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Nothingness And Eternity

In the movie Office Space (itself perhaps a riff on the Michel Houellebecq book Whatever
which came out a few years before it) the protagonist summarizes his working career to a
psychologist with the following words:
Links
So Im sitting in my cubicle today and I realized that ever since I started
Aggregators working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So it
Alternative Right means that every single day you see me, thats on the worst day of my life.
Anti-Diversity
Anti-Political Correctness Jobs are jails for a number of reasons. They are based on appearance, so everyone shows up
Antiwork regardless of whether there is a need or not. There is no purpose, because the task is defined
Articles Of Note by law and perceived demand, not necessity. At jobs, the dysfunction of other people comes
Blogroll out in the form of competition, with those who are most obedient and care least about
Collapse & Anti-Modern efficient and meaningful use of time winning. And jobs are a form of control, or herding
Conservative & Dissident Right equal/interchangeable humans toward quasi-achievement by doing the same things in a mob
Dark Enlightenment assault. Jobs are spiritual death.
Deep Ecology
Human Biodiversity Then again, so is living in the post-collapse West.
Libertarian & Anarcho-
Capitalist Collapse is not an event. It is a process. It starts with slow corruption of what seems like an
Literature & Fiction irrelevant detail, which is the first sign that vital knowledge has been lost, which in turn
Monarchism means that incompetents and neurotics have seized power. It slowly infiltrates everything,
Nationalism like a bacterial infection seeping into different tissues, because it corrupts language to pre-
Neoreaction load all of the terms we use with the assumptions that rationalize collapse, like egalitarianism
New Right and tolerance (which equalizes good and bad). Then it becomes malignant as it turns those

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News and Commentary rationalizations into affirmative values, and actively reaches out for ever-increasing degrees
Paleoconservative of insanity as a means of distracting from the gaping void ahead.
Podcasts
Post-Feminist/Red Pill In the West, each year is worse than the year before it. The changes are subtle, but they never
Traditionalist reverse. So it means that every single year that we are here is the worst year of our lives.

The root of the problem is the thronging herd. Any time one person makes a change for the
better, like Donald J. Trump or Nigel Farage, the herd creates an equal and opposite reaction
in favor of degeneracy and pretentious false good things. The herd is composed of
individuals, and individuals value breakdown of society because it makes individuals
proportionately more powerful and camouflages their personal failings amidst a background
of social chaos. But because such thinking requires denial of the role that nature, natural
mathematical order, and civilization play in enabling the individual to not just act but act
realistically and toward qualitative improvement, we refer to that thinking as hubris or
solipsism. It is a pretentious overinflated sense of self-worth.

Each year, the people know more words and less critical thinking; the art and culture shows
more flesh and flash but less aptitude for evoking a feeling of the significance of life and its
meaning. Each year, the leaders are more polished and less able to respond with anything but
clichs to the inevitable stream of repetitive events. The quality of everything declines where,
as if to compensate, the quantity surges, meaning that we get a whole lot of nothing
important at all. Most of our hours are wasted on nonsense, from jobs that do not need doing
to bureaucracy, lines, glitches, and constant incompetence.

Western Civilization lies adrift in the throes of entropy, or the inevitable decay which
unless countered by an organizing force reduces all things to an equal lowest common
denominator. This state, known as heat death, consists of an equal distribution of energy
among those granular units, meaning that every action yields roughly the same benefit, which
means that choice has become irrelevant. This is the state the human mind secretly desires
because in this state, there is no social status hierarchy or right/wrong. Everything is equally
right and wrong, meaning neither. There is no way to screw up, or to be seen as worth
ostracizing, because everything is accepted and so nothing is worth anything. Time slows to a
crawl, and the world becomes grey and listless like a miscegenated race.

If the Alt Right has a mission statement, it is this: restore Western Civilization. We, unlike the
herds of denial-bound daytime TV watchers, recognize that The Fall has occurred. We know
we have to bounce back or we will simply fade away like Elvis. And because we are people
who value ourselves, we desire the meaning that comes from a good and noble fight, and
have staked our claim on being those who raise this civilization from the ashes but not all
of its people, because some or most must go elsewhere and make it greater than ever
before. If you ever wished for meaning and purpose to life, there they are, right within your
grasp.

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western civilization
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Careerism Ruined the White Race


Friday, October 14th, 2016

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Since the 60s, when women began working, jobs have been the death of everything good
about our race.

Because of jobs, white men are:

Required to circumcise their faces via shaving

Required to wear gay sailor suits

Required to be cooperative and sociable and not raise their voices or tell anyone to shut
up

Required to be submissive to some boss figure even if they could easily kick his ass

We also have this diseased and disturbed culture here in Amerika where your job is your
soul. It comprised the entirety of your identity. I am not me, my person, everything I have
worked for my whole life to develop into, no, I am a doctor. That is all anyone talks to me
about ever. My wife is expected to sit at home alone and take pride in the fact that her
absentee husband is a doctor whereas the next house down, the wifes absentee husband is
merely an engineer or something. Its a an excremental overload.

And white women:

Are required to raise their voices and be assertive and opinionated far past their natural
inclination

Are told that they are superior to mothers at home with children

Are promoted in exchange for sexual favors

Are encouraged to be promiscuously flirtatious yet cynical in sales environments

Both genders:

Are expected to be at work by default. Family or personal time is treated like visitation
rights in a prison.

