A recent new data point came out, showing that workforce participation had reached a new low of 63%, the lowest it's been since 1979, the height of Carter's screwing up of the economy. More importantly, 63% represents the lowest workforce participation rate since women seriously started joining the marketplace. Since many women chose to stay at home and raise kids during the baby boom generation, the workforce participation rate was kept artificially low compared to the strength of the economy in the past. But now that all women are trying to find a job, a 63% workforce participation rate means exactly what it seems to mean in this economy today -- 37% of workers simply can't find jobs.
Economists keep throwing useless 'unemployment' numbers around, and hilariously say only 7% of Americans are unemployed today. In fact, only 38% of Americans actually have jobs, and 62% are unemployed. If you don't include young people or seniors (which is odd because young people and seniors used to have jobs in the past, so it's already artificial to exclude them when looking at how well your economy is providing jobs for everyone), you get the workforce participation rate's numbers, ie, 37% unemployment. It is simply a lie to say unemployment is 7% in America. It's ridiculous, and relies on stupid and contrived definitions to hide the truth about America today.
Despite America reaching record unemployment levels, Washington D.C. thinks this is a good time to increase legal immigration by 50% and give an amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens. This way, we can have 50 million more people enter America and compete for rare jobs that already aren't enough to go around. And no, immigrants are not 'job creators.' Immigrants from Mexico, the vast majority of the proposed illegal and legal immigrants who will be allowed in, have an average IQ of 85, and are only useful as unskilled labor hired by someone else. Around half of these immigrants' children will drop out of high school and maybe ten percent will actually graduate from college. Half of Hispanic children are born out of wedlock and many of those are born to teenage mothers who haven't even left the school system themselves. Far from adding vitality to the economy, they are a huge economic drag as we must spend endless welfare money just to keep these public charges afloat. Hispanics are far less likely than whites to be employed, make far less in wages when they are employed, and are virtually absent from the list of startups or CEO's. The only thing Hispanics excel at compared to whites is their crime rate, which is three times higher than the typical anglo American.
At a time when the economy is already struggling, why would we stuff our country with so many useless mouths that simply compound our already enormous problems? The answer is always liberalism/humanitarianism. Republicans and Democrats alike have bought into the idea that everyone is genetically and culturally equal. According to their philosophy, the only thing that matters is state institutions. If the education system, the law code, the tax code, the budget, the courts, etc, are all running smoothly, then the people who are born into the system will all automatically become good, productive, equally competent individuals. If any individual fails anywhere this is a signal that we must reform our system until the problem inside the institution is fixed. Typically, the answer to every single problem in America is 'better education.' Sometimes other reforms are added, like changing the tax code or the budget. Republicans and Democrats fight bitterly about how institutions could be improved, but they both agree that the only thing that can possibly be bad in this country is our institutions and the only thing that ever needs to be changed is our institutions. The idea that individuals at the street level are determining their own destiny is beyond the pale.
We cannot say that genetics dooms various groups to failure while propelling other groups to success. No matter how many nobel prize winners come from the tiny state of Israel, we must accept that this is due to the 'vitality of an immigrant friendly environment,' when not a single Mexican immigrant to America has won a similar nobel prize. No matter how obvious the difference between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, we must say this is due to French debt collectors who oppressed Haiti hundreds of years ago. If something is wrong in a country, it is due to a bad king who had a bad law a thousand years ago, it can never, ever be the fault of the people who actually live there right now.
Likewise, we cannot say that culture matters. If we say that Islam teaches people bad things that leads them to become bad people, we're beyond the pale. Islam, you see, is whatever we make of it. Since all cultures can be interpreted in a 'positive way,' all cultures are inherently equal. No matter what mothers teach their kids while sitting on their lap, it's all equal, or at least can all be made forcefully equal with the correct state institutions in place. Basically, culture is meaningless so long as we, the masters of the universe, control the education system, because via education we can teach people whatever we like. In this way, liberalism doesn't say "Islam is bad and must be abolished." Instead, it says "good public education is a human right and must be implemented everywhere, especially for women." Functionally, their goal is to replace the culture of Islam with their own postmodern Western culture, but they term it in such a way that this never crosses their minds. You see, they aren't teaching a culture, they're just teaching obviously true facts. To their mind, all cultures are equal because they're all ludicrously false in the face of postmodernism, the only true reality of this world. Even talking about cultures, those obsolete relics of the barbarian ages, is a waste of time. Talk about how we need to improve our culture is like talking about how to appease the Sun God in order to have more bountiful harvests. What this world needs now isn't better cultures, it is simply more education. Once people are exposed enough to the obvious facts and truths of this world, all cultures will be banished like a bad dream.
