Female Trouble
. . . and bad ideas tend to be like Genie's, difficult to get back into the bottle. More below the fold.
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Italy's 'big babies': court orders father to pay for upkeep of 28-year-old son
. . . in Italy. What a bunch of wankers. "The son completed a degree in literature, taking several years longer than expected to finish the course, and has now enrolled on a post-graduate course in experimental cinema in Bologna." Thus, ensuring the lack of any potential for work for at least another decade. Experimental cinema? You can see the end of the Italy from here. "The Modena case is just one of 8,000 similar disputes that end up in court each year, with adult children demanding an allowance from their parents." This answers the questions of why Italy has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. The children never leave the parasite phase. "Around 65 per cent of Italians aged 18 to 34 still live with their parents, the highest percentage of young stay-at-homes anywhere in Europe, according to Istat, the national statistics agency." Who in their right mind would have a child in this environment? What sane woman would marry one of these buffoons? My first correspondence with "the Boy," now that he is at Marine Corps Boot Camp:
The actual letter (ok, with light editing)! If you have not received an email with his address and you wish to write him, email me and I will provide the full address. Rct Maddogsson xxxx xxxx San Diego, California 92140 Rct Maddogsson: I received your note, and letters from Staff Sergeant, Joseph Galvan, and Captain C. R. Bolton dated 15 April 2016. Semper Fidelus! News from the home front. Maddogsdog had fleas. We DDT bombed the crap out of them. It is a flea killing fields. He misses you and still sleeps downstairs. The rabbit is well, running free in the house most days. Maddogsdatir5.faux says hi. I suspect that due to an incomprehensible BS School District policy she will not be able to remain with us during the fall semester, and she may have to go home. Bureaucracy is latin for “the stupidest way of doing anything.” Sissy is still a sociopath. Go figure. Mom is traveling, I will give her your address and the letters from your command. I expect that means she will write. I give you a 60/40 chance she does not write a letter to command which triggers a “pizza party.” The means you have a 40% chance of a “pizza party.” Good luck with that one. Weather here is turning nice. I expect weather there is always nice. Use sunscreen. Brush your teeth. When you come home you will need to show me how to make a bed. Sweep carefully, dirt is bad. Comb you hair every day, sorry, never mind. Don’t forget to wake up early, always good to get an early start to the day. Try curling your little finger when you salute and see if any of your noncoms were Boy Scouts! Say Shazam often. Here at Stately Maddog Manor I am very proud of you. I expect you are probably both physically and mentally exhausted. Keep your eye on the prize. You have it in you to become a fine Marine. Work hard, always give everything your best effort, dedicate yourself to becoming the best Marine you can, and you will look back on this as a difficult but positive experience. Make sure you do whatever you can to help the other recruits around you succeed. This is a group grope, and you are a member of a nascent team. Once you make it you will be part of a select few, a team of very special men, er, people. I will track your progress from the comfort of my easy chair, eating bonbons, and drinking fine cognac. You should try it sometime soon. You must have a free weekend now and again, no? I amuse myself. Remember, if you get an extra helping of work, or duty, it is because your drill instructors see in you the ability to go beyond, to be something more. Their goal is to create, in each one of the recruits, the very best Marine they possibly can. I will write asking that Sergeant Joseph Galvan pay you special attention, since I believe you will go far in the Marines. I will have your mother do the same! I am sure that will work wonders. Nurse your voice back to health, focus on the goal at hand each day, excel, support the other recruits, respect your officers, and the noncommissioned officers in the command, and become something special. Semper Fi! Your corn nuts eating, cognac swilling, Dad The future is the ‘trust economy’
. . . as you may recall, family structure comes in a variety of flavors, but two essential "camps." The first is the Hierarchical Family structure (HF), or the Atomized Nuclear Family structure (ANF). The HF is simply a family structure which resembles the Mafia, a bureaucratic structure with generally the oldest male at the head. The ANF is the opposite, with each couple being independent from the rest of the extended family. The trust economy will finally put pressure on the rest of the world which uses the HF structure to begin to move towards, and adopt the ANF structure. This will allow the rest of the world to begin adapting to the more dynamic economic characteristics of the ANF. The Internet has been, and will continue to push the world towards an Anglospheric world view, with English as the primary world language, with free trade, and lower barriers to the international movement of people. Over time this will allow the world to more fully participate in the prosperity we are finding here at the End of History. Boy sells lemonade to help pay for his adoption
. . . if a bit freaky. I wonder if the boy reads WRM? Small Business Should Be Priority Number One As I said a few days ago, great article, which I agree with wholeheartedly. This young man may be taking the concept further than even WRM intended! Good on you youngster, and kudos to all who helped. Maddog steals one of Eric Barkers terrific blog posts, this one on Emotional Resilience . . .4/24/2016 . . . you really should subscribe, use the subscribe link below to do so.
