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Hi, my name is Vectra (not irl). Vectra is a name I came up with from watching Bakugan so many years ago. It’s origin is from the name “Spectra.” I took the “Sp” off and add a “V” and boom, Vectra was born. It is also my gaming name.
Xbox: Vectra01
Steam: Lord Vectra
I am an unofficial game designer; I’m currently creating a game.I found out about MGTOW when I found out about Sexodus. Technically, the finding of MGTOW and interest in politics is what made me to what I am now; I identify as an authoritarian-conservative debater whose beliefs makes him a contrarian.
Although I do identify as a MGTOW person, I do have female friends, but they are all non-radicals who believe what MGTOW believes on how marriage should be. However, the reason I’m a MGTOW is because I put my RL female friends list on “lockdown.” For now on, I am avoiding girls because I think the ones outside of my already-made female circle are all liabilities.
Now, I do have some guy and female friends who think I should “give it a try” because “radicals are a minority”, and all I have to do is “be careful and selective.” Nah, women these days put you in prison for something they said when you’ve only known them for an hour. It’s a small chance, but it takes only one woman to ruin your entire future.
I might be dating one of my female friends in the near future, but she is well aware that marriage is pretty slim until I become President in 2036 (she agreed to be First Lady). When I run for President, divorce laws, assault cases, rape (men victims too), and the inequality in sentencing is the platform I’m running on. I have a little less than 20yrs before I’m old enough to run (sadly). What drove me to run for prez is a mix of MGTOW, Milo, Feminazis, and Trump.
For you guys, divorce laws will be equal. No longer will the man be put in jeopardy for the “protection” of women. I will make divorce laws a national law, maybe even an amendment, and it will be equal. It will protect women AND men. No longer will men be subject to the falsehood and destruction from a society that tells guys they are nothing, and their opinion means nothing in anything.
Another main platform I’m running on is Anti-Feminazis. Imma get tough and strong with them.
“As president, I will defend men and women who are attacked physically and emotionally by a domestic ideology.” – Prez Vectra 2036
You guys better vote for me lol. However, I’ve been picking my cabinet, and I need a secretary of Meninism, and I only trust MGTOW because you guys fight hard and think hard. I want someone that is tough and smart to represent the rights of men.
In the meantime, I’ll be a family/marriage counselor. I love helping people with their love issues, and I have this gift of being right 99.9% of the time. Therefore, the career works for me.
NOW, enough of all that. Time to get to the good what-events-turned-me-into-a-MGTOW stuff.
I’m a highly self-defensive person. You hit me; I’m hitting you. As we may know, if a man hits a woman, no matter the reason, his life is ruined. I use that to my advantage.
Example: Years ago, A black woman gets mad when I said I date black women, but none in the school because I know them all, and they are ghetto (I was in a dominantly white school). She got mad and threatened to bash my head in the wall and dump by head in the Janitor’s bucket. I told her that when I throw a punch, my life is ruined; therefore, I will be beat the breathe out of you. She got into a fighting position and so did I. She didn’t even try me, lemme tell you.
Some guys I know that follows the bulls~~~ rule of “Men can’t hit women” get s~~~ by women on the daily basis. Women try to make “being a jerk” a reason to hit someone. When the genders reverse, they want to change their tone all of a sudden. I don’t go for that, and women tend to not test me on that.
A had a few women who got mad at me because of some dumb and stupid reason, and they tried to kick me in the b~~~~. Everytime, I caught their leg and said if they tried again, I’m breaking their leg. They say “You can’t hit a girl; you’ll go to jail.” I tell them to try me because I know my life is going to be ruined. You’re not ruining my life without me ruining yours. All those women never tried me since.
I’m also the son of a Veteran, so since I know military moves, those fights would be awfully one-sided, don’t you think? Those who tried me are hags tho. Some of them are like children where they try you physically, and you have to put them in their place, or else they’ll keep doing it. I was ONLY bullied by women. I was always emotionally abused by women, but because they know they’ll be beaten to a pulp if they tried to physically abuse me.
I have declared that I will avoid women entirely. The only women I’ll talk to is the ones I know now. Besides that, all women will not pass my great non-physical Anti-woman wall. I refuse to get caught up in these radicalism of women whose intent are to destroy and belittle men.
Some of you may have heard this, but when people tell you to just change yourself for a woman. They tell you to do 100 different things while the woman does nothing. Hell, I’ve seen relationships where a woman tells him to change, he does, and she left because “he isn’t the same anymore.” Total bullocks if you ask me, and them women don’t deserve a man.
Another reason is this “if you don’t date a woman because she is fat, you are shallow.” Shut the hell up. It’s called “preference.” You won’t date short guys, so point the fingers at yourself. “That isn’t the same.” I be like “How?” and they say “because it is.” Ye, because you don’t know. Sit down and get off the pedestal. Your words are so full of s~~~, I can smell it and some of it coming from your mouth.
I hate women who try to tell me who I SHOULD and why I SHOULD love them. I’m not into fat women; some guys are, just wait until you get a guy that doesn’t care. If you that stressed out, go workout. If not, don’t tell me that I SHOULD love a fat person because I’m not into them. How about you shave off the # of friendzoned guys you have, and MAYBE I’ll listen to you. They be silent when you say that. They be like “No! I’ve been exposed!”
I, personally, was always friendzoned. I was either “too nice” or “too good of a friend.” I came to the conclusion that I’ll be a virgin forever. I’m a Christian, and I think prostitution is morally wrong, so I would never hire one even if I never get married (I’m not judging anyone who does). I tell my much older female friends that I’m just “too good for women.” It’s the only thing that makes sense. Women say they want a “nice guy” but goes for the jerks. Then they want to cry that all men are the same.
I will say that my crush said that she wants to “wait” to date. Now, normally I’ll just move on, but when I asked her if she would really do it, she said “yeah, because you really care about me.” I’m still a little pessimistic because my love life went into a pattern. All the reasons and bullcrap rejections I have heard were:
1)Too Nice
2)Too good to be friends
3)“Later”Out of all of them, #3 p~~~es me off the most. Tell me straight up so I can just know and move on. I don’t have time to be waiting while trying to catch hints and all this around-the-bush tip-toeing crap.
Another reason I am a MGTOW is because I have witnessed the utter nastiness of the feminazis/radical women. A friend of mine almost went to PRISON because a female lied that he raped her. They found out she lied, and it didn’t go to court. I have seen the aftermath when a woman continues to beat a “chivalry” man. I have seen the destruction they have caused against my father in the past, and the destruction that was brought upon his friend. I have seen the radicalism and destruction, and it might not be all women, but I don’t think I want to take that chance. Not with my future planned and ready. I will be damned if I let one slip happen because it takes only one slip to ruin everything I have fought for.As a male, as everyone else here, I hate being treated as a 2nd class citizen. Many women want to tip-toe on laws to only have the rights of a men with none of the responsibilities. Then they want to turn around and grab all of the privileges. I’m a traditionalist, but if the world is modern, okay, but have it equal across the board; women and white-knights don’t want that. I despise white-knights more than the women themselves. I see men who put women in their place during physical assaults, and I see white-knights defending the abuser, the woman; that is so low down, I’ll beat him to a pulp too.
I have seen gold diggers SNATCH away ALL $$$ from their husbands, and the Judges let them do it. “Men are so privileged” – give me a break! You don’t have to pay for Alimony. Speaking on Alimony, I know a guy who CANNOT retire because due to the state he lives in, he has to keep paying it until his ex-wife gets a job or husband. She NEVER got either, and he could never retire. That man is going to die while working all of his life because of some soulless c~~~.
Another woman caught a guy “manspreading” on the subway. For “empowerment”, she decides to kick him in the b~~~~. He couldn’t get any kids after that. She has gotten ONLY 10 years. That is disgusting beyond belief.
Another women lied that this guy raped her. He lost ALL of his scholarships. Years later, she admits she lies. However, she won’t admit it in court (which I think shouldn’t matter when and where you confess, you confessed). She didn’t want to admit it to the court because she’ll have to pay back the money she got (I don’t remember why or how she got the money). The court made a BOGUS deal that said she can get off SCOTT-FREE as long as she pays the money back to the company. “Men are so privileged!” I’m not buying it at all.
Another women (I can do this all day lol) raped a teenage boy. She got only 9 MONTHS. It gets extremely worse; she gets to be escorted from her cell to her home EVERY 2 WEEKS so she isn’t “too far” from the kids. That Judge needs to be fire immediately. You can’t tell me there was no bias in that ruling. “Men are privileged.” Well, the male patriarchy is doing a really bad job.
As you can see , my anti-feminazis presidential platform is also a personal one which I assume is everyone else on here. It’s a domestic ideology based on attacking those who disagree with them. When I’m president, I’m raining hell fire on all of them. Hopefully, you guys can be my foundation; It’ll be like Hitler and the Nazis (not comparing you to Nazis lol).
Now, besides women, the only other issue I have is my Father. My father is controlling to the point, it was started to become impossible to relate to him. He was rude and disrespected me for many of my childhood years; I have moved away from my father and moved to my mother. Of course, my dad didn’t like that. Before he was abusive, he was a good man, and I tried to get that good man out of him again. I came to him on the weekends in hope that our relationship will go back to normal. It never happened, let me tell you.
He was even more verbally abusive. He was drinking at the time, and he would get drunk every night. Him and I would always get into arguments when he gets drunk. I get scared, he goes to sleep, I sleep, and he wakes up without remembering anything. Eventually, his abusiveness was going on even when he was sober. It was all verbal by the way. My mother let me do what I do because she knew I was hoping. My mother been told me to kick him to the curb. Of course, I finally did.
It started with a feud about race on Facebook. I was saying that America isn’t as racist as people see it. Gotta take off the glasses of race. A white woman, who had been following my Dad for a long time, said that her mother was beaten for being a “n~~~~~-lover”, and she, herself, was beaten up for befriending a Muslim. My father replied that it didn’t matter what they been through because it’ll never be as bad as a black man. I thought that was disgusting, and I defended her greatly in that post. After some time, my father messaged me and said “Don’t disagree with your family publicly, and especially don’t side against your family.” He began to say that if I disagree with him, privately message him, otherwise, I can comment. I told him to not tag me into something if I can’t disagree with it.