If culture can be easily corrected by good institutions and good education, and genetics are all inherently equal, then it doesn't matter who people are or where they came from. Everyone is just an interchangeable unit that can be freely shaped by the powers of the state into an ideal productive mold. It is certainly a shame that Mexican immigrants haven't been performing as well as we had hoped, but this just means we must continue to reform our institutions until they do succeed. It certainly doesn't mean we should rethink issues like immigration. It's obvious that the more immigrants we have the better because everyone has the potential to be the next Einstein. In fact, the very fact that Mexicans are performing badly is currently being attributed to their illegality. In other words, under liberal logic, it is precisely because we are making immigrants 'hide in the shadows' that they are performing poorly, and the answer to Mexican under-performance is to totally relax our immigration policies and legalize all of them. Only then can they escape the scourge of discrimination and reach their true potential, which must be exactly equal to our own. This same argument is used concerning gays. When straights point out that gays have high mortality rates, high drug use rates, high depression rates, high suicide rates, promiscuous relationships, etc -- liberals explain that this is precisely why we need to reform our institutions that discriminate against gays.
What would ordinarily be statistical evidence proving the need to discriminate to a common sense person serves as the exact opposite for the liberal. Any evidence of a disparity between groups has already been ruled out as a function of the individuals themselves, philosophically. Therefore, if there's evidence of a disparity it must be because of the very law discriminating against them. To say, "Gays would cheapen the value of marriage because they are not monogamous nor do they stay together in long term relationships," is turned around exactly on its head by liberal thinkers. Instead, it goes like this, "Because gays are unfairly not allowed to marry by our institutions, they end up cheating on each other and breaking up too soon. The poor victims!"
It's rather funny how useless evidence is due to logic like this. It turns out that any fact can be interpreted in two, polar opposite ways, thus lending justification to exactly opposite sides of every issue. As far as I know, the only way to prove your point empirically is to give the other side total power to shape the institutions however they please, for as long as they want to overcome any 'legacies' they can dream of, and the problem to still be intractable. Of course, this leads to your whole country collapsing like the Soviet Union did, but at least it once and for all disproved communism. After eighty years of complete and total rule, where you could kill tens of millions of people for not going along with the institutional programs set up by the almighty Communist Party and ruthlessly stamp out any interference with the implementation of any conceivable plan, the 'institutionalists' had to admit that they had simply been wrong. What was wrong with the USSR wasn't because the right state reforms hadn't been implemented yet -- it was because they were the wrong state reforms. Now, the whole world over, virtually everyone agrees that the USSR is not a model for institutional reform. The only way to disprove other hare brained liberal schemes is to follow the exact same course:
Let the liberals conquer the world, let them drive it into ruin for 80 years, and let them kill tens of millions of dissenters for 'getting in their way.' Then, once the liberals themselves are satisfied that they've tried everything and it still doesn't work, they might just listen to the reasoning of the opposing side. But so long as we interfere with their total rule and total power, they'll always have the easily available excuse that we are the problem instead of their own ideas. Unfortunately all the USSR proved is that that particular institutional model was false. It did not disprove the idea that institutions in general are the driving force of history. To prove that genetics and secondarily culture are what makes or breaks an individual or a group, we must wait until the 'institutions' faction has tried every single imaginable set of laws and education reforms and tax codes and spending codes. We must weather every fad and every new idea, until they are intellectually bankrupt. Only after trying every single idea out for as long as they like and still not producing results, will they ever be willing to stop and listen to the other side.
Since persuasion is impossible until these people have had their way, it's useless trying to persuade anyone at this historical moment to change their minds. Rather than preventing this new immigration disaster, we should just let it happen. Let all of it happen. Gay marriage, gun bans, 99% taxes, unisex bathrooms, whatever they want to try next. They won't give up until they get their way anyway, and since they are the vast majority, it's impossible to overrule their foolish fancies. For the tiny minority of people who realize state institutions are not the panacea to the human soul, they need to build an alternate society outside the reach of the crazed majority. The best solution would be spaceflight. Simply leave Earth and take up roots somewhere else, far away from all the idiots who currently rule. Also, we could set up communities in international waters that don't belong to anyone right now, and thus finally be free of their laws. Floating ship-cities are not beyond our technological abilities at this point. But if people aren't brave enough to try such pioneering activities, going 'Galt' is the only way. Take up a trivial position in the current system, contribute as little as possible to society without getting into trouble with society, maximize the amount of free time you have to yourself, and spend it with your family building a completely different spiritual abode. As Jesus said, wherever two hearts gather and pray together, there is a Church. A church of sanity can be found wherever two people who dissent from liberalism gather together. If they take shelter with each other and have children together, the community can grow exponentially. Teach your children that genetics and culture matters, not institutions, with all the readily available luminaries of Greco/Roman and Enlightenment times. Point them to the example of Japan's homogeneity and their art and entertainment instead of the multicultural lovefests in American TV and Hollywood. Show one face to the outside world and another to the people you trust, and live free.
In eighty or eight hundred years, liberalism will also collapse, because nothing founded on a lie can succeed for long. At that time, your descendants can emerge from the shadows and lead the way to a new, better society once more. But as a tiny, powerless, and hated minority, confrontations now serve no purpose at all. Like C3PO advised, sometimes it's best to just let the Wookie win.
No comments:
Post a Comment