Here is the blog feed: Barking Up The Wrong Tree Here is the entry: This Is How To Boost Emotional Resilience: 10 Research-Backed Secrets Here is the sign up to subscribe to Eric's blog by email. Thanks Eric! The article appears below the fold! Psychology says you need to achieve these 3 goals to become an adult
While I usually find "psychology" so much piffle, this is actually useful. The three things are 1. taking responsibility for yourself, 2. making independent decisions, and 3. financial independence. These are important, and they do signal the difference between childhood, and adulthood. It also points out an interesting conundrum in family styles around the world. There are two essential family styles: the atomized nuclear family, and the hierarchal family. The ANF occurs when a couple separates from their parents, and extended family, and becomes essentially independent, and must rely on themselves alone for their support. The HF is a more bureaucratic structure with, most commonly, the oldest adult male in the extended family controlling the lives, work, and living arrangements of all the family under his control. He is the responsible party, and the rest of the family has only a limited responsibility to do as they are told. The ANF results in a dynamic economy since each couple is essentially forced to seek out and achieve their own prosperity. There is only a limited family safety net. The downside is this arrangement is stressful. Ask any one who has emigrated from a country using the HF style what was most different, here in America, and it will likely be this. So, young people in places like Italy where the HF style was prevalent live for a very long time under their parents protection. In America, they live far shorter time under their parents protection. One thing to remember, no matter whether it comes from the HF style, socialism, fascism, progressivism, or government programs, the safety net slows the economy, and dims prosperity. The economy becomes less vibrant, and wealth formation slows. On the other hand, the use of the ANF style creates a much more vibrant economy, with limited or no safety net, but high prosperity, and wealth formation. The people of each nation much choose this, these family styles are not compatible, as they require different social structures, and understandings. There are many books which point out these differences, but one which I remember vividly is Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy by Frances Mayes. Americans frequently do not understand the necessity of having myriad connections in places like Italy. But without these connections, nearly everything takes an inordinate amount of time. Do you want to be independent, free, and wealthy, but fully responsible for your position, or do you want to be safe, protected, but limited, and far poorer? Choose wisely. The Killer Hiding in the CDC Map
. . . and after they are done sexually enslaving, and killing, they leave having done little else to resolve the original condition. The US needs to leave the UN today, not tomorrow, not Friday, but today. Is my position clear enough? This article shows how the UN Peacekeeping force in Haiti brought a cholera epidemic which killed more than 5,000, and infected, three quarters of a million. It also shows how the UN covered up this fact, and how one of the worst health agencies in the world, the US's own CDC also has successfully covered up the story. I have previously discussed the UN peacekeepers rape, and sexual slavery/brothel encampments. The US first needs to clean house at the CDC. Anyone in the chain of command should go, immediately. Anyone who had information of this, and withheld it from the public should go, anyone in the Administration who did so, should go. But we are saddled with a President incapable of action, so nothing will happen, the world will continue to turn, and the failures will continue to mount. The US also needs to clearly and unequivocally point out each and every time the UN, its Peacekeeping forces, or other entities runs a rape, and sex for money camp, every time it fails to follow proper hygienic procedures, acts as a vector for disease, or simply fails to act according to its mandate. It needs to take action to prosecute these criminals, if others will not. If we need to change our laws to achieve this, then so be it. The US needs to finally realize that the UN is a failure, of which, the US can no longer be a part. We should part the sheets, and leave, post haste. The US needs to join with Great Britain, the other Anglospheric countries, the Scandinavian countries, and the Germanic language countries to form a new international entity. One with a positive mandate, one not run by the tyrants of the world, and one which can help drive the rest of the world to accept what we know here at the End of History. What we know is that there is a political/economic/social model which works to allow the most human fulfillment, prosperity, and wellbeing. That model is republican governance, free markets, reformed religions, highly limited government involvement in the economic, social, cultural, and business spheres, and the atomized nuclear family and the necessary reformed social institutions to make the ANF work optimally. The UN is an antagonist to all of these