Comments on: Zombie Hunger

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:44:52 +0000

Sorry, that was a weak joke, formulated in brain-scrambled T-shirt design mode.

By: Psykonomist

Psykonomist — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:24:07 +0000

I don’t see how further “balkanization” (political subdivision along more culturally similar lines) isn’t inevitable across the globe, but most immediately in the US. This is, of course, not necessarily a reaction against open borders, but rather against closed borders that are too encompassing.

By: James A. Donald

James A. Donald — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:04:07 +0000

Hope

A more likely outcome is a mixture of despotism and anarcho piratism

By: VXXC

VXXC — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:19:38 +0000

You gotta be prepared.

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By: VXXC

VXXC — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:18:15 +0000

Admin these were the Zombies, Iraqi Security Forces.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:43:42 +0000

Zombies don’t duck.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:41:39 +0000

Is that prediction or advocacy?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:21:15 +0000

Orderly decentralization would be nice, but it doesn’t look overwhelmingly probable. History is made by chaos and ignorance rather than rational planning. Realism requires the acknowledgement of that dire fact, doesn’t it?

The trouble with the ‘sympathy’ point — which I am not instinctively averse to — is that at the point of historical decision, it is rare for any of the agencies who are effective enough to matter to merit much intellectual sympathy. Unless you have an example of a significant historical contest in which the role of reason was other than:
(a) Subordinate technical support (as Hume expects), or
(b) A marginal spectator
?

By: James A. Donald

James A. Donald — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:53:47 +0000

I don’t think it is a “disintegration” within the reactionary camp: Rather, I see a future reactionary regime as a balanced regime with elements of aristocracy, monarchy, democracy, anarcho capitalism, and anarcho piratism, like the society from whence the Vikings came.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:27:22 +0000

There is a tendency for modern systems crash to look like Iraq, or Mexico’s bad parts.

John Robb has done some good work on this theme, it would help if he weren’t so keen on it to wash his conscience about taking money from evil state.

Atavism is a force to be reckoned with in such times, our Atavism might likely be a return to our more natural local self-government. That would indeed be Federalist. There’s also the character of the people.

Duck Army isn’t going to turn into Al-Qaeda in Iraq or Sendero Luminoso. It’s not in their basic character.
Some lessons in Humility might be applied to our Intelligentsia and Snob Classes. There will be inevitable excesses and scores settled. I wouldn’t want to be a known child predator for instance. Vigilantism is merely protecting your neighborhood. Where you live. The American phenomenon isn’t that it once existed, it’s that it exists most places still, that is to say we are exceptional in the wrong way.

I wouldn’t want to be seen continuing to look down on Duck Army. Hint.. It’s not as if our educated geniuses have bought us anything but catastrophic ruin. The elites bought it, not democracy. We’re about as much a democracy as mainland China. Maybe less. China for all it’s faults doesn’t have anti-Chinese government.