A day or two after that, we go into another feud… about race. It was a Christian group, and I was one of the Admin. I started seeing a lot of pending posts saying “Why Jesus wasn’t white.” I deleted them, and I made a post saying to deter away from those types of posts because it’s a Christian group; race should have no place. My father began to say Jesus wasn’t white and then said why he wasn’t white (I don’t remember nor care for the reasons he gave me). I said that I don’t care what race Jesus was because we are to serve him no matter what, and having such posts can be detrimental to a Christian group because it’ll do nothing but divide the group on something that is pointless and has nothing to do with the Bible.
In that same feud, he went from “Jesus wasn’t white” to “America doesn’t care about blacks,” It was a slow transition, and I noticed that is where he was going. He began to say anyone under 25 can have no opinion on race (which low-key was a shot at me). So we got into a feud about America and Race. In the middle of the argument, he said “if it is more than 3 sentences, imma delete it. If you can’t defend yourself within 3 sentences, then shut up.” I type long answers, but that is because I like to give thorough answers. My dad is a repetitive commenter. He’ll post 10 comments in a minute or two. I, on the other hand, will type for the whole two minutes and post a comment that is as long as his 10 comments put together (if not, longer). I said nevermind because if you can’t respect my opinion, we don’t need to be talking.
He told me to block him and delete everything of him. That is exactly what I did. He recently went to the hospital, and his long-ago ex was telling how I was wrong, and I’m stupid for leaving him alone. Now, I don’t know if he told her the full story or party of it, but I didn’t care either way. I haven’t replied yet, but I will today. She thinks I should call to make sure he’s okay, but I’ll pass on it. For years, besides the recent feuds, he has treated me like dirt a lot of times, and I’m done with it. It’s hid fault not mine.
Welp, that is my life. If you have any questions, concerns, or advice, don’t be afraid to share. I’m open to any suggestions you guys might have.
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. . . or when the dream starts to become a reality . . .
I’m currently living in a caravan (trailer) round the back of the marital home. Yes, unfortunately I still have to breathe the same air as my soon-to-be ex-wife.
The caravan is, however, the height of luxury compared to my living conditions from before, being both dry and warm, with carpets, furniture and a bed, and without strange creatures crawling and living in it. As a bonus, it’s mine. Sorry, I tell a lie as somewhat perversely, it’s a marital asset. My attitude is tough s~~~ and ‘sue me’. She who must be obeyed disapproves of this and has tried on a few occasions to force entry.
If all goes according to plan, mid-April is the date of my release. ?
The ‘escape plan’ came about purely by accident. My wife discovered by chance (?) that she was in fact entitled to a full state pension (UK) and that she had unwittingly (?) deferred claiming it for the last 4 ½ years or so. She’d built up a sizeable lump sum.
She had plans for this money, which involved her horsey lifestyle (of course). Naturally, I was going to make all of her plans a reality (free of charge), as I am her husband and in accordance with the previous 14 years together.
Prior to this, I had just finished a couple of months of continuous hard slog, completely refurbishing the kitchen in the holiday home (cupboards, worktops, floor, ceiling, new equipment, lighting, sockets, extractor, cooker, radiators etc.). On the final day I fell asleep from exhaustion at 4am and was back to it at 7am because guests were coming to stay.
Immediately after the guests left, I renovated the bottom-end breakfast/larder area with new floors, radiators and lighting etc. Finally, I entirely transformed the outside toilet/back hall. Through out the process, I kept asking my wife to not plan any more major projects for the foreseeable future, as I needed a change of pace.
After this, I took 3 days off and stayed at my favourite campsite.
When I returned, my jaw hit the deck. The kitchen that I had lovingly built several years previously in our cottage, complete with huge Victorian fireplace/chimney, had vanished.
In it’s place was a sizeable mountain of new timber, cupboards, sink, taps and units, sockets and wiring. I repeated that I’d asked for no more major projects for a while. She replied that it ‘wasn’t a major project’.
That was ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’.
I immediately enlisted one of those online divorce companies, who got the ball rolling. The wife of course retaliated with a solicitor who tried her best to convince me that I was wasting my time and the most I could hope for was the shirt on my back. Incredibly she even came round the house and offered to represent both of us! Of course, she quickly left with her tail between her legs when I informed her that firstly, it was unethical, and secondly it created a conflict of interest. The wife began crying and asked why I was being ‘so awkward’.
Later, she refused to disclose her finances. I obtained a court order so that she’d do so. That’s when I discovered she’d also (somehow?) been spiriting large chunks of income into a separate savings account.
Through my solicitor, the choice of handing over the pension and savings lump sums (plus 2 years of monthly maintenance payments) was given, or the houses would be surveyed and valued and sold. The good wife has always been terrified of having the place surveyed and valued for some reason (I don’t believe for one moment her claim that it’s worthless). Of course her business and lifestyle would end as well. Besides, I was prepared to ‘dig in’ for the long haul.
The wife naturally insists that I’m a user, a bi-polar sufferer/narcissist/autistic/control freak, and that this was my plan all along – to take her for every penny. I’ve tried to explain to her that she is the real ‘winner’ here, as she gets to keep the houses, the business and her lifestyle.
A rather amusing development is that she recently began a strange relationship with a deeply religious woman in America on Facebook, who specialises in the occult and the removal of evil. Apparently, the wife remains convinced that I have in fact been ‘occupied’ by Satan himself. Most of the doorways and my personal possessions (motorbike, kayak, guitars, cameras, books etc) now have tiny crosses painted on them with clear nail varnish.
She also attempted to perform a ritual involving a black candle and some reversing oil (whatever that is), and has tried her utmost to get me to see a priest. She often now attends courses at a nearby Buddhist temple. She is the most un-spiritual person I have ever encountered. Correct me if I’m wrong but did I ever mention at some point in the past, that it’s a bit weird living with my wife? ?
As I say, she has approved the draft of the agreement and it’s now being typed up as I write this. Fingers crossed she signs the bloody thing, then it and the forms (and another fee) will be sent to the court and as I say, parole day should be mid-April (ish).
In the meantime and in the interest of peace, sanity and to fill the days, I’ve been pottering away on her kitchen. So far I’ve constructed a timber ‘cage’ lining the walls, with a hand pitched suspended ceiling thing (covering up my splendid beams with riveted steel joining plates). I’ve nearly completed the plaster boarding and have installed new wiring, ring mains, sockets, lights etc.
Of course the wife takes all of this in her stride, as she believes we are still a couple (I would say authority figure and slave). She’s also made it quite clear that we are to remain friends and that I will be on hand at a moments notice in the future, if ever she gets stuck etc.
In the interest of remaining alive and/or healthy, I of course assure her that this will be the case . . .
The settlement isn’t what I could’ve expected had I gone the ‘long way round’, but it was the most realistic option under the circumstances and after my solicitor had laid the cards on the table.
The main concern was my mental and physical health (physical especially), which was deteriorating rapidly. In the last 10 years (I’m 49) I’ve aged 20-25 years at least. Since distancing myself as much as possible, things have improved immeasurably. To quote former Chief-Inspector Dreyfus from the Pink Panther films, “Every day and in every way, I’m getting better and better.”
The shorter route and cutting my losses was the most attractive option. Ultimately, I will be able to afford a tidy place to live and one that won’t need loads of work.
I’ll also have a reasonable ‘safety zone’ in the bank and an income from the maintenance payments. My living costs will as minimalistic as it’s possible to get, without living on the street in a cardboard box. Therefore I’ll be able to save the greater majority of the monthly payments.
A further bonus is that I’ve discovered I will be entitled to an almost-full state pension.
One sobering revelation was that despite working like a whore for the past 14 years, and playing an equal role in bringing in a tidy income, I’ve been classed as unemployed since 2003.
I have one image of a utopia in my head at the moment that keeps me going, one that encompasses when everything is done and dusted. I just hope that the sense of relief isn’t so huge, I end up ‘popping my clogs’.
April can’t come soon enough and I plan to take a short break, walking and camping around the nearby national park and over a few mountains for a month or so.
Looking back on where the last 14 years have gone, one word keeps popping up in my head with increasing regularity (and I apologise): –
F~~~ !
F~~~ !!!
F~~~ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stay vigilant. They're everywhere.
Topic: The Manipulation Game
So, my older brother has had this infatuation with a girl at his job. For a little context, we both were raised as traditional conservatives and Roman Catholics with an emphasis on family values; this means that we tend to look for women that match those values (needless to say, this wipes out practically all of the dating market). Just because this girl eats a home made lunch every day, is going back into school (probably because she picked a s~~~ major before), and takes care of her younger brothers he feels like she is a good enough person to date.
I have tried to show him that even though she “believes in family values” and also is religious, she is just as bad as any of the college floozies you can find on any campus. My evidence is as follows:
1. “Now isn’t the time to look for Mr. Right”. My brother heard her say this when she was talking with her friends on Friday while they were talking about bar plans. This is a pretty damning quote from the horse’s mouth. It pretty much sums up that she isn’t innocent at all and will try to find a beta provider when she finally hits the wall and she is approaching her thirties fast.
2. Her own father admits that she is a terrible nagger. She nags the s~~~ out of my brother and he has been the one doing most of the work on the job. Not only does he do most of the accounting, he also handles inventory, scheduling, meetings, presentations, and even IT. He has even helped her out when she was “sick” and has been pulling the rest of her shift while she is going back into school. That’s a bad sign because she is going to keep nagging him to do all the work.
3. Her friends are the spitting image of an entitled woman that uses their sick leave to have an extra vacation, drinks on the job, parties hard every Friday and comes back to work looking like s~~~, and sleeps around until the time they have to settle down. The company she keeps is a pretty good indicator of who she is.
Anyway, lately, she has been doing some manipulations:
1. She makes sure that her little brother remembers my brother’s name. She is like a single mother that tries to get the kid to bond to the guy she’s interested in so then he feels guilt or responsibility for a kid that isn’t even his. My brother feels like she must talk about him a lot if her brother remembers him. I try to point out that it’s so then he pays more attention to her or bonds with the little brother.
