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Overview of Recent Western Societal Trends and Extreme Contrasts

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Since the end of 2018 through the present in June 2020, I have spent a lot of time studying several non-traditional sources of societal and intergender dynamic opinions.
I have outlined some recent notes below. Compilation prepared by RTWM.io

Western Societal Trends and Extreme Contrasts

Species Altering Technology

Black Pigeon Speaks / Felix Rex:

“The Internet and the creation of it is a species altering technology. We can communicate faster, and to more people and in an inter-connected web of epistemology…”

What Unicorn Money Sinkholes Actually Disrupt

via Keiser Report / Max Keiser:

“They have accomplished an amazing feat: losing tons of money year after year during the ‘Good Times’ in what were profitable industries.”

Elimination of Traditional Sex Roles

Roosh V:

  • medicating boys from a young age with ADHD drugs to eradicate displays of masculinity.
  • shaming of men for having direct sexual interest in attractive and fertile women.
  • criminalization of normal male behavior by redefining some instances of consensual sex as “rape”.
  • imprisonment of unemployed fathers for non-payment of child support, rendering them destitute and/or unable to be a part of their children’s lives.
  • taxation of men at higher rates for redistribution to women.
  • promotion of single mother and homosexual lifestyles over that of a nuclear family.

Refusal to participate in many/most “surrogate activities”

Eustace Conway as published in Outside Online web site:

“Eustace Conway has to eat 5,000 calories a day —a Tour de France–worthy intake— just to keep his weight up.”

“What do I do for a living?
I live for a living.”
–Eustace Conway

Theodore Kaczynski Essay Extracts

Extracts from paragraphs 39-41 from his own essay below:

(pasted verbatim from the source)

  1. We use the term “surrogate activity” to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the “fulfillment” that they get from pursuing the goal. Here is a rule of thumb for the identification of surrogate activities. Given a person who devotes much time and energy to the pursuit of goal X, ask yourself this: If he had to devote most of his time and energy to satisfying his biological needs, and if that effort required him to use his physical and mental faculties in a varied and interesting way, would he feel seriously deprived because he did not attain goal X? If the answer is no, then the person’s pursuit of goal X is a surrogate activity. Hirohito’s studies in marine biology clearly constituted a surrogate activity, since it is pretty certain that if Hirohito had had to spend his time working at interesting non-scientific tasks in order to obtain the necessities of life, he would not have felt deprived because he didn’t know all about the anatomy and life-cycles of marine animals. On the other hand the pursuit of sex and love (for example) is not a surrogate activity, because most people, even if their existence were otherwise satisfactory, would feel deprived if they passed their lives without ever having a relationship with a member of the opposite sex. (But pursuit of an excessive amount of sex, more than one really needs, can be a surrogate activity.)

  2. In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one’s physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert the very modest effort needed to hold a job. The only requirements are a moderate amount of intelligence and, most of all, simple OBEDIENCE. If one has those, society takes care of one from cradle to grave. (Yes, there is an underclass that cannot take the physical necessities for granted, but we are speaking here of mainstream society.) Thus it is not surprising that modern society is full of surrogate activities. These include scientific work, athletic achievement, humanitarian work, artistic and literary creation, climbing the corporate ladder, acquisition of money and material goods far beyond the point at which they cease to give any additional physical satisfaction, and social activism when it addresses issues that are not important for the activist personally, as in the case of white activists who work for the rights of non-white minorities. These are not always PURE surrogate activities, since for many people they may be motivated in part by needs other than the need to have some goal to pursue. Scientific work may be motivated in part by a drive for prestige, artistic creation by a need to express feelings, militant social activism by hostility. But for most people who pursue them, these activities are in large part surrogate activities. For example, the majority of scientists will probably agree that the “fulfillment” they get from their work is more important than the money and prestige they earn.

  3. For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals (that is, goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled). One indication of this is the fact that, in many or most cases, people who are deeply involved in surrogate activities are never satisfied, never at rest. Thus the money-maker constantly strives for more and more wealth. The scientist no sooner solves one problem than he moves on to the next. The long-distance runner drives himself to run always farther and faster. Many people who pursue surrogate activities will say that they get far more fulfillment from these activities than they do from the “mundane” business of satisfying their biological needs, but that is because in our society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has been reduced to triviality. More importantly, in our society people do not satisfy their biological needs AUTONOMOUSLY but by functioning as parts of an immense social machine. In contrast, people generally have a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities.

Works Cited / References

Species Altering Technology

“The Internet and the creation of it is a species altering technology. We can communicate faster, and to more people and in an inter-connected web of epistemology…”

Cultural Collapse Theory

2019-02-17
https://goodbyeamericainaphoto.wordpress.com/2019/02/17/children-come-from-outer-space/

Selfie Religion

https://goodbyeamericainaphoto.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/while-paris-burns/

Narcissism and the Idolization of Technology

3 Axis Money Laundering System

I live for a living

Surrogate Activities

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