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The marketplace of ideas and fake economics slop

FFederalAgent •
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Has anyone else noticed a certain type of content dominating the marketplace of ideas? There’s 2 key features I’ve observed. They always blame our problems on shadowy organizations rather than the masses and extrapolate patterns from 100 years ago (or even longer for real “philosophers”) to fit current events. I’m not as intimately familiar with Curtis Yarvin as some of you are, but I definitely see him fitting the pattern. I’ve never really liked them because they are conspiratorial and assert claims confidently without evidence.

Here’s my commentary for one of the latest slop videos I had the pleasure of watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUUAEemvSE

The economy is over-leveraged

This is probably the most sensible claim in the entire video. This is likely a result of an advanced economy, as credit allows young people to build things. It does appear that a large portion of loans are given out to obvious scammers, though. Subprime lending should probably not exist. He doesn’t address this and blames the elites, who do appear to be dumber than previous generations.

High unemployment rates

The figure he shows doesn’t even highlight the real issue. It’s well within the norm, and he dishonestly chose to omit the chart with previous years. College grads and white-collar workers have difficulty finding employment partly due to immigration and outsourcing.

US debt

He gets this right by claiming most of the debt is actually just owed to old peo…

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Leon Voss •
#25

They always blame our problems on shadowy organizations rather than the masses

DSM diagnosed narcissists are known for blaming others for their own bad outcomes. So of course the proles blame some cabal for their own failures. Almost everyone is a narcissist, DSM ones are just a little worse and a little less into hiding it, because everyone evolved to be selfish, and dumber people have more to compensate for, so obviously self-aggrandizing claims which blame a shadowy Other for bad outcomes will be more popular than self-criticizing claims that blame the viewer, their family, their friends, and their neighbors for bad outcomes. And the least popular self-criticizing claims will be ones that criticize the deepest, the ones that criticize the very essence, the genetic makeup, of the viewer. The claim that says “not only do you suck, you can’t change it. It’s how you were born.” They would rather here how other people suck (the Trilateral commission, the President, etc) than hear about how they themselves have to “do better”, and they will never entertain the full truth.

Real solutions (eugenics, encouraging early pairing and breeding, abolishing high school) just aren’t popular with the masses. They demand the government perform magic tricks and fixate on commodities

I was going to do a thread on this article tomorrow. Relevant part to this:

Besides Calvinists nobody likes determinism, nobody likes stuff to be written and unchangeable. Everything is set up at birth? How depressing is that? Everybody wants to think they have a change to make it big if they only stop drinking or whatever. You know what sells? Education. Oh that sells.

Because they’re narcissists, they don’t want eugenics. Eugenics requires altruism. It says their descendants can benefit, but their own generation is hopeless. Only through the self-sacrifice of the shittiest people reproductively and politically can eugenics lead to prosperity. Commodity fetishism promises that they can partake in improvements if the government just does a trick with the oil or the gold or whatever. Education promises that they can become smarter and higher status and have a better job.

A. Smith •
#50

They are always blaming our problems on vague collectives. Those fuckers.

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