Are subjected to crippling thought control. It isnt the government who boots down
your door and drags you off for wrongthought, its Twitter, Facebook and the media
who censor you while everyone else fires you and refuses to hire you or do business
with you ever again.

Are expected to support diversity, equality and other pleasant insanities because
anything else is turning away customers.

Are basically told who to vote for by their office crowd. They are forced to coexist
with people they otherwise would hate and incorporate them into their social life, thus

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in the name of keeping the peace gradually adopt their political leanings. If they openly
support the wrong candidate they are ostracized and later fired.

Are subject to the abuses of petty tyrants above them who are angry that they are also
enslaved.

Need holy jerbs to make sure we can afford lots and lots of stupid shit, like gigantic
houses that are shrines to the weak, flabby men and fat obnoxious women that live
there, and piles of electronic shit that boils down and concentrates the natural and
pleasurable experiences of being alive, so that when we are home for all 5 minutes we
are not chained to our desks, we can rapidly consume high doses of extra-life to make
up for lost time. We go on reddit and look up pictures of all of the puppies and kitties
we did not pet and pictures of all the great landscapes we did not travel to.

Cannot simply accept that the modern lifestyle is unjustifiable and a total waste of their
lives and potential, so they defend it, Stockholm Syndrome style. If you point out how
much of it is totally sick and wrong, they say you are just bitter because you could not
succeed.

Have no time to properly examine life and think anything through, discover philosophy
and religion, or ask themselves what they are doing in life, why, and whether or not it
is any good (or if it should be improved or replaced with something different). If the
Buddha was born today, hed have worked in a call center and never had time to think
about what happiness is. Instead of sitting under a bodhi tree, at best hed have looked
up pictures of trees on his phone while he takes a dump on his lunch break.

And of course, all of this is coercive, it is stuff you endure Or else well fire your ass.

The worst thing about jobs is they know they have you by the balls. They know that you are
dead without their jerbism, in todays society where not being a jobber means ostracism and
homelessness, so they heap petty abuse on you knowing you will never rebel. The higher
career, the worse the people it attracts.

And there you have it.

Jobs have physically and spiritually neutered the white man and made shrewish, loud
mouthed whores of the white woman. Being an impotent career slave has become
synonymous with whiteness now. Every white man does it, and every nonwhite who starts
acting career slave-like is accused of acting white.

There is truly a chicken-egg relationship between the moral, spiritual and physical decay of
the white race and jobs.

Society and the race will only ever be good again when something other than careers rule it.

I mean, that is the truth, isnt it? You do not spend sixty hours a week carefully obeying every
command of your democratically appointed leaders, you spend it doing what your career
wants you to do. Your career tells you how to dress, who to talk to, how to talk to them, what
to do with every little bit of your time, when you are allowed to see friends and family, when
you are allowed to eat, shit and sleep.

Politics are a hilarious, impotent little distraction: your career is your god and your master.

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Master of Puppets Lyrics By Metallica

Tags:antiwork, careers, dysgenics, existential misery, jobs, jobs are jails


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Make-Work
Sunday, October 9th, 2016

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This is a typical event for the modern consumer:

He needs a service given that there is great confusion between want and need so
he signs up for it. He then finds out that it does not work with his existing technology, a
common type. There is a work-around: he can use another gadget, but it will be so
cumbersome as to render the whole process inefficient.

He goes to the website of the service provider. There are separate websites for sales and
service. He logs into sales, then goes to service, where they ask him for a customer number.
He has not been given one. For this reason, he cannot login to the service he needs to explore
other options, although by looking at what others have written, he can see those do not really
exist anyway.

This leaves him scratching his head in wonder. Why is it that the service is so bad, and yet
still popular and profitable? Does the company know its website does not work? Why do
they not provide the service on the type of gadget he has, just as many hundreds of millions
of others do?

Our society retires people because after forty years of observation, they know the workplace
jive too well. The people who are advanced to the top are the Hillary Clintons of the world:
good at the type of questions they ask in school, smugly self-serving and ready to justify their
actions in terms of good intentions.

Let us look at the company that our hypothetical consumer has encountered.

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At the top is a businessman. He knows he has a product that people will buy, and they buy
enough of it that he can afford to hire a bunch of idiots. He hires idiots because they will not
threaten him and take his company from him. He does not care about the quality of the
product.

Below him are chattering women and flabby men. These are the middle management layer.
Their job is to neurose. For example, when they considered expanding their service to
another type of gadget, the people here Did The Right Thing, which was to send off for an
exploratory study, a consultant, a feasibility study and a prototype. They hired many people
out of the office and generated eighteen metric tons of memos, reports, studies and white
papers.

They will not make the service for a new gadget because their experts tell them that it is a
bad idea. The experts make money by being contrarian, or telling people that what is true is
what is contrary to obvious common sense. The people in the business want to avoid taking
risks, but since any action is a risk, this means they want to avoid action. Instead they want to
spend their time on the process of being at a job, instead of trying to achieve anything.

To keep the process of the job alive, they will insist on the most mind-numbing tedium
possible. They will call many meetings. They will have paperwork requirements for every
activity. Every task will become formalized, awash in process and procedure, and will
reference at a least a dozen books stating the obvious. To do even a simple task will take
months.

