Notes on anti-Christ, pt. 2
I'm leaving some links here that I feel mesh with the theme of the obsolete human. This post will be updated.
"The New Housing Market Premium" – Ben Carlson
Some facts and figures from Derek’s excellent piece:74% of all restaurant traffic is takeout or delivery (up from 61% pre-Covid)The share of people have dinner or drinks with friends on any given night has declined by more than 30% in the past 20 years.Adults now spend an additional 99 minutes at home on any given day compared with 2000
(Ghost as an editor sucks. Very hard to use, so I'm switching to Obsidian to do my writing. If anyone at Ghost is reading, your editor sucks.)
I think Covid only solidified the trend that was already well-established. I made the decision to leave the city in 2014 when I realized that there was nothing there in terms of people, that I was paying higher costs for the sake of a job that could be done remotely. I literally only knew people from work and only ever work. The other people I met were from online dating sites or meet up groups and no lasting relationships were formed. In general, the more exposure I had to people, the less I wanted to be around them (unless they were co-workers). Oddly, the sense of a shared mission made the relationships enjoyable and welcome. It's become normal now to admit that socializing is unpleasant for most people, including unrepentant extroverts.
Japan's aging problem is every techno society's imminent aging problem. Japan is just further along, blazing a trail as it were. You know humans are obsolete when they not only stop making more of themselves, but also don't care when the consequences are laid out.
AI is the only solution; either it succeeds very soon or we see euthanasia become mandatory, deep cuts in social benefits or an accelerated collapse in Western economies. Cutting benefits isn't going to handle the number of elderly who hang on for years eating cat food however.
Tyler Durden
This Chesterton quote reflects an older idea that was found in Catholic social thought. The modern Church focuses more on LGBT and climate change now, having I think tacitly ceded its supernatural claims. It functions as little more than an appendage to the globalist blob of NGOs, activists, corporations, oligarchical fronts like WEF.
It took me many years to realize something hippies already knew, namely, that the Church and state are always linked. The Church is handmaiden to the zeitgeist.
Religious types and social conservatives (generally the same) have pointed at the West's loss of faith in Yahweh as the cause for its social decline. Nihilism is also fingered, but the problem of technology is omitted because it is seen as a gift, a liberator which feeds, heals and entertains us.
A man living in a techno society who has a little disposable cash can spend it on video games and get lost in a virtual reality, living a better version of himself with perhaps a group of online pals. He will never have enough money to have a wife and children. Techno societies do have a short window in which it is attainable, but technology is always advancing, finding new ways to move labor to cheaper areas of the globe; or replacing expensive workers with indentured servants (H1-B) in their own backyard. The post-World War II was in America only a 25-30 year period in which a man, liberated from his rural farm, could raise a prosperous family by selling his labor to another.
Whenever we think of a golden age caused by technology, we look back to this very small window in time that was for America the fruit of many millions lost to war. The orderly, happy world of 1950s and 60s tv shows in which there was prosperity, where house working was becoming less tedious and involved, was extremely short lived as capital had already begun planning the transfer of middle class wealth into its own pockets.
Is it just me or does it sound really odd that while the "silver tsunami" is being discussed, the number of good paying jobs has gotten even worse than it was several years ago? The gig economy was a thing before Covid, but as more and more elderly people begin retiring, there is no way to fund the national pension plans using tax revenues from Uber drivers and YouTube content creators. The logic of the "services economy" from the 1990s is low paid workers who will own nussink and will be anything but happy in a conventional sense. Bankruptcy and reset are on the horizon with everything in full churn by 2028.
One would expect with so many Boomers retiring each day that slots would be opening up... that's not happening.
Here's a VLOG on the death of marriage by YouTuber Large Man Abroad. It's become so noticeable, the death of interaction between the sexes. Pearl Davis has remarked on this exciting feature of Western civilization as well.
