Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

Well, I would start by saying that in my opinion we are a long, long way from the equivalent of the underlined part of this quote. Opinions on this board seem to vary on that.

Pushback will be happening but it will be ineffective, similar to the third paragraph.

If the sixty years seemed full of brilliance and adventure to a few at the top, to most they were a succession of wayward dangers; of the three galloping evils, pillage, plague, and taxes; of fierce and tragic conflicts, bizarre fates, capricious money, sorcery, betrayals, insurrections, murder, madness, and the downfall of princes; of dwindling labor for the fields, of cleared land reverting to waste; and always the recurring black shadow of pestilence carrying its message of guilt and sin and the hostility of God.

Mankind was not improved by the message. Consciousness of wickedness made behavior worse. Violence threw off restraints. It was a time of default. Rules crumbled, institutions failed in their functions. Knighthood did not protect; the Church, more worldly than spiritual, did not guide the way to God; the towns, once agents of progress and the commonweal, were absorbed in mutual hostilities and divided by class war; the population, depleted by the Black Death, did not recover. The war of England and France and the brigandage it spawned revealed the emptiness of chivalry's military pretensions and the falsity of its moral ones. The schism shook the foundations of the central institution, spreading a deep and pervasive uneasiness. People felt subject to events beyond their control, swept like flotsam at sea, hither and yon in a universe without reason or purpose. They lived through a period which suffered and struggled without visible advance. They longed for remedy, for a revival of faith, for stability and order that never came.

The times were not static. Loss of confidence in the guarantors of order opened the way to demands for change, and miseria gave force to the impulse. The oppressed were no longer enduring but rebelling, although, like the bourgeois who tried to compel reform, they were inadequate, unready, and unequipped for the task. Marcel could not impose good government, neither could the Good Parliament. The Jacques could not overthrow the nobles, the popolo minuto of Florence could not advance their status, the English peasants were betrayed by their King; every working-class insurrection was crushed.

Yet change, as always, was taking place. Wyclif and the protestant movement were the natural consequence of default by the church. Monarchy, centralized government, the national state gained in strength, whether for good or bad. Seaborne enterprise, liberated by the compass, was reaching toward the voyages of discovery that were to burst the confines of Europe and find the New World. Literature from Dante to Chaucer was expressing itself in national languages, ready for the great leap forward in print. In the year Enguerrand de Coucy died, Johan Gutenberg was born, although that in itself marked no turn of the tide. The ills and disorders of the 14th Century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years, until at some imperceptible moment, by some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
1978

[aeden]

Thanks to all for driving without guard rails to complicated metrics in the mud hut hovel.
Inputs will decide as the paper tigers find out bish zones have blown past liabilities
with underwater propaganda pits with no bubbles to cater in headings dead ahead already known.
We will incrementally add to short positions going forward.
We may not be dead center as we leverage short. H appears current and correct
and we expect allot more geniuses to paper over lost Aston Martin in garages
and national debt fools also.

As far as the eye could see the coal cars from Mexico where full heading to the border in plain view from actual news.
Some guy incoherent running the Zone under collapse babbling out things unable to function or afford.

[TUG]

Question: Will there still be a white (European) race when the smoke clears?

[aeden]

Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) introduced the My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrums Handle Your Shutdown Act on Wednesday, nicknaming it the MCCARTHY Shutdown Act after the current House speaker. If passed, the bill would withhold paychecks for lawmakers if a federal government shutdown ensues until Congress passes its budget.

You may as well just take their uniparty pay checks now and hand it to each illegal at the border heading in.
That would be a sane start so send Angie also to cough it up and pass out cookies with all elected officials going forward
at the border.

[Higgenbotham]

Question: Will there still be a white (European) race when the smoke clears?

Worst case is probably the Chinese take over the important cities of North America and the dark age that follows is long and difficult. Many whites have already isolated into pockets in rural areas. About 95% of whites are worthless but the last 5% or so will be impossible to dig out. It would be like going into Afghanistan. They will give up and go home.

[aeden]

When black crack EMPS happens, they can all wait as 95 percent disappear. One good belch from a Volcano who knows.
This inflection point started when rocket man got fuselages for missiles from the Ukes
and Minsk Protocols shit show and before that also. Entanglements and looters. Humans can never learn.

[Guest]

Question: Will there still be a white (European) race when the smoke clears?

Worst case is probably the Chinese take over the important cities of North America and the dark age that follows is long and difficult. Many whites have already isolated into pockets in rural areas. About 95% of whites are worthless but the last 5% or so will be impossible to dig out. It would be like going into Afghanistan. They will give up and go home.

I agree. I hope they die painful, humiliating, and prolonged deaths. It's only fair.

[aeden]

Not the missing rodeo as the first bout of layoffs came in 1971, when tens of thousands of factory employees were let go.
These swamp people have no clue what's coming for dessert. Fair will have no say in it.

