Apocalypse Germany, Canada's "Assisted Suicide" Boom, The 60s' Cult of the Individual and its Current Impact, Secularist Extremists MAD ONLINE, Gloria Steinem: CIA Asset
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I am working on two more interviews as we speak, plus at least another two articles.
I repeat myself ad museum but a look at who pays into the EU Budget will emphasise how catastrophic a failed German economy would be. They effectively pay for the dole which sustains the Baltics and Club Med. Von Der Liar is a catastrophically evil and mediocre leader, a lethal combination. Mired in corruption on Germany and EU viz Pfizer deal, she must go asap. It is the clearest example yet how with rare exceptions like Delors, the Commission head is a fixer from a smaller nation, like amiable drunkard Juncket. De Gaulle inherited Hallstein but showed him the door. She should get the same, but Macron is not a CDG, not even a Mitterrand or Chirac.
Oct 15, 2022·edited Oct 15, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
Blinded by one's own fundamentalism is a tale as old as time. The reason for the narrative management is not for the public its for the progressives/liberals to sustain the sanctity of their own delusion. They aren't secular, they are just selfish
Children can apply for assisted suicide in Canada? What the hell?
As a supporter of assisted suicide, this shocks me and has gone too far. If anyone finds it unnecessary, read about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease. Tuesdays with Morrie is an account of a professor dying from this disease.
If you’d rather slowly lose the ability to move, become bedridden, and lose the ability to speak, swallow, and eventually breath over a few years instead of choosing assisted suicide after being diagnosed, you’re far braver than I am.
Or, more controversially, go visit your nearest nursing home. You really want to live like that for ten years or more? Perhaps my thoughts will change as I age, but I see a need for assisted suicide.
But Niccolo is right, the not-real slippery slope is always real. As soon as it becomes acceptable, people will push for more conditions to be included; the inclusion of mental disorders is particularly concerning.
One, mental disorders are easy to fake (On Being Sane in Insane Places). Two, mental disorders can be over diagnosed or even manufactured by society; multiple personalities, “repressed memory recovery”, ADHD, and gender dysphoria are some examples. Three, plenty of people are suicidal and this is a route to socially approved suicide.
On one hand, I’m not that worried; beyond the immorality of it, killing children is killing future producers and consumers. The state and capitalism won’t allow that to last, will it? Or are there some dark benefit to this that I am missing?
Oct 15, 2022·edited Oct 15, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
Excellent links and observations, thanks!
Re: Germany. I have no sympathy for nations/companies who become reliant on supply chains controlled by hostile, unpredictable actors - whether that is Germany in the case of Russia or the USA (in tech, manufacturing and consumer products) in regard to China.
Merkel obstinately pursued Nordstream 2 when it was made very clear that the US and much of the EU were strongly against it. That Russia would be an unreliable partner has been long evident - it occupies and has neutered Moldova, has invaded Georgia and Ukraine (in order to partition or annex territory), has intervened in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan and has subjugated Belarus (with the cooperation of its government. Merkel should have encouraged fracking rather than banning it, built more nuke plants and LNG terminals and backed pipelines coming from the Eastern Med, Mideast and North Africa rather than those controlled by Russia. These were all Merkel’s failures.
The US is a hegemon in its hemisphere and often in Europe. Russia and China are moving toward the same in their near abroad. The EU needs to realize that Africa and the Middle East are part of its near abroad. Either these areas will be developed and managed or there will be a billion immigrants heading to Europe. The EU needs to invest heavily in North Africa and integrate its solar and fossil fuel resources into the European region while developing their economies- which means building factories for assembly there and importing goods from there rather than the typical German colonial/mercantilist approach of exporting products, taking advantage of the chronically undervalued Euro (from the perspective of Germany, as if it still had the D-mark it would likely be 30-40 percent more expensive than the €
In Latam, most American subsidiaries are effectively local companies. America doesn’t export to Latam- it builds and sells locally (or imports from there in the case of Mexico).
