Theory: Cultures, not race, not genetics, etc., are what makes humans, human. And cultures, like coral reef ecosystems, take a ton of time to build, and can be destroyed within unsettlingly short periods of time.
Somehow Judaism is a difficult-to-kill culture, and I'm also going to say Chinese culture is like this also. The rest of the world won't forgive Jews for having a resilient culture, and likewise the Chinese, whom some wags have called "The Jews of Asia" are also not forgiven. We had the Chinese Exclusion Act in the US, there's all the tons of anti-Asian sentiment and violence in the US where with few exceptions Asians are "Chinese".
It's why I was puzzled when I saw, on r/collapse, an article about the "Biggest and oldest economy in flames" I thought, Wait, what? What's going on with China? But the author, being American, was talking about the US, of course.
And for cultures being able to, in many cases, be destroyed surprisingly quickly, I've been thinking about Colin Turnbull's book "The Mountain People" which was about the Iks, a people who had a developed, working, culture then were uprooted and became hyper-individualists. Even a bit more so than Americans which is really amazing.
So now we're undergoing a coup. We're to live under a sort of techno-Hitlerism apparently. There are protests planned for Wednesday and I'm not sure if I'll go. It will be predominantly people on the Left protesting and there will be at least a few "Palestinian" flags in other words, people saying they want me dead. So I might make a productive day of it and stay home.
Black Lives Matter went like this. I think we can all agree that no one should die for selling loose cigarettes. Or "passing" a funny $20 they may not have known was funny (I ended up with a funny $5 from busking once, and the lady in Dai Thanh market just said she'd not take that one, and I crumpled it up and left it in the gutter). Or for walking past an empty half-constructed house that may have been a hangout for a few people to smoke and BS. Or any of a number of things.
But it left me cold when BLM turned into, essentially, a cash cow so its leader could buy herself *another* big house, and Blacks kept attacking Asians, who, as a group, had supported BLM and been there at protests, donated, etc.
This is all reminding me of Hawaii where each racial tribe looks out for its own except for the haoles, who, hyper-individualistic and armed with a culture that essentially suicidal, are puzzled and defeated by it all.
Is this how empires die? Where you have, instead of The Romans or The Americans or The French, we end up with a zillion little interest groups each looking out for itself? Then it comes down to numbers and power, and in this whites have the real advantage in the US. They've got the guns, but also they've got the culture that glorifies using them. They pretty much have the monopoly on violence.
Having almost no culture of their own, whites are tending to fall back on things like "Viking" culture, weird beliefs harking back, or trying to, old pre-Christian European beliefs, and like the Nazism 1.0 of the recent past, glorifying violence. So we're in for a bumpy time.
The problem is that under capitalism, whites are not going to be allowed a real culture, one that say you MUST take a couple of weeks off to do this or that, one that say you MUST care for others at least fellow whites, one that says children must not go hungry etc. So even under some sort of State religion like "Identity Christianity" or "Norseism" or something, it will be just like now, where the average person is born to just work until they can't any more and ideally die at their work bench.
This is what places like China and Israel have resisted to an amazing extent compared to the US. There are holidays you take and that's that. You care for family - and this means extended, not just nuclear family - and that's that. There are cultural mechanisms for taking care of the poor and the number of homeless in China and Israel is very low compared to the US. It's what got me into watching Cory Gil-Shuster's videos and those of "Relaxing Walker" - the lack of poverty and trash can diggers and blanket-clad shuffling zombies on the streets of Israel.
So these white supremacists are going to try to make some kind of White Homeland out of the US and it's not going to be better than now, it's going to be a lot worse.
I was going to list things yesterday but I realized I could get a ton of shipping out and it was actually dry so I did that. I finished off the night by taking apart a big ugly thing that it's good to get out of the shop, yielding surprisingly few parts to sell but at least it's outta here.
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