For example, they will eventually roll the service out for the other type of gadget. After the
exploratory and feasibility studies, the planning and budget meetings, the buy-in by all of the
divisions, the marketing and legal sniffover, and then soliciting for bids and choosing
vendors, it will take them a year to get the process started. Then, because no one will have
thought about the practical dimensions, half of the necessary decisions will be unmade. It
will take another five years of back-and-forth between the company, its vendors, and its
internal meetings to even get a prototype ready, and at that point, the market (and our
hypothetical consumer) will have all but moved on.

The point of jobs is that one must rationalize. The worker must be at a job, so that is good.
Then they must succeed at the job. Herein is the problem of equality that guarantees that all
jobs will be make-work: when all people are equal, no one is considered for his unique
abilities, and so any failure is considered equally independent of what he was trying to
achieve. This is why the do-nothing working who never does more than just act out the
process of the job will always be promoted, but someone who takes a risk by attempting
something more than just acting out the process of the job may get fired.

After a few years, the only people left at jobs like these are those who are fascinated
downright excited! by tedious and inconsequential make-work, or work activity designed
to show conformity to the process of the job and therefore, good work according to other
minds hampered by egalitarianism observing them. They drive away the competent and
select for the useless.

This is why the website is broken. The people involved at the time knew it would not work,
but knew that they were taking a career-ending risk by mentioning it, so they said nothing.
The email address for complaints goes to someone who left the company three years ago, and
piles up in her inbox.

The IT guy knows that if he says something, he can make enemies in the company of those
who will now have to sort through the email. So he says nothing and simply increases the
allotment of space for the account when it fills up. Customers write complaints, those go
nowhere, and no one notices the broken web site because to do so is to take on risk.

At a job, taking any risk is bad because under egalitarianism, any failure is presumed to be a
fatal failure. We cannot look at someone and say, Sure, Charles hosed that website launch,
but he is smarter than the rest of that group and he usually gets good results. No, in order to
placate the herd, who might rebel at any time, we must crucify him.

We destroy people in this society. It is our pastime, since we no longer have a goal and have
not for many centuries. We all demand attention, which is why if someone steps out of line,
we smash him down. He has threatened the stability by which we all receive attention and/or
paychecks. The expectation has become reality because at this point only the very brave or
very crazy take risks, knowing the intolerance that failure receives.

The Soviet Union also had this problem. Those who failed to deliver were shot. Since they
were often given impossible tasks, they were frequently shot. The end result was that anyone
sane refrained from taking any risk possible. That means that if you have a fire risk in your
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factory, you ignore it, because it is greater personal risk to try fixing it and fail than it is to
have a fire. That can always be blamed on the capitalists, anyway.

Jobs are jails. Most of what makes them jail-like is that they are not oriented toward goals,
but conformity to the process of work and avoidance of risk-taking; in other words,
appearance matters more than reality. Obedience matters more than achievements. And so,
people check out. Blatant errors are not noticed. Incompetence and ineptitude rule the day.

As we gather to write an epitaph for post-democracy Western Civilization, itself an epitaph of


Western Civilization after it went individualistic after giving up on the ability to get
consensus for another Golden Age, we should not forget to note the many ways that this time
has failed us. Jobs and incompetent services seem small until you consider that these take up
most of most days for the average person.

When it is said that our society died of a spiritual disease, this is true. People have no hope of
anything except going along with the conformity and hoping for a regular paycheck. The
thought of ambition has died, except in the narrowest sense of piling up money, as has the
ability to be noticed for competence, intelligence or other inner traits. In the name of
including everyone, we have created a hell on earth.

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The Existential Trauma Of Jobs


Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016

From an otherwise incoherent article about wage gaps, a moment of truth as the writer
diagnoses the cause of wage gaps and a wider problem all in one:

The highest-paying jobs disproportionately reward those who can work the
longest, least flexible hours.

These types of job penalize workers who have caregiving responsibilities outside
the workplace. Those workers tend to be women.

If you want to know why our society is awash in Generation X underachievers and low-
impact millennials, here is the reason: jobs are both terrible in and of themselves, and terrible
as a lifestyle.

Our current environment forces our most ambitious people into wasting their lives away, at
which point they become alienated and resentful, and start enthusiastically approving
antisocial policies. The tendency of modern Western Europeans to notice the world burning
and change the channel originates in this.

An ambitious person will be forced into a work schedule which will steal their soul by
depriving them of their time, energy and experience of family. A legion of successful
divorced professionals with kids in therapy can attest to this; it peels society like a banana,
starting at the top, removing those with the most to give by ensuring that they are enslaved to
constant frustrating, ugly drama.

Our economy is constructed as a circular Ponzi scheme: much activity exists, and because
other people think it is important, they keep buying and selling. Constant growth is the goal,
and we achieve that by adding pointless and unnecessary activity so long as we can sell it
before the buyers, and the resellers who service them, realize that it is empty. We have gone
in search of a reason to work, not in search of work that needs doing.

This enslaves every person to their debt as this is the only way to afford housing and so
they keep going to work to pay for the stuff they need, adding on top of it the stuff they want
to feel better about wasting their lives away.

The toxic environment that results occurs because we are all aware of our mortality. The last
thing we want to do is waste our irreplaceable time, but that is exactly what society demands
of us, and demands the most from its best. Doctors serve hopeless cases and hypochondriacs,
lawyers pursue pointless cases, architects design boring strip malls that will be torn down in a
decade, and writers are reduced to entertaining people looking for the opposite of truth,
profundity, wisdom and beauty through distractions of a salacious and saccharine nature.

Futility of this nature wears people down and makes them angry deep within. The rising tide
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serve us. But when we have no goals, what purpose can anything serve, except to perpetuate
itself from our fear of what comes when it goes?

