In the last 10 years, I have seen the company where I work slowly erode, and I see that all around me.
...What's going on?
I don't normally think so much about this, but recent interaction with
the state brought a sudden insight. Just in disbelief how some simple matter dealing with bureaucracy is so incredibly difficult and slow to complete. It completely defecates on any measure of ambition. I can't imagine that in the fifties or 1890s that the state could possibly be so slow and inefficient, only the former communist block perhaps.
Then, I was shocked in one country to see marijuana for sale in the general store near the chocolates and in another, a marijuana vending machine! I took a picture of the latter it was such a shock, was going to post it somewhere, may still do so it was such a sight. It was in a small village in central Europe. So you don't have to go and do a deal in the shadows anymore, you don't have to even go into a store, you can simply sneak down there in the middle of the night and make a purchase. Just like anonymous porn watching. I'm sure many teens in that small village at some time or another would just wonder down and try it out of boredom.
Decline of functioning society, what's going on?
Ambition is frowned upon for one. This legalisation of weed would have been unthinkable in the past. Although it might be good for some artists, it is renowned for taking away people's ambition, just like in that song
Because I got High.
I once looked at an antique engineering book published 1897 and it was a lot more complex than my equivalent book from the early 2000s.
Higher taxes and redistribution are of course also not an incentive to trying hard.
Between free porn and weed why would anyone bother doing anything anymore. Some of us from a slightly earlier era received less of a mixed message about trying hard. Of course if you're in the forum, you know well to switch off from all these satanic stuff, but we need to discuss it from time to time when it confronts us or becomes overwhelming.
Some links on the topic:
I recently read Brave New World, written 1932 here is just a small quote to get a feel for those who haven't read it :
Like aphides and ants, the leaf-green Gamma girls, the black Semi-Morons swarmed round the entrances, or stood in queues to take their places in the monorail tram-cars. Mulberry-coloured Beta-Minuses came and went among the crowd. The roof of the main building was alive with the alighting and departure of helicopters.
People are no longer "born" in "families" in that book, they are bred on an assembly line of sorts which deliberately dumbs some of them down to fulfill certain rolls in society.
Not sure if the word should be
breeding,
grooming or
handling, but the (mixed) message from the state nowadays is intended to create epsilon morons and semi-morons. There is an absolute mixed message that is sent out now, which also includes all the gender confusion from LGBT, to early sex education, to 'transitioning'. They absolutely want to reform the class structure to include a much larger class of useless folk but who are kept content by various comforts, just like the drug
Soma in Brave New World.