The City-State and The Internet

There may be an inverse correlation with moral agency and technological advance. The past didn't have democracy which politicizes EVERYONE who still assumes their vote matters. Politics makes people miserable. At least it does for me and I've considered giving up any political theory in favor of spiritual development.

If you take the vote away from everyone then no one will care about issues or politics. They'll focus on themselves and their own lives which is why I believe people outside of a democracy would be happier. The games of power are sickening. It's like the ring of power from the Lord of the Rings. The more you wield it the more you want to wield it and the sicker you become. Not even the noble hobbits were immune to the corruption of the ring of power.

The past didn't have social media nor all of the connective communication devices that we do today. The positive is that there is a growing movement of disdain for the current political and social climate. While the voices on the left, right, and center are divergent on the aims of a successful society they are united in their general enmity of the current status quo and are eager for change. Real change and not the BS Obama change.

The vision I have for the future is humility. One of diversity of thought and coexistence of various ideologies. I begin with humility. I am not God and I do not know what's best for everyone. I know only what I want, if that. I can decide for myself. I control my own life and have no need for power over others. But to bring that about diversity of thought there must be an end to universalism. The idea of big government must be put to rest.

The city-state is a social construct where autonomous states may govern themselves as they wish. This is similar to the United States prior to the tyrant Abraham Lincoln imposing his universalist thought onto everyone. But these city-states would not be limited to 50 or any other arbitrary number. It would allow for states to grow and govern as they see fit. A christian state could be born, a theocratic christian state run under the principles of the Bible, so long as it agreed to exist peacefully next to other autonomous states. This breeds independence to people and true diversity. Diversity of lifestyle where the Christian would not fear a secularized media and school system. It would have no need to brainwash children or force them to conform to its ideas of equality and secular thought.

The left could have their paradise. They could have their free and just world without gender or race or religion. But they never want that because theirs is a spirit of a parasite latched onto the greater beast.

We only need to look to the internet to see the future. The groups that form along various websites are similar to the pairings of the city-states that would form. The homosexuals could have their own state. Let them. The catholics and the muslims could form theirs as well. And any other who would choose to do such a thing. The internet communities that we see could very well be the models of future societies.

We are fortunate to live in these times as we may see this come about. The government has spent beyond its means. The trillions in unfunded liabilities can never be paid which means a downsizing, which means they'll lose power. Hopefully, the angst of the populace will not allow them to regrow back to their former state after it collapses. I don't think it will because I don't think it will need to.

Certain technologies such as 3D printing will redistribute the population away from cities. We can see the growth of universalist thought along with the growth of the city. People forced to live in close proximity to each other must conform to a certain rigidity of thought in order for it to function. But as the industrial world collapses because of a decentralization of industry in the form of 3D printing then it's likely the same will trigger an exodus from the city.

It is need which defines us. People need food and they need jobs. When the jobs are all in the cities then the people will all be in the cities. When the jobs are decentralized then the people will not be there. Most people do not like most people and most people will be happie choosing where and what form of society they live under. But for any of this to work a vitriolic hatred of universalism must be burned into everyone's mind.

The Rifle and The Drone

Democracy worked best around the time after the American Revolution. Democracy being a distribution of power among the people, there was one invention which lead to this being possible and tenable during the era, the rifle. Ubiquitous access to firearms was more liable for the American and French revolutions than was the Enlightenment era's philosophy of egalitarianism. The rifle made power distributable among the people more than the vote. Voting became an extension of that most carnal of power and since all power is derivative of violence then general equality of rich man and poor man armed with a flintlock rifle by necessity made them equals. God made man but Samuel Colt made them equal.

With the advance of military technology there is a push away from the common man. The 2nd amendment can be destroyed in two ways. One by revoking its status legally. Two by making the possession of firearms pose little threat to the state. The state has attempted both but has been more successful for the later.

Now we enter the age of the drone a nearly autonomous killing machine. At most a user inputs some data on a screen safely tucked away in a bunker somewhere and the drone kills a group of people or drops a bomb on a weapon's factory. It's like a video game.

There is really no division between state and citizen. The two are imagination. There is man with resources, the rich man and man without resources poor man. By voluntarily surrendering one's freedom a man may gain temporary access to certain resources. For example, a man in the military may gain access to a million dollar attack chopper but only while he wears a certain uniform. Regardless, the dichotomy remains rich man poor man and the gap between the two is ever widening.

Prior to the rifle there was the lancer, the swordsmen, and the archer. The problem with all three of these is similar. The amount of training it took to create an able bodied swordsmen was too long. The elite with the resources to allow someone to train a swordsmen were not apt to distribute this power to the peasants. The aristocracy held sway because no one could compete. Never doubt where power lay. It is brought from the willingness to murder another or it is phantasmal, illusionary, so much brainwashing on television. And so it took ten years to train a swordsmen and outfit him in armor. Then the rifle came and it took an afternoon to show a boy how to fire a rifle. He was now competitive with a 200 pound man in battle. The rifle destroyed the aristocracy as much as the guillotine did because it is technology which brings about changes.

The push to drones move power away from the people because the people do not have access to drones. That may or may not change but the rich man grows greater in strength because he can afford these million dollar death machines and the working class grows poorer. When drones become totally autonomous and hundreds of drones can perform patrol duties, surveillance, and serve arrest warrants without human insight the shift toward elite power will be nearly absolute. A few men will control the drones and the drone oversight and maintenance crew and anyone not them will be peasants. Humans are violent chimpanzees and no amount of modern liberalism and kindhearted diatribes have changed that.

The only way for power to be distributed evenly is not with voting but making sure everyone can kill each other. In particular, if the state fears the people, or the rich man fears the poor man, there can be peace. Otherwise, if the rich man has no need to restrain his inner psychopath, he won't.

