David Solway has a typically sombre and unfortunately all too realistic look at our declining and likely dying civilisation in an article titled: A melancholy calculation. Melancholy it certainly is. You have to wonder whether the successor generations to ours will even be capable of understanding what has been lost.

The West is now busy at work across the entire field of social, cultural and political life promoting its own version of Lysenkoism, a misconceived exercise of supposedly vernalizing reality by transforming fact into fantasy and truth into lie for the purpose of creating the perfect society and the redeemed human being, transferable across the generations. Its assumptions about the world are guided not by common sense or genuine science but by the precepts of ideology and political desire.

Examples abound of the ubiquitous tendency to replace ontology with myth, the determinate with the fluid and the objective with the delusionary. A modest inventory of such noxious miscontruals would include:

• Biological sexual differentiation must yield to voluntary gender identity.
• A cooling climate is obviously warming.
• The demonstrable failure of socialism wherever it has been tried is proof that it has not been properly implemented.
• Democratic Israel is an apartheid state.
• Islam with its record of unstinting bloodshed is a religion of peace.
• Illegal immigrants are undocumented workers.
• Terrorism is workplace violence.
• A child in the womb is a mass of insensible protoplasm.
• The killing of the old and the ill is merciful, even when the recipient of such tender concern is not consulted.
• There is no such thing as truth, an axiom regarded as true.
• Green energy is a social and economic good irrespective of crony profiteering, exorbitant cost, wildlife devastation, and unworkability in its present state.
• Storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, tsunamis and mortality itself are natural phenomena, but Nature, which cares nothing for human life, is nonetheless sacred, vulnerable and at the mercy of human indifference.
• Women are disadvantaged in the workforce, academia and society at large despite the fact that high-end hiring practices, legal judgments, custody protocols and university appointments, as well as student enrollment, wholly favor women to the detriment of men.
• An enemy is a friend.
• Criminality is innocence.
• Losing is winning.
• Prosperity is avarice.
• Redistributing wealth, i.e., robbing the affluent and productive, is a form of compassion and basic justice.
• Those who claim victim status are always credible.
• Accumulating debt is an economic stimulus.
• Big government is a boon to mankind.
• War is passé (so 19th century).
• Diplomacy and talk—the higher Twitter—will prevail over barbarism.
• The most gynocentric society ever created is a rape culture.
• Palestine is a historically legitimate nation.
• Uniformity of thought and action equals cultural diversity.
• An exploded lie merely confirms what it lies about (e.g., Rigoberta Menchu).
• Morality is relative.
• Merit is an unearned distinction.

Or in other words, what is, is not, and what is not, is.

As he writes, “this species of Orwellian inversion, supplanting the real by the imaginary, is now an intrinsic component of the Western psyche”. Will the concept that lies behind the word “Orwellian” even make sense to those who come after?

The previous post is about someone who supposedly taught his dog to do a Nazi salute. He has been arrested in Scotland and it seemed pretty funny, both the idea and then the arrest. The story is, however, much more interesting than that. LeoG has rounded up the original video which you can watch here (which has had more than a million views). It is not as vile as it could possibly be, but it is in the upper reaches.

I won’t put it right up on the blog but you can watch it for yourself. This is the very speech we seek to protect, not because we wish to have such things said in public, but because we are more endangered by anyone having the right to stop us from having our say about anything. Yet there is also little doubt that there would be many people – there are many people – who agree that such kinds of racist statements have no business in any society, never mind a multicultural society in which many races, religions and nationalities must get along.

It is also interesting that the story that I reprinted in full did not even hint at what was so vile about the video and why he had been arrested. So the original question remains, but with a very different temperature given the very different circumstances: Repeal 18c anyone?

I came across this article on Cognitive decline: the irreducible legacy of open borders reading the comments on a post by Captain Capitalism on the same issue with the provocative title: Who Will Pay for Everything When the White People are Gone?

Whatever you might see as the cause, there is no doubt that wealth generation in an environment of personal and political freedom was first achieved by the culture of the North Atlantic, and it is these economies that have continued to succeed where others have not. The template is there for anyone to adopt, and has been in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and a scattered few others. But it is the North Atlantic tribes and their diaspora who have done far better than the rest. Here is the core of the message found in the first article:

A country’s economic success is causally connected to the intelligence of its people; that a nation of dimwits cannot compete with a nation of philosophers; and that between the simpleton and the savant lies a distribution of intellect that differs among peoples. Immigration from the third world will move the center of gravity of brainpower down the IQ spectrum, and in the long run, through influx, fecundity and gene flow, will have a lasting effect.

The basis of all this is described as “smart fraction theory”.

The fundamental assertion of smart fraction theory is that per capita GDP is proportional to the size of a country’s smart fraction, a proposition established empirically in The Smart Fraction Theory of IQ and the Wealth of Nations and also in Smart Fraction Theory II: Why Asians Lag, where it was determined that a verbal IQ of about 106 sets the lower bound of the smart fraction.

The rest is math along with the four laws outlined. There to be read at the link along with the article by Captain Capitalism who provides his own projections of what this will mean for living standards as time goes by. We have been living through a Golden Age.