The MalaCast

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”  -Ayn Rand

I am not morose although I predict the failure of the American society within the lifetime of my children and perhaps even myself.

Why?  Well, for one, I might be wrong.  I have been wrong about things before.  Maybe this will be like that.

Here are five more:

I have children.

I improve tangible things every week.

I row the boat.

I do something physically difficult every month or so.

I read history.

“Desperate courage makes One a majority.”  -Andrew Jackson

All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.  –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Alex Jones' assets are being liquidated to pay an unprecedented $1.5 BILLION judgment.  In other news, families have reached a settlement with the city of Uvalde, which let their children be butchered.  $2 million.

I have noticed that many people on the left totally lack political empathy.  They are, if I may coin a phrase, political psychopaths.  So only punishment works to deter them from political evil.

“Being unwilling to deter evil is a moral sickness.”  –me 6/1/24

“Ten million young women rose to their feet with the cry, “We will not be dictated to”: and proceeded to become stenographers.”  -GK Chesterton

"On the bad days when your toddler seems to be biting their nails nonstop, you might be tempted to do something that could make things worse.

Endless reprimands, long lectures, yelling, and punishments won’t encourage your child to stop biting their nails. In fact, the negative attention may just make your child more determined to show you who’s the boss of those nails."  -Healthline.com

“Education can strengthen the brain, but weaken the backbone.”  -Richard Nixon

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."  -Samuel Adams

"Republicans will have to bring charges against Democratic officers, even presidents."  -John Yoo

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

It was, I often mused, one of Somalia’s strangest paradoxes.  When no one comes to help, they cry that the world is indifferent to their suffering.  And when people do come, what do the Somalis do?  They shoot them in the back of the head, drag the naked bodies through the streets, beat them to death with bricks.”  -Keith Richburg

It was the international community which failed all of us. Whether from contempt or cowardice."  -Rwandan President Paul Kagame

“There are no devils left in hell.  They are all in Rwanda.”  -A Missionary, quoted in Time, May 16, 1994

“No one ever calculated what you do next if the people you come to help have no interest in being saved.”  -Keith Richburg

"It is easier to know man in general than to know one man in particular.”  -La Rochefocauld

Logan Hall's friend has sent him a picture I will always cherish.  It is of a New York street recently: https://x.com/loganclarkhall/status/1789342553524806135

“In the final stage of love, as in that of life, we are still living for pains, but no longer for pleasures.”  -La Rochefocauld

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”  -Aristotle

RFK supposes a little more of affirmative action and the "self-perpetuating" effects of "racist policies" will be cured.  But what if affirmative action is the problem, actually?

“Where there are no men, strive to be a man!”  -Hillel the Elder, circa 50 BC

“Few people are wise enough to prefer useful criticism to treacherous praise.”  -La Rochefocauld

"Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history." -"Weather historian" Maximiliano Herrera

“The greatest fault of perceptiveness is not that it falls short of the truth, but that it goes past it.”  -La Rochefocauld

“I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

In 1980, 6.5% of the US population was hispanic.

In 2000, 12.5% of the population was hispanic.

Today, it's perhaps 19%.

What are the implications of this?

When you import millions of hispanics, don't be surprised to find your society becoming more hispanic.

One way in which this is happening is in increasing anti-gun attitudes.

"An early 2014 Pew Research Center survey asked U.S. adults what is more important — protecting the right of Americans to own guns or controlling gun ownership (Pew Research Center, 2014d). Hispanic registered voters nationally say they prefer gun control over the rights of owners by a margin of 62%-to-36%, as do black registered voters by a margin of 71%-to-26%, according to the survey. By contrast, white registered voters choose gun owners’ rights over gun control by a margin of 59%-to-39%."

"82% of foreign-born Hispanics think controlling gun ownership is more important than protecting gun ownership rights, compared with 59% of Hispanics born in the U.S."

The results of hispanic polling on the subject of free speech are no better.

"Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies."  –Nicolas Davila

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2014/10/16/chapter-2-latinos-views-on-selected-2014-ballot-measure-issues/

https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/state-free-speech-tolerance-america#overview

We all have enough strength to bear the troubles of other people.  -La Rochefocauld

Call someone an isolationist or an anti-war activist, call it a sin tax or a progressive tax, call it an incentive or an effort to "fight" the thing incentivized.  Either way, the wise man knows words don't change how a thing works by even one little bit.

"Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over it."  -La Rochefocauld