2. She has been making a point of displaying her “faith” lately. Where was all this piety when she was partying with her friends every weekend NOT looking for Mr. Right? I shouldn’t even have to explain how blatantly false this is to my brother, but I have to.
3. Randomly, after the holiday, she decides to give my brother a bunch of comedy movies that he never saw. This wouldn’t be so bad, my brother has given her and the rest of the staff gift cards and stuff, however she sprayed her perfume on the gift bag. She is trying to associate her with the joy he might feel from the comedies or even think about her more.
She has been trying the really get into his head lately. Maybe it’s because she is reaching thirty pretty soon. Maybe she has “changed”. I know she is bad news, how else can I convince my brother not to fall for this?
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no."
Finally something worth posting.
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Situational Assessment 2017: Trump EditionIn 2015, I took a swing at assessing the shape and state of our global challenges. Looking back, that essay is still well worth a read, but it is high time for an update.
While many things have changed in the world in the past two years, 2016 saw what looks like a phase transition in the political domain. While the overall phenomenon is global in scale and includes Brexit and other movements throughout Europe, I want to focus specifically on the victory of the “Trump Insurgency” and drill down into detail on how this state change will play out.
I use John Robb’s term “Trump Insurgency” here to highlight the fact that the election of 2016 was not an example of “ordinary politics”. Anyone who fails to understand this is going to be making significant errors. For example, the 2016 election is not comparable to the 2000 election (e.g., merely a “close” election) nor to the 1980 election (e.g., an “ideological transition” election). While it is tempting to compare it to 1860, I’m not sure that is a good match either.
In fact, as I go back and try to do pattern matching, the only real pattern I can find is the 1776 “election” (AKA the American Revolution). In other words, while 2016 still formally looked like politics, what is really going on here is a revolutionary war. For now this is war using memes rather than bullets, but war is much more than a metaphor.
This war is about much more than ideology, money or power. Even the participants likely do not fully understand the stakes. At a deep level, we are right in the middle of an existential conflict between two entirely different and incompatible ways of forming “collective intelligence”. This is a deep point and will likely be confusing. So I’m going to take it slow and below will walk through a series of “fronts” of the war that I see playing out over the next several years. This is a pretty tactical assessment and should make sense and be useful to anyone. I’ll get to the deep point last — and will be going way out there in an effort to grasp “what is really going on”. I’ll definitely miss wildly, but with any luck, the total journey will be worth the time.
Own the battlefield, own the war.
Front One: Communications Infrastructure.
All modern warfighters know that the first step of any conflict is to disrupt the enemy’s communications and control infrastructure.
Our legacy sensemaking system was largely composed of and dominated by a small set of communications channels. These included the largest newspapers (e.g., NYT and Washington Post) and television networks (e.g., CNN, CBS, Fox, etc.). Until very recently, effectively all sensemaking was mediated by these channels and, as a consequence, these channels delivered a highly effective mechanism for coordinated messaging and control. A sizable fraction of the power, influence and effectiveness of the last-stage power elites (e.g., the neocon alliances in both the Democratic and Republican parties) was due to their mastery at utilizing these legacy channels.It is important for anyone planning in the contemporary environment to recognize that the activities of the Trump Insurgency are entirely different to all previous actors. Rather than endeavoring to establish control over the legacy infrastructure, the Trump Insurgency is in the process of destroying it entirely and replacing it with a very different architecture. One that is intrinsically compatible with its own form of collective intelligence.
It is clear to me that the Insurgency is engaged in “total war”. They are simultaneously attacking the legacy power structures on multiple fronts (access, business viability and, in particular, legitimacy) while innovating entirely novel approaches to the problem of large scale communications and control (e.g., direct tweets from POTUS). Their intent is not to play with or even dominate the legacy media — but to eliminate them from the field entirely and to replace them with something else altogether.
This approach is strategically optimal. The Trump Insurgency represents a novel model of collective intelligence in general. It is the first truly viable approach that is connected directly with the emergent decentralized attractor that has been driving technical/economic disruption for the last several decades. This form of governance is structurally incompatible with the legacy media architecture. It is intrinsically dissonant with the kind of top-down, slow, controlled, synchronized approach of the old media. It therefore both must dismantle this architecture and replace it with one that is in synch with its mode of operation and, thereby, benefits massively by hamstringing any collective intelligence that works in the old top-down fashion (i.e., all existing forces currently at play).To use a concept from Gilles Deleuze, the Trump Insurgency is a nomadic war machine and it is in the process of smoothing the space of communication. To use a simpler metaphor, if you imagine the Trump Insurgency as highly effective desert guerrillas, they are currently in the process of turning everything into a desert. The Establishment, optimized for “jungle conflict”, is going to have a hard time.
From where I sit, it seems evident that the Insurgency’s ability to read-plan-react (their “OODA loop”) is simply of a higher order than the legacy power structures. For at least the past 18 months, the Insurgency has been running circles around the the Establishment and the old media. Accordingly, I fully expect the Insurgency to win this fight. Specifically, for all functional purposes, I expect the memetic efficacy of the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, MSNBC and related channels to be near zero within the next two to four years. I would not be surprised to see several of these entities actually out of business.
Note, the relative position of “new media” such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube is harder to predict. I suspect that most of the important conflict of this front will take place here. Right now, all of new media is controlled by forces broadly opposed to the Insurgency. Yet the Insurgency must establish dominance on this territory. They can accomplish this either by capturing these existing platforms (aka “bend the knee” capitulation) or by moving the center of power to new platforms that are aligned with the Insurgency (e.g., gab.ai replacing Twitter). If you think that this latter is highly unlikely, I strongly urge you to reexamine your models and assumptions.
My sense is that the decisive decision in this conflict is whether the “new media” remain coupled to the legacy power structures (and their OODA loops) or decouple and enter into a direct conflict for “decentralized supremacy” (see my last point below). If they choose the former, they will lose. If they choose the latter, the outcome is hard to predict.
Front Two: The Deep State (wew lads)
In ordinary politics, an elected candidate is expected to integrate with and make relatively small fine-tuning changes to the existing state apparatus and the mass of career bureaucrats that make up most of the actual machinery of government (AKA the “deep state”). Thus, while the Obama Administration might differ quite significantly from the Bush Administration in political theory and intent, the actual impact of theses differences on the real trajectory of the “ship of state” is relatively small.My assessment is that the Trump Insurgency has identified the Deep State itself as its central antagonist and is engaged in a direct existential conflict with it.
Normally this would be an easy win for the Deep State. However, I expect this front to be the most challenging, uncertain and dangerous of the war. The Deep State is massive, has access to vast resources and capabilities and has been in the business of controlling power for decades. But two things are moving in the Insurgency’s favor.
First, the Deep State appears to be fragmented. For example, the “Russian Hacking” scenario of the past two months looks surprisingly uncoordinated and incompetent. I don’t know exactly what is going on here, but it is clearly not the product of a unified and smoothly operating Deep State.
Second, it seems highly likely that the Deep State is prepared to fight “the last war” while the Insurgency is bringing an entirely different kind of fight. The Deep State developed in and for the 20th Century. You might say that they are experts at fighting Trench Warfare. But this is the 21st Century and the Insurgency has innovated Blitzkrieg.
Let’s take a look at the “fake news” meme for example. This has all the earmarks of a Deep State initiative. Carefully planned, highly coordinated, coming from all authoritative directions, strategically targeted. My read is that this was a Deep State response to the Communications Infrastructure fight. But it looks like this initiative has not only failed, but that the Insurgency has been able to leverage its decisive OODA loop advantages to turn the entire thing around and make “fake news” its own tool. How? By moving rapidly, unconventionally, in a very decentralized fashion and with complete commitment to victory.
If my read is correct, the balance of the struggle between the Deep State and the Insurgency will be determined by how quickly the Deep State can dispense with old and dysfunctional doctrine and innovate novel approaches that are adequate to the war. In other words, is this the Western Front (France falling in six weeks) or the Eastern Front (the USSR bleeding and giving ground until it could innovate a new war machine that could outcompete the Wehrmacht).
If my read of the situation is correct (which, of course, it very well may not be), then the Deep State would be ill advised indeed to undertake any major efforts in the next 12–24 months. For example, an “impeach Trump” initiative, would almost certainly be an enormous strategic disaster. In spite of the apparent strength of the Deep State, the Insurgency’s superior OODA loop would likely result in an Insurgency victory in this fight — and victory here would greatly strengthen the Insurgency’s position. (Can you say “Emperor Trump?)
From the opposite direction, the Insurgency would be well advised to Blitzkrieg. Right now it has the advantage of an approach and a model that its opponent doesn’t understand and can’t react to effectively. But the Deep State is deep. Given time it could learn how to win this fight. If the Insurgency wants to win, it needs to radically reduce the Deep State’s strategic agency quickly. This means moving fast and moving decisively.
I cannot overstate how deeply dangerous this fight is. Classically, when a long-standing hegemony (cf “Pax Americana) is weakened and distracted by intra-elite conflict, rivals like Russia and China will see an opportunity to move from a hegemonic to a multi-polar world and can be tempted into adventurism. In these conditions, even the slightest mistake can push the system into nearly catastrophic conflict.
(chaos? conflict? STATUS: QUITE COMFY)
Front Three: Globalism
Anti-globalist rhetoric was one of the most enduring and central features of the Trump campaign. Indeed, if Trump clearly stood for anything, resisting the “false song of globalism” was it. And all evidence in the post-election environment is that the Trump Insurgency will indeed be actively anti-globalist.What is flat out astounding is the relative ease with which Trump has been able to cut through globalist Gordian Knots. For half a decade, the Trans-Pacific Partnership was an unstoppable juggernaut. Until, that is, Trump decided to end it. Perhaps this is evidence of a “below the surface” weakness that made TPP a paper tiger. Perhaps it is evidence of the relative balance of power between nationalist and globalist institutions. At least when the nationalist institution is the United States. (Compare the Greeks vis a vis the EU). Perhaps it is evidence of a larger scale anti-globalist conflict that has been raging for nearly a decade and has been surfacing all over the place (Brexit, Trump, Le Pen, etc.).