And so: we all embark each day to go to jobs we do not believe in, wearing down our time
and vitality, with the best serving the worst, growing more hateful and revengeful by the
moment.

Good thinking, humanity.

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The Antiwork Conservative


Wednesday, July 20th, 2016

Conservatives espouse traditional (or more accurately: eternal) values including the
importance of hard work and dedication. Few ask themselves however if this extends to jobs.
It should not, mainly because (1) jobs are not actually work in most cases and (2) jobs are the
antithesis of what the value of hard work is designed to foster.

In modern Europe and the Americas, everyone male and female over the age of
majority must attend a job. This means showing up every day from eight to five and being in
the office, doing office tasks. Every person gets a cubicle or an office and a computer, maybe
a title. They do this until they are sixty-five, then wonder what it meant.

In the average job, very little of actual import is done. This occurs first because most of the
assigned activities are pro forma or make-work, but more broadly because most business
activities are ill-advised or irrelevant, often through the creation of regulatory law.

In this sense, jobs are not work per se, or the process of applying oneself to a task. They
are the process of attendance, obedience and time-wasting.

This realization leads to the second point, which is that jobs are the antithesis of the work
described by traditional values. In traditional work, the individual learns how the world
works by applying himself or herself to tasks and achieving mastery. It is a method of
understanding realism and gaining self-discipline.

Jobs do the opposite. Jobs reward appearance, not actuality, except in a few rare cases. Even
in professional fields, the goal is to keep abreast of what others have done and do the same in
a certain specific case, and accountability occurs only when one deviates from the commonly
accepted practice, even if results are bad. Doctors lose patients, lawyers loses cases, and
architects design junk all the time but so long as these are competitive with what others have
established as safe minimums, no consequences attach.

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The constant obsession with staying abreast of standards makes work into an obsession. One
must appear to be as devoted as ones comrades, or be suspected of disloyalty. Further, the
worker must demonstrate diligent emulation of public appearance as defined by others,
which creates a neurosis of fears about what has not be done as opposed to what needs doing.

In this way, jobs lead away from work, which is results-based. Instead, they present a flight
from life itself: an escape from the world of actions and consequences into the purely human
world of imitation and social reward. This adds a soul-killing dimension because the acts on
which we spend most of our lives are entirely a waste of our time and potential.

Consider it this way: from the years of the early twenties through the mid-sixties, a person
spends fifty hours a week, fifty weeks a year, preparing for or attending work. These are the
best daylight hours and the most intense moments of their consciousnesses, devoted to
something that is both unnecessary and demeaning. They never notice because everyone else
is doing it, at least until retirement, where people tend to become aimless and bitter.

If Moses were around today, he would be saying let my people go while looking
skeptically at a heap of TPS reports.

Michel Houellebecq unveiled the conservative case against jobs in Whatever: jobs ruin our
expectation that life will be good, and force us into desperate compensatory measures to feel
good, almost all of which lead to destruction of hope for life itself. Jobs make us bitter,
alienated and destructive, which mirrors the ressentiment inherent to Leftism, which is why
jobs are a creation of the Leftist regulatory state and not the free market, which rewards
performance over pro forma activity.

Others have made this case before, such as Louis-Ferdinand Cline, who showed how jobs
took over the minds of people and turned them into near-automatons. Indeed, among
conservative writers of the early twentieth century, the mind-enslaving specter of Progress
was seen through the voracious expansion of industry, the collapse of small communities into
cities, and the reduction of families into financial units driven by jobs.

People ask, What would our alternative be?

The conservative answer is to remove all regulation of the job market and to allow reward to
go only to those who can achieve results, which in turn limits labor to the necessary and also
radically reduces costs so that people can live on less and be happier. This would lead to less
time spent at jobs, because they would be task-driven and not appearance-driven.

In addition, the regulatory state creates a need to keep up with standards to avoid legal
liability and government intervention. This directs the focus of management from making
things happen to dealing with labor and legal issues. Most managers are not very good at
what they do, in part because their real job is to find a way to work with the regulatory state,
not get their workers to perform.

If a conservative took over with absolute power, the intermediates between worker and
employer like unions, regulations, and legally-defined liabilities would vanish and be
handled instead by civil courts. Workers would find themselves as more like contractors,
hired to make a certain function happen and rewarded for it. They would have greater pride
in their work and most of it would be necessary, as opposed to the current scheme where
most of it is not necessary.

Existential concerns would come into play here. When work is not a mandatory time period,
but a question of achieving results, people can see the time value of labor and conversely, the
monetary value of time. This encourages them to go home, spend time with friends and
families and on cultural activities instead of attending extra hours for the sake of appearance.

We need only look at the Dutch model to see how less job means more happiness.

One Dutch woman explicitly states that less time at the job means more liberation and ability
to have a positive life. As Macleans reports:

Every woman in Holland can do whatever she wants with her life, says Van
Haeren, 52, who lives just outside of Rotterdam and rides her bicycle or the train
to work three days a week at a police academy, where she counsels students. She
has worked part-time her entire career, as have almost all of her friends
married or unmarried, kids or no kidssave one or two who logged more hours
out of financial necessity. Van Haeren, who wasnt married until last year and
has no children, says shes worked part-time to have time to do things that
matter to me, live the way I want. To stay mentally and physically healthy and
happy.