Drones don't exist in vacuums however. There is another device that helps with power distribution. The internet allows for the free exchange of information. It's turned everyone's apartment into a television station allowing everyone to freely broadcast their thoughts to millions of others. Unfortunately, most people ignore all of this. Look for well thought out blogs and videos with insightful, educational commentary and you'll usually stumble over a writer that's struggling to get by or make a living from his craft for the specific reason that well thought out posts don't draw much attention. Commentary on relationships and celebrity gossip bring tenfold the attention as of a philosophical treatise on consciousness. But the internet has organized people. It is this era's rifle which has given some power to the people and stripped it away from the elite which is why internet freedom is just as important if not more so than the 2nd amendment. The days of the rifle defending freedom are gone. Liberty hangs on the wire, on youtube, on the blogs, and the web pages.

On the feminization of the military

One day they'll push too far and some young man with ambition will realize he has no hopes of obtaining the rank he deserves through merit. He'll split off and take a lot of other angry young men with him. There's only so much transgender and gay praise a southern boy can take before he's had it and realizes that the military and the nation he believed in no longer existed. Then things get interesting. Real interesting.

When most people hear of secession and civil war they have an image of dumb rednecks with shotguns lead by Alex Jones. Then they say how impossible it is for citizens to fight the military which may or may not be true but the more likely scenario is of a schism within the military of highly trained, heavily armed soldiers performing a coup or going rogue against the military. So when the leftists imagine a revolt they always envision the military on THEIR side when any real civil war will have a military, political leaders, and infrastructure on both sides.

Considering that the majority of the military are all white, male, christian, conservatives who are being oppressed with leftist tolerance, the splinter faction scenario is possible. Another possibility is that the white christians simply stop joining the military and as diversity becomes the norm within the military we go the way of Rome and fill up the rank with foreigners and aliens. Similarly as Rome, once the decline accelerates the foreign born military will not hold loyalty to anyone and will turn to looting and piracy once the .gov checks stop rolling in.

But leftists don't live in reality. They long for ideals and not realism. For a society to function properly it must focus its intent on the mainstream of the culture not the outlier. The transgender is such a tiny minority that paying them any mind within the collective is wasted since their issues don't matter. 

Hierarchy Works: World of Warcraft Edition

I started playing World of Warcraft in 2008 during college. Then the new expansion Wrath of the Lich King was just released and the game was still on its amazing rise into cultural fame. There were new players joining all the time, guilds started, friendships formed, and a world to explore, but over time it changed from the game I started out playing. 

I've always been into fantasy (though I've never played D&D because I wanted to have sex) and would treat it like my dorky side hobby that I didn't tell too many people about. And while I played other games besides WoW, when I first set foot into Azeroth, I was amazed at what I found. The environment, the details, and all of the character intrigued me from the start. 

From the beginning I heard things about the higher levels. There was something called a raid and guilds and they would compete for whoever was the best guild. I used to see characters in amazing looking gear with mounts and fancy sounding guild names like Equilibrium and Brotherhood. People would chat about the server first dragon kill or some player claiming a rare mount. I knew from the start what I wanted. I wanted to raid, to be the guy with the amazing gear and cool mounts. I had a goal, a dream, and motivation to pursue it. 

The fact that my gear sucked and that I died often made it better not worse. I knew there was something to strive for. I could improve if I worked at it enough. The separation between the top players and the average player was strong and everyone knew it. It was the hierarchy of it, not equality, which gave purpose to playing the game. 

Then the complainers started winning. They complained and moaned endlessly on the forums. And complainers complained about the complainers which I saw as redundant and useless. And the collective bitching of the player base reached a high water mark and the developers started to listen. Not only did they listen but they started to make the game more fair more equal.

A popular term started to be tossed around. Welfare epic. At one time wearing a piece of purple gear meant you put in an inordinate amount of time to get that gear. Any purple epic was amazing to have and really separated the players out. Not only that, but a lot of players never had the gear to even do a raid. They didn't have the time or they weren't skilled enough to make it. Instead of giving up or just enjoying the game for what they could do they went to daddy Blizzard and demanded fairness. They demanded everything be made equal to their level of failure. Instead of dedicating themselves to improving their situation, which they could do with a quick google search and some practice, they wanted to make the distinction between the great players and the average player much less noticeable.

They won and got what they wanted and epic gear was handed out just for showing up. Every aspect of the game was carefully laid out for everyone to understand. Bosses were made so easy it took little coordination to kill one and get those epics. And the thing about epics is that when everyone has one they feel much less epic than before. The prestige was gone. The feeling of the game being mysterious was gone. Having something to strive for, work toward, and obtain was gone.

And the subscriptions fell with each passing year as the game was toned down to the worst, laziest player's level. No scaling. No hierarchy. Just endless equality and boredom. And the complainers didn't miss a beat. They didn't become pleased with what they were given. Instead they demanded more and more. While I can't blame all of the loss in popularity on the lack of prestige within the game, I do believe it deserves a fair chunk of it.

I learn wherever I go and from whatever I see. I'm always trying to find the lesson in things and that discerning eye for wisdom doesn't stop at something that lacks intellectual content. The lesson that I took from WoW is that equality produces nothing but mediocrity. And as the pitch of cries society-wide for more equality reach a crescendo that's all I expect to see it produce. The mediocre.

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A Review of "Enjoy the Decline" by Aaron Clarey

Socialism fails. It's a repeating story throughout history. The rise and fall of empires can be traced back to the ever incessant push in the increase in state power. And yet we never learn. Whether by hubris or ignorance we fall to the same machinations that generations past fell to and Aaron Clarey's book "Enjoy the Decline" documents the rise of socialism in America and the fall of a nation.

The title is perfect. It's one of the best titles for a book on the economy and America that I've read. It's catchy and fitting to the subject. Clarey's book can really be seen as a book in two volumes. The first volume is the economic. The second volume is the personal. Both have their merits.

The book lays the tracks for the future of the US economy. Not good. But never dwells there and never strays into hopelessness any more than it needs to. This is the decline. The math is there. There are a few charts to read and some numbers to understand but there's no prerequisite in economics needed to understand everything. Clarey did a great job of making all the material easy to understand for the majority of people.  

