tyrannized by delusions

 

"Here's why talking politics with the modern left feels like banging your head against a wall."

Anyone who has ever tried knows the feeling. You present facts, evidence, or plain common sense, and what comes back is a wave of emotional outrage.

The worst part is that it's no longer possible to live a normal life without running into politics.

Schools, workplaces, museums, sports, entertainment, universities, every corner of life has been swallowed by ideology.

We live in a society held hostage by people who insist their fantasies outrank reality.

And the reason is simple. We are being tyrannized by delusions.

Most people debate from reality outward but the modern left debates from utopia inward. This inversion comes straight from the Frankfurt school, an intellectual factory that produced nearly every strand of woke dogma now embedded in academia and public sector.

Their central idea was the utopian horizon.

Imagine a world without hierarchy or domination, then condemn the real world for failing to match fantasy.

Once you understand this, the entire ideological landscape snaps into focus.

They argued that family reproduces hierarchies and must be reimagined. Schools should radicalize children against power structures instead of educating them.

Culture manufactures consent, therefore culture must be engineered.

Even language encodes power and must be bent to social justice aims.

In this worldview, every institution is guilty unless proven innocent. And innocence is impossible because the benchmark is utopian perfection.

So critical theory always finds oppression. If a system works it's stabilizing power. If a system fails that's also power at work.

If people consent they are duped by power. If they dissent, the system shapes their frustration.

It's a closed loop.

You're not debating ideas.

You're debating someone who believes the real world is illegitimate by default.

Modern offshoots such as critical race theory, gender theory, decolonization studies and feminism all use the same engine.

Imagine a utopian world, identify gaps between their imagination and the real world, declare those gaps as oppression, then demand society must be remade.

This is why discussion politics with the modern left feels like arguing with someone who is hallucinating.

They construct a perfect world in their mind, one without conflict, cost, tradeoffs, or human nature. Then label anything that falls short as bigotry, privilege, or violence.

The obsession with race, LGBTQ politics, feminism, and decolonization is not random.

It's the metric they use to measure how far reality deviates from the dream.

You're not arguing with people who misread the world. You're arguing with people who believe the real world is wrong for existing.

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Alinsky rules:

mass indoctrination in the west

 

Elon Musk reposted

Wall Street Apes

@WallStreetApes

Every person living in a western nation needs to listen to every word of this Katherine Berbalsingh went to the University of Oxford and is Headmaster at Michaela Community School in London, UK She PERFECTLY explains the mass indoctrination into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, and of hating White People I will write only some of this out because it’s very important, however you should listen to it so you can hear the passion: “The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online. Ask any young person what history they learned at school, and they’ll tell you, Hitler. Ask them what else? Slavery. Ask them what else? American civil rights. In fact, what little they know of history will be all about Black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man, women fighting men for the vote, gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man. — History is taught through an oppressor lens. The triangular slave trade, white men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all? Mm, no. What of the Arab slave trade that lasted 3 times as long as the triangular slave trade? Mm, no. Okay, so GCSE history in Britain is often taught as migration through time, so the idea that Britain has always been a land of immigrants is embedded in our children’s heads. Most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of Black people who existed in Tudor England over a thorough analysis of England’s break from Rome. — Not to mention weeks on King Mansa Musa of Mali because he was a Black Muslim. His bearing on British institutions, laws, and faith is nonexistent. And the fact that he is said to have been the richest man in history, thanks in part to his massive slave-owning society, is a detail somehow that teachers rarely ever teach. But it isn’t just our schools. It’s our general culture too. Take your kids to a museum or an art gallery in any Western country, and you’ll find the same narrative. As an example, when learning about aviation in London’s Science Museum and the extraordinary feat that is man making massive machines move in the sky, a write-up on the wall explains that women and Black people were historically barred from aviation schools and the military. Similarly, James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine and is considered the founder of the Industrial Revolution, has a write-up on the wall explaining that his early career involved slave trafficking, with a bonus analysis of the whole of Britain’s complicity in the slave trade. They flatten the entire human story and all of its complexities into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, leaving young people unable to see the world in any other terms.” We have to end the mass indoctrination

In 5 years...

 

"In 5 years, digital intelligence will exceed the sum of all human intelligence... In five years there will be 100 million humanoid robots, maybe 1 billion." Elon Musk

Billy ₿oone

@thebillyboone

We probably have ~3 years left where human labor still earns real money. After that, most of it gets automated to the point where it doesn't pay. This is the end of labor-based capitalism, the model where you trade hours for a wage and stack it over a 40-year career. The window open right now is an information asymmetry. A few people see it coming. Most are waiting for it to be obvious. That gap is the whole opportunity. What I'd do with the window: convert time into things that survive the transition. Bitcoin, hard assets, compute, energy, food production, and social credit/distribution A wage is rent on your time. Automate the time and the rent collapses. Owning scarce things is the esc The people who spend these three years hoarding capital will look like geniuses in ten. When wages stop compounding, guess whats left? ownership

Optimism in France

 

Brivael Le Pogam

@brivael

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21h

Translated from French

I think the collapse of French debt will coincide precisely with the moment when Optimus is ready for large-scale production. It’s no coincidence. Optimus will enable us to multiply our GDP by ten. If tomorrow we had to rebuild France from the ground up, here’s what I’d do: renegotiate the debt, return to the franc because the European Union will probably collapse, sign an ambitious contract with Elon to deploy as many Optimus units as possible… and start by negotiating a bulk price with him, promising him a grand party at Versailles to thank him for the discount I’d scrap all the absurd regulations that block building permits, put an end to centralizing Jacobinism, and shrink the state to 10-20% of GDP maximum (out with you and to work) Result: 5 to 10% growth per year, and everything set right in two or three years. A true French renaissance. The old world may take a little more time to fall. The new one is already emerging at an extremely rapid pace. There’s every reason to be immensely optimistic.

Brivael Le Pogam

@brivael

Translated from French

Yes, the French are likely to suffer. The fall could even be quite violent. But unlike many, I am deeply optimistic. What’s depressing the French today isn’t just the decline. It’s the feeling that it’s permanent, that nothing will ever change, and that we’ll remain eternally trapped on this trajectory. Yet the Macron episode is probably the culmination of a technocratic and globalist project built over the past fifty years—including by part of your own camp. Once this sequence is over, the diagnosis will finally be clear. We’ll know what failed, who carried that failure, and what needs to be rebuilt. The turn might be brutal. But once the turn is past, all that’ll be left is to rebuild. And hope will return as soon as the French realize an exit exists. Above all, technology is now playing in our favor. What once took twenty or thirty years can sometimes be rebuilt in two or three thanks to artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation. A leaner administration, a revitalized industry, revamped public services, more abundant production: we’ll be able to rebuild at a speed never seen in history. The old world might take a few more years to collapse. The new one, though, can emerge extremely quickly. There’s every reason to be immensely optimistic.

 Marie 

@marie_giannoni

Translated from French

France is sinking. The French are going to suffer.

MYY

@tailele88

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Jul 17

I predict that in the next few years, every single country on the European continent is gonna have the exact same election issue. The winning campaign slogan for the next head of state will be all about breaking free from EU control and getting rid of the Muslims in their