Round – 2015/01/14 | Free Northerner — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 06:03:18 +0000

[…] Singapore works. […]

By: Y.Ilan

Y.Ilan — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 18:55:00 +0000

“Children are a huge financial and opportunity cost for the Working Class and up…”

Rationally, for a self-centered actor whose main care is his own personal prosperity, this line of thinking makes sense. Yet middle-class families here in Israel still aim for three/four children, even though the price of living here is very high. So, the main difference probably lies in the level of individualistic atomization/the importance of family life between societies. I would say that individuals here are rewarded by being considered “successful” for having big, nice families.

By: Alan J. Perrick

Alan J. Perrick — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:37:36 +0000

No, it isn’t sustainable. But, maybe something could be gained from it, still?

It isn’t likely though.

A.J.P.

By: This Week in Reaction (2014/01/09) | The Reactivity Place

This Week in Reaction (2014/01/09) | The Reactivity Place — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 03:50:24 +0000

[…] Something tells me it’s high time #NRx had an honest and open conversation about Singapore, love it or hate it or both. Nick Land gets started on an outline. […]

By: VXXC

VXXC — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:14:55 +0000

@Erebus,

Things will change and get worse, then sooner or later get better. It’s the end of an era is all. It’s not the end of the World [hopefully]. Now there will be blood, wars and so on.

For just security reasons I can only recommend – sorry – blood and soil and indeed family/community ties during the initial adjustments and shocks.

Now as things after being unsettled either are resolved, or settle into a predictable pattern of conflict or conflicts then you can pick up the old contacts/business and so on.

I can recommend a history = The Great Sea by David Abulafia There is much to learn for you Sir frankly in any history of Mediterranean Trade from ancient times to at least 100 years into the discovery of the New World – when Trade moved to the Broader Oceans.

By: Erebus

Erebus — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 04:43:55 +0000

I understand what you’re saying about economic ties. Although my business interests are headquartered in Hong Kong, and although most of the equipment and raw materials we receive come in from Germany and China, respectively, the very vast majority of our customers are located in the USA. The UK is a distant second place. I’m trying to balance things out by focusing on domestic Chinese sales (e.g. to the extremely large Chinese academic community) but that’s a hard row to hoe.

My question to you is: If not here, then where? Let’s assume that everything you’re saying shall come to pass. Global Argentina. Would I be better off in the post-collapse USA, the UK, or elsewhere? My own stance can only be one of watchful pragmatism. I can merely do my best to pilot my boat through whatever troubled waters it encounters. Today, my primary concern is the corporate tax rate & government regulation of the industries I work in. Tomorrow, it might be security, or a stable currency. Today, Hong Kong is the place I call home. Tomorrow, it might be whatever other place suits me — and, indeed, I could move to Monaco, London, or Tokyo within a month if I so desired. Blut und boden eth-nats can’t think too highly of this sort of approach — but you must admit that it’s practical, if nothing else.

…In any case, I’ll be sure to enjoy the popcorn. Thanks for that.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:32:46 +0000

The various flavors of nationalism that adopt the label “NRx” aren’t especially ambiguous or ideological though. Furthermore, nationalisms often purport to be anti- or non-ideological.

By: Aeroguy

Aeroguy — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 22:41:48 +0000

To make it work as intended it would be as easy as removing suffrage from woman. Not something that can be accomplished within the system until it’s too late. I could see them ban them from work in the context of government giving them all an income, technically it would improve the birthrate, but at the price of favoring r selection. Think about it, women hate betas, the last thing they want to do is have sex with betas. Patriarchy is all about getting the majority of women to have sex exclusively with a beta (unless you think most husbands can be trained into accomplished practitioners of LTR game, though with the right institutions in place inherent betaness can be mollified). Given the choice between civilization and never having sex with alphas, they’d have to think about it. Sure it’s possible to ignore woman’s opinion and implement it anyway, but doing so would necessarily involve overturning the existing political system.

By: A.B Prosper

A.B Prosper — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 22:17:20 +0000

Well true enough Rob but there will be families and people those tribes, Pashtun, Dari others will be scratching out a living in the rocky pest hole, practicing their faith raising their kids to be like them and passing on their memes.

I’m not so sure Singapore will

By: Bryce Laliberte

Bryce Laliberte — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:19:12 +0000

Of course it would be.

But it’d be much easier if the threat of K-death could be made more imminent.