The world is so full of nonsense

I give you “modern horror of the day” :

There literally won’t be words in existence for the expression of my disgust if rumors of Xbox One automatically charging used game buyers a fee to play their discs turn out to be true.

If there literally aren’t words for how disgusted you will be when you run into a consumer product issue, then I do wonder what happens when people around you die. I suspect you are too thoroughly a modern retard to even consider it. Yes, I know – I should stop using Facebook because its so shock-full of crap. But as an anthropological experiment, its invaluable. I would like to see these people doing real work for one single minute of their lives. And no, I don’t mean the kind of pathetic white-collar bullshit we all work, I mean REAL work as in things that actually make you tired.

What I find most disheartening with the world we live in is that words are losing all their meaning – after faith they are destroying reason, after reason they will destroy language, and after that we will just be a bunch of monkeys past our prime and the clock will be turned back ten thousand years or so.

But that wasn’t what I was going to write about, actually. I was going to recommend a post by the Captain about the corruption of the economics profession. Remember, there is always a good reason to enjoy the decline!

 

 

Daily economist education

Per Bylund wrote a blog post for Mises.se yesterday , about the worst economist in Sweden. You Swedes should go check it out*. He did also link a very interesting article he had written previously in English, explaining the “endowment effect”, namely that we seem to value things we have already bought higher than things we have not yet bought.

For Austrians, of course, this is no mystery at all, but the article is very much worth reading since it in a very simple way explains an interesting topic.

*Those of you still reading – the last couple of years has seen a steady decrease in Swedish readership, matched by an equal increase in American and Canadian readers. Not particularly surprising, since I live in the country of PROPER DEBATES ™. Still though, quite amusing to notice that once I started talking about culture, religion and values, the Swedes got really squamish.

The sex-gender-sociological-marxist-cult turns on itself

And then, when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier, the whole thing collapsed and the leftist-marxist-modernists turned on eachother. Luckily, conservatives worldwide were at this time SOMEWHERE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT and could calmly just not give a shit.

The only thing sadder, and on cynical and not god-fearing days – more hilarious, than people who have a conception of the world so flawed that it probably makes buying toothpaste a terrifying intellectual exercise, is when two or more groups so afflicted turn on each other and start throwing their incoherent worldviews in eachothers faces.

Look, guys, girls, or whatever you all are (I have no freaking clue at this point), allow me to give you some libertarian advice. Let others live their lives the way they wish (most of us straight, middle-class, in your view boring and hetero-normative), and you can go ahead and do whatever it is you do. Let’s all just agree we are different, and locate ourselves in different places and not quarrel.

….No? Now THAT is an interesting answer. What is MORE interesting is that you think your minority position can back up that position in an age where shaming-tactics are about to go offline as the fundaments these are based on (christianity, historical guilt and bourgeoisie ethics) are rapidly disappearing. Tell me, how is it that you think you will get “acceptance” for your choices in life when you will refuse others the same courtesy….?

I will conclude that there is a MASSIVE problem on the horizon, and anyone in the habit of getting in other people’s faces and telling them what to think should PROBABLY start thinking twice before doing that. Just sayin’.

Femen for what they really are

Heard in the comment fields as I posted the Christian women against FEMEN-video

I’m not a Christian, but Jesus, if my choice is between those psycho’s and the christian women, I know which one I’d want.

It is – even for a person living in modernity – hard to find any respect for a group whose only raison d’etre is that they have breasts, can use a marker pen and are willing to use  these fairly rudimentary skills and attributes to offend bourgeoisie sensibilities in a quest to …. something.

I mean, if they really wanted to take the fight were it belongs, might I suggest Saudi Arabia, or Egypt? Oh, right, you would be stoned to death. Better to do it in the Western world were we don’t harm women, even if they are obviously insane and stomp on everything we hold holy. Very brave indeed to run naked among people whose cultural beliefs include that we don’t let harm come to even those we disagree with.

