They Don't Even Know From Where Their Food Comes

Extremes of Unsound Money, Corruption of Big Tech, Big Govt, Big Media Have Created the Culture Wars and Have Destroyed Our Nation

In my recent post  Economic, Cultural and Spiritual Declines Are Causing Mass Anxiety and Mental Breakdowns, I wrote that we've allowed ourselves to become divorced from our history, our culture, our heritage, our religions. It goes even further than that.

People that live and work in our big cities, the large megalopolises, the big universities and around "Government" are often completely disconnected from everything that is important. They don’t even know from where their food comes.

I remember Mayor Bloomberg, when he tried to get into politics, making fun of farmers when he said, "Gee, you poke a hole in the ground, and drop in a seed!"  What could be easier?" But he was so tone deaf that even New Yorkers didn't vote for him.

First, he has no idea of how difficult and risky farming is. He has no idea how hard farmers have to work to make a living. It's said that farming is the only profession where you have to buy "inputs" at retail prices and sell your product at wholesale prices. 

Bloomberg and millions of others in the New York city area, and on both coasts, are basically parasites, feasting on the fabulously wealthy financial system.

Most people who live around and work in “government,”universities, big Media, big Tech, show business, government think tanks, NGOs, the Federal Reserve usually are amazingly ignorant, full of their academic and/or Marxist theories, full of leftist propaganda and frankly full of shit. There, they can be and often are completely wrong about everything for all of their lives and never have to face any consequences.

You see that in spades with eCONomists (like childish Janet Yellen), tenured professors, college administrators, nearly all the Fed Reserve heads (all PhDs), all the career government people, career politicians, the twenty-something fact-checkers and (former) censors at Twitter and at other (anti-)social media companies, teleprompter readers at “news” rooms, and nearly all Leftists. This is the big problem of Leftism. They’re are usually wrong about everything. They don’t have any common sense. They don’t know that they completely wrong!! They are so wrong that they are actually deluded. And they say that everyone else is wrong!

The Clinton Archipelago

 

Most of these people live on one of the islands of the “Clinton archipelago.” These are of the people on the Left. Many of the smallest “islands” scattered around are where universities or State capitals are located. The biggest “islands" are where the biggest metro areas have developed into megalopolises on both coasts—the centers of our hyperfinancialized “economy” or in Hispanic or Black areas.

 

 

People that inhabit college towns or State Capitals: professors, PhD students and other students, that are funded by $trillions in Gov’t student loans, can live effortlessly and at ease as trillions of dollars of money flow to the university towns (often at State Capitals with their inflow of tax dollars). This has enabled the bloated and woke administrations at State capitals and the Universities; who now offer new bullshit majors for the mentally deficit so they can attend"college."Many stay on. Who wouldn’t want to live in a paradise like that?

Most the “islanders” have enjoyed the biggest financial bubbles of ALL TIME. Many of these people feel so confident and superior to the fly-over people. Afterall many are richer than Midas ever dreamed and they create new Islands like Jackson Hole, WY called “Teton Island” in the map above.

Many of these people feel like they are Gods and that they think they are so wealthy because they are so virtuous, correct and wise. These “masters of the universe” are really full of themselves! They are so confident that their version reality is vindicated, and they gleefully “cancel” those less “worthy” — the flyover people and especially Trump sympathizers. They feel vindicated and righteous and often dead wrong.

The Virtues Of Fly-Over Persons

I’ve spent plenty of time in Thailand. It’s a very happy place. There, and everywhere Thai people live, they will create a small community of locals even in crowded Bangkok. Up until recently, everyone was equally poor, so there was no “class warfare.” Of course there are many small villages outside of the big city.

In all of these small communities, everyone knows everyone very well. It’s impossible for a young person, or any member of that community to live in a fantasy world or deceive or delude themselves in any way about anything (gender, doing chores, working, going to temple) because everyone knows you very well and they will immediately disabuse you for any foolishness or any delusions. This situation fosters mental health and happiness.

Like those who live in small communities in “flyover” land, as in Thailand, everyone really knows you and they know the land and how food is produced/harvested. It’s harder to hide there. There’s more sense of unity there and in their faith communities and hopefully do honest work of actually producing something useful like food.

Funny thing about doing “real, productive work” in small-ish communities, it causes/forces you to intimately interact with reality directly and repeatedly —often for your entire life. And reality is a tough broad. She’s a harsh teacher. You’re immediately disabused of any thought that is NOT based in reality. This is the origin of wisdom and common sense. Some use the term “horse sense.” It doesn’t come from a lifetime in academia or government.

These are among the strengths of the supposedly “unsophisticated flyover” people who are belittled and hated by the undeservedly wealthy in the big ”money center” cities on both coasts or who inhabit the Clinton Archipelago.

The Clintonistas hate them because horse sense trumps their highly vaunted academic “learning” nearly every time. The people with horse sense (Conservative types, Trump sympathizers) are nearly always right because they are reality-based and have wisdom through experience, ie., common sense.

