Realism About the Poor

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The Upper Peninsula does not have roads

It snow

During that summer of 1765, while the assemblies of the different colonies were passing resolutions of protest, the mobs of the patriot party were protesting in another way. It certainly amazed Englishmen to read that the mob in Boston, not content with hanging in effigy the proposed stamp distributors, levelled the office of one of them to the ground and smashed the windows and furniture of his private house; that they destroyed the papers and records of the court of admiralty, sacked the house of the comptroller of customs, and drank themselves drunk with his wines; and, finally, actually proceeded to the house of Lieutenant-Governor Hutchison, who was compelled to flee to save his life. They completely gutted his house, stamped upon the chairs and mahogany tables until they were wrecked, smashed the large, gilt-framed pictures, and tore up all the fruit-trees in his garden. Governor Hutchinson was a native of the province, was its historian, and with his library perished many invaluable historical manuscripts which he had been thirty years collecting. The mob cut open the beds and let the feathers out, which they scattered with his clothes, linen, smashed furniture, and pictures in the street.

That this outrage had been incited the day before by the preaching of the Rev. Dr. Mayhew, a Puritan divine, did not lessen its atrocity in the eyes of Englishmen. He had held forth on the text, “I would they were even cut off which trouble you;” and the mob came very near obeying his instructions literally. A great many respectable citizens were shocked, or appeared to be shocked, at this violence and excess. They held town meetings of abhorrence, a guard was organized to prevent such outrages in the future, and rewards were offered for rioters. But it is quite significant that, although the rioters were well known, as the historians assure us, no one was punished. Two or three were arrested, but were rescued by their friends, and it was found impossible to proceed against them.

- Sydney George Fisher, True History of the American Revolution

One of the most bizarre trends on "the right" is that it has an incredible tendency to praise its past enemies and to contaminate itself with them. The example of this you will all agree with is how the mainstream rate in the US will praise people like Martin Luther King Jr.. More controversially, the right more broadly will praise the Whig US founding fathers. That one is fairly obscured by our modern conception of the history, though. One that really baffles me is how modern dissident right wingers will praise the Irish Republican Army, who were often outright communists. But they were, in some sense, also ethnic nationalists, so le "race is the highest good" crowd are of course terminally confused on the subject.

I wrote this with speech to text while shoveling the snow off my garage's roof. This is realpolitik.

The founding fathers were whigs, and whiggery is evil. It constantly struck at the order that be, pulling it apart, and leaving the world in a fundamentally more chaotic state. Liberalism par excellence.

What do I mean here? The whigs would consistently undermine established authority and traditional social bonds. For example, they targeted Royal authority in favor of the Parliament, they challenged Anglican religious supremacy and authority, pushed for expanding suffrage, pushed for various reforms including the elimination of land ownership or religious tests for voting, supported commercial interests over traditional landed authority, and, perhaps most importantly, elevated things like "liberty" over concrete and traditional social institutions.

Each Whig "victory" — from the Glorious Revolution through Catholic Emancipation and Reform Acts - weakened some existing source of social stability and authority. While Whigs claimed to be defending "ancient liberties," they were actually dissolving the traditional social fabric piece by piece.

Whig emphasis on individual rights, religious tolerance, and commercial freedom helped create a more atomized, unstable society. The Whig tendency to justify political change through appeals to abstract principles like liberty (rather than tradition or divine right) introduced a permanently revolutionary element into politics — there is always some new "reform" needed in the name of liberty, in the name of equality, in the name of progress.

Again, leftism par excellence.

Thus concludes my SPED Talk — "Society Pre-Enlightenment Defense"

If you own a device that can display 4K resolution, you are a lib. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

Kwik Trip gave us a second set of 52 free butters. Neat.

I'm in a bunch of other chats where I've helped people with their gardens and livestock. I let an irl friend borrow equipment to work up a pasture at a place he just bought.

I've been preaching leave the cities for years

Prisoner before execution: “MR. POOR! THATS NOT FAIR! WHAT ABOUT MY RIGHTS?! MY FREEDOMS?!”

Mr. Poor: “I literally have zero idea what you are talking about. Goodbye.”

I like how Google AI perfectly captures the spirit of an annoyed high school freshman answering some inane literature question in his English 1 class.

The Midwest without the vowels

Neat

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Pack it up, fellas, science says morality ain't real

Real. Stop complaining and manage yourself better. If you need guidance, find someone better than yourself who is willing to help.

Uneducated people blame others when they are doing badly. Those whose education is underway blame themselves. But a fully educated person blames no one, neither himself nor anyone else.

- Epictetus, Enchiridion, 5

He who is discontent with things present and allotted is unskilled in life. If this is you, the first step is to admit that you are unskilled and to improve yourself.