The book makes a clear case what is happening in America. Vast amounts of government spending, entitlements, the increasing debt, social security, and medicare are destroying the economy. The american dream is finished. It was destroyed by keynesians, socialists, and corporations.  But the book is not a lamentation over the death of the world's greatest nation. The tone of it is one of hope. It's no macabre prophet to point to the storm clouds and shout rain. There is no anger in this book. No resentment over what's happening. Clarey writes like a man not enraged by the decline of his country but one who is saddened by it.

The second half goes into detail about personal issues. This is the "Enjoy" part of it. The author makes a breakdown of what's likely to happen during the decline and how people can best to prepare for it. He details some of the aspects of the destruction of the family. He covers why most degrees are worthless and then helps the reader chart a course to help them navigate today's America.

The second part is practical. It's there as a guide to help the reader understand that many of their beliefs are false. The things they grew up believing they should work for:  career, family, community, are not possible or much more difficult to obtain than before. Instead, Clarey gives a guide on how to live and be happy without those things. He covers how to live with less, how to reap some of the benefits the government offers while they're still available, and how avoid a lot of the dangerous contracts laced throughout society. Hint: get out of debt and avoid most marriages.

The decline is likely to get ugly. Part of the book talks about the need to prepare yourself and anyone around you to be self-sufficient for a disaster scenario and it goes into detail on how to do that and what you'll need to survive. This is the most practical part of the book as it ventures into survivalism and disaster recovery. It covers all the basics, goes into detail on what you'll need and plans you should make.

The book is part economics, part career councilor (the one you should have had in high school), and part survival manual to aid and inform its readers to the many pitfalls they may face in their lives. It's unfortunate but America as a whole has denied reality for decades and continues to do so. However, as "Enjoy the Decline" points out, while denying reality might offers some temporary comfort the consequences of reality can only be ignored for so long.

Enjoy The Decline available on amazon.

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The Future is small

It is a decentralization of information that's happening today. The mainstream media becomes less relevant year after year. It is a decentralization of education as massively online open courses (MOOCs) replace higher education. As khan academy makes a classroom redundant, parents must question the validity of sending their children off to public school. As homeschooling and unschooling grow in popularity, the eager tax slaves of the state diminish in number.  Bitcoin is the decentralization of currency.   Out and away from the central bankers.

The next stage is 3D printing. The state recognizes the threat of 3D but is limited in its scope. Just as it couldn't predict the destruction of its state run indoctrination farms known as schools, it can't predict the effects of 3D printing. It goes beyond printing guns. In fact, if it were only useable to print guns than it would have far less scope. Instead it is the destruction of the industrialized world.

Taoist thought goes like this: all that rises must fall, all that expands must contract. Cycles. Up and down like the tides of the sea.

Why do I believe we'll be leaving cities? I know demographics do not favor this idea. Most cities in the US grow every year. They're not shrinking. One of the reasons the city will shrink in the future is because most people living in a city aren't happy. Cities mimic prisons and the people often exhibit behavior similar to animals in captivity.

Why I'm a misanthrope

Ever notice that billionaires always seem to support the status quo? Why would they want to change a system they've been so successful i?. If things changed they might not be on top. Therefore, it's only logical to assume that the majority of misanthropes will come from the lower classes. If more become broke than more will hate the system that broke them.

Why am I a misanthrope? Everything is terrible.

1. Music terrible
2. Movies are terrible
3. Books are terrible
4. women are terrible
5. men are terrible
7. my math skills are terrible
8. marriage is terrible
9. the government is terrible
10. the media is terrible
11. education is terrible
12. the economy is terrible
13. the food is terrible
14. religion is terrible
15. atheism is terrible
16. Health is terrible
17. Laws are terrible

Quick, try and think of something that isn't terrible or broken. Anything come to mind?


To make this fair and balanced which I always never strive for let's consider what isn't terrible.

1. Technology is great
2. everything else sucks

Why does anyone think the future is going to be any better?

Terrible doesn't make not terrible. It just produces more terrible.

If you aren't irritated by the state of things today you are either.

1. doped to your eyeballs on medication
2. retarded
3. a billionaire
4. Intentionally ignorant. I envy you.

A Video Game Rant

The older I get the less I enjoy new video games. Maybe it's a part of me that is changing, which I don't doubt, but a lot of things in gaming irritate me, and I want to explain why.

Video games are an inferior way to tell a story. Most stories in a game lack any depth or emotion. The first thing anyone attempting to write a story should ask themselves is this. Why would anyone care about this character? I don't have a connection to a character just because they exist. There has to be something more. Either make the character high status or make them emotionally appealing because it is that emotion and intrigue which garners player's to those characters. Just because your character exists and looks cool is not enough for me. As stories go, there have been so few that have ever intrigued me enough to care about any of the characters involved.

Another problem I have with games is how the story is told. I'm playing Max Payne 3 now and the story is awful. I don't know what's going on and nor do I care, but what makes it irritating is the fact that it detracts from the experience of immersion within the environment. In Max Payne 3 the typical level is very short. You run forward, shoot some guys, and then experience a cutscene which you usually can't skip. These scenes are so uninteresting and jarring to the experience that I often quit playing because of it. At best, I'll play Max Payne 3 once and then never again.

I don't play games for a story. I have thousands of books lining my shelves if I want to read a story. I don't need story in my games. I need games in my games. I understand that a lot of people seem interested in games because of the story but I'm not one of them. Not unless that story can show some real pathos and some understanding of the minutia of storytelling itself.  The problem is that many games now force a player into investing in the story.

There are some games who tell good stories. These stories are usually minimal though. Dead Space 1 and 2 had good stories largely because nearly all of the storytelling was optional. You could skip all the cutscenes which makes multiple playthroughs much more enjoyable. One of the banes in modern gaming is the studios reliance on cutscenes for storytelling. Don't ruin the immersion of your atmosphere by pulling a player out of it through an intrusive and needless cutscene.

