Americanization of UK Political Culture, Poland Hemmed in on All Sides, ESG as Corporate PR Bullshit, Shoving Nerds Into Lockers, Chad Shkreli and the Journo
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Jul 2, 2022·edited Jul 2, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
I often think of George Friedman's 90s era predictions that, by roughly our current decade, the four major powers of the world would be the USA, Japan, Turkey, and Poland. He also predicted that both Russia and China would collapse and split up by now, thus neutering them as international actors of any significance.
Pretty easy, in retrospect, to laugh at these predictions because of how far off the mark they are in hindsight. At the same time, I don't really think Friedman is a *complete* moron--in particular, the notion that Poland had the potential to become a major military and economic force in the world isn't implausible. Maybe in an alternate timeline in which NATO had fallen apart and the EU had stayed in a smaller corner, a Visegrad alliance led by the Poles could have fulfilled Friedman's prediction. Perhaps they'll come to regret missing their chance to go for gold in order to become an American client state; assuming they don't regret it already.
Another excellent column. With so much contained therein, I'll respond to a common theme (through so much of your writing): the Americanization of _______, (where ______ could be Canada, the UK, or most any other country in the world). And I can't help thinking of that mid-1960s movie, "The Americanization of Emily", which takes place in WWII London. Briefly, USN LtCmdr Charlie Madison (James Garner), whose job is to provide women and other things for senior-level US military officers, falls in love with Emily (Julie Andrews). In one scene, she asks, "Am I behaving like a whore?" Charlie replies, "Whoring is a peacetime activity." How would Winston Churchill have answered? de Gaulle? Other European leaders? Asian? Is it sufficient to say that today's world is forever in a state of war(whore), and leave it at that?
I've lived and worked in Asia and have been all over Canada and the U.S. Unfortunately was never able to make it to Europe or other areas. That changed a few years ago: I went to Stockholm for a few days on business. The people I met were gracious, hospitable, thoughtful, witty, articulate while also having a genuine quality. I was surprised, however, how caught up they were with the detailed minutiae of American political life: the politics of the political celebrity and all the trash info that stems form that outlook. Living in Canada makes this experience inevitable; I hadn't realized that the power of the celeb culture extended so deeply into more distant regions.
Always struck me as the epitome of a Nerd. A trash-talking, conspiring, law-breaking Nerd, but a Nerd.
He's the Nerds, after college, when their nerdy computer skills have earned them millions, they live in a mansion with a pool, drive a Lamborghini, and dim-witted blonde journalists throw themselves at the rich nerds.
Strategic success then for 🇺🇸 as regards Europe. Europe shall be ours , not China’s. Certainly not Europe’s either. The Russians return to their classic role as the brooding Centaur in the forest * and 🇺🇸 shall SQUEEZE its Satrapies to buy our oil, our LNG, our weapons.
SQUEEZE Raban, I need revenue.
Oh where is Feyd when you need him? (Dune).
*do watch White Tiger, in particular Hitler’s reveries, - let me help-
Europe fell in 1945.
For it to even think of being Europe again, DC will have to fall.
Then again for America to be American again DC will have to fall.
control the media and you can control the narrative... it seems all those ap, reuters and api wire services are doing the trick, like they do here in canada... it is quite depressing actually how easiy duped people who read the msm are... i suspect this is what is happening in europe as well, although i can't verify being here in canada... thanks for your article..
Lots of idiots in our Global Village. A good description of many of them, but by no means all.
Being American, I can’t wrap my head around “Your Worship.” Did they really say that?
“Constable” I could get used to. Do woke Canadians now paint “Defund the Constables” on the streets of Ottawa when they riot?
My grandfather was born in Poland but the family got him out. He thought it was Russia. The Russians did too, actually. Europeans are so weird and gullible. They actually think that Joe Biden is President of the USA.
This transhumanism stuff is hype, and nothing more. Hive mind?
Hyperreality.
Disneyland.
But I’ve always been a nerd, and they never pushed ME into a locker. Perhaps because the extent of my tech skills is writing a Substack which nobody reads.
Tomorrow the world? No thanks. I’m still saving up to fill my gas tank.
Jul 3, 2022·edited Jul 3, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
ESG (the application of woke to economic policy) is essential for the current wave of social engineering.
The most powerful achievement of ESG to date has just been accomplished. Congress recently passed a new law that requires the Federal Reserve to take account of racial disparities in all its activities.
The implications for the US class structure should be self-evident.
“IQ is correlated with all positive life outcomes” - guy who has literally had no positive life outcomes.
A 115IQ Chad adds way more social value than a 160IQ braincel, debate me faggots!
When I was young I used to be hard “R” HBD, muh IQ supremacist, then at 16 I went through a growth spurt, reached 6’3, gained 12 kilos of meat slabs in 6 months and got my dick sucked for the first time. Ever since then my life was litty, and I’ve been adamant in dispelling nerd culture and it’s poisonous fruit.
Most HBD basement dwellers are lucky they barely get out of their mom’s house otherwise me and the boys would be pummelling you with with your statistics textbook.
Oh how far the Tories of Britain have fallen. It's so cringey to hear talk of separation of powers and presidents. I'm somewhat convinced that the left wing in this country make for a better anti-American force. They're certainly more hawkish on seeing the NHS sold in bits to US firms, for example. Although they do buy into moronic causes like #BLM.
The Atlanticists swallowed their own kool-aid. The Tories purged their ranks of those who were sceptical of the US long, long ago, thereby preventing anything like an English version of Gaullism from developing. After Suez the Tories have always insisted on leaders being in-line with Washington.
The one potential Tory leader who was explicitly unenthusiastic about the US, Enoch Powell, became obnoxious to Washington when he was shadow defense secretary. Powell rubbished the conventional thinking on the Cold War, arguing that the interventionist foreign and defense policies of the UK and US were counterproductive. He even sunk proposals for the UK to send troops to Vietnam. The US fifth column got its revenge when he made the famous 'rivers of blood speech' (which was more than just a call for immigration restrictions, but also a plea to prevent the Americanisation of British law by adopting US-style restrictions on freedoms of speech and association).
The British Labour Party retained a viable degree of scepticism towards Washington for a while. Harold Wilson was certainly keenly distrusted by Washington. He was a great believer in improving relations with Russia, firmly Zionist (at a time when the US/Israel friendship was relatively new and very fragile, attracting lots of opposition from the CIA and the State Dep't) and, worst of all, a great believer in the need to reinvigorate British manufacturing. Wilson was actively undermined by the UK intelligence services in what amounted to a silent coup. Since Wilson no British leader has been anything but a creature of the US.
Further to my comments a moment ago, I'd say that Thatcher was a turning point. She completed the Americanisation by suppressing both the unions and the pro-manufacturing set within her party (Hesseltine etc), killed off what was left of the old genteel banking culture with the so-called Big Bang, empowered Murdoch and disrupted key national institutions (above all local government, which in England went back to Viking times in some areas). Thatcher also created the quango-state, putting her on par with LBJ as one of the great modern sponsors of institutionalised corruption.
Maybe you could interview Ed Dutton, the Jolly Heretic? He’s just released a book called Spiteful Mutants, possibly the best title ever — after your own newsletter of course. Some crossover potential there, I’d guess. Dutton can explain why there is no such thing as lesbians, why high iq nerds are an invention of Hollywood, why informatics beats intuition, among other things.
Americanisation inured people to the realities of the pax Americana. Were the political culture to remain an unreconstructed and entirely British affair it would not be possible to ignore the painful realities of lost territory, power and prestige. The post-imperial or second Elizabethan age has been one of national decline, deracination, the collapse of the national religion and political subordination to an alien power. This is bearable only because the sensibilities fostered by the old culture have been replaced by new ones formed by the infotainment and culture of the imperial overlord. The old culture was imperial, self-consciously Protestant and tied to ways of life that no longer exist. If retained, this culture would have impeded the efficient absorption of the UK into the US empire. Advanced to a sufficient degree (as it is with the young) Americanisation wipes the slate clean.