In any event, it is a significant victory and I am certain that it will embolden the Insurgency. At this point, I expect the Insurgency to cut deep into globalist power institutions (the World Bank, the UN, various treaty organizations) and, more importantly, globalist-allied national institutions like the Federal Reserve. The Globalists have an odd connection to power. Generally, they must move through influence and threat to elites, with a non-trivial amount of mass level propaganda to smooth the way. The Insurgency is broadly immune to globalist propaganda, the Insurgency elites seem unlikely to play ball with globalist elites or to back down under threat. At this point, I see only two real moves available to the globalists. 1) economic destabilization hoping to turn “the people” against the Insurgency; 2) some kind of some kind of social/military destabilization.
But I don’t give the globalists much of a chance. Of all of the major world powers, only the EU is currently dominated by globalists, and with the victory of Brexit and the surge of nationalism in France, the Netherlands, etc., even the Eurocrats are on the run.
By moving quickly and decisively against the Deep State allies of globalism at home and erecting nationalist resilience to global institutional influence (e.g, high tariffs and protectionist monetary policy), combined with shaping a narrative that points all bad economic news directly at globalists, the Insurgency might well be able to cut most globalist power off at the knees.
Notably, even large multi-national corporations — until recently appearing to be pulling the strings of political policy — seem to be rapidly capitulating to the Insurgency. The two major globalist forces that have not yet been publicly tested are the energy companies and the banks. What will happen here remains to be seen. A cynic might suggest that the Insurgency itself is only superficially populist and in fact really simply represents the interests of Energy and Banks against other elites. That cynic might be right, we shall see.
The net-net result of this front will be a significant weakening of the post-War global institutional order and a rebalancing of power along not yet fully understood nationalist alignments. It is not clear what effect this change will have. For example, one might expect “global scale” issues like climate disruption or terrorism to lose focus and efficacy — but that isn’t clear. It is certainly plausible that nation-to-nation alliances can make significant forward progress in even these areas of interest. Particularly if you assume that globalist agendas were extracting value from global scale crises rather than resolving them.
Moreover, there is no reason to believe that a multi-polar nationalism will be less stable over the long term than a hegemony. History has certainly cut both ways. Perhaps what is most clear is this: the period of transition as globalist forces struggle to maintain power while nationalist forces are not yet in any form of stable equilibrium with each-other is a moment (possibly lasting years) of extreme danger.
Front Four: The New Culture War
Last week, Reddit user notjafo expressed something important. It is worth reading his entire post, but the gist is this: the left won the culture war of the 1960’s — 1990’s. And the Trump Insurgency does not represent “the next move” of the old right in that old war. It represents the first move of an emergent new culture. One that is directly at war with the “Blue Church” on the ground of culture itself.“The Blue Church is panicking because they’ve just witnessed the birth of a new Red Religion. Not the tired old Christian cliches they defeated back in the ’60s, but a new faith based on cultural identity and outright rejection of the Blue Faith.” — /u/notjfao
While I can nit pick at some of his analysis, broadly speaking I agree. As of 2016, the shoe is on the other foot — the counter culture has become the mainstream and the Insurgents are the new counter culture.
Similar to the other battles, this Culture War front is characterized by a distinction between a more powerful and established Blue team organized around and fighting “the last war” and a Red team still in flux but beginning to figure out how to fight from the future. And, as per the other fronts, until the Blue team figures this out, it will continue to lose ground without understanding why.
In this case, however, the superior OODA loop of the Insurgency is only part of the strategic shift. Of far more importance is the fact that the Insurgency evolved within a culture broadly dominated by the values and techniques of the Blue Church and therefore, by simple natural selection, is now almost entirely immune to the total set of “Blue critique”.
In other words, if we map the arc of the culture war from the 1950’s through to the 1990’s we will see the slow emergence of a set of strategies, techniques and alliances on the part of the emerging Blue Church that became increasingly perfected and effective over time. For example, the critical power of the epithets “racist” or “sexist” which had little or no traction in the 1930’s and 1940’s had, by the 1990’s become decisive.
Yet, even as the Blue Church was achieving dominance, the roots of the Insurgency were being laid. And, like bacteria becoming increasingly immune to an antibiotic after constant exposure, those aspects of the emergent “Red Religion” that were able to survive at all began to coalesce and expand. What has now erupted into the zeitgeist is something new and almost completely immune to the rhetorical and political techniques of the Blue Church. To call an adherent of the Red Religion “racist” is unlikely to elicit much more than a “kek” and a derisive dismissal. The old weapons have no more sting.
Moreover, the Red Religion does not intend to engage the Blue Church in any way other than “outright rejection.” It considers the Church and its adherents to be acting in bad faith by default and the doctrines of the Church to be little more than a form of mental illness. Accordingly, the Red Religion has no intention of dialogue, conversation or even sharing power with the Church.
The Blue Church should expect to meet the Red Religion in war. And in this conflict the Red Religion has the advantage.In the nature of every movement that has endured the crucible of selection, the Red Religion is much more coherent and focused than the dominant Church which is criss-crossed with internal conflict and in-fighting. The Red Religion was born into and optimized for new media (e.g, optimized for memes rather than films) and as the balance of power shifts from 20th Century media to 21st Century media, this inures to the advantage of the Reds. Going deeper, even as the Red Religion has developed an immunity to most of the primary techniques of the Blue Church, it has simultaneously developed its own memetic/values structure connected with deep human values that stem from ancient “tribal selection” and are highly attractive to the portions of the human family (men and women) who are focused on protecting and defending their tribe (hence the Red Religions’ intrinsic focus on Nationalism).
In other words, over the short to mid term, most of the humans who are best prepared to wage war — who are most attuned to and psychologically ready for war — will be attracted to the Red Religion. They will be focused, almost entirely immune to the entire portfolio of Blue weapons and they will be armed with and optimized for 21st Century techniques of waging culture war.
As a consequence, the result of this conflict will almost certainly be fatal for the Blue Church. We are already witnessing it, in the form of both an increasingly desperate “doubling down” on obviously impotent attacks and a creeping demoralization within the fabric of the Church. I expect to see this accelerate and as the Insurgency wins on other fronts, the set of alliances that hold the Church together will begin to unravel and the Church will collapse.
The sooner that happens, the better it will be for everyone.
Right now, the Church is killing us. While it is holding many important, necessary values, it is also holding a ton of stuff that is deeply dysfunctional. But by monopolizing the instruments of culture and power, it inhibits us like a well meaning but overbearing parent from being able to form the new innovations in culture, practice and value that are necessary to our age. The collapse of the Blue Church is going to lead to a level of “cultural flux” that will make the 1960’s look like the Eisenhower administration. As the Church falls away, the “children of Blue” will explode out in a Cambrian explosion and reach out to engage in all out culture war with the still nascent Red Religion.
This Culture War will be unlike anything we have ever seen. It will take place everywhere all at once, constrained less by geography than by technical platform and by the complex relationship between innovation and power on an exponential technology curve. It will be a struggle over not just the content, but the very sense and nature of identity, meaning and purpose. It will mutate so quickly and will evolve so rapidly that all of our legacy techniques (both psychological and institutional) for making sense of and responding to the world will melt into so much tapioca. This will be terrifying. It is also the source of our best hope.
Ice crystals poised for a phase transition.
The War for Collective Intelligence
If you’ve made it this far (or chose to skip directly here), take a breath and settle in. This is the interesting part. For that precious few who prioritize understanding over brevity, what follows will make much more sense if you have read my Foundational Assumptions, The Coming Great Transition, Introducing Generation Omega and The Future of Organization.For those who want the tldr, it is this: we live in a non-linear world, stop thinking linearly.
Once you have accepted this as the task, you will eventually come to an important conclusion: you can’t. By yourself, you can’t think non-linearly. This isn’t your fault. Individual human beings can’t think non-linearly. Only “collective intelligences,” those agents of “inter-subjective consciousness” can. To put it more simply, we implement and do things as individuals. We innovate as tribes. And the world we live in today — the world of the 21st Century — is a world of continuous innovation.
In this environment, for the first time ever in history, the ability to innovate is decisively superior to the ability to deploy power. Prior to today, the rule of “the battle goes to whoever gets there the first with the most” was a decent rule of thumb. Of course, this has never been strictly the case. Most of the great stories of history are built around moments of innovation where the smarter but less powerful group was able to outwit and undermine their opponent with superior technique, technology and strategy. Over time the balance has slowly but consistently moved in the direction of innovation. Ask Turing and Oppenheimer about the accelerating pace of innovation as it relates to war.
The conflict of the 21st Century is about forming a Collective Intelligence that can outwit and out innovate all of its competitors. The central challenge is to innovate a way of collaborating and cohering individuals that maximally deploys their individual perspectives, capabilities, understandings and insights with each-other. Right now, the Insurgency has the edge. It has discovered some key ways to tap into the power of decentralized collective intelligence and this is its principal advantage. While it is definitely not a mature version of a decentralized collective intelligence, it is substantially more so than any collective intelligence with which it is competing and unless and until a more effective decentralized collective intelligence enters the field, this advantage is enough.
Like all wars, the shape of this particular conflict will be highly dependent on path, timing and surprise. Right now, for example, the relative difference in power between the Establishment and the Insurgency is large, and while it continues to lose it’s impact, power still matters. At the same time, while the Insurgency has a meaningful advantage in “collective intelligence” this advantage is not overwhelming. Thus the details of the situation that I describe above.
So, for example, if the Deep State uses its power advantage as a way to stall until until it can innovate a collective intelligence advantage, it has a decent chance. (Of course, becoming a decentralized collective intelligence is going to be really hard for the actual individuals who make up the Deep State to understand and accept.)
But watch out as the conflict evolves. As the Insurgency cuts down and unplugs legacy power structures (e.g, the media, the intelligence agencies) and replaces them with more fluid and innovative approaches (e.g., gab.ai and Palantir) the balance will begin to tip quickly. If the Establishment cannot stave off the Insurgency in the next 4–5 years, that phase of the war will be over.