There are some exceptions which I want to point out. To me, Mass Effect 1 and 2 were great examples of stories I don't care about. What Mass Effect 3 did right was allowing for a more streamlined game without all the dialogue portion.

There are many good examples of how to tell a good story, most of them are from Bethesda. Any Elder Scrolls game is going to have an excellent story behind it and I won't mind sitting through all of the dialogue and cut scenes even on multiple playthroughs. They rarely detract from immersion and often add to it. Fallout 3 is another great example which is largely driven by the emotions inherent in a child going in search of their missing father. Hint to designers, we all have families and there's a reason why so many great films and books center around familial relations.

Another point about storytelling. If you're going to make your villain the epitome of evil, try and explain why they became that way. Some sociopaths might have an innate tendency for murder and exploitive power but most endured abuse as children or other difficulties sending them into the dark side.

The atmosphere is the story. There are no cutscenes in real life and this jarring juxtaposition between an interactive environment needs to be reduced as minimal as possible. Resident Evil, and most survival horror, must understand the relationship between the player and the atmosphere. Not all games need to have a dark sense of dread and looming danger. Bioshock and Borderlands 2 are great examples of games with amazing and fun moods. Part of the problem as I see it, is that the people who are needed to code a lot of these games are not going to be the most expressive, creative, and interesting people. It takes a certain type of person who can both write code and write an appealing novel and most people have one element but not both.

I want to lose myself in a challenging experience of a game. I want to be forced to master those encounters with intricate, pinpoint precision. I want a constantly escalating struggle pushing me to my limits, forcing me to master every encounter, understand every aspect of the gameplay, memorize attack patterns, and then be rewarded for my efforts. This brings me to my next point on modern gaming.

Difficulty is something I want in a game. Needless to say, I start every game on the hardest setting. It wasn't always like this however. In the past, difficulty settings were often non-existent and many of the games were extremely challenging. I grew up playing Battle Toads, Ninja Gaiden, and Contra so my level of frustration and challenge is probably higher than the gamers today who've had a lifetime of Assassin's Creed easy-mode-fits-all. If there is one way to get to give up on your game it's too make it too easy. I want multiple difficulty settings from the start.

My biggest gripe in Skyrim is how easy the game is. For it to be challenging I have to self-impose a new difficulty setting where I don't use blacksmithing, I don't use enchanting, and I don't use stealth. Then the game is a challenge but it seems to be something Elder Scrolls love to do, let players break their game and go god mode.

Shaking camera. God of War 3 is a great game encompassing the majority of things I love about games. Brain busting difficulty, great combat, and great rewards but one thing that irritates me is the use of shaking cameras. It is disorienting and frustrating and I don't feel a sense of grandness or danger from the atmosphere because the camera is shaking. I feel dizzy.

Where God of War 3 goes wrong is in continuing with the dreaded Real Time Events which I've grown to hate. They were a poor novelty when they were first introduced and are terrible and overused now. They offer nothing to gameplay and in the case of God of War 3 detract from the the death animations of the monsters you're facing. Am I supposed to watch for the RTE or watch as Kratos murders a leviathan? Because I don't want to miss the event I always miss the death animations. I wish this fad would die it's well deserved death.

As with most things in entertainment, I'm not entertained by what is shoveled out of Hollywood, the publishing industry, and the gaming industry. These are just a few of my gripes from the current generation of gaming as it seems that the technology has advanced while a lot of the other elements of game design have not kept pace. It is too easy to make a pretty looking game with lots of grandiose cut scenes which add nothing to the game overall. Much of it in gaming and other entertainment is a lot of "sound and fury signifying nothing," as Shakespeare said.

World War III

“History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.” Enoch Powell

Linking this video. The publisher has several other videos to watch which go into detail on the petrol dollar. From the video I get the impression that the US is looking for some event to justify war with Iran, Syria, and China. I wonder what that event will be. WWIII seems as likely a scenario as a civil war. As someone pointed out it was thought that Germany and Great Britain  were too economically interdependent to fight each before WWII.

The Westermarck effect, or reverse sexual imprinting, is a hypothetical psychological effect through which people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to later sexual attraction.

In other words, the taboo against incest is not just social but biological. This has been observed in children who are not related but are raised in close proximity to each other. They rarely marry or have sex.

There is a stereotype that black men like fat women. It might not be a stereotype. One theory is that it happens because of sexual imprinting in childhood. The boy derides some of his sexual nature from the mother. If the mother is fat, he's more likely to prefer fat women when he gets older. The boy does not develop sexual feelings for his mother however because of the westermarck effect.  Sexual imprinting also helps to understand many fetishes.

Foot fetishes are very popular. If the male child is visual, and derives his sexual impulses from visual stimuli, than it's easier to understand where this fetish comes from. Children are short and often crawl about at the feet of their mother. The majority of people in the BDSM community were often spanked as children where the child's brain could easily correlate the love of a parent with the pain and embarrassment of spanking.

There are few relationships with a greater power differential than between a father and his daughter. The reality of hypergamy is that without the Westermarck effect daughters would be constantly trying to sleep with their fathers.

Black women's perceived sexual market value is often extremely overrated. Especially to white men who were generally raised by thinner mothers. However, if mothers are getting fatter, it's possible that the new generation of boys, regardless of race, will be more attracted to fat women. This will raise the value of fat women and fat acceptance could easily become fat praise. And it gets worse. If the feminization of males continue these fat women are likely to become mean and nasty. Not only that but if they don't mate select for financial reasons, they'll only do so for alpha status. It's possible that fat women will inherit the earth. The blogger who wrote that the future of America is what black society is today could be close to the truth, especially if the middle class is eliminated.

Advice For Men: Social Security Disability

As the economy enters into its upteempth year of recession, it's only natural for men to become depressed maybe even bipolar or schizophrenia. If that has happened to you, my condolences. It's a hard life to live but with today's welfare state there is help available. Having worked my way through the system I wanted to offer some advice to men seeking disability benefits.

