Starting Again
Honesty, trust, goodwill, mutual wants and needs. I’d call these the pillars of civilization.
I refer back to the material basics of survival a lot. Food, Water, Heat, Shelter. How do you get those (present) and how do you maintain those (future).
Often I talk about the past here. And many people who talk about civilization have a passion for studying the past. History.
I think the reason is that this establishes an agreed story and identifies common trust and agreement, and common purpose.
This helps us to make our arrangements for the present and the future.
We are also talking about the relationships we have with those who have deceased or are not yet born.
This is also why we take an interest in odd wierd occupations like art, sport, music, religion, myths, celebrities, exotic food etc.
Here in Australia it looks like we have an existential moment on our hands. We are realising once again how isolated we really are. The greenie fantasy is giving away to hard reality. No one cars about your war on fossil fuels when they have nothing to eat.
The demons are flying overhead.
If i may opine for a bit on world affairs:
(Because everywhere else you go you either get censored, paywalled, cut-short, interrupted, misrepresented, mischaracterized, mocked, doxed or hounded out of the room).
Trump is leaving NATO. I reckon it’s a done deal and was only a matter of time seeing as its been redundant since Boxing Day of 1991, and has been blatantly unfair since about 2003. Everyone, even a lot of previous boosters (Mark Steyn, XYZ, Alex Jones? Vox Day and all manner of “manosphere/bro-alliance” podcasters etc), seem to be ditching him now but I still support him and personal-credibility-wise, I’ll go down with the ship if I have to. Happy to own it no matter the outcome right to the very end. Thus far I see no way he could’ve done things differently that would’ve led to a better outcome. Iran was trolling and looking to start a fight. Poking the bear as they say. The bear got poked enough and retaliated. Welcome to reality.
Or in other words: Talk shit, get hit.
Im trying to simplify here but that’s the sum of it. The laws of nature are very easily applicable.
Trump put NATO and other global allies to the test and they largely failed. Trump knows his base has as its core the US working class, war vets and their families, scarred by endless war and “nation-building” for a world that likes to insult the US and bleed them dry (physically, mentally, morally, financially) while they forego their own military spending to fund lavish welfare states and other idealistic uni-campus delusions.
Trump knows the military is there to break an enemy. (Thus the Department of Defence got renamed back into tThe Department of War).There is no clause in the contract to say that you have to help the population afterwards to rebuild. Thats a gesture of goodwill that the US started doing post-1945 with the Western-Europe and Japanese rebuilds. It was revived for the Iraq and Afghan wars. I’d call the post-ww2 nation-builds in Western Europe a gesture of friendship and goodwill, and the ones in Japan, Afghanistan and Iraq were expressions of faith in common human decency. Frankly I would now call that in hindsight a form of misplaced humanitarianism. It’s a defect of Christianity, you are charitable to a fault and end up inviting your own demise from someone you decide to care for who actually resents you and wants to take you down or just betrays you in some other way. I’ve seen this alot. Saw it in my own family, seen it on the world stage.
The US has long had its own oil reserves. This has never been a secret. For some reason everyone pretends they don’t exist. It should be admitted that local green-lobbying against fossil fuels in the US and the Chavez/Maduro regime in Venezuela meant that the US needed to be more concerned about Middle East supply. Those concerns are largely gone now that he’s greenlit US oil exploration/extraction and removed the old Venezuelan regime. People who are calling the Iran War a disaster and a new failed war are missing the point. He doesn’t need to go in. He’s proven most of the “friendships” the US has with established western partners are fake and one-sided. He’s basically saying we made our own bed and now we can lie in it, and he’s right. And the haters can hate all they want, but at the end of the day our food and fuel is our own responsibility. And if we don’t have any because of our lack of preparations and ill-treatment of benefactors then that really is on us.
A lot of people are saying “hey wait a second what about us?”, well guess what, you’re small and irrelevant. He’s respecting your sovereignty as much as he demands respect for the nation he was elected three times to govern. Meaning everyone should worry about their own turf first.
The other side of the argument is of course is that we are too dependent on one fuel source to do everything for us and yet we have no control over it in terms of supply. Thats not an argument against oil per se, because i love oil and petroleum, it's an argument over how too much of life is unavoidably dependent upon its use. They build the new suburbs this way and yet many of the new builds lack a backyard or local shops and a train station you can walk to. The busses run sporadically and on diesel. Most people can’t grow/hunt their own food even if they wanted to. Everything is going to be repriced and we are going to have to rearrange our civic planning and living arrangements.
More to blabber about for another time however. But she will be right (no she wont, but then she will).