Then the real question. Does the Insurgency and the Red Religion represent a stable attractor in the 21st Century. Can it form a collective intelligence that is able to select-against and out-compete all comers. If so, what does this look like? My sense is that this is ultimately a highly unstable state. While tribalism (nationalism) can be very potent in the short term, it is ultimately a deeply unstable ship to navigate the oceans of the future.
Or is there a different timeline where one of the “children of Blue” discovers an approach that is more intelligent still — one that is more fit to ride the wave of exponential technology and global scale crisis? One that is more fully in line with the true nature of inter-subjective consciousness? One that can scale without losing its coherence? One that is adequate to the whole set of existential challenges of the 21st Century?
Such an eventuality is certainly possible — although the most robust collective intelligence is likely to be more purple than red or blue. How likely? Well, right now I think we have a decent chance but really do believe that the die will be cast in the next 3–5 years.
For those who want to take action, I have three recommendations:
The Blue Church, the Deep State, the Old Media and all the other aspects of the Establishment are holding you back. Free your mind. This is going to be much harder than it sounds. For most people, if you are under 40, your entire development has taken place within the context of the Blue Church. Many of your deepest assumptions and unconscious values are going to have to be examined with brutal honesty and courage.All Collective Intelligence is gated by Sensemaking. Right now, our collective sensemaking systems are in complete disarray. We don’t know who or what to trust. We barely even know how. Find ways to improve your individual sensemaker and collaborate on collective sensemaking systems. This should get easier as the old media and the Blue Church collapse.
Both #1 and #2 require other people. And, since all of our old ways of collaborating with other people are either suspect or obsolete, you are going to have to learn how to build real faithful relationships the old fashioned way. Get much better at making friends. I don’t mean casual acquaintances. And I definitely don’t mean social network contacts. I mean the kinds of people who ready willing and able to actually care for you — even at risk to themselves. Not because of shared ideology or even shared mission, but because of the deep stuff of human commitment.
Praise kek.
I thought his plan was to actually ban all immigrants from getting welfare, which is even more awesome. About time we start bringing people over here and giving them a free ride, legal or not.
We just have to be prepared to pay more for some things, which I am.
Are we really going to have to? Just an example…but look at the cost break down for an iPhone…
Apple could literally pay an American 30 bucks an hour to assemble iPhones instead of paying Chinese people 2 bucks an hour and the profit portion of the pie would still be more than 3x bigger than the labor portion. How many other products do you think look like that if you break down the retail price and how much illegal labor or cheap foreign labor actually saves compared to the final price?Even something simple like picking apples…what if a worker can pick 250lbs of apples in an hour? Let’s pretend right now an illegal does it for 10 bucks an hour under the table. Let’s replace him with an American making 20 bucks an hour. Divide that extra 10 bucks an hour out over 250lbs of apples and it would cost you 4 cents more per pound at the store…big deal. At the same time we also took an unemployed American and gave him a job that pays a living wage…so what we save by getting people off welfare programs(legal immigrants, illegal, citizens, don’t matter) may very well more than offset whatever slight cost increases you see at the cash register.
I’m FAR more concerned about the whole H1B scam. Bring in pseudo-slave labor to undercut Americans that have studied and worked their whole lives to get into sci/tech jobs.
Simple fix: a 40% ongoing surcharge of wages paid, to be paid by the employers(importers). If their H1B person truly has a unique and magical skill they can’t do without, then this won’t be a problem. However if the only reason for them being there is cheap(er) labor, then problem solved.
I’m not sure if anything because of it yet but last I heard Trump planned on raising the minimum wage required for companies to pay an h1b worker to like 110k a year or something. Basically it would make a whole hell a lot of jobs h1b proof…no longer worth replacing the engineering or IT departments with a bunch of h1b people because they’ll work for 20k-30k a year less, live with 10 people in a 3 bedroom house, and send all the money back to their home country. Unless they need some highly educated or skilled worker that is just hard to find, they have plenty of Americans to pick from.
I quite frankly had enough. I could see her slowly turning into a rabid SJW. I thought I could put up with her stupid bulls~~~ but not anymore. She’s overweight and her face is 4/10 and I still put up with her. What did she have to offer? Absolutely f~~~ing nuttin’. She tried to debate me with CNN articles as I was breaking up with her, I mean, can she be anymore f~~~ing retarded? She paints Trump as “literally Hitler”. I can’t imagine being with that c~~~ in real life, what a disaster that would turn out to be. As we were finally cutting contact, she threatened to cut her wrists; what a bats~~~ c~~~!
American white women are the most vile creatures on this planet and I’m done with dating, I mean, marriage was off the table already for me. Godspeed you American men putting up with that s~~~.
AnonymousI will write more about it as I process it but I’ve been living MGTOW hell for the last year and am finally freeing myself.
What is my mom: An 85 year old dyed in the wool full on hard core feminist. Of course she doesn’t call herself that or acknowledge that she shares the belief of the bra burners of her 30’s that she scoffed at at the time.
She is a feminist because she believes that men are only utilities for women and she believes all men are evil and responsible for all wars and crime.
She holds these as self evident truths.
This is what the women of the 50’s really thought. They were at home not working and having machines to do all the housework while they drank gin an tonics with their friends and planned no fault divorce so they could dump those useless lumps of flesh on the couch and get back on the c~~~ caurusel.
It was my gut reaction to learning the truth about how she lied to me and degraded me as a male child by teaching me to fear men that has lead me so strongly toward going my own way.
Next week I move out after a year of having to ingest this man hate.
This paragon of female strength will have to finally live alone after living with a man slave her entire life. She will have to learn to sleep in the house alone, her big fear, because she is entirely capable of taking care of herself. Even her doctor said it.
It got to me. It was like being in a sexless marriage to an 85 year old wife with a bad attitude.
What is a guy who is going his own way going to do when you have to care for the elderly?
Topic: Hi, I'm new here
Hello gentlemen,
I thought it was time I introduced myself. I’ve spent a couple months now lurking and reading, so I might as well share my story, too. I’ve learned a lot from other men’s accounts, especially from the comments and cautionary tales of married men on this site, maybe mine will be of some help to someone… My first contact with the whole MGTOW phenomenon happened at the best possible stage in my life – just before I was about to get married. But let’s have a little backstory first.
Ever since I can remember, I never wanted to get married or have kids. I have a distant memory from childhood, watching a scene in a movie where a hot blonde girl pushes a guy onto a bed, pulls his cowboy boots off and they’re about to get it on, and I remember thinking “I wish I had a girlfriend like that, but barren”. I s~~~ you not, my about-12-years-old-or-thereabouts self was that specific about my preference when it comes to the possibility of fatherhood. This never changed, the thought of having kids always triggered the same response – thinking of all the things I’d have to give up, my dreams, hobbies, time, money and so on. I’ve had this attitude since childhood and still have it now.
My history with women is pretty typical. Had a few girlfriends in my teenage years, a serious relationship in college where I sampled the experience of living together, having sex regularly and getting subtly manipulated into slowly losing touch with all my friends, losing more and more of my independence, getting nagged more and more and so on. I reached my limit eventually and broke up. It was horrible, she went full psycho, made a scene and threatened suicide but I called her bluff and moved out and back in with my friends. It tasted like freedom. After some time I was back with her, I simply did not know any better. I got reeled back in with sex, guilt and other womanly tactics. We were together for a couple more years until it finally came to an end. I was not happy with her nagging and sucking the joy out of the things I enjoyed, she was unhappy with my lack of ambition and had a better prospect lined up already. I remember I didn’t even mind, it didn’t feel like a betrayal, it felt like relief and tasted like freedom (again).
Then came single adulthood riddled with sexual frustration. I was in my mid 20s and all I wanted was to get laid. And as soon as i did, I was in a relationship again. It was different this time. I was not about to take any s~~~ or compromise my freedom. I knew more about human nature and specifically female nature, after all. I didn’t get emotionally attached, I didn’t fall in puppy love and lose my head. Nevertheless, we were eventually living together. Soon enough some conflict erupted between her and my friends and, well, it just so happened that I kind of drifted apart from them. Never fell out of touch completely, but saw them maybe twice a year for drinks and card games, and even then getting some poorly masked resentment from my girl about it.
Then I gone and done the dumbest thing in my life. I bought a diamond ring, got on one knee and asked *the* question. I’m sure, considering where we are posting, you’re all wondering why a guy would ever do a thing like that. Well, a better question is, why would a guy who does not believe in God, has little respect for the Church, thinks the institution of marriage is outdated and has never wanted to have kids would ever do a thing like that?! My dudes, my answer is, f~~~ if I know, but as hard as it is for me to accept, it may just be that I am a f~~~ing moron.
I think I just did not know any better. When it seems like all your peers are married or are about to be, your parents are married and their parents before them and the parents of all your peers and so on, you simply don’t consider another option. Everyone gets married as soon as they meet the right person. If they haven’t married, that just means they haven’t met the right person yet and need to try harder, they are secretly gay or there is something wrong with them. If they married and it turned out that they chose the wrong person, they need to repeat the whole process. That is the mainstream attitude in society and the possibility of never getting married simply never occurred to me. I figured the girl is as good as I’m likely to get, plus I was not yet aware of the dangers of marriage and divorce.