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I often think of George Friedman's 90s era predictions that, by roughly our current decade, the four major powers of the world would be the USA, Japan, Turkey, and Poland. He also predicted that both Russia and China would collapse and split up by now, thus neutering them as international actors of any significance.
Pretty easy, in retrospect, to laugh at these predictions because of how far off the mark they are in hindsight. At the same time, I don't really think Friedman is a *complete* moron--in particular, the notion that Poland had the potential to become a major military and economic force in the world isn't implausible. Maybe in an alternate timeline in which NATO had fallen apart and the EU had stayed in a smaller corner, a Visegrad alliance led by the Poles could have fulfilled Friedman's prediction. Perhaps they'll come to regret missing their chance to go for gold in order to become an American client state; assuming they don't regret it already.
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Another excellent column. With so much contained therein, I'll respond to a common theme (through so much of your writing): the Americanization of _______, (where ______ could be Canada, the UK, or most any other country in the world). And I can't help thinking of that mid-1960s movie, "The Americanization of Emily", which takes place in WWII London. Briefly, USN LtCmdr Charlie Madison (James Garner), whose job is to provide women and other things for senior-level US military officers, falls in love with Emily (Julie Andrews). In one scene, she asks, "Am I behaving like a whore?" Charlie replies, "Whoring is a peacetime activity." How would Winston Churchill have answered? de Gaulle? Other European leaders? Asian? Is it sufficient to say that today's world is forever in a state of war(whore), and leave it at that?
I've lived and worked in Asia and have been all over Canada and the U.S. Unfortunately was never able to make it to Europe or other areas. That changed a few years ago: I went to Stockholm for a few days on business. The people I met were gracious, hospitable, thoughtful, witty, articulate while also having a genuine quality. I was surprised, however, how caught up they were with the detailed minutiae of American political life: the politics of the political celebrity and all the trash info that stems form that outlook. Living in Canada makes this experience inevitable; I hadn't realized that the power of the celeb culture extended so deeply into more distant regions.
Shkreli is a "Chad"??!!
Always struck me as the epitome of a Nerd. A trash-talking, conspiring, law-breaking Nerd, but a Nerd.
He's the Nerds, after college, when their nerdy computer skills have earned them millions, they live in a mansion with a pool, drive a Lamborghini, and dim-witted blonde journalists throw themselves at the rich nerds.
Strategic success then for 🇺🇸 as regards Europe. Europe shall be ours , not China’s. Certainly not Europe’s either. The Russians return to their classic role as the brooding Centaur in the forest * and 🇺🇸 shall SQUEEZE its Satrapies to buy our oil, our LNG, our weapons.
SQUEEZE Raban, I need revenue.
Oh where is Feyd when you need him? (Dune).
*do watch White Tiger, in particular Hitler’s reveries, - let me help-
Europe fell in 1945.
For it to even think of being Europe again, DC will have to fall.
Then again for America to be American again DC will have to fall.
https://youtu.be/Tou5pH33Q2k
control the media and you can control the narrative... it seems all those ap, reuters and api wire services are doing the trick, like they do here in canada... it is quite depressing actually how easiy duped people who read the msm are... i suspect this is what is happening in europe as well, although i can't verify being here in canada... thanks for your article..
Lots of idiots in our Global Village. A good description of many of them, but by no means all.
Being American, I can’t wrap my head around “Your Worship.” Did they really say that?
“Constable” I could get used to. Do woke Canadians now paint “Defund the Constables” on the streets of Ottawa when they riot?
My grandfather was born in Poland but the family got him out. He thought it was Russia. The Russians did too, actually. Europeans are so weird and gullible. They actually think that Joe Biden is President of the USA.
This transhumanism stuff is hype, and nothing more. Hive mind?
Hyperreality.
Disneyland.
But I’ve always been a nerd, and they never pushed ME into a locker. Perhaps because the extent of my tech skills is writing a Substack which nobody reads.
Tomorrow the world? No thanks. I’m still saving up to fill my gas tank.