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Many women in the Netherlands seem to share similar views, valuing


independence over success in the workplace. In 2001, nearly 60 per cent of
working Dutch women were employed part-time, compared to just 20 per cent of
Canadian women. Today, the number is even higher, hovering around 75 per
cent. Some, like Van Haeren, view this as progress, evidence of personal
freedom and a commitment to a balanced lifestyle.

The article goes on to show what a world without job mania might look like:

Ellen de Bruin, who patterned her book after Mireille Guilianos bestseller
French Women Dont Get Fat, began by defining the stereotypical Dutch
woman: naturally beautiful with a no-fuss sense of style, she rides her bike to
fetch the groceries, has ample time with her kids and husband, takes art classes
in the middle of the week, and spends leisurely afternoons drinking coffee with
her friends. She loves to work part-time and does not earn as much as her
husband, but shes fine with thathe takes care of the bills. The book went on to
note that Dutch women rank consistently low, compared to those in other
Western countries, in terms of representation in top positions in business and
governmentand rank consistently near the top in terms of happiness and well-
being.

As an article in The Economist amplifies, this is a prioritization of existential concerns and


lifestyle over the demands of commerce:

When I talk to women who spend half the week doing what they wantplaying
sports, planting gardens, doing art projects, hanging out with their children,
volunteering, and meeting their family friendsI think, yes, that sounds
wonderful. I can look around at the busy midweek, midday markets and town
squares and picture myself leisurely buying produce or having coffee with
friends. In a book released several years ago called Dutch Women Dont Get
Depresseda parody of French Women Dont Get FatDutch psychologist
Ellen de Bruin explains that key to a Dutch womans happiness is her sense of
personal freedom and a good work-life balance. But its hard to transplant that
image to the United States, where our self-esteem is so closely tied to our work.

Conservatives owe it to ourselves to look at the root of tradition, which is reverence for life
itself, including the natural environment and the existential need to find excellence and joy in
existence. Jobs obliterate this and replace it with Soviet-style grim obedience and grueling
time expenditure on the doomed. It is time conservatives got off this chain and began fighting
for life itself over the pointless obligation of jobs.

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Missing the point on the marshmallow experiment


Monday, March 14th, 2016

Over at Grey Enlightenment, a classic experiment revisited:

Since 2008, economically and socially, were also seeing the rise of the
deferers the high-IQ kids who deferred eating the marshmallow, now grown-
up, and are reaping all the fruits of prosperity in our new economy, getting
richer than ever while the eaters are on the lower echelons of society, stuck
with crappy, low social status jobs and bad relationships, assuming they even
have jobs.

Unfortunately this assessment misses the point. Our problem is not that the smart are getting
ahead the expense of everyone else, but that they are not. Instead, we have a quasi-intelligent
middle layer that has taken over, and by doing so, has crowded out anyone who knows
better about its little schemes, which periodically break down into depressions.

What has happened in the economy since 2008 by the way is what always happens: the
quasi-intelligent but obedient and diligent (read: frequently in attendance) get promoted
because they are good little cogs that in theory make people money by being in that desk
chair. The intelligent are demoted because no one understands what they are going on about,
and the truly mediocre are paired down as soon as their roles can be replaced by automation.

We are promoting those who are best at taking tests, studying, repeating in detail what they
were once told and staying abreast of talking points and current vocabulary, not our brightest.
Like all societies, ours is collapsing because we set up a single path to success through
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schooling and then dumbed it down to fit the audience, so now we have mostly useless
people even at the higher levels.

This is just one manifestation of the gradual takeover of our society by a single idea, equality.
On the surface it sounds good, but underneath it is a cauldron of guilt and instability. As
Breitbart News reports from Europe:

Migrants have placed their babies, toddlers and young children on railway tracks
in Greece in a bid to blackmail European authorities into reopening their
borders.

We understood the EU advocates human rights not human trafficking, and,


Im child and might not know much, but I believe treating people disrespectful
for being born on the other side of the planet is called: RACISM, added
others.

Around 36,000 have been trapped in Greece recently, unable to move on to


their preferred destinations namely Germany and Sweden.

The message is simple: when you dont get what you want, use an equality spell to demand
others give it to you!

Its the same thing that happened with education and jobs. At first, education went to those
who had a background for it. Then it needed to expand, to democratize, so they started
educating others but of course, these lacked the invisible abilities of the original group.
The judgment, the depth of thought, the perception. So we faked it. We made up a bunch of
tests and memorization contests to reward people of quasi-intelligence in place of the
actually intelligent.

Now, you will rarely find anyone in this society who is mentally competent in the important
ways. They have no judgment skills because their general intelligence is high but not high
enough. You do not get outright incompetents like Angela Merkel ruling nations until the
smarter people have been driven into hiding. And thats where they are, hoping it will all
blow over, as they live ordinary suburban lives.

The rest of our worker culling is easily explained: Technology has enabled business to
collapse its worker pool and, upon observing that most workers spend all day on Facebook, it
probably had little compunction about thinning the herd further. Why bother keeping around
the useless? Your competitors will not.

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Anti-work conservatives
Tuesday, December 29th, 2015

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Jobs are misery. Conservatives do not know how to respond to this because so much of the
right is awash in work hard and go to church style thinking, but if we get to the core of
conservatism, we can see an answer. Conservatism conserves the best that humanity has
discovered. This includes liberating people from horrible jobs.