outcomes, it has become a playground for the tyrants, dictators, and evil in the world. Its commissions are first and foremost cover for evil, with its human rights commission commonly ignoring actual human rights violators. So, Israel is tagged a human rights violator while actual evil like the House of Saud is not. The US can no longer participate in this charade of evil, death, rape, sexual bondage, and terror. It is time to leave. And create anew. Are Robots Job Creators? . . . as usual. "Automation, driven by technological progress, has been increasing inexorably for the past several decades. Two schools of economic thinking have for many years been engaged in a debate about the potential effects of automation on jobs, employment and human activity: Will new technology spawn mass unemployment, as the robots take jobs away from humans? Or will the jobs robots take over release or unveil—or even create—demand for new human jobs? The debate has flared up again recently because of technological achievements such as deep learning, which recently enabled a Google software program called AlphaGo to beat Go world champion Lee Sedol, a task considered even harder than beating the world’s chess champions." Mass jobs are a relatively new phenomenon. Prior to the industrial period there was little need for employees, and so there were few. Most of these jobs were performed by slaves, or people who would not be confused as an employee. Today, mass jobs are common, plentiful, and essential to the economy. So, people like the author, and the people arguing about this issue seem to fail to understand that if this is a phase shift, it will likely do away with jobs as the mechanism by which the new economic model distributes wealth through society. I am unsure whether the outcome of the massive shift we are now undergoing will necessitate a phase shift including the elimination of jobs, but if it does it will result in a fairer, wealthier, more prosperous, and more inclusive economy, not an economy which will see more segregation, and wealth inequality. Although just as the shift from the agricultural phase to the industrial phase brought some temporary wealth inequality, so it is likely will any phase shift in the economy. This happens simply because some see the way to the new economy, and this brings great wealth, while other attempt to conserve the old economy, and this destroys wealth. In this divide tech is bringing wealth, while the blue model, unions, and the like are destroying wealth. "Ultimately the question boils down to this: are today’s modern technological innovations like those of the past, which made obsolete the job of buggy maker, but created the job of automobile manufacturer? Or is there something about today that is markedly different?" This is the wrong question. The question is will these innovations change jobs to better jobs, or will it eliminate jobs? That I cannot answer. "It may seem easy to dismiss today’s concerns as unfounded in reality. But economists Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University argue, “What if machines are getting so smart, thanks to their microprocessor brains, that they no longer need unskilled labor to operate?'" These people are worrywarts fretting about things they do not understand, and likely cannot understand. They need to follow Niebuhr's prayer. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes at BrainyQuote.com" The do not, and instead they fret, stew and harumph over issues they cannot change. "As the decoupling data show, the U.S. economy has been performing quite poorly for the bottom 90 percent of Americans for the past 40 years. Technology is driving productivity improvements, which grow the economy. But the rising tide is not lifting all boats, and most people are not seeing any benefit from this growth. While the U.S. economy is still creating jobs, it is not creating enough of them. The labor force participation rate, which measures the active portion of the labor force, has been dropping since the late 1990s." This is unadulterated bullshit, or evidence that the people saying this have no understanding of what life was like in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s. The authors statements demand substantial proofs not mere hot air and blather. The unemployment rate today is at a national average below 5%. Labor force participation prior to 1970 averages about 58%, it was only after the equal rights, and the women's movements demanded their inclusion in the workforce in great numbers that we saw the labor force participation rate skyrocket to absurdly high levels. There is no evidence that Americans actually wanted this level of labor force participation. We know they did not historically. Now that we are far wealthier than we were in the 1940s, -1980s it seems likely that the LFP rate shift is due to the desires of fewer family members to work, and participate more deeply with family needs, children's needs, old age adult needs, and the like. Statements like the ones made here need extensive proof. They have none, and the author clearly has no understanding of LPF rate changes over time. Yet another piece of detritus to ignore. The poor today live all but infinitely better than the middle class of the 1950s, 1960s, and likely even the 1970s. Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today? The poor and the average of today have a similar spectrum of amenities, although the poor do have fewer. How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America "The typical American defined as "poor" by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family's essential needs. While this individual's life is not opulent, it is equally far from the popular images of dire poverty conveyed by the press, liberal activists, and politicians. But the living conditions of the average poor person should not be taken to mean that all poor Americans live without hardship. There is a wide range of living conditions among the poor. Roughly a third of poor households do face material hardships such as overcrowding, intermittent food shortages, or difficulty obtaining medical care. However, even these households would be judged to have high living standards in comparison to most other people in the world." If you scroll to the bottom there is an instructive chart on US versus international housing conditions of which only three countries even compare with the US poor's housing conditions, based on Floor Area per Person: Country (City) Floor Area per Person Persons per Room US Poor 439 .54 Australia (Melbourne) 545.73 .69 Norway (Oslo) 452.09 .50 Canada (Toronto) 442 .50 After this all of the entries are below the US Poor Sweden (Stockholm) 430.56 .56 Remember this compares the US POOR with these other nations (cities). If one takes the time to compare the amenities the US poor have to the amenities the average person in Europe has it is shocking how much better the lives of even poor Americans are than the average European. This includes medicine. CDC - Cancer Survival: The Start of Global Surveillance The CONCORD-2 study is well worth your read. Remember that the figures for the US include our uninsured. It is impossible to believe that the European countries do not beat the US in every category since pretty much everyone in these countries is covered by a national health care plan. But they commonly do not, and even more surprisingly the US commonly beats many of these countries for the majority of the cancers, especially the more esoteric, even with our uninsured cohort. Five-Year Survival Rates for Patients Diagnosed with Five Common Cancers in Seven Countries, 2005–2009 Country Female Breast Colon Lung Prostate Childhood Leukemia Canada* 85.8 62.8 17.3 91.7 90.6 France** 86.9 59.8 13.6 90.5 89.2 Germany 85.3 64.6 16.2 91.2 91.8 Italy 86.2 63.2 14.7 89.7 87.7 Japan 84.7 64.4 30.1 86.8 81.1 United Kingdom* 81.1 53.8 9.6 83.2 89.1 United States 88.6 64.7 18.7 97.2 87.7 Comparing the amenities the poor have today with the past is eye opening, but I will leave that mostly to you. I don't remember most Americans in 1970 having a cell phone, a computer, internet, air conditioning, a microwave, color television (at all), cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, or a stereo. Food issues were rampant among the poor, as was hunger, and medical care was a problem as well, both in availability and the care available. Medical care today is far advanced from that of 1970. No, the average poor person today lives better than the average person of 1970, and of everyone living in 1920 or before. The New Republic should be ashamed of itself for publishing this tripe. "While manufacturing output is at an all-time high, manufacturing employment is today lower than it was in the later 1940s. Wages for private nonsupervisory employees have stagnated since the late 1960s, and the wages-to-GDP ratio has been declining since 1970. Long-term unemployment is trending upwards, and inequality has become a global discussion topic, following the publication of Thomas Piety’s 2014 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century." This is bullshit, and nonsense. It is not the actual wage which matters but what the wage can purchase, and wages today, stagnant or not purchase more than they did in the past, and they purchase higher quality goods. Plus, non-wage benefits have risen, and when accounted for, this answers the wage stagnation "riddle" nicely. Failing to evaluate all the evidence, and misunderstanding that product price deflation, and quality improvement also answer much of the question. Stagnating Middle-Class? - Cafe Hayek Dead Wrong with Johan Norberg - Stagnant Middle Class The New Republic has attempted here to pull off the difficult Triple Lindy of squaring the progressive economic canard. It cannot be done, or if it is, it requires advanced forms of pretzel logic to pull off, because the facts simply do not support the progressive theories. What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits? Nope. It's not 999.
. . . done right. Always stand up for a child when they are right. Never back down from this kind of a fight if you are right. Once a concession is offered, especially when offered to allow the other party to save face, if declined, that offer should never be returned to the table. Be magnanimous in success, you've been here before. Teach you children ethics, morals, honor, and honesty, demand they achieve, and practice these ideals. Demand those in authority over your children meet these ideals as well. |
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