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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Is it me, or does anyone else get the idea we are intentionally destroying ourselves and just as intentionally setting up communist China as the world's leader?

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

In Alex Epstein's book - Fossil Future - he frames the conversation in the form of Values and Knowledge Systems

In a nutshell, the German and other soon-to-be-no-longer industrialized nations have set the highest virtue in Conservation, Environmentalism, and Social Issues. Development, Industry, Technology and so on are far down the line because any Human Impact on the world is by default, bad. Hence, although policy makers are creating a future which will be objectively worse for all humanity, this is actually not an accident because the objective is to minimize impact on Mother Earth at all costs, and doing things like producing good and machines and all that awful stuff is just so 20th century

Of course, it won't work. But thats what they are doing. And don't be surprised if they "succeed". Humanity can endure and adapt to some god awful stuff, and then it sticks for decades

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The strange suicide of German industry seems of a piece with the suicide of German culture and demography. The country is in the hands of fanatics determined to abolish every trace of it ... not that the rest of the West is much better.

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When I was young and did that hitchhiking backpacking hostel-staying thingy, I was painfully impressed by how the European kids I met, some of whom were still high schoolers or recent grads, had the education and sophistication of people who'd already been through college. I felt so ignorant and uncouth in contrast.

Lotta good all that's done you guys. Still hard to fathom.

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You know the saying, "stupid should hurt"? Well, Germany is about to be in a lot of pain.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

All these anti human policies are simple opportunistic power grabs.

The craziest part of all this is watching in real time as they resolve their cognitive dissonance by modifying their beliefs to justify these incoherent policies.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Germany already lost a major petrochemical manufacturer, that could not keep production up due to power and ingredient supplies. If some there do not arrest the trend, they will end up like other 'first world' areas that only have water and power for part of the day.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Never underestimate the power of large groups of stupid people.

-- George Carlin

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

There are a lot of us self thinking humans right now who realize the insanity and complete bollocks of the period we are living in. Seems we have not been able yet to do much about it?

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Totally insane. I am in the process of writing a piece promoting nuclear power. That initial shutdown in Germany was what damned Angela Merkel for me.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

But it’s science

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

There is a prevalent view from the mainly arts educated main stream media that energy is magic, and one can gain energy with less input that output. The statements made are literally mad.

Similarly net zero, a term best suited to matters of accounting, is widely flung about with open confusion as to the meaning. Again, this is literally mad.

In the UK we have not had an industrial or energy policy for more than 5 decades.

Now, this vacuum is filled with empty words - more empty dimensionless words than ever before.

As I say to friends in South Africa, the chaos they have is what we are about to see. Few in the UK or Europe are prepared to consider the prospect of power cuts lasting between 2 and 8 hours every single day, or take steps to ensure it does not happen.

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I saw a graph from the 1970s somewhere showing what planners expected the sources of energy would be in Germany. Nuclear was supposed to dwarf all other energy production within about 30 years. They obviously forgot to add the "human stupidity" variable to their calculations.

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Our self-inflicted destruction will never end, but it will peter out, because there will be increasingly less to be destroyed.

Forcing people to install the heat pump will probably be the last great action.

After the Ukraine war is over (it will be a hug loss for Germany, but not be mentioned at all anymore), especially if the next winter is not as warm as this one, it will become clear to most people that we will have lost much of our wealth, and are marching in a very uncertain future.

The Greens will lose their mandates, and those flashy political maneuvers will not be longer necessary.

I wager that the next government will be again SPD/CDU, who will preside over German's decline, which has been ensure years ago already via demography.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by eugyppius

You kulaks are in the way of the glorious future. No cheap energy for you!

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You have to stop thinking of this as "stupid people doing stupid things". This is intended destruction of Europe's largest economy. The WEF/Oligarch/Technocrat goal is power and control over the general population. China without the totalitarian "bunny suits". On any issue, just ask yourself "What side of an issue will result in the government getting more power, and consumers having less?" Then just figure the evil ones are working towards that. Simple. It saves all the time of writing things like "Don't they know their policy ____ won't work? Are they stupid?" They want a new techno-aristocracy. Greed. Power hungry. They don't care how they get it. And Europe keeps showing it has no will to actually fight back. Just whine and complain about more lost economic and personal freedom. It's so predictable.

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