Unfortunately mercantilism and corporate fascism (running politics and the economy for the benefit of large companies) is entrenched deeply in Germany’s psyche. We’ll see if that can change.
By the way - one pipe of Nordstream 2 is operational and Russia has recently offered to supply gas through it. Some think the destruction of Nordstream 1 was an act to save Gazprom from being sued for non-performance on its supply contracts. Problem solved. Also sends a warning to Europe about how precarious its Norwegian and UK energy sources might be.
My critique of the Schneider piece, and of Martin Luther and Protestantism generally, is simple:
What kind of lazy-ass shit is a “faith, not works” ethos and in what universe could anyone possibly conceive of a God that would let you waltz into heaven like Fred Fucking Astaire just for whispering to yourself that you believe? Christ’s entire life WAS works.
Yes, religious people overreach all the time. So do secularists. So does everyone who has ever done anything at all. Of course I don’t want to live in a society ruled by religious dictate as I am not religious. But as we’ve long since established, this current iteration of the left is religion without deity.
Every single day I’m reminded of the first scene from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” when River Phoenix comes racing out of the caves and yells for anyone from the scout troop he was with. They’re nowhere to be found, to which he says to himself, “everybody’s lost but me.” This is life in 2022.
I’m also not an ethicist but I’ve seen here how application of Islamic principles in medicine skews end-of-life decisions (Dr’s are legally obliged to do everything possible until the patient is dead - that means unless you die in your sleep you die hooked up to machines) - it’s really terrible in most cases. Obviously depressed teenagers shouldn’t be put to sleep by the state - that’s insane, but it’s the logical outcome (as stated in the article). I have no idea what the solution is. Both things seem awful to me.
Reading this and many, many of the linked articles was a great way to spend my morning. Thanks!
I think the explanation for the coverage here and elsewhere of the Common Sense piece on Canada's assisted suicide phenomenon should be understood as an instinctual recognition of the threat to humanity that this phenomenon is. Not the threat to the species per se, but in that most human value of how we look with our own eyes at another human and value that person. The worship of compassion, the senseless desire to remove pain from the human experience, above all else is a false idol, a wicked, selfish and vane substitute for the wordless humanity we share.
Just found this article: "The anxious foresight required for avoiding policy catastrophes—that is, the ability to think tragically in order to avoid tragedy—has either been insufficiently developed or nowhere in evidence in Beijing, Moscow, and Washington."
It’s interesting how Schneider fairly explicitly states that the point of the trans movement is to be able to say that nothing in existence is immutable and fixed. Reminds me of a scene from a book about Baron Ungern-Sternberg (by a guy named Victor Pozner) in which Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was used as an argument against all of history and the ancien regime.
I'm a medic and am firmly anti-suicide. It's the Left parasite again poisoning everything. As usual they've seized control of the language: "assisted dying", "medically-induced" etc etc. It's killing. Our profession(s) have enough trouble with those who think they're God without giving them actual power of life and death.
Also, his example of giving dying patients opiates is a fucking lie. They're dying within hours and maybe days at best and are in terrible pain and distress. The overlap between the opiates killing them because they're so weak and being in large enough quantities to give relief is minute. This is emphatically not the same as someone going 'it's all too much, goodbye world'. You could extrapolate that logic to 'one day I will have a terminal illness of some kind and I cannot face it. I will therefore kill myself at age 25 to avoid a painful death'.
For those who think this will never happen: remember when less than twenty years ago homosexuals were barely tolerated and had to be discreet? Yes, when the idea of two men marrying was in inverted commas and parading naked in public with children would've been seen as an obscene joke? Not so funny now is it?
As Eugyppius' substack has been chronicling the stubborn refusal of Germany's political class to move on from Covid mitigation, I've been constantly saying this winter Germany won't be able to afford such self indulgence.
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I am working on two more interviews as we speak, plus at least another two articles.
I repeat myself ad museum but a look at who pays into the EU Budget will emphasise how catastrophic a failed German economy would be. They effectively pay for the dole which sustains the Baltics and Club Med. Von Der Liar is a catastrophically evil and mediocre leader, a lethal combination. Mired in corruption on Germany and EU viz Pfizer deal, she must go asap. It is the clearest example yet how with rare exceptions like Delors, the Commission head is a fixer from a smaller nation, like amiable drunkard Juncket. De Gaulle inherited Hallstein but showed him the door. She should get the same, but Macron is not a CDG, not even a Mitterrand or Chirac.
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Blinded by one's own fundamentalism is a tale as old as time. The reason for the narrative management is not for the public its for the progressives/liberals to sustain the sanctity of their own delusion. They aren't secular, they are just selfish
Children can apply for assisted suicide in Canada? What the hell?
As a supporter of assisted suicide, this shocks me and has gone too far. If anyone finds it unnecessary, read about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease. Tuesdays with Morrie is an account of a professor dying from this disease.
If you’d rather slowly lose the ability to move, become bedridden, and lose the ability to speak, swallow, and eventually breath over a few years instead of choosing assisted suicide after being diagnosed, you’re far braver than I am.
Or, more controversially, go visit your nearest nursing home. You really want to live like that for ten years or more? Perhaps my thoughts will change as I age, but I see a need for assisted suicide.
But Niccolo is right, the not-real slippery slope is always real. As soon as it becomes acceptable, people will push for more conditions to be included; the inclusion of mental disorders is particularly concerning.
One, mental disorders are easy to fake (On Being Sane in Insane Places). Two, mental disorders can be over diagnosed or even manufactured by society; multiple personalities, “repressed memory recovery”, ADHD, and gender dysphoria are some examples. Three, plenty of people are suicidal and this is a route to socially approved suicide.
On one hand, I’m not that worried; beyond the immorality of it, killing children is killing future producers and consumers. The state and capitalism won’t allow that to last, will it? Or are there some dark benefit to this that I am missing?
Excellent links and observations, thanks!
Re: Germany. I have no sympathy for nations/companies who become reliant on supply chains controlled by hostile, unpredictable actors - whether that is Germany in the case of Russia or the USA (in tech, manufacturing and consumer products) in regard to China.
Merkel obstinately pursued Nordstream 2 when it was made very clear that the US and much of the EU were strongly against it. That Russia would be an unreliable partner has been long evident - it occupies and has neutered Moldova, has invaded Georgia and Ukraine (in order to partition or annex territory), has intervened in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan and has subjugated Belarus (with the cooperation of its government. Merkel should have encouraged fracking rather than banning it, built more nuke plants and LNG terminals and backed pipelines coming from the Eastern Med, Mideast and North Africa rather than those controlled by Russia. These were all Merkel’s failures.
The US is a hegemon in its hemisphere and often in Europe. Russia and China are moving toward the same in their near abroad. The EU needs to realize that Africa and the Middle East are part of its near abroad. Either these areas will be developed and managed or there will be a billion immigrants heading to Europe. The EU needs to invest heavily in North Africa and integrate its solar and fossil fuel resources into the European region while developing their economies- which means building factories for assembly there and importing goods from there rather than the typical German colonial/mercantilist approach of exporting products, taking advantage of the chronically undervalued Euro (from the perspective of Germany, as if it still had the D-mark it would likely be 30-40 percent more expensive than the €
In Latam, most American subsidiaries are effectively local companies. America doesn’t export to Latam- it builds and sells locally (or imports from there in the case of Mexico).
Unfortunately mercantilism and corporate fascism (running politics and the economy for the benefit of large companies) is entrenched deeply in Germany’s psyche. We’ll see if that can change.