That task contains two parts. First, we can stop sending people to unnecessary jobs; second,
we can make existing jobs better. This requires confronting a reality that offends the
egalitarianism of conservatives, and using solutions that offend the special snowflake
pretenses of liberals.

Eliminating unnecessary jobs requires rethinking work. An obstacle that arises here is that in
our media-government lingo, creating jobs is always good, so our political authorities will
oppose this idea. On the other hand, the way they create jobs subdividing existing tasks
and creating more by law reduces the value of the end product, so there may be more
opposition to them than they know.

The most important part of the idea of unnecessary jobs is the unnecessary part. Any role
which does not directly produce can be eliminated by reducing the vast amount of regulation
that requires paper-shuffling roles, and providing indemnity for corporations against certain
kinds of lawsuits. Without civil rights, union-related and other government-imposed
categories of liability, many paper-pushers could be sent home. In the same way, we could
cut out a lot of middle management if companies were more free to hire and fire.

But thats against the worker! says the well-educated (i.e. witless) modern person.
Actually, its a question of what benefits the worker. Being able to quickly transition jobs,
and having lower costs, benefits the worker by giving them more flexibility with fewer
obligations that keep them entrenched in the nine to five. If we stripped aside all of the
regulatory and liability crap weve added since 1945 or so, the average worker would have a
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expensive. This would liberate many people from ugly job situations and force management
to treat its employees better as a result.

In addition, we could halve the workforce by sending women home to have families. Those
that are unmarried can live with their parents so that, instead of spending two decades in
casual sex while wasting time at paper-pushing jobs, they can instead get started with
families and have more time after the kids are grown to do fun stuff. Our bars, cafes and
shops are filled with lonely single women who are wasting time trying to date when they
should be looking for a marriageable candidate and creating a family instead.

That act alone would obliterate the perceived need for importing workers. Suddenly, we
would have plenty, and competition would return in a positive form that emphasizes finding
the best possible match for any job that is possible. Right now, hiring people is expensive and
full of legal risk, so employers are highly conservative in how they hire. If that changed, they
would take more chances on unproven workers and move many people up in the hierarchy.

In addition, we could shift our culture from a fatalistic celebration of the do-nothing cube
slave job into one where proficiency was valued and thus, people took pride not in having a
certain job, but in doing that job well. This in turn would reduce the manic number of hours
people worked by redirecting our measurement of competence from time spent participating
to results obtained.

Improving existing jobs requires making jobs relevant, useful and empowering. Jobs bore
just about everyone because they are often pro forma or make-work done for the sake of
appearances, repetitive and show no result other than a tiny detail in a large mostly redundant
process. The solution here is to reverse all of those traits.

People feel power when they can have an effect. This means that they have an identifiable
portion of the whole. Think of the credits at the end of a movie; even if a person has only a
small role, they are listed and their work is shown as part of its necessary relationship to the
whole production. Empowering people in the only sane meaning translates into giving them
control over something where they will rise or fall based on performance, which encourages
them to perform instead of languish.

In turn, giving people power reduces the extraneous and repetitious jobs because instead of
the assembly-line mentality, where many people do small steps, someone walks a process
through from beginning to end. At this point in our technological history, assembly lines are
for robots; craftsmanship is for humans, and this applies to everything from filing loan
applications to cooking a four-course meal. With the power to see a task from inception to
completion, people feel they are masters of their own fate and boredom is reduced, as is job
redundancy.

Employers counter this with the viable argument that it is hard to replace workers, so it is
better to have a dozen cogs than two superstars. One solution to this is to hire people as
contractors, and another is to avoid super-specializing jobs and instead, finding intelligent
people and expecting them to sink or swim with learning the job. While this sounds cruel,
it also gives them a sense of accomplishment and builds skills in a way that school never can.

This approach has to take into account congenital intelligence and temperament. Someone
from farther right on the Bell Curve will by nature be less tolerant of repetition and lulls in
the development process. Such workers need fewer hours of more intensity, where slower
workers need the comfort of repetition and confirmation. This leads to conflict with the
democratic ideology of empowerment through granularity.

The egalitarian ideal desires robotic, redundant jobs. In the minds of those who think equality
is a solution to the challenges of life, the best job is one that anyone can do if given the right
instruction. This approach eliminates the internal traits like judgment, aesthetics and depth of
understanding and replaces them with external abilities like memorization, obedience and
surface-level perception. Cogs utilize external traits; craftspeople use internal ones.

In an effort to validate our ideology of egalitarianism, we have made jobs into the type of
dual hierarchy seen on Star Trek: a few main characters at the top do all the interesting stuff,
and everyone else is a red shirt who can die and be replaced with zero interruption in the
storyline. Egalitarian societies tend toward such flat hierarchies with rock stars because
their ideology cannot admit the variation in natural ability, so it reduces everyone to a single
level and elevates some on the basis of their supreme obedience. This does not promote the
best, and as a side effect, it makes the people at the top remote and authoritarian. It is one of
the supreme failings of egalitarian social orders.

Back in present-day reality, most people spend eight or more hours at the job and at least two
preparing and commuting to work. This reduces their free time to fourteen hours a day, eight
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of which goes to sleep, which means they have six hours in which to exercise, eat and relax.
That is enough time to waste on television, the internet or video games, but not enough to
embark on any projects of significance, which keeps people forever in a loop where they go
through repetitive days but never get a chance to work toward a real goal. They have time to
make model planes, but not to build a plane, at least if they also want to get enough sleep to
be healthy. Naturally, since the small amount of free time they have is where people have the
most power and are most effective, they cheat on their time, which creates a society of sleep-
deprived, bored, lifeless and zoned-out zombies staggering around going through the motions
of unnecessary, irrelevant and demeaning jobs.