Fast forward another couple of years and it turns out that it’s time to become an adult man. What is an “adult man” exactly, you ask? Well, it’s the kind of man who no longer rents a place but lives with his woman in their “own” place, so it’s time to get a mortgage. The idea never appealed to me. I hate being in debt, owing anybody anything, especially a bank. Buuut, I got convinced that it was a grownup thing to do, most of my childhood friends already had mortgages and wives and kids and all those other things you’re supposed to have when you’re over thirty. So we got in debt and bought a place. One thing I did right throughout this whole thing is that I made it clear from the start that I will not be taken advantage of financially, so we both work and all the bills are split 50-50. It’s gender equality above all, right? So from that moment on it was blissful home life, no more housemates to worry about, a sense of having our own space and higher quality of life (I really like the place, actually) for the more or less equal monthly fee, only with a dark cloud of debt over our heads and of course a lot more hassle if there was ever an idea to move, split up etc. I begin to wonder if that last one was a side effect, or part of the plan all along? Hmmm…
It wasn’t long until I started to feel something is wrong. I began to question things more and more. Why don’t I have any friends? Why is it that I look forward to those times when I go to visit my parents and she doesn’t come along? Why is it that I can’t wait for her to go to visit her parents and I get to spend a few days alone, enjoy myself and do whatever I please (rare occurrences peppered by skype conversations with her which feel like a chore I’d rather avoid every single time)? In general, I found myself being happier alone than with her. This has been intensifying. At the moment it’s just welcoming those moments alone as they come. How long until I actively start seeking them out, avoiding her, trying to get away? Hard to do when you live with someone. Suddenly all those married men who seek reasons to be away from their wives make a lot more sense and start looking less comical and more tragic to me…
And then, at the end of Fall last year, came the red pill. The red pill was small, unexpected, subtle, but it started an avalanche, a chain reaction that could not be stopped or contained and nothing would ever be the same again.
The red pill came in the form of a TV show about pets.
I was primed for the red pill. Remember the New Years Eve in Cologne? The feminist response to that mess was my doorway into the sea of anti-feminist videos. I slowly learned how laws favor women at the expense of men and that there is no equality and justice between genders. My worldview shifted in a dramatic way in just under a year. Then, one November evening, I was working at home and my fiancee was watching a TV show about pets.
Imagine if you will a TV screen displaying a homeless man in his 60s, sitting in the street with a graffitti covered wall in the background. He is cooking a can of food over a camping stove and then sharing it with a small dog. A female TV presented gets him to talk about his relationship with his dog. It was a gift from his wife. After their divorce, she got the house and the car, he ended up on the street. She got him the dog and told him it would keep him alive. He was depressed at the time, you see. In fact, his depression was the reason for the divorce, since it made his wife unhappy and dissatisfied with their relationship. So, him being depressed and newly homeless, the ex wife got him the dog to keep his spirits up and thus keep him alive. How f~~~ing compassionate. I could not believe my eyes. The guy is living on the street and she has a whole f~~~ing house to herself? Shouldn’t the house be sold, the money divided equally and they each go into a small flat or something? The contrast between their fates was shocking to me. With all your experience I’m sure you will find this amusingly naive, just as I do now, but that genuinely was me just a few months ago. Next segment of the show and we have a middle aged cat lady. She lives alone, the poor thing, and the cats make her feel less lonely in her empty house. How did she end up all alone in a whole house? Oh, she got divorced. The female TV presenter oozes with compassion over the poor lonely woman. I’m like, what the f~~~, I just saw a homeless guy sharing a can of food with his dog in the street and you’re feeling sorry for this cat lady? I’m sure she can manage! How is that s~~~ fair? Then I remembered, there is no fair, the laws are what they are, you are looking at their effects on a microscale, this is what the statistics look like on the ground level. I was shocked, I looked at my fiancee, the woman I was supposed to marry by the end of the year and said “hey, maybe this one is the ex wife of that homeless guy! Equality! Hahahaha!” I laughed maniacally, masking my shock with a facade of humor. I thought I knew how horrible human beings can be to each other, but once again, like many times before, I witness a new low. The tiny, subtle red pill got swallowed, digested, got into the bloodstream and soon enough, it reached my brain.
That homeless guy… does that happen a lot? Is it the worst case scenario? Is it common? What is the probability of divorce? What are the stats? Soon the facts were researched, the info gathered, more questions asked, old memories awakened. That older coworker telling me not to ever get married. Married dudes “joking” about their misery. That celebrity once more concluding their love story in court among flashing cameras. Those funny “before and after marriage” memes I saw on the internet… Maybe “the old ball and chain” is more than just a joking expression? Maybe that old divorced dude hated by his son is not all to blame? Maybe my mother was not always justified in berating my father…?
…Maybe that MGTOW thing I had heard about is not just a bunch of losers frustrated because they can’t get laid? Maybe I should hear their side of the story?
It went pretty quickly from there. Sandman, Turd Flinging Monkey, Barbarossa, Tom Leykis. The helpful youtube algorithms took it from there, supplying a neverending stream of new information, information that seemed to check out when confronted with real world observations. It’s been an intense few months. Also, I found this website.
In the midst of all this, the wedding plans are still on the table. It had been planned before that we’d get married in an exotic country and make it into a wedding/holiday/honeymoon. Kind of expensive. We have a mortgage, she is working part time and studying and is broke. It kind of seems like I’m supposed to cover the cost and it is kind of implied she’ll pay me back. It feels wrong. A memory of the homeless man and his dog and the cat lady flashes in my brain. I’ve got some money saved up but nowhere near what we owe the bank. I want to keep cash for the inevitable rainy day. We decide to scrap the exotic location, get married where we are and just go on a holiday honeymoon somewhere less expensive. Besides, I really wanted to pass the motorcycle licence and get a bike for the new year, something I always wanted but couldn’t justify spending money on before. I mention that to her one evening.
This does not sit well with her. Motorcycles are dangerous, don’t you know! She’s worried about my safety and brings up accident statistics. Besides, there are better ways to spend that money. “Like what?”, I ask. Like the exotic holiday marriage package, of course.
The dam breaks. I can no longer hold it in. I tell her about my attitude towards the institution of marriage and that I don’t want it, that it’s all a scam on a continental scale to keep the lawyers fed, the women housed and the men reduced to homeless shells eating out of a tin can under a bridge somewhere. That I never wanted kids and chances are slim that will ever change. That the proposal was a mistake. Tears start flowing, shock and horror, broken heart. I just sit there stone faced and determined. The cat is out of the bag, the decision is made and there is no turning back. Then, as soon as she realises that I had made up my mind and really thought this through and will probably not be convinced to change my mind, the tears stop and, I s~~~ you not, she actually says “well, I might as well stop crying”. Chalk up another one for the manipulative tactics and emotional blackmails I was able to detect and disregard, I think to myself.
Things have been weird since then. Seemingly she accepted the situation, but I have no idea what’s really in her head. The possibilities, as we know, are endless. She could be looking around for a new boyfriend, she could be already pregnant with someone else, f~~~, maybe even lining up a hitman for me, haha 😀 is there really any way to know? From my point of view, I am a dead end for her and she should be looking for a way out, after all she’s no longer a 20something and wants kids at some point, so I know she can hear that clock ticking. On the other hand, she is as lazy as any average woman, the prospect of being on her own probably scares the s~~~ out of her, and selling the place we live in no doubt seems as painful to her as it does to me. How long will this impasse last? Should I just break up with her and go through the hassle of selling the house in a hostile atmosphere? Seems like a just price to pay for freedom. And then what if I regret it? What if it turns out I had it good and didn’t know it? What if she can’t deal with the breakup and goes crazy, makes my life living hell with the help of the government, or kills herself? What if I’m a scumbag for thinking these thoughts? Maybe I should be loyal and honorable and keep things the way they are? There are no too many pros of staying with her that I can think of. Conversations are dull and empty, basically her talking about drama at work and me asking follow-up questions. Constant begging for attention and doing things together, not many of which I enjoy doing. The sex is regular (the more I assert myself and the more free I act, the more frequent is is, by the way, who would have thought) but bland. Honestly the more I think about it the more eager I am to be single again. The only thing that stops me is that I’d feel sorry for her (she’s really attached to me and dependant on me, which makes me feel responsible for her well being). She’s not a bad person, I like her , it’s just that I’m not happy with her. Also it would be a painful transition selling the place and moving.
Many decisions on the horizon for me, my dudes. As for tonight, I’ve got the place to myself for a week because she’s paying a visit to her family. I didn’t want to join her, yet again. As soon as she left I cleaned up the whole place (it’s usually a mess full of heaps of her clothes on the floor and I feel any efforts to keep the place clean will be futile on my part, so I just give up, but as soon as she leaves it’s tidy and stays that way until she returns. It’s the opposite when I’m away) and I’m enjoying the empty, tidy space and order. The food is cooked for days ahead (she doesn’t cook much, or well for that matter), and I’m looking forward to tonight. I have a crate of beer to drink and a website of used bikes to browse. I passed my licence recently and it’s time to buy my first machine. 🙂
Thank you for reading this very long introduction. I’m surprised how much it helped me to get it off my chest. I never talked about it to anybody. If you had any input, suggestions or opinions I would be grateful if you shared them below. Thank you for existing, MGTOW, I feel like I was saved from a horrible fate just in time.
I'm no white knight, Sir. Give me a strong suit of armour, a swift steed and the open road and stick the hand of the princess up your arse. I've no ring to put on it and I'm fresh out of fucks to give.
Update – Indian Banking Crises Part 3 (End)
Thanks to all of you readers – it has been a difficult topic but badly needed as what happens in India will affect us all.
I am grateful to my Indian friends and especially those in the Reserve Bank of India. My thanks as always to James G Rickards / Strategic Intelligence and German journalist Norbert Haring, a veteran of that nation’s respected business daily Handelsblatt.
5. The Political System and the Reserve Bank
Keeping in mind how India is politically forged and structured, it is necessary to now introduce the government and a monetary system to provide direction to the economy, the type of currency regulation required and goals.
The Indian political and judicial system gained its structure from the British Constitutional Monarchy. There are two Houses in Parliament – the Upper House (Raj Sabhya) and the Lower House (Lok Sabhya) which is the seat of government formed by the ruling party and the opposition groups. The Supreme Court decides on the application of the Indian Constitution. The similarity to British politics ends here.
In reality, there are dozens of political parties under collective umbrellas. These groupings have no clear distinction as right or left in the sense used in European or American politics. Each political party in power to a considerable extent advocates socialist policies and needs be seen to be propping up the masses with a bloated public sector workforce that employs millions of workers for life in the style of the Soviet Union – else risks losing the plethora of local, state and federal elections.
There has been no real or meaningful attempt to reconcile the socialist protectionism policies with the operation of a badly needed capitalistic open market system attempted by bona-fide entrepreneurs. India has never understood or embraced a capitalist system as this would in very short time remove politicians from their base of power. Any successful politician needs to provide handouts to hundreds of millions that is seen as a reciprocation of the loyalty provided by the masses in return.