By the way - one pipe of Nordstream 2 is operational and Russia has recently offered to supply gas through it. Some think the destruction of Nordstream 1 was an act to save Gazprom from being sued for non-performance on its supply contracts. Problem solved. Also sends a warning to Europe about how precarious its Norwegian and UK energy sources might be.
My critique of the Schneider piece, and of Martin Luther and Protestantism generally, is simple:
What kind of lazy-ass shit is a “faith, not works” ethos and in what universe could anyone possibly conceive of a God that would let you waltz into heaven like Fred Fucking Astaire just for whispering to yourself that you believe? Christ’s entire life WAS works.
Yes, religious people overreach all the time. So do secularists. So does everyone who has ever done anything at all. Of course I don’t want to live in a society ruled by religious dictate as I am not religious. But as we’ve long since established, this current iteration of the left is religion without deity.
Every single day I’m reminded of the first scene from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” when River Phoenix comes racing out of the caves and yells for anyone from the scout troop he was with. They’re nowhere to be found, to which he says to himself, “everybody’s lost but me.” This is life in 2022.
Think the story you mentioned is The Carnival by Michael Fedo.
I’m also not an ethicist but I’ve seen here how application of Islamic principles in medicine skews end-of-life decisions (Dr’s are legally obliged to do everything possible until the patient is dead - that means unless you die in your sleep you die hooked up to machines) - it’s really terrible in most cases. Obviously depressed teenagers shouldn’t be put to sleep by the state - that’s insane, but it’s the logical outcome (as stated in the article). I have no idea what the solution is. Both things seem awful to me.
Reading this and many, many of the linked articles was a great way to spend my morning. Thanks!
I think the explanation for the coverage here and elsewhere of the Common Sense piece on Canada's assisted suicide phenomenon should be understood as an instinctual recognition of the threat to humanity that this phenomenon is. Not the threat to the species per se, but in that most human value of how we look with our own eyes at another human and value that person. The worship of compassion, the senseless desire to remove pain from the human experience, above all else is a false idol, a wicked, selfish and vane substitute for the wordless humanity we share.
Just found this article: "The anxious foresight required for avoiding policy catastrophes—that is, the ability to think tragically in order to avoid tragedy—has either been insufficiently developed or nowhere in evidence in Beijing, Moscow, and Washington."
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/downside-imperial-collapse
I went down a Yukio Mishima rabbit hole recently. Unfamiliar readers may enjoy this piece:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/25/specials/mishima-mag.html?_r=2
It’s interesting how Schneider fairly explicitly states that the point of the trans movement is to be able to say that nothing in existence is immutable and fixed. Reminds me of a scene from a book about Baron Ungern-Sternberg (by a guy named Victor Pozner) in which Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was used as an argument against all of history and the ancien regime.
great stuff as usual, I have been converted to zionism after reading this week's entry.
Excellent as always.
I'm a medic and am firmly anti-suicide. It's the Left parasite again poisoning everything. As usual they've seized control of the language: "assisted dying", "medically-induced" etc etc. It's killing. Our profession(s) have enough trouble with those who think they're God without giving them actual power of life and death.
Also, his example of giving dying patients opiates is a fucking lie. They're dying within hours and maybe days at best and are in terrible pain and distress. The overlap between the opiates killing them because they're so weak and being in large enough quantities to give relief is minute. This is emphatically not the same as someone going 'it's all too much, goodbye world'. You could extrapolate that logic to 'one day I will have a terminal illness of some kind and I cannot face it. I will therefore kill myself at age 25 to avoid a painful death'.
For those who think this will never happen: remember when less than twenty years ago homosexuals were barely tolerated and had to be discreet? Yes, when the idea of two men marrying was in inverted commas and parading naked in public with children would've been seen as an obscene joke? Not so funny now is it?
As Eugyppius' substack has been chronicling the stubborn refusal of Germany's political class to move on from Covid mitigation, I've been constantly saying this winter Germany won't be able to afford such self indulgence.