First, there are two forms of help available. One is SSDI which is social security disability insurance. This is only available to workers who have become disabled. You have to pay taxes for a number of years to qualify for this. Two is SSI which is supplemental security income. This is available to everyone regardless of time worked or taxes paid. While almost all of this information is relevant to both, specifically I'm referring to SSI.

So what are the first steps to take to getting on the dole? Easy, you have to be bipolar or schizophrenic. Not only that but you have to found disabled. Let me take you through the process that normally happens.

Bipolar is a crazy illness. It has many different types. Bipolar type I will qualify someone for benefits. To find out if you're bipolar go here: Bipolar Information

Now that you're familiar with what bipolar is and recognize some of the signs you can take the following steps.

1. You must see a psychiatrist. A general practitioner is not enough. Normally, a psychiatrist will require a therapist as well. See both. The therapist will be asked to vouch for your disability claim as well. Make sure to have all of your history of when your symptoms started occurring and how they affected your life. 
2. Fill out an application at the social security website. You will need to fill out both an SSI and SSDI application regardless. You may want to call the nearest social security office. 
3. One of the most difficult parts of getting on disability is the fact that you can't just be bipolar and receive benefits. It's estimated that 75% of all claims are denied on their first attempt. That number is probably higher but don't fret. There are things you can do to improve your chances of success.
4. Having a long and detailed history of your mental illness is probably the best thing you can. Also, having a string of failed jobs or unemployment can also help. 
5. You need to be disabled and the state considers that unable to work. Any. Job. At. All. The state will deny your claim if they believe you can flip burgers or work a kiosk part time. You must be totally incapable of working a job that will provide for your survival.
6. You will be given medication. This is par the course for anyone who is bipolar. Most claims will deny you if you aren't currently seeing a psychiatrist, therapist, and "taking" medication. There are many risks and small benefits to taking most of the drugs for bipolar. These drugs are over prescribed and have lifelong detriments to them if taken long enough. They can increase suicidality, violence, and cause an intensity in the symptoms they're prescribed for. Be extremely cautious if you're thinking about "taking" these drugs.  
7. Hospitalization for mental illness is very common with someone with bipolar. A bipolar person faces a much greater risk of suicide. They'll often dial 911 as a cry for help, saying they want to die. They'll be whisked away for a medical exam and then admitted to a mental ward for about 72 hours at least. Most people at this time feel much better and no longer want to hurt themselves. They'll then be discharged and free to go. The reason why I'm putting this on the application is because, while hospitalization is a tragedy, it really helps the approval rating for any disability claim.
8. You may wish to call the social security office and fill out an application over the phone. Some of the questions on the form are ambiguous and it helps to have a person to ask if you're unsure. They will schedule a callback appointment and you can handle everything over the phone.
9. They will request you go to see a state sponsored psychiatrist. Repeat your history and all the symptoms you've experienced up to this point and this visit should be very simple. You will be asked to visit a doctor for an exam if you've stated a physical disability along with your mental illness. 
10. You wait. And wait. And wait. The state moves slowly and will be in no hurry. One of the hardest parts about getting on SSI is surviving before you get it. If you can work and survive than the state believes you're not disabled. If you can't work it's hard to survive. Some people move in with friends or family or work jobs off the books. Waiting for the decision can take months. 
11. You may get denied. They love denying people. You hear all kinds of horror stories about double amputees being denied on their first claim. Some get approved on the first try. It mostly depends on how great the patient's history is. 
12. This is important. Immediately after you get denied you need to appeal the claim. This the same as the first application. You do a phone interview and relate much of the same information. But you must state clearly that you want to appeal the decision. If you don't appeal it within 60 days you have to start the whole procedure over again. The chance of approval increases on appeal.
13. You should continue to appeal the claim until approved.
14. You get approved. Congrats.

Once approved you'll collect back pay. The payments you receive from disability begin from the date you filed your claim not from the date it was approved. That means your first few checks will be larger than is normal. Some suggest getting an attorney. I don't. An attorney will consume most of your back pay and a lot of the benefits they can provide can be found for free. Most social workers or therapists will be able to help you. 

While SSI won't let you live a life of luxury it can help a lot of people. There are some drawbacks to it. All payments are electronic. You can only keep a small amount of money in your bank at any time and expect to collect. The number is normally 2k. You can still work and collect but only the first 85$ does not reduce your benefits. Every dollar you make after that reduces your amount by half. So if you make 700$ a month from SSI and 1486$ or more from your job, you're SSI payment will be 0$. SSDI has no requirements on the money in your bank. 

Being approved for disability also comes with medicaid benefits which allow you to see most doctors for a small copay. You will also be approved for SNAP, food stamps benefits as well as section 8 public housing, and low income housing. Call your housing authority to see if your apartment accepts housing vouchers. 

Times are tough. Good luck men.

Continue Reading: Tier Five Male

Is the gaming industry crashing?

Great video with lots of numbers predicting a potential crash in the video game market similar to the one in the 80s. Some believe we're already seeing the crash slow motion. With Microsoft all but announcing that their system is going to be online only and may not support used games, I don't think they're going to be immune from fluctuation.

This is exactly what is supposed to happen in a market. It's painful, people lose their jobs, but the best way to maintain stability is to allow these businesses to go bankrupt. Bails outs compound the problem. If these companies were more willing to innovate and produce a higher quality product they wouldn't be facing these challenges.

The future looks good for indie game developers.

Is Harry Reid Smarter than a 6th grader? The answer is no.

I can't believe how dumb this man is. How did he even fill out the forms to become a senator?

Let me break down what he's wrong about.

1. Tea Party is full of anarchists. False, it's full of conservatives and small government types.
2. He doesn't know what anarchy is. Anarchy is without violence, achieving goals through peaceful negotiation. If it's violent, it's not anarchy.
3. Government is good. Government being the monopoly on violence it can only be considered a moral good if violence is good. It's just as Schiff points out. At best government is a necessary evil.