This will stop, however. Because once other women call them for what they are (media prostitutes) and men act accordingly by backing up sound views and values among women, these FEMEN activists will fall to the bottom rungs of the social ladder, where they can hang out with criminals, the criminally stupid and in general welfare-drone low-lifes. And there, they will quickly discover that there is NO ONE who cares about their attempts at offending people. Instead, they will be offered money to do it as a striptease show.

And in the end, they will accept, because it was never about accomplishing anything, and always about their utter incapability do something useful with their lives. If your only asset is that you are born a women (like half the entire world population) and you can swing a marker pen and shout blasphemy – you really should start thinking about your future career prospects. Or prospects for anything, really.

Europe is reacting

This should be of interest to the reactosphere.

(HT@K)

I think its about time I drop what I’m doing and begin reading “Enchiridion militis Christiani” (Handbook of a Christian Soldier) by Erasmus. While we are at it, I suggest we start singing the following.

Onward Christian soldiers

Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.
Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See his banners go!
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.

At the sign of triumph
Satan’s host doth flee;
On, then, Christian soldiers,
On to victory.
Hell’s foundations quiver
At the shout of praise;
Brothers, lift your voices,
Loud your anthems raise.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.

Like a mighty army
Moves the Church of God;
Brothers, we are treading
Where the Saints have trod.
We are not divided;
All one body we:
One in hope and doctrine,
One in charity.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.

Onward, then, ye people;
Join our happy throng.
Blend with ours your voices
In the triumph song:
Glory, laud, and honor
Unto Christ, the King.
This through countless ages
Men and angels sing.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.

(Text: Sabine Baring-Gould)

There, I said it. I’m now officially a Christian lunatic. And you know what? It feels pretty damn great believing in something that at least means something. Modernity can go bleep itself. Femen can go bleep themselves. Cultural marxism, soviet infiltration, CIA propaganda, the overlords in Brussels, the overlords in Washington, and all others who reflexively genuflect at the mentioning of our modern divinities of democracy, consumption and decadence can freaking go bleep themselves.

I’m going marching.

Aurini sums it up

What we are ultimately all against, is the global mind control. The people that manifacture reality, that create marketing and consumerism so you can fill that empty void in your soul by constantly jamming consumer goods inside of it, and pretending that is capitalism.

Those are our enemies. People that hate – hate God, hate the truth, call it what you will. They hate history, they hate beauty. They are terrified of their own mortality, and so they try to manufacture one, they try and live forever, they try to be perpetually young, and try to create a world where they don’t have to be afraid anymore.

Amen to that brother. And I’ll sign off on the fact that there is an increasing number of reactionaries out there. Hell, I’m one of them. This is not something anyone can stop – there are (as a friend of mine said the other day) geological forces at work. This is the reaction not to the last 20 years, nor the last 50 years. Perhaps not even to the last 100 years. Perhaps, this is the reaction to the Jacobin revolution that started 225 years ago next year. If so, then nothing will ever be the same.

It might be just wishful dreaming. As John Derbyshire frequently notes, we are doomed. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean that all of humanity is doomed for all time. And I’ll be an evil reactionary any day if it allows me to salvage some scraps of what remains of our culture and history.

Not to consume it. But to save it for future generations. To allow them to escape the mental black hole of post-modernity. So perhaps there can be truth and history. Beauty, and dare I say – God. I’m working on yet another theory, the same way I always do. It came to me while trying to warm up the motorcycle.

This is a very important article. It tells an important story.

The question remains – did we abandon God so that we could deify ourselves, or did we deify ourselves because we had abandoned God? Modernity is the proverbial golden calf. Consume or die. Politicize everything or die. And the sad truth is, no matter what you all do – you are all going to die. More on this topic in the future. For now, I urge you to tune in to the AuriniTube :

Don’t give up

Slow progress is still progress

Every third session or so I try interval running because jogging is so horrifyingly boring and dull. Since the future is vague, there is probably no better time to get in shape than now. It does wonders for the psyche too.

I am starting to wonder if desk jobs lead to increased suicide rates. It definitely leads to an increase in “sickness-by-atrophy”. When I can comfortably (*cough* it’s never going to be comfortable *cough*) run 5 kilometers I’m going to shift focus back to weights and strength. Hopefully sometime mid-summer.