Conservatives have eschewed talking about the horrors of work because so much of our
mythos in America rests in the put your head down, work hard and get ahead mentality,
which itself is a compensatory behavior that arises in lieu of taking society as a whole in a
positive direction. It is what people do when they believe they have lost and cannot change
anything but themselves, so they desire to be successful as a means of offsetting the fact that
their society is careening headfirst into the toilet.

However, the time has come to speak of all the ways in which the egalitarian liberal ideology
has failed us since taking control starting in 1789. It has made life more boring, more crassly
commercial, and more slave-like. It has given us freedom but then, because we must
support the mass of others, strapped us into suicidally stupid, boring and ugly lifestyles in
order to keep the system going. Like the Soviet Union, it removes the natural nature of free
markets, free association and collaboration and replaces them with obedience and utilitarian,
one-size-fits-all solutions. Since work is part of this, it should be noted that egalitarianism
has failed there as well, and we should not be afraid to speak up for achieving a less
miserable existence through an anti-work mentality.

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Antiwork conservatives
Friday, July 10th, 2015

A century ago, humans reveled in a simple proposition: machines would improve efficiency
and reduce the amount of time humans would have to spend working. Instead, work has
expanded to fill our resources and we work more than ever in less comfortable conditions.
What could have caused this complete reversal of expectations, as happens with so many
human plans.

The answer appears in the events of 1789. An over-populated lower end to French society,
aided by degenerates made into wealthy intellectuals by the mercantile wealth of their
parents, overthrew their government and murdered hundreds of thousands of people. Ever
since that time, governments and individuals have cowered in fear of the terror of the mob.

The mob operates on a simple principle: equality. Mobs united based on the idea that one can
be included for simply repeating a slogan, and this requires that all be equally included or

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doubt fractures the mob. Equality motivates people by making them feel comfortable: do one
thing, and be forever accepted and supported.

When humans have inequality, some work less and think more. Their actual work is in
keeping their brains optimized to make decisions and then taking time to study and
understand the subject matter. A good leader of this sort can save a society millions of man-
hours, but they appear unequal to the crowd, who does not recognize what they do as work.

As a result, we have done away with any work that is not sold by the pound. Any intellectual
work is now enwrapped in layers of regulations, trends, tropes and conventions. It is
expected of people that they show their dedication to the Peoples Revolution idea of work
itself. They do this by working just as much as everyone else if not more. That way they can
say, See? I am a good person. I work as much or more than you. You owe me fair treatment
because I am one of you.

The revolution of the workers created a society of workers. No one can escape. If the job is
not enough, more details and paperwork can be added. More products can be thrown into the
stream. Government can write more regulations or the courts can generate more
requirements. Anything to keep us all working and away from another Peoples Revolution,
which destroys societies and makes life worse for us all.

Conservatives shy away from anti-work. The essence of cuck is to accept nonsense as
truth, but it extends from that to a kind of shameful tolerance of insane conditions on a daily
basis. From this, conservatives invented what makes them hated, which is a pro-work just
keep your head down and work hard mentality that makes slaves of us all and also keeps
conservatives from addressing the fundamental structural problems with our society. And yet,
nothing in conservatism says that we should idealize work for works sake. Instead, we
should favor whatever makes the best society, and all of us being in offices all the time does
not do that.

Antiwork writing generally falls under the leftist wing because leftists want any excuse for
socialism reward before performance that they can create. Conservatives can
incorporate antiwork not as an excuse for socialism, but as a means to withdraw from the
state. Spend less time doing nonsense, and more time on the meaningful, such as family,
culture, spirituality and self-development. This reduces the importance of the State and the
prole-run society it endorses, turning our attention to the more serious issues that invoke
conservatism by their very nature.

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Jeb! strikes sour note on work


Thursday, July 9th, 2015

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In the process of trying to convince us that the Republican party is not merely the cuckold
pro-business arm of the Democrat party, Jeb! (Bush) shot off his mouth about what needed to
be done for the American economy:

Bush was asked a question about tax reform during an interview live streamed
on Periscope, and said he believes the U.S. can achieve 4 percent growth.

Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has


to rise from its all-time modern lows, Bush continued. It means that people
need to work longer hours.

Not only is this mindless in that it views the economy as an infinite fountain of delights
instead of the zero-sum game that it is, but it is destructive and pointless to encourage people
to work more. If anything, people need to work less and learn more about themselves by
having spare time enough to get bored with their distractions and discover who they really
are. Most people never get to that stage and stay enmired in the distractions.

Jeb!s statement resembles the worst of the Leninist Conservatives who believe that
conservatism must be forced on all people in order to make them succeed, where an actual
conservative case would be to reward the good and punish the bad. Further, he stumbles into
the worst of conservative tropes, which is the notion that an individual can ignore the society
around them and just work hard at their job, succeed and be rewarded and thus everything
else will magically be OK. There are no magic one-button solutions, and the idea of growing
the economy by 4% through more work seems like a cruel and unusual punishment.

Antiwork conservatives such as myself are quick to point out that (1) most jobs consist of
mostly nonsense and (2) most projects, laws and products are also nonsense. The economy
stays afloat on the delay between nonsense and its realization, with profit in the middle as
crazy ideas distribute money to employees and service providers. The problem is that in the
long term this nonsense weakens our economy because its lowered quality control means
lowered value, and that this manic constant working makes people aliens from their families
and themselves, producing robotic and existentially miserable people.