Harry Reid has a degree from Utah State University in political science and history and yet displays no signs that he knows anything about politics and history.

Reid either got his job because the people are suicidal, a case I wouldn't argue heavily against. Or because it would be easy for the bankers to manipulate him. Most politicians are either evil or stupid. Reid is obviously the latter.

The Future: Part 2

Not all things are as they appear. Many people hear these predictions and think I'm nuts. I'm some war monger. But the truth is that the signs for Civil War were there in 1861 when Lincoln took office but no one wanted to listen. Lincoln mentioned nothing of war in his inaugural address and made no threats against the South but war seemed to come out of nowhere.

Instead of women being a pacifying force for society they seem to do the opposite. Women approve of war at or above the same level of men. And one of the key signs for a coming war is a society's fascination with the killer mother archetype. If war is looming, watch for a movie about a mother who goes on a killing spree, ala Kill Bill. It will need to be popular as well so it is a reflection of the people's inner world. That's the thing about movies that make them significant. If one becomes popular it struck harmony with the zeitgeist in the populations psyche. The fact that Avatar is so popular is chilling. It's essentially a love letter to the noble savage, proclaiming his superiority over the western world and technology. It perfectly represents our suicidal nature, reflected in multiculturalism, reflected in the green movement. Kill yourself to save the planet.

The basic theory of the killer mother goes like this. At infancy the mother is at her most hormonal and has a predilection to murder the baby. This is so ingrained in infants that the child has developed defenses against this. Particularly in boys, this represents that the child is born into a warlike culture and must defend himself. Mothers, on average, spend more time holding and nurturing their female daughters. In the boy's mind he splits the mother into two parts. The good mother and the bad. The whore and the madonna. The fear a man can feel near a woman is when she activates the split part of the bad mother, driving him to homicidal rage, feeling the intense and helpless fear he did as an infant. The better the mother the less likely this will take place. Single mothers produce more violent children, probably because of this reason.

When the nation starts responding to killer mother images, it's war time. The men will sense this change and become hyper-aggressive, fear ridden, and near panic. When the internal pain of the world reaches a crescendo it's released into a deluge of external struggle.

People who adamantly deny wisdom in films and literature are fools. The inner world reflects the outer world and vice versa. There is always a lesson to learn for the mind willing to look.

One thing against a coming war is that the economy is bad. Contrary to what most believe, war flows out of prosperity as often as ruin if not more so. How else would we pay for it?

It's hard to see the communists in all this. Are they gone? Is it the most deceptive plot in history? I believe Lenin said that Communism may succeed by first appearing to fail completely only to emerge stronger than before. If a human being could have actually plotted this all out and kept it going than whoever that is would be smart enough to rule the world.

Revolutions are driven by two things. A corrupt, failing system and a superior system to replace it. Any port in the storm may lead us to communism or to the Islamification of the world. Consider how popular the Zeitgeist movies are. Also the mayan prophecy was very popular for a reason. Not that it was true but that it reflected people's angst over the current system. They were acknowledging the doom.

If things go well I believe the internet will reshape the world. Eventually, the internet will move into meatspace. This is where I get the idea of the city-state model of running things. Different groups united by their differences but operating their own autonomous governments. The model for this is the internet where varying communities exist peacefully. The Christians can have their state, the gays can have theirs. The two would be symbiotic in that whenever the Christian state made a gay they could send him out to the gay state. The feminists could have their state as well where they sit around admiring each other's vaginas and not breeding.

I'm not one for conspiracies though, marxist or otherwise. If the Frankfurt school has had much success I believe their meme has gone viral, it's self-sufficient and doesn't need any influence. However, that ignores the fact that Christianity is a religion which believes in the equality of all men's souls. When secularized this becomes the equality of all men...and women. We get the perfect egalitarian belief system. Anyone popping into a church today will see a reflection of our current society. It is totally female dominated but with a male figurehead praising women and blaming men for all wrong doing. Much like our current culture where the male figurehead known as president is a good scapegoat for our fem-centric culture ruled by female interest but run by men. Never underestimate the cunning of women.

I am more than familiar with conspiracy theory. I am a glutton for knowledge and I'm willing to consider any theory or philosophy before dismissing it. Knowledge is everywhere for those who look. I know everything they predict but I don't believe in the Illuminati as most of them do. I believe the Illuminati is a secret religion which has some misguided ideas, plans the overthrow of the Old World Order, to usher in a system known as meritocracy. What most people consider the Illuminati is the banking cartels, the old aristocracy. The Illuminati are smart but not that much. The government is smart but limited. They became too dogmatic. They believe in themselves and everything they write about. Their faith is unwavering and they're prideful. What they do they do the best but they can't cope with the change in technology and the failures of their ideas. They can't innovate.

I spent a lot of time at university. Only two of the professors ever impressed me, ever convinced me they had an intellect greater than the average. One was a Jewish philosophy professor who could talk about nearly any subject in depth. The other was the same but an English professor. Education doesn't impress me much. After reading a lot of about ability and intelligence I'm convinced that motivation is just as important.

There is some unknown quality in people that gives them a certain spark, a light, a fierceness to them that I can't really explain. They have a confidence in what they say. If I were a religious person I would say that these people are the only ones with a soul. I would never use Atlas as a metaphor since I believe the best example of humanity is in Sisyphus, an eternal load of work, struggle, with the reward being a brief moment of glory before starting over. Anyway, the idea of these soul children is ridiculous of course. But I can't help but notice these differences between people. I wonder if it has something to do with the Edenist theory of humanity.

As I pointed out, this isn't the fall of the Soviet Union. This is America, a country forged from bloody revolution which has turned the world based on their struggles. Whatever is decided in America will be echoed throughout the world. It's not the best country but it's the trend setter. America's fate will be the same as my own. I'm going down with the ship. But America also has guns. More of them than anywhere else, a willingness to use them, a population on prescription drugs known to cause psychosis,  as well as more multiculturalism than any other country in history. It's likely that when the lights go out people will divide up as they always have along lines of religion and ethnicity. But the biggest difference is the despair if America fails. There's nowhere left to turn. The Soviets could follow the western model. What does the West have to follow? Islam? That may even be worse.

