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So who else is doing this? Chris would pointedly ask me (and others) "but what are you BUILDING?" What are we? Who in addition to LivingProcess.net is implementing or testing the #PatternLanguage or Form Language with buildings? Great strides are being made, let's advance.
I’m encouraged to see that SOME people (like Mario here) understand what’s going on with cultural rot. Our own actions and values are the only answer - but quoted below, I state my reply to the corrosive, blackpilled worldviews of so-called-men like Isaac Simpson aka @DisgracedProp and his ideological
associate, @Gavin_McInnes .
What bro-backer or government affiliated NGO NFP subsidizes their “magazine” anyway?
The world is already far beyond them and these ex-Vice-fume-huffers don’t know how they’d *benefit* from catching up. Hey @mamamag 2003 called, it wants your cOk3he@d-grifter cynicism back.
Who pays them for that editorial “nudge” they have? I’d LOVE to see public stats on their subscriber demographics and full sponsor/backer transparency - I bet they’d never, ever have the confidence or strength to do that.
As was described very well by Mario - the mothers act this way because they are effectively selling thier daughters to an expectedly wealthy husband by a public display of “hotness” while the fathers have been demoralized into Longhoused passivity.
And Sodom and Gomorrah is the Parsha reading for today… on Halloween during a Mercury AND Venus retrograde . Isn’t THAT a kick in the teeth?
This elite-displaying of daughters (and it is restricted to a social/genetic elite) is exactly one of the ways the white (upper?) middle class of the US is driving this country to third world values and standards of living. And they’d readily accuse *me* of wanting to put women in burkas, which to them does not at all matter that it’s incorrect - because it makes people allied to them treat me like an enemy.
(Contrast these strip club moves and harem-prancing in the original post video with say, the perfectly nice 1950s-1970s cheerleading - very very different and before the 50s, cheerleaders were MEN who would do acrobatics and yell nonsense cheers “sis boom BAH” style)
The audio has been taken down - oddly - but Ayaan Hirsi Ali in April of 2021 discussed how core-central monogamy is to the west, even economically.
But though this rising trend of women using marriage for primarily money really started with the increase in divorces and the money from divorce settlements, we have a situation in the US and the west broadly where after 2008 with the financial crisis and 2010 with social media, that (not all women) but influential women are driving us into serial monogamy that effectively mimics the detriments of polygamy.
Women have become *different* after 2008 and 2010. I’ve lived it. Millions have.
What Jordan Peterson blithely accepts like a “law of nature”: hypergamy, women “marrying up” to get more money (such an insult to women to call this “natural” but it is a basic instinct as much as men sleeping around is) this hypergamy unchecked is dragging us into a cultural realm where (as you described) the mothers of the “hot girls” want to effectively sell their daughters by public sexual display. That’s what this is - an unhealthy expression of hypergamy run amok against its own limits. Women wouldn’t “hit the wall” as they age if they weren’t playing a hypergamous gamble with time to land a wealthy high status man and were looking online outside of their own physically reachable geography.
SO, regarding these high school strip club dances - - if it is either a woman or a man (world better if it is a woman - let’s be honest) - somebody needs to put some feet down and describe this for what it is and stop enabling the cancel culture struggle tactics of the Mean Girls as you say. And mean girl is a *polite* way to say Cluster B Sociopath. That’s not an exaggeration, but it is a spectrum.
Disgraced propagandist is a “checked-out” man who has been cowed into ideological submission so deeply that he won’t even make any resistance against the public sexualization of his own daughters - because he thinks he and they stand to gain money and or status from it.
Would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic and sad.
David Getzin retweeted
Probably true from what I can tell.
But I also see a resurgence in younger people. There is more interest in craft.
Great craftsmen of the future may indeed get paid like surgeons, but that will also lead to more craftsmen.
Some construction skills are about to become a luxury only the rich can afford.
Real plaster. Hand-built stairs. Custom trim and millwork.
The old guys are retiring, few young people are learning it, and factories are taking over the rest.
In 10 years, a true craftsman will cost what a surgeon does.
What skill do you think gets rare first?
David Getzin retweeted
Concrètement, les débuts de Manhattan ressemblent à ça :
(816, 5e avenue, 1869).
La raison pour laquelle nous avons oublié comment une ville croit comme une forêt, ou comme un être vivant, est assez simple : le processus de croissance organique est opéré pour une très large part non par la puissance publique mais par des particuliers, des marchands de bien, de petits promoteurs…
Autrement dit, l’initiative n’est pas celle de la collectivité ou d’un urbaniste, mais celle d’un acteur qui voit une opportunité de répondre à ses besoins à travers un projet de construction, ou même de répondre à ses propres besoins.
Cela peut être votre voisin : et c’est là qu’on voit (un projet du voisin, ça fait un peu peur…) comment nous ne sommes plus habitués à l’idée d’une ville fondée sur une certaine liberté de grandir.
Nous concevons une ville comme un objet dessiné une fois pour toute, avec plus ou moins d’esprit et de talent.
Il faut en fait la voir comme un milieu, un écosystème physique au sein duquel un écosystème d’acteurs opère en répondant aux besoins les uns des autres.
Le rôle de la collectivité, ce n’est pas de tout prévoir, tout décider, tout arbitrer, tout réaliser : c’est de créer les conditions matérielles, réglementaires et servicielles pour que cet écosystème physique puis cet écosystème économique et social, prospèrent et se portent bien.