We used to be the murder capital of the U.S., but there is hardly anybody left to kill. We used to be the drug capital of the U.S., but for that you need money, and there aren't jobs or things to steal here." resident derp Updated December 18, 2019

It's deliberate, calculated subversion.
All the pieces fit together like a well-made jigsaw puzzle.
His job is to arrange defeat. Even Obama warned you.
Progressive idiots have a habit of doing the same bullshit over and over expecting a different outcome.
The complete and total financial implosion of the west is what's needed to wake up the useful idiots.
Yuri was correct only when the boots kick them in the balls can they understand.

Today is not going to buff out.

https://www.offthepress.com/

[aeden]

Arc of instability ignored.
Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:32 pm
A new age produced a new race, frivolous and artificial, without mental balance, doomed to intellectual blindness,
and guided in its political aims by the most unreasoning selfishness.

To whom the Gods wish to destroy. A certain general culture, consisting mainly in mere cleverness of style and rhetoric,
and derived chiefly from the sophists, aggravated the universal confusion and instability of mind by the deceptive appearance of solidity.
From these blighting influences even the better natures, men morally and mentally superior to their fellows, could not wholly escape.

Age of Euripides.

Moat investment from the warning.
Cash from tbill and the sold oil calls from monday.
Pay attention they are not.
Not who but what survives the fools.

Ag report adequate.

Sogo supply lines started years ago to assert survival supply lines.

The sign on the office said - never trust old people.
Countless thousands of workers left the building as covid wiped it out. All remote work into the collapse.
Gain of function.

Never listen to young people who stay woke.
https://www.biddergy.com/Event/Details/ ... all-Center
Falling like leaf's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8CD2Rco8cQ

[Higgenbotham]

The experience of representative government
corrodes the habit of submission to authority that is
needed for political integration. The police, for
instance, are increasingly likely to find themselves
in court, questioned over their methods and
disciplined for exceeding their powers. In Britain,
suing the police is a growth industry, currently
worth around £60 million per year. Corporal
punishment was banned from state schools in 1986
and made illegal everywhere in 1999. It has
become inconceivable for a police officer or a
teacher to cuff an unruly child around the ear,
though that was commonplace less than a century
ago. Teachers have lost credibility as authority
figures and are themselves likely to be assaulted by
both pupils and parents.

In 1998, it was announced that a police officer
was to take up residence in an Oxfordshire school
near a troubled housing estate. It was emphasised
that the constable would not be patrolling the
playground but would instead be helping the
children to understand the role of the police in
contemporary society, in a bid to win their
confidence and respect. Another police officer
assigned to a troubled school prided himself on
being on first name terms with the youngsters,
while the uniform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
was redesigned to include a baseball cap, on the
grounds that this would be ‘more appealing to
young Roman Catholics’. The aim in all these
cases was to promote law and order in a cuddly,
non-threatening way. This goes against the whole
logic of political integration. Order cannot be
imposed in a non-threatening way. It would be far
more effective if constables were to patrol the
playground, looking intimidating and backed up by
real powers to punish wrong-doers.

The following exchange took place recently
between a 13 year old boy appearing in court and a
police officer:
Boy: (During a recess, lounging back with
feet up on the dock.) What are you
looking at?
Police officer: Nothing.
Boy: Then don’t stare at me. (Swears.)
One may well believe that it is wrong for
teachers and constables to use physical violence
against children. No doubt, police behaviour in the
past has been arbitrary and excessive, and deserves
to be exposed to the scrutiny of law. Nevertheless,
an authority whose powers are curbed and
criticised and that is afraid of upsetting anyone
cannot be a very good political integrator.
Everyday experience and five thousand years of
history show that credible sanctions are more
effective at controlling people’s behaviour than
appeals to their better nature.

It is not surprising that school indiscipline has
become an epidemic throughout the developed
world. In American schools, there has been a major
growth in violent crime, of which multiple
shootings are only the most dramatic
illustration. In Japan, worried parents have
taken to bugging their children’s lunch boxes in
response to the growing problem there of
playground violence and extortion. This has
been blamed on imitation of television violence.
However, the fundamental reason is that children
are increasingly out of control in a society where
teachers hardly dare even to speak sharply to them,
for fear of being accused of some form of mental
abuse.

These developments should not be attributed
to a few misguided educationalists or liberal chief
constables. They represent the whole drift of
attitudes in the developed world. Juries have been
increasingly willing to acquit people in minor cases
of cannabis consumption, even when instructed by
the judge that the admitted facts make a guilty
verdict obligatory. Indeed, it is often the judges
themselves who interpret the law in ways that
pervert its spirit in order to right what they see as
social injustices. One may applaud this situation on
a personal level. Yet the more that the law becomes
negotiable, the more its very logic is undermined.

The Phoenix Principle and the Coming Dark Age by Marc Widdowson, 2001
pp. 197-198

Upon reading this, the obvious answer somebody might give is that instilling the discipline that existed a century ago will cure the problem.

In the new dark age, it will not. In the new dark age, if the kids are not disciplined, they will run wild. If they are disciplined, they will violently rebel.