Think about how many groups are ready to try and seize power in the United States. Black nationalism is the biggest hate group in America according to the SPLC. White nationals. Constitutionalists. Liberals. Christians. Muslims. The militias. The list goes on and on and I'll always miss someone.

That's the problem. There are too many variables to understand anything. Maybe technology will save us all and we'll hit the technological singularity before the collapse. Maybe not. One theory I have is that technology speeds up time. If we consider the ends and means of things. Ends being an emotional state, something we strive towards, a goal with emotional reward. Our end is to visit Paris in the spring. Two hundred years ago that could take months. Now technology has increased. We can visit there digitally in seconds or travel there in days. The means to the end have been decreased and so we experience a speeding up of time. Our goals are reached in a shorter time span. For the sake of this argument I use the definition of time being, the rate at which things change. When we measure time we look for change. Carbon dating is based on how much the carbon decays, therefore it changes. Something in stasis would be said to be outside of time, ala light. If time is speeding up  what does this mean for the singularity both the left and the technological one.

Curiosity has driven us to explore and there's nothing greater to explore than the future. If I knew what was going to happen I'd be rich but bored as well.

The Future

I'll be the first to admit I'm wrong if, in 2016 none of this comes to pass. However, I do believe there is a crisis coming to America which will reshape the country. I believe it will be on par with WWII, The Civil War, and the American Revolution. This is just a guess. I'm no prophet. 

• The 2016 election will be the most pivotal election in history. My prediction is that a republican will win, similar in ideology to Ron Paul. Someone not controlled by corporate America, someone that isn't the lesser of two evils. A real leader with a different policy than others. Most people will be so desperate for change that they vote him in. 
• And this leader will divide the country in two even more than Obama. Libertarian policy is never popular when it's enacted. Turning back the state will cause immediate problems in the economy. It's a long term plan but it will be unpopular and the instant gratification of the population must be soothed. 
• The country will quickly divide into two camps. Those for the constitution and those for socialism. The military, police, will split. Academia and the media will mostly side with against the president. The 2016 candidate may face impeachment. 
• 2018-2020 civil war erupts within the United States divided by these two camps. The fighting is all out war. It may be state to state or some other arrangement. Civil war is the likely candidate for the coming crisis. The theatre is not really set for inter-country conflict, not even with China. China is too dependent on the US for trade. 
• The rest of the world will stay out of the fight. Canada may assist but each country will have their own recession and struggles to deal with. There may be infighting in Europe as well as neo-fascist and neo-islamists clash. But the world will recoil at the level of violence in America and will want to keep its distance. 
• 2023-2025 the war end.
• During the war people will be driven out of the cities. Small villages with high technology become normal. Local sporting events will be more important than the NFL. Technology like the internet and 3D printing and solar energy will allow for homes and villages to move away from cities. Small, local communities will be the most important thing to people. 
• A new baby boom occurs. These children will be ones to design the technology which propels humanity into the technological singularity. Food becomes abundant. Homelessness and starvation is dissolved. Human suffering is ended. 
• We explore space. We are a successful species.  

Continue Reading: The Future is A Vending Machine

When the lights go out

• Incredibly, 11 percent of all Americans aged 12 and older are currently taking SSRI antidepressants – those highly controversial, mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA’s “suicidality” warning label and alarming correlation with school shooters. Women are especially prone to depression, with a stunning 23 percent of all American women in their 40s and 50s – almost one in four – now taking antidepressants, according to a major study by the CDC;

What people don't understand about antipsychotic, antidepressants, etc. is how much trauma they cause when a person stops taking them. Like any other drug, these drugs cause a dependence and the withdrawals from these drugs can be deadly. 

I know from personal experience the hell of coming off of these drugs. It's unlike any other experience. The best way I can describe it is like imagining someone hijacked your sense of well-being and emotional stability. It's no surprise that most shooters were on these drugs and then recently stopped. The effects of stopping these drugs is well known. 

But what isn't is what would happen if all of these people stopped taking them en masse. This is one of the reasons why I don't think economic collapse in America will be anything like the Great Depression or the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Soviet's doped their populace but it was not to the extent that America has done it.

The SSRI is a bomb just waiting to go off a few days after the lights go out.

"Americans snapping."

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/americans-snapping-by-the-millions/

Boston Lockdown a Sign of Decline

There is a maxim I follow: there is always a different point of view. We can stand on the moon and still not see the entirety of the earth. There is always that dark corner obscured from our vision. There are many ways to see any single problem.

I bring that up because a lot people believe that the Boston lockdown is a sign of the new normal. They despair the coming of the police state. What many don't realize is that when brute force is utilized it is because coercion has failed.

In times of peace and stability laws tend to be unnecessary. People police themselves through shame and ostracism. When force is overtly used it's not a sign of a state's increasing power. It's a sign of their decline.

As much as I look down on public institutions most of them still seek to minimize overhead while increasing productivity. In the case of societal control, police on the streets with tanks and machine guns may seem like the state at the height of its power, but I see it a little differently. If the state could control people with the minimal amount of effort they would. This show of strenght is a huge waste of resources which .gov is speedily draining.

The state is showing it's hand now. It's showing to the people that they're not free. That the government is little more than a bunch of armed thugs. For every blog and news story that covers the lockdown a person's delusional belief in the sanctity of government begins to shatter.

The US can no longer keep people in check without guns and tanks anymore. Twenty years ago they could. It is the tyranny of illusion that is the most dangerous form of state power, a prison of the mind without the need for guns and bars is the most confining space.

.gov is losing their credibility as "legitimate" power. This is doubly true in a democracy which supposedly is a function of the will of the people. These are the times when the difference between the natural slave and the natural masters are revealed.