To pay for the massive government budget deficit from various social policies and the bloated public sector, the governments in India have consistently adopted to pursue an independent monetary policy (i.e. setting interest rates and currency devaluation) , a floating currency exchange rate (since 1993) and a closed capital account, in accordance with currency and trade limitations described by the Impossible Trinity (Policy Trilemma).
To meet the budget deficit as well as to repay external borrowings, the RBI’s policy has been to debase the Indian Rupee through massive base currency (M0) printing which is the standard approach of fiat currency systems. This ensures currency liquidity and solvency of the Public Banking Sector (PBS) run by the federal and state governments which actually provide the support to businesses and certain individuals. Printing currency in turn causes inflation which needs to be countered by high interest rates and a partially closed capital account to ensure sufficient equity does not leave India to cause imbalance (and further printing).
While India has recently provided hardly any restriction on the flows of equity, there are foreign direct investment (FDI) caps where debt flows are restricted via limits placed on the amount of government and corporate debt foreigners can buy in India. Overseas borrowings by corporate entities are also regulated by the central bank’s external commercial borrowings (ECB) policies.
The Rupee is allowed to float on International markets to allow convertibility – which is more efficient than using up Indian Forex (USD) reserves in trade. There is no substantial FDI in many sectors experiencing debt problems and with a high interest rate there is little chance of local investment for expansion to the economy. These measures are the primary reasons for the Rupee falling from 1:1 in 1947 to 1:68 in 2016 against the US dollar.
The Central Government of India and its various State legislatures are currently at about a 68% of GDP fiscal deficit, which is above the rational repayment threshold of 60% employed by the ECB. Fiscal deficit is defined here as the amount of borrowing the government has to resort to meet its expenses.
Measures to reduce fiscal deficits are
(a) Reduction of public expenditure from major subsidies, bonuses, LTC, leaves encashment, austerity and steps to curtail non-planned expenditure.
(b) Increase revenues from tax base, tax evasion, direct taxes to increase revenue, restructuring public institutions and sale of shares in public sector units.None of this is currently adopted as they reflect a non-populist extreme in governance and no political party is ready to risk doing so. This means that there is a large fiscal debt problem in India as a result of populist government policies that do nothing to provide a solution to the economic downward spiral for most of the population. India’s problem is actually worse than that in Greece, except that India is not constrained by monetary policies to enable a solution to the problems at hand.
6. Banking System and NPA’s
As of June 2016, the total amount of Gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) for 49 public and private sector banks is around Rs. 6 trillion or USD $88 billion. Non-performing and stressed assets of state banks and lenders already stood at almost 15% of total loans or 4.5% of GDP, compared to a figure of 5% in NPA that indicates highly-stressed banks. The country’s ailing state lenders need at least Rs. 1.8 trillion (USD $27 billion) or more to shore up their balance sheets and meet global capital requirements. (Bank repayment instalments overdue for more than 90 days are termed as NPA. The ratio of NPA’s to total loans given by a bank is a commonly used indicator reflecting the health of the banking system).
Secondly the large NPA’s were hidden through ‘cooking the books’ and were at toxic levels by the end of 2013. Lending to the steel industry accounts for around 10% of the NPA’s. The remainder is risk on venture capital and construction-related projects all over the country as a result of the current service sector economic boom and which were never repaid. Gross bank NPA is estimated at the levels in the figure below:
In 2013 the incoming Chairman of the Reserve Bank of India, Prof. Raghuram Rajan was tasked with finding a solution to keep the banks afloat as well as to reduce the impact of inflation from the massive printing of currency – which stood at 10.2%. Many expected him to print even more currency and raise the NPA caps to relieve the stress on banks and perhaps help them pass on the debts to others.
In his classic no-nonsense style, he informed the banks to shape up for future assistance from the RBI. This meant large amounts of hidden NPA’s to be made visible as well as putting in place ‘bad loan’ policies. The RBI actually reduced printing money to force the banks to pass stress tests. Within three years he was able to bring inflation down to 4.9% as the banks gradually absorbed losses without passing the debts on to their customers.
Prof. Rajan also insisted banks recognise stress in their portfolio early and classify them into special mention accounts (SMA’s) depending on the period of repayment delay. Banks were asked to form Joint Lenders’ Forum and address the problem as a group. In effect, the RBI forced banks to have a clear roadmap to clean up their balance sheets. He set a deadline of March 2017 for banks to clean up their books.
Prof Rajan unfortunately did too good a job – the banking sector in trouble were in most part the public sector state banks (PSB) run by lifetime government servants and unionists and their dissatisfaction on having to restructure made a huge impact on the ruling Bharata Janata Party (BJP). There were many heated exchanges between Prof Rajan and Narendra Modi – the incumbent Prime Minister. In June 2016 Prof Rajan did not seek an extension to his tenure and took up a positon as Chairman of the International Bank for Settlements – based in Washington DC. His replacement was a BJP loyalist who would advance the government’s position on RBI decisions and policy-making.
The Indian government needed at least Rs 1.8 trillion in hard currency to keep the PSB Ponzi scheme going – and growing. Printing high amounts of currency to bloat up PSB accounts was now a last option as a further devaluation of the Rupee would hit the economy very hard going into the next all-India election in 2019 as well as in many State elections before that. There was also a need by authorities to centralise control of the currency in circulation as the large shadow economy (by no means illegal) enabled currency to be kept outside the government banking system. Most of the currency loaned out or paid to workers never came back to the PSB so the capital from this source was not available.
In the name of addressing the bad loans problem that is threatening the stability of the banking system, the 2016 National Budget has thoroughly deregulated foreign investment and ownership norms in asset reconstruction companies (ARC) as well as elsewhere – and also provided them with tax breaks. ARC’s purchase the NPA’s issued by commercial and other banks and seek to recover these – usually they act like the Mafia bill-collectors. This does not help the problem but rather disguises the debt elsewhere well as provide legal fronting businesses and employment for criminal gangs. The very ‘black money’ that the government is supposed to be fighting.
The BJP was also not in a position to raise direct taxes, as this would cause distress to the borrowers from the PSB’s and further aggravate the bank NPA’s. Therefore the approach taken by Modi’s government was to cut direct and raise indirect taxes though VAT and point-of-sale (POS) systems. However this needed a control of the POS that was not possible in a cash-based economy.
The 2016 National Budget intends to mobilise additional revenue worth Rs 206 billion through indirect taxes. Direct tax cut proposals would entail a revenue loss of Rs 10 blllion, owing to the reduction in the corporate tax rate and other exemptions. Such reliance on indirect taxes for revenue mobilisation is basically theft from the destitute and relieves the higher income earners of their tax obligations as well as allowing the government to continue and increase their budget deficits.
Modi recently stated that India is now one of the most business friendly countries in the world. The code for this being lowering labour, environmental, health and consumer protection standards, while reducing taxes and tariffs and facilitating the acquisition of public assets via privatisation and instituting policy frameworks that work to the advantage of foreign (US/Western) corporations. He implemented an new level of foreign investment that required very little capital controls – which surprised even the RBI.
When the World Bank rates countries on their level of ‘Ease of Doing Business’, it means nation states facilitating policies that force working people to take part in a race to the bottom based on free market fundamentalism. The more ‘compliant’ national governments make their populations and regulations, the more attractive foreign capital is tempted to invest.
It was evident that India was economically a sick country with a very high reliance in job sectors that could leave for alternate destinations under external political or economic pressures. The banks were failing and required liquidity that needed drastic measures to be employed. This makes India ideal for what comes next.
7. Currency controls
US-President Barack Obama had declared the strategic partnership with India a priority of his foreign policy. China needs to be reined in. In the context of this partnership, the US government’s development agency USAID has negotiated cooperation agreements with the Indian Ministry of Finance. One of these has the declared goal to push back the use of cash in favour of digital payments in India and globally.
The press statement of October 14 2016 from USAID had announced the establishment of “Catalyst: Inclusive Cashless Payment Partnership“, with the goal of effecting a quantum leap in cashless payment in India. Catalyst “marks the next phase of partnership between USAID and the India Ministry of Finance to facilitate universal financial inclusion”. The statement does not show up in the list of press statements on the website of USAID (anymore?). Not even filtering statements with the word “India” would bring it up. To find it, you seem to have to know it exists, or stumble upon it in a web search. USAID and partners had analysed the situation extensively and found in the Beyond-Cash-report that 97% of transactions were done in cash and that only 55% of Indians had a bank account. They also found that even of these bank accounts, “only 29% have been used in the last three months“.
On November 8 2016, Indian prime minster Narendra Modi announced that the two largest denominations of banknotes could not be used for payments any more with almost immediate effect. Owners could only recoup their value by putting them into a bank account before the short grace period expired. Amidst all the commotion and outrage this caused, nobody seems to have taken note of the decisive role that Washington played in this. That is surprising, as Washington’s role has been disguised only very superficially.
Reading the press statements with hindsight it becomes obvious, that Catalyst and the partnership of USAID and the Indian Ministry of Finance, from which Catalyst originated, are little more than fronts which were used to be able to prepare the assault on all Indians using cash without arousing undue suspicion. Even the name Catalyst sounds a lot more ominous, once you know what happened on November 9.
Catalyst’s Director of Project Incubation is Alok Gupta, who used to be Chief Operating Officer of the World Resources Institute in Washington, which has USAID as one of its main sponsors. He was also an original member of the team that developed Aadhaar, the Big-Brother-like biometric identification system.
According to a report of the Indian Economic Times, USAID has committed to finance Catalyst for three years. Amounts are kept secret. The multiple coordination problems and the cash-ecosystem-issue had been analysed in a report titled “Beyond Cash” that USAID commissioned in 2015 and presented in January 2016. The press release on this presentation is also not in USAID’s list of press statements (anymore?).
It turned out in November that the declared “holistic ecosystem approach” consisted in destroying the cash-ecosystem for a limited time and to slowly dry it up later, by limiting the availability of cash from banks for individual customers. Since the assault had to be a surprise to achieve its full catalyst-results, the published Beyond-Cash-Study and the protagonists of Catalyst could not openly describe their plans. They used misdirection and were able to openly conduct the necessary preparations, even including expert hearings. They consistently talked of a regional field experiment that they were ostensibly planning.