If we want to grow our economy, one method might to be pay people to do the jobs that are
not profitable but are needed. We need more crime-fighters, people to clean up the cities,
forest guardians, animal welfare agents and people watching out over public places, and
many other roles besides. Instead of paying people to do 15 minutes of real work a day and
otherwise distract themselves in an office for eight hours a day minimum, let us liberate all
people who are not exclusively needed and send them off to do other stuff that technically
does not make money. This will strengthen the nation as a whole and thus strengthen its
currency.

Instead, Jeb! is grinding away on the non-conservative principle that more work magically
makes money. If he listened to real conservatives, he would hear that with the advances in
technology since 1900, we should all be working a lot less. Instead, we work more. This
inversion, like other inversions, represents bad leadership. Conservatives should invest time
in figuring out why things are that way and changing them, instead of urging people to spend
more time in their boring jobs, existentially miserable and alienated from their own souls.

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The conservative anti-work movement


Friday, May 1st, 2015

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Most people have jobs they hate which require their attention for a couple hours at most, and
then fill the rest of the day with useless activity. This parallels the educational system which
specializes in diversity exercises and coloring books.

Imagine that your day started at nine in the morning. You roll into work, having encountered
far less traffic than usual. You sit down and make things happen for three hours. At noon, you
go home.

Sound weird? Not really; this is how most of humanity has always lived.

Two things keep you at work: our pretense of inclusion and our need for interchangeable
cogs.

First: Inclusion requires that all good people work to support those who do not.

When you combine state and local taxes, you are paying almost 50% of your income to
government to do things for you. If you subtract out the essential things like military, you are
left with a remaining 75% of that tax burden which goes to entitlements and well-intentioned
programs.

Imagine getting almost half of your income back. You might opt to work half a day and keep
your existing salary, then spend the rest of the time doing the things that make life worth
living. Existential growth, family, friends, your own pursuits, that sort of thing.

True, the welfare state would collapse, but what do you get from that anyway? The people
receiving welfare care only about what they get; isnt it time you do the same? What does it
do, directly, for you? Nothing.

The illusion that we must include everyone requires us to pay for them even if they
contribute nothing. We must all get along and be a big happy family according to our
ideological overlords. And yet, none of us actually benefit from this. Politicians do however.

Liberals freaked out when they thought that low-income workers at Wal-mart were able to
work those jobs only because of welfare. It turns out this was another liberal study drawing
wide inferences from minimal data. But turning it around, it means that you are subsidizing
every low-income worker. Do you need what they do? Probably not. Probably 90% of what
they do is irrelevant to you. And yet you pay for it.

Second: jobs require interchangeable cogs.

A large company fears the irreplaceable worker. This is the only power a worker has; unions
are surrogates for this that can prevent a worker from being fired, but give him no power
outside of the union. A worker who is unique in ability and drive however can negotiate his
own salary and be the cornerstone of a business.

If such a worker leaves, replacing him proves very difficult. Even worse, an irreplaceable
worker cannot be bossed around by middle management. He knows what he does well and

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has purpose to what he does, which means that when the average dummy manager shows up
to make him lick boots, he will laugh and go back to doing what makes the company money.

The response by management has been to universally prefer cogs over independent actors as
workers. This dumbs down every job, because instead of having one guy assemble the whole
tube of toothpaste, a job which requires skill, you have five guys: a crimper, a filler, a painter
and a cap-screwer. If any one of these guys flakes out or gets fired, he will be easy to replace.

In consequence jobs become boring. The worker spends most of his time waiting on others
and then doing a single, repetitive task. This has even spread to the professions, where
specialization means that doctors and lawyers see the same cases day after day. The result is
blindness to anything but the most common cases, which is why so many illnesses are
misdiagnosed by experts.

These twin illusions make modern work into a different form of slavery. It is comfortable and
moderately well-paid. The worker has rights. However, the hours are long and the rights
are inconsequential.

Worse, because every cog is replaceable, competition means putting in more hours which
requires inventing more make-work. There are 200 people who want your job, and more
pouring in every day, so your only defense is to make sure you are always seen at your desk
and to invent ways to appear important. This makes people into little tyrants, always
enforcing their authority or demanding people pay attention to them.

A conservative response to work is to see it for what it is: a distraction and a way of
neutralizing the independent person. Work replaces humans with functions. Work makes
every Dad too busy for his kids and definitely too busy to foment revolution. Work also
transfers wealth from the good, obedient and productive citizens to the less productive and
less aware.

With that in mind, policy regarding work can be formulated. Send the women home to be
with their kids. Cut the work day in half. Remove any laws or institutions (including unions)
which encourage make-work. Instead, encourage workers to have skills so they are not
replaceable cogs. Then let the markets do what they do best and deliver lower costs at fewer
hours.

A century ago people predicted that with the massive innovations in technology, future
people would work a few hours a day and spend the rest of their time enjoying life. Instead
the opposite has occurred. This should set off red flags everywhere, but from mainstream
conservatives we hear a glorification of work and working hard, which in the real world
translates to spending all your time at the office.

If we removed all of the parasitic social programs and cog-driven agenda of management,
work would again become simply doing the job and going home. But for that to happen, the
agenda of the supposed defenders of the workers, the left, must be eroded.

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