Previously in America, there was a system devised called the free markets which allowed for voluntary slavery. It is no coincidence that the corporate world is known as slave wages. While natural masters within a free market would gravitate toward the role of owner and capitalist the natural slave is most comfortable in a structure of rigid control and hierarchy where there role and value is firmly established. Now that the role of  master is all but eroded from economy for various reasons the dichotomy between slaves and masters is more transparent. The slaves are those who are comfortable with the encroaching police state, those willing to be pacified into servitude. The masters feel otherwise.

I liken this to be something other than a conscious choice. Often our behavior is not corroborative with our philosophy. Meaning, we say one thing and practice another. There is no better example of this divergence between spoken intention and obversely behavior than in women.  While saying they like nice men they never date nice men. While the average man makes declarations to his own sovereignty and proclaims the virtues of freedom, his behavior during times of distress prove otherwise.

Those who can be educated are educated. With ubiquitous access to the internet anyone not familiar with the dangers of government, the possibility of totalitarian slavery backed up by drone armies in the hands of a tiny elite, don't exist as ignorant because they have a lack of knowledge. What makes this an interesting time is how things will play out. History will be more accurate than ever. Where could you find a first hand account of a pleb in ancient Rome? Today they litter the internet.

What keeps me going is curiosity. What will you make of yourself humanity?

Technology Hides The Decline

Bane in the Dark Knight Rises said it best, "Peace has cost you your strength! Victory has defeated you!"

Technological progress masks social decay. While gun wounds have increased gun murders has decreased and the progressives celebrate their victory of marching ever leftwards to utopia. There is no social progress. There is only the advance of technology which may hasten social decay. 

The technological singularity is not a given. The rate of advance of computers is not a static thing. Kurzweil's calculations tend to gloss over the most important element of building a machine, the person operating it. It's been said that we cannot see the future because of the present. 

The west has a fascination with the noble savage that has become suicidal. Avatar, The Last Samurai, Dances With Wolves, multiculturalism are all related, have all fueled the suicide of the west as it has turned in fratricide against the fathers who built it from wood and rock.

In times of war, depression and suicide decreases. When faced with an external threat a nation may direct their angst outward, providing relief from their anxiety. When there is nowhere to direct this desperation it is channeled inward, toward our own demise. The only recourse is to direct hate toward culture itself and exalt the culture of others. Even when that culture is hateful and destructive, it is beyond criticism.

Few ever dare to point out that by assimilating any and all ways of life that the western cultures are lost. Diversity is not strenght. It's destruction. By celebrating the noble savage we celebrate our own demise. The world ends while we all wear party caps and play kazoos as the noble pygmy savage cannibalizes our flesh.

Everyone has an agenda

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

Minutes after a bomb went off at the Boston marathon the political left was doing what it does best, turning an event into an ideology. Chris Matthews blamed a particular group moments after the bomb went off: the right. It seems like every internet group out there is longing to further their agenda using this bomb.  A bomb which killed several people and wounded hundreds is used as political reform.  It's not just the left either who wants in on the naming and moralising. The loudest voice is the left and they are desperately trying to blame straight white men for the deed. Regardless of the fact that Matthews is a straight white male is not important.  He is dedicated to something greater than himself.

How can someone make sense of the white anti-white racist? Only by understanding the motivations of a suicide bomber can we begin to unravel this mystery.

The left and the right - the true right, the new right - are divided along lines of human nature. Even the word human nature is repugnant to those among the left as they most fastidiously claim that nature does not exist. There exists only human behavior, so they claim. The blank slate theory of humanity states that no one is born with any innate intelligence or proclivity to certain behaviors based on their race or gender. Even when the blank slates are forced to face overwhelming evidence that evolutionary differences exist and these differences are not relegated to the neck and downward, the claim is still the same. We are all the same. The right believes otherwise.

This is where the dichotomy of the new right and the left takes place, evolution. This is why the left inhabits the halls of the social sciences. They can pervert and distort any history or discovery which doesn't suit their ends. And when the left views history it is like reading a horror novel. The leftist sees only the tragedy of the past, the ignorance, the crisis, and exalts the glory of the future. In the words of Emanuel  "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." And the most serious crisis is all of history which must be either obliterated or obfuscated to further their agenda.

Man is a sacrificial beast. But a man will only sacrifice for something out of honor. Honor in our nihilistic culture has been forgotten. Now the only hints of honor are the images of Japanese warriors slicing open their guts to make amends to some wrong to their lord. But this idea of honor does not convey the principle behind it. To have honor is to value something greater than yourself.  This honor can be transmuted into many different things, to a nation, a family, or an ideology. Honor is not to refute death but to embrace it. Man is the only animal which places his own head on the sacrificial altar.

Honor is the will of the suicide bomber but it is also the will of Chris Matthews and all of the white anti-white racists. It is suicidal in physical form but because these men believe in something greater than themselves they can place their heads on the altar without remonstration. Matthews advocates death and suicide just as much as the Jihadists. Their hope is that they will live on through their ideology.

The master never submits. Submission is the place of the slave. The slave is who values nothing more than the self. The slave is without honor. Only the master can sacrifice. Only the master can make his will manifest. The cry of the master is 'death before domination.' But in the master's domination - in his honor - is also a submission to a higher ideal, to something greater. If a human can hold nothing greater than the self they are no greater than any animal.

Murder is not a tragedy anymore. It's an ideology. Whether some mass shooter has an intent for political reform or not, it's an ideology to everyone who survives. If he's white it's used against whites. If he's black it's by whites against the anti-whites. If he's asian it's used to promote gun control. If' it's a bomb its against the Muslims. It's hard to see the victims for what they are when the event itself is denigrated before the ideology. Today everyone has an agenda and no crisis is without its political reform. If the left reads a history book like a horror story than there is no end to remunerations for the tragedies.

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Good post at The Observer Watches noticing the bevy of anti-white racism.

http://theobserverwatches.blogspot.ca/2013/04/a-change-in-air.html