ESG (the application of woke to economic policy) is essential for the current wave of social engineering.
The most powerful achievement of ESG to date has just been accomplished. Congress recently passed a new law that requires the Federal Reserve to take account of racial disparities in all its activities.
The implications for the US class structure should be self-evident.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-woke-mandate-for-the-federal-reserve-racial-equity-congress-house-joe-biden-11655659047
“IQ is correlated with all positive life outcomes” - guy who has literally had no positive life outcomes.
A 115IQ Chad adds way more social value than a 160IQ braincel, debate me faggots!
When I was young I used to be hard “R” HBD, muh IQ supremacist, then at 16 I went through a growth spurt, reached 6’3, gained 12 kilos of meat slabs in 6 months and got my dick sucked for the first time. Ever since then my life was litty, and I’ve been adamant in dispelling nerd culture and it’s poisonous fruit.
Most HBD basement dwellers are lucky they barely get out of their mom’s house otherwise me and the boys would be pummelling you with with your statistics textbook.
Oh how far the Tories of Britain have fallen. It's so cringey to hear talk of separation of powers and presidents. I'm somewhat convinced that the left wing in this country make for a better anti-American force. They're certainly more hawkish on seeing the NHS sold in bits to US firms, for example. Although they do buy into moronic causes like #BLM.
The Atlanticists swallowed their own kool-aid. The Tories purged their ranks of those who were sceptical of the US long, long ago, thereby preventing anything like an English version of Gaullism from developing. After Suez the Tories have always insisted on leaders being in-line with Washington.
The one potential Tory leader who was explicitly unenthusiastic about the US, Enoch Powell, became obnoxious to Washington when he was shadow defense secretary. Powell rubbished the conventional thinking on the Cold War, arguing that the interventionist foreign and defense policies of the UK and US were counterproductive. He even sunk proposals for the UK to send troops to Vietnam. The US fifth column got its revenge when he made the famous 'rivers of blood speech' (which was more than just a call for immigration restrictions, but also a plea to prevent the Americanisation of British law by adopting US-style restrictions on freedoms of speech and association).
The British Labour Party retained a viable degree of scepticism towards Washington for a while. Harold Wilson was certainly keenly distrusted by Washington. He was a great believer in improving relations with Russia, firmly Zionist (at a time when the US/Israel friendship was relatively new and very fragile, attracting lots of opposition from the CIA and the State Dep't) and, worst of all, a great believer in the need to reinvigorate British manufacturing. Wilson was actively undermined by the UK intelligence services in what amounted to a silent coup. Since Wilson no British leader has been anything but a creature of the US.
Further to my comments a moment ago, I'd say that Thatcher was a turning point. She completed the Americanisation by suppressing both the unions and the pro-manufacturing set within her party (Hesseltine etc), killed off what was left of the old genteel banking culture with the so-called Big Bang, empowered Murdoch and disrupted key national institutions (above all local government, which in England went back to Viking times in some areas). Thatcher also created the quango-state, putting her on par with LBJ as one of the great modern sponsors of institutionalised corruption.
Maybe you could interview Ed Dutton, the Jolly Heretic? He’s just released a book called Spiteful Mutants, possibly the best title ever — after your own newsletter of course. Some crossover potential there, I’d guess. Dutton can explain why there is no such thing as lesbians, why high iq nerds are an invention of Hollywood, why informatics beats intuition, among other things.
Americanisation inured people to the realities of the pax Americana. Were the political culture to remain an unreconstructed and entirely British affair it would not be possible to ignore the painful realities of lost territory, power and prestige. The post-imperial or second Elizabethan age has been one of national decline, deracination, the collapse of the national religion and political subordination to an alien power. This is bearable only because the sensibilities fostered by the old culture have been replaced by new ones formed by the infotainment and culture of the imperial overlord. The old culture was imperial, self-consciously Protestant and tied to ways of life that no longer exist. If retained, this culture would have impeded the efficient absorption of the UK into the US empire. Advanced to a sufficient degree (as it is with the young) Americanisation wipes the slate clean.