Ces conditions c’est :
un bon plan,
de bons réseaux,
de bonnes dessertes,
des systèmes de mobilité efficaces
de bon équipements,
de bonnes règles urbaines pour guider la croissance,
et une fiscalité qui permettent à l’ensemble de se maintenir et d’investir dans le futur.
Une ville aussi bien conçue soit elle ne peut pas, par définition, répondre aux besoins mouvants d’une société.
Elle ne peut répondre aux besoins qu’en s’adaptant, que grâce à la liberté données aux acteurs d’adapter leur environnement à leurs besoins.
The quality we understand
as Latin,
is a creature of empire.
I should make an essay of it.
#KarlKraus
David Getzin retweeted
“Geniuses” vs “struggling”?
Please - get over yourself.
Also - I think Gen Z is savvy enough to know (or to realize when taking some thought) that these days with media saturation - NO ONE can keep up - and who cares about “pop culture literacy” - the jerks who DO, tend to make a big deal about what they know of pop culture while putting anyone else down probably do it because they have precious little other skills besides.
So - Gen Z and *everyone* is actually just focusing on the media they enjoy. So if you meet someone who likes what you do - fun. If you need someone who knows things you don’t about media you don’t watch - interesting!
“Struggles to keep up”
I get a bit sick of people dumping on Gen Z. Zoomers will PROBABLY contain some of the most influential artists and performers of the next ~84 years.
#StraussHowe
This a really important point that Mr Tune MBA observes:
Gen Z didn’t grow up watching reruns. Many of them didn’t grow up watching broadcast style TV commercials much at all. I know that my nieces watch commercials and see “old style tv” when they go to grandpa and grandmas - in the living room I grew up in.
Very different world.
Yet, I work with zoomers who are QUITE knowledgeable in the (music) niches they follow - which is totally normal. It’s a very different and interesting social adventure these days to find out what someone likes to listen to.
The “everyone knows it” pop culture era is over and really - that kind of media life was the historical anomaly - that was the abnormal thing, an entire nation watching Cosby or Seinfeld on tne same day and talking about it at work. I don’t miss that. It was dumb to begin with. Those two shows are good but…
Two days ago a young guy (probably 15) came into Jeweled Universe and bought the VG condition picture disc of Flock of Seagulls because it was only $12 and he felt ok asking his dad for that much. He was ultra-passionate about many bands - a good number of which we have in our record section. It was really good to see a young person care THAT much about something - even about bands I thought sucked or were a joke. He loved them - I didn’t begrudge him that or act like a jerk.
You see, in about 5 or six years, this guy will be chatting with some woman he’s surprised is interested because he thinks she’s way too hot to ever talk to him and then eventually she says something something “immigrant song” and he’s like
“woah, you like
Led Zeppelin TOO?”
And that’s what makes the world a nice place.
“Geniuses” vs “struggling”?
Please - get over yourself.
Also - I think Gen Z is savvy enough to know (or to realize when taking some thought) that these days with media saturation - NO ONE can keep up - and who cares about “pop culture literacy” - the jerks who DO, tend to make a big deal about what they know of pop culture while putting anyone else down probably do it because they have precious little other skills besides.
So - Gen Z and *everyone* is actually just focusing on the media they enjoy. So if you meet someone who likes what you do - fun. If you need someone who knows things you don’t about media you don’t watch - interesting!
“Struggles to keep up”
I get a bit sick of people dumping on Gen Z. Zoomers will PROBABLY contain some of the most influential artists and performers of the next ~84 years.
#StraussHowe
So Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boring move their media organization to Florida from California because… enforcement is better in Florida maybe?
Maybe it is. But what they ran from cannot be run from.
Sinaloa drug cartel leader arrested in Florida: fox13news.com/news/florida-r…
David Getzin retweeted
Today is Cyrus the Great Day, which honours perhaps the greatest Iranian monarch in all our history.
Did you know?
The demonic islamic regime, which now pretends to be "nationalist", for years has blocked access to his grave on this day, because massive anti-regime crowds always form.
Long Live Iran and our millennia old monarchy. May the islamic republic rot.
David Getzin retweeted
Still Life with a Stoneware Jug, Berkemeyer, and Smoking Utensils
Pieter Claesz, 1640
Yes - I am also wanting a short pencil - with a clip, for a shirt or vest pocket - a CLIP Apple! And a clicky retractable nib so your Apple Pencil tip does not get screen scratch schmutz embedded in it. - model it after the Pilot/Namiki capless fountain pen.
This is NOT HARD to do.
Jonny Ive left the company.
You don’t have to be geometric purists anymore.
David Getzin retweeted
If you don’t find ways to inject a little life into modern life, you will be miserable.
It could be some dancing.
A farm.
A library.
Visiting friends.
A musical instrument.
Gardening.
Fishing.
A village exploration.
A long walk.
Cooking.
Birdwatching.
Cycling.
Reading poetry.
Playing a game.
Going to the countryside.
Building something with your hands.
Listening to live music.
Hosting a live band.
Hosting people.
Exploring unfamiliar places.
Sitting by a river.
Learning a new craft.
Disco.
In short, find the Otherest thing apart from the bread-and-butter hustle.
Something that reminds you that you are alive, not merely productive.
💭📝✍🏿