Conservative persons are basically correct all the time in their assessment of events. It also shows that academia harms the rise of common sense or horse sense, especially career academics/bureaucrats. And Trump supporters can smell a crock of shit a mile away. They mostly get it right. See my post How Trump Voters Formed an Ugly—and Accurate—View of America’s Ruling Regime.

The Left doesn’t get it. They’re always wrong and they hate the fly-over bumpkins, the Trump sympathizers and detest their horse-sense or common sense. They accuse Trumpers of having unfounded conspiracy theorists and scoff at those spreading “misinformation.” But these “conspiracy theories,” based on intuition and common sense, turn out to be true nearly all the time.

The products of this dicotomy between relatively grounded fly-overs and the spoiled and deluded Leftist “Islanders”are huge. Flyover-land is suffering mightily as jobs and entire industries were offshored to Asia during the last 40 years. There’s enormous despair and damage. There has been an economic refugee crisis in our country where people are leaving their smaller towns and migrating to the centers of hyperfinancialization, ie., the big cities in the Clinton Archipelago. I know because I see nothing from out-of-state license tags here in Texas. I always feel bad because I pity those left behind in the economically depressed heartland. Their story is never told. Flyover people are suffering. You can’t blame them for voting for Trump.

Now the divide has devolved into culture war and outright war by the Biden Bolsheviks. And our society is beset with multiple crises of incompetence, ignorance, delusional thinking, mental illness, pathological lying, thievery, malfeasance and culture wars.

The Left especially are now basically mentally ill and deluded. They are "People of the Lie"--In a Dangerous Spiritual and Psychological Crisis”

The Left are such fools and they don’t even know it. Contrast them with the wisdom of the grounded Amish, who are all about maintaining real community, faith, growing their own food and doing honest work. HONEST WORK! Now there’s a concept for you!

Easy Money, QE Forever, Financial Parasites, Bubbles Galore

 

The big cities, on both coasts, are now centers of our extraordinarily "hyper-financialized economy" where people make enormous amounts of money just by creating and trading assets, often reselling the same things, just with different names.

It's biblical "money changing" on steroids being fed a steady supply of new digital (fake) money by the government that inflates EVERYTHING, making all the parasites, and anyone that owns housing and assets like stocks, fabulously wealthy ---for doing nothing!! They’ve never had to break a sweat! Easy peasy, you’re rewarded for taking on as much debt as you possibly can. What could go wrong?

We live in a time where nearly everything is fraudulent. Ponzi schemes abound and are sustained by successive rounds of fresh (digital) money by "government."  Financial frauds and financial games abound and pay entire armies of financial parasites.

Even our artificially inflated money supply is increasingly divorced from our nation’s REAL productivity. You know; real, useful stuff made through HARD WORK, which is supposed to be the basis for stock of money? Now, trillions of digital dollars are created overnight by the government using a few simple key strokes on a keyboard. The result is income and wealth inequality is off the charts and now there’s inflation.

The people in hyper-financialized urban areas receive this FAKE money first. It’s deposited in the big bank’s accounts in the centers of hyperfinancialism. It must be like magic to be close to all that fresh money! Naturally much of it filters into various financial markets inflating them to the moon. Those “handling” the many transactions live in penthouses, gated communities and high rises with restricted entries. Some of even live on private islands. The money changers are not only crowding "the Temple,"they crowd entire cities and live as parasites on this bloated financial system -- an ossifying and bloated "system."

The US Government collosus itself is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the world fed by an enormous influx of tax dollars; trillions per annum and always rising, and fed by endlessly rising debt and, of course, funny money. Washington and the 5 wealthiest counties that surround it contain a small nation's population of people who exist on other people's dime or, worse, live on money "willed into existence" by government money printers — inflating the hard-earned savings of the fly-over people.

Here’s the thing, when the greatest financial bubbles of all time, the everything bubble, bursts, it will likely be a shock for the arrogant and pompous. When fake money goes “poof” to money heaven and their wealth is either worth less or disappears, there’s likely to be biblical wailing and gnashing of teeth.

When the bloated financial system collapses, no doubt, with all the ‘money changing’ going on that is counted as"GDP," our nation’s economy will be revealed as something much smaller in the same way the exaggerated illusion of strength and power collapsed when the USSR collapsed. We’re living in a house of cards just like the old Soviet Union. See my posts The West is Collapsing as Russia is Rising and More Evidence That Russia Is Rising as The West is Collapsing.

We're seeing the decline and fall of America in real time. I guess it was inevitable. Man republics only last 240 years or so. Perhaps it's because "good times create weak men." If so, this implies however, that we are due for hard times to create strong men once again.

When will we get back to “the garden,”and back to basics: to know real work, regain a sense of community (not filled with hate and venom) and know where your food comes from? We need to. We might be forced to. 

Here’s Joni Mitchell's haunting lyrics of Woodstock (a song she wrote and CSN&Y made it a rock and roll anthem). Somehow, I think it’s relevant to our discussion. Play her version HERE.

I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him where are you going
And this he told me
I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm *
I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on the land
I'm going to try an' get my soul free

We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

Then, can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning

We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden