When your entire intellectual life revolves around never having any low brow views or sharing anything in common with the rubes ( striver mindset) you end up like Richard Hanania. Spencer I suspect is just mad at not being a center of attention anymore
Anytime someone complains about Kid Rock or Hulk Hogan, show them this. Infinitely worse. Infinitely dumber, more vulgar, more distasteful in every regard, made worse by the fact that all of these people and their admires share the pretense of being the “sophisticated” ones
People on both sides of the immigration debate in places like Springfield talk about numbers. They are good workers. Or they overuse services. They pay taxes. Or they make it harder to teach in schools.
But what’s really at root is that it’s totally disorienting to have your
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"President Trump and I are going to replace the corrupt industry-captured officials with honest public servants."
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The underlying assumption of immigration policy across the West is that all of European history is a mistake, it was pure exploitation. So the people who deserve to come are the victims of that exploitation, not the people who could improve western societies. Backwards.
People would rather be miserable, engage in depravity, humiliate and ruin themselves, than be bored and feel nothing whatsoever - which is what the office job society offers. Nothing.
One of the best insights from Theodore Dalrymple’s books, particularly ‘Life at the Bottom.’
Noah Smith wrote an article arguing that mass immigration is great for American workers, and one of his readers replied that actually, his wages went up when the illegals at his factory were deported.
"That ICE raid did what our union couldn't do. It raised wages."
Amazing.
It’s good to have high standards for people you date, but those standards should be things like good character, family-oriented, mutual chemistry, conscientious, no serious addictions, etc, not detailed physical specifications or degrees. You’re not creating a Build-A-Bear.