“The goal is to take one city and increase the digital payments by up to 10 times – in 6 to 12 months,” said Badal Malick Vice President of India’s most important online marketplace Snapdeal, before he was appointed as CEO of Catalyst, less than four weeks before the ban. To not be limited in their preparation on one city alone, the Beyond-Cash-report and Catalyst kept talking about a range of regions they were examining, ostensibly in order to later decide which was the best city or region for the field experiment. Only in November did it become clear that the whole of India should be the guinea-pig-region for a global drive to end the reliance on cash.
What are the institutions behind this attack? Upon the presentation of the Beyond-Cash-report, USAID declared: “Over 35 key Indian, American and international organizations have partnered with the Ministry of Finance and USAID on this initiative.” On the website catalyst.org one can see that they are mostly IT and payment service providers who want to make money from digital payments or from the associated data generation on users. Many are veterans of,what a high-ranking official of Deutsche Bundesbank called the “war of interested financial institutions on cash” (in German). They include the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Gates Foundation (Microsoft), Omidyar Network (eBay), the Dell Foundation Mastercard, Visa, Metlife Foundation and many more.
Reading a statement of Ambassador Jonathan Addleton, USAID Mission Director to India, with hindsight, it becomes clear when he said before the ban: “India is at the forefront of global efforts to digitize economies and create new economic opportunities that extend to hard-to-reach populations. Catalyst will support these efforts by focusing on the challenge of making everyday purchases cashless”
As a ruse of combating ‘black money’, Modi was able to achieve his short term goal of a massive cash infusion into the banking system from the generational wealth of ordinary Indians. Cash and gold became illegal and seizures not seen since the British Colonial Era were conducted on everyone suspected of having any amount of wealth. The private sector cooperative banks that were used by the shadow economy are being completely destroyed by the currency freeze. Only the state sponsored banks could survive this crisis.
In real terms the BJP is in the process of terraforming India into what it thinks is a new era of currency control – and with new trade deals signed with the US and EU to revitalise the Indian economy, Modi now believes himself the saviour of his country and n international personality. The deaths and sufferings are just collateral damage – as the end justifies the means. This is unfortunately quite common thinking among politicians and bankers.
8. Modus Operandi
What the Indian population and especially their politicians do not realise is this ‘takeover’ was never about the shadow economy or banks or a cashless society. These were just means to a more frightening end. These measures are temporary controls which may be discarded when the time is appropriate. At that point in time there would be nowhere to run to – for India or for any other country.It is true Modi was acting on behalf of powerful interests. What exactly are these? When cashless control is in place – what next?
We don’t have to dig too deep to see where Modi feels at home. Describing itself as a major ‘global communications, stakeholder engagement and business strategy’ company, APCO Worldwide is a lobby agency with firm links to (part of) the Wall Street/US establishment and functions to serve its global agenda. Modi turned to APCO to help transform his image and turn him into electable pro-corporate PM material. APCO’s India brochure, there is the claim that India’s resilience in weathering the global downturn and financial crisis has made governments, policy-makers, economists, corporate houses and fund managers believe that the country can play a significant role in the recovery of the global economy. APCO’s publicity blurb about itself claims that it stands “tall as the giant of the lobbying industry.”
Mark Halton, former head of Global Marketing and Communications for Monsanto, seemed to agree when he praised APCO for helping the GMO giant to: “ … understand how Monsanto could better engage with societal stakeholders surrounding our business and how best to communicate the social value our company brings to the table….”
If your name is severely tarnished and you need to get your dubious products on the market in countries that you haven’t managed to infiltrate just yet, why not bring in the “giant of the lobbying industry?”
This opening up of India to foreign capital by Modi is supported by rhetoric about increasing agricultural efficiency, creating jobs and boosting GDP growth. Such rhetoric mirrors that of the pro-business, neoliberal dogma we see in APCO’s brochure for India and supported by neo-cons on both sides of the Atlantic.
APCO describes India as a trillion-dollar market. Note that the emphasis is not on redistributing the country’s wealth among its citizens but on exploiting markets. APCO likes to talk about positioning international funds and facilitating corporations’ ability to exploit markets, sell products and secure profit. In other words, colonising key sectors, regions and nations to serve the needs of an NWO-dominated international capital (currently Washington).
Anyone who is aware of the Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture and the links with the Indo-US Nuclear Treaty will know who will be aware that those two projects form part of an overall plan to subjugate Indian agriculture to the needs of foreign corporations (see this article from 1999). As the biggest recipient of loans from the World Bank in the history of that institution, India is proving to be very compliant.
The Indian economy is now being opened-up by Modi through the concurrent displacement of a pre-existing (highly) productive system for the benefit of foreign corporations. For farmers, the majority are not to be empowered but displaced from the land. Farming is being made financially non-viable for small farmers, seeds are to be privatised as intellectual property rights are redefined, land is to be acquired and an industrialised, foreign corporate-controlled food production, processing and retail system is to be implemented.
The long-term plan is to continue to starve agriculture of investment and have an urbanised India with a fraction of the population left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and Wal-Mart-type supermarkets that offer highly processed, denutrified, genetically altered food contaminated with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded soils according to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security. This would be disastrous for farmers, public health and local livelihoods.
Low input, sustainable models of food production and notions of independence and local or regional self-reliance do not provide opportunities to global agribusiness or international funds to exploit markets, sell their products and cash in on APCO’s vision of a trillion-dollar corporate hijack.
But, regardless of the large-scale human suffering imposed as a result of demonetisation, it was expected to
a) provide a one-time cash infusion into the banking system – with a cashless POS system following not far behind
b) securing the interests of international capital, including the eventual displacement of the informal (i.e. self-organised) economy and
c) acting as another deliberate nail in the coffin of Indian society, driving them into a 21st century feudal systemThe business interests of the companies that dominate global businesses like Monsanto and payment systems like Catalyst are an important reason for the zeal to reduce cash use worldwide, but it is not the most important one. Another motive is surveillance power by proxy governments used as a NWO nexus – that goes with increased use of digital payments. Intelligence organizations and IT-companies together can survey all payments done through banks and can monitor most of the general stream of digital data. Financial data tends to be the most important and valuable. The final objective is to take control of the country through the political and financial controls already in-place.
German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has recently run a chilling story describing how that works (German). Employees of a Geran factoring firm doing completely legal business with Iran were put on a US terror list, which meant that they were shut off most of the financial system and even some logistics companies would not transport their furniture any more. A major German bank was forced to fire several employees upon a US request, who had not done anything improper or unlawful.
The Better-Than-Cash Alliance, which includes USAID as a member, is mentioned first for a reason. It was founded in 2012 to push back cash on a global scale. The secretariat is housed at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDP) in New York, which might have its reason in the fact that this rather poor small UN-organization was glad to have the Gates-Foundation in one of the two preceding years and the Master-Card-Foundation in the other as its most generous donors.
The members of the Alliance are large Institutions which would benefit most from pushing back cash, i.e. credit card companies Mastercard and Visa, and also some US-institutions whose names come up a lot in books on the history of the United States intelligence services, namely the Ford Foundation, the Clinton Foundation and USAID. A prominent member is also the Gates-Foundation. Also Omidyar Network of eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar and Citi are important contributors. Almost all of these are individually partners in the current USAID-India-Initiative to end the reliance on cash in India and beyond.
From Greece to Spain and from the US to the UK, we are able to see this rhetoric for what it really is: record profits and massive increases in wealth (ie ‘growth) for elite interests. For the rest – disempowerment, surveillance, austerity, job losses, the erosion of rights, weak unions, cuts to public services, bankrupt governments and opaque, corrupt trade deals. Finally – when the system breaks – a re-make of peoples to serve the greater purpose.
For India – The New World Order’s game plan appears on course. However the Indians are fighting back – starting early 2017. Demonstrations by Indians around the world took place and it may be the start of a new social uprising not seen since the demise of the British Raj. Not really a case of “make in India” anymore. More a case of eliminating the “Under New Management – signed: The New World Order”.
That may be a topic for another day.
End of Part 3 / Topic
Main Citations
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/1999/jun/19/food.food?CMP=share_btn_tw
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-well-kept-open-secret-washington-is-behind-indias-brutal-demonetization-project/5566167
http://norberthaering.de/en/home/27-german/news/745-washington-s-role-in-india
http://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2016/11/09/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-parallel-economy-in-india
Anonymous10 – undisclosed debt a month after I married her – I paid the cards off
9 – Car Insurance or Car Payment? I’ve never paid those. My dad bought my car and paid my insurance. (stated at age 29)
8 – I’m pregnant, I don’t feel comfortable driving my car. Its old and undependable. (Takes my new car)
7- Year 2 of marriage. Took money out of savings every month I put it in. Hid the statements and I never thought to look – b/c its “Savings”
6 – I want to build a house. Even though I’m pregnant – I do NOT plan on staying home. I’m not like that. (Fast forward to apres baby – wants to stay home and “loses” her job, living in the new house. Stays home with child)
5- The dentist says I need veneers! It’s only $900. I get the bill – $2,200
4 – took her money out of 401(k) and didn’t tell me. I discover at tax time and get hit with the penalty – I have to pay it
3 – Finally goes back to work. Doesn’t fill out deductions correctly and most of the refund goes to cover it. The balance she has directly deposited into her acct without me knowing.
2 – I can’t help with son’s tuition (However, I can afford botox, face peels, clothes, nails, yoga and massages)
1 – (DrumRollll) She berates me for 8 f~~~ing years wanting to have another child. Finally like a dumbass I relent by saying, “Goddammmit fine! I DO NOT want another child, but I want you to f~~~ing appreciate that I am sacrificing early retirement so you can have what YOU want against my wishes!!” (Thinking she will back down after that crystal clear harsh exchange) She smiles and buys a thermometer to chart her ovulation. Pregnant in less than 60 days.
Then I took the RedPill….. Fuuucccckkkkkk
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