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Kunster: The Purpose of Decadence and the Pleasures of Coercion

I guess you’ve noticed by now that the center didn’t hold. Instead of a secure platform for political premises like tradition, precedent, rationality, and cultural norms, you see a fiery maw of sheer emotion between the camps of the so-called Left and the so-called Right.

I say so-called because the campus Left and the Trump Right have escaped the categorical corrals they formerly occupied. And they may have left their customary official parties stranded and dying too. It may be fatuous to say whether that is a good or bad thing; it just is, for the moment. They are two halves of a polity so broken and so far apart that it is also hard to see how they might ever come back together into a consensus about how a society might operate successfully.

Not having a consensus — some substantial overlap between circles of perspective — it’s not surprising that America can’t construct a coherent view of what is happening, or make a plan for what to do about it. Mainly what’s happening is the running down of fossil fuel based techno-industrial economies, and the main symptom is falling standards of living, with fading prospects for future happiness and security.

As I’ve said before, our economic picture is basically untenable due to the falling energy-return-on-investment of the crucial oil supply (shout-out to Steve St. Angelo). At the high point of 1920s oil production the ratio was around 100-1. The shale oil “miracle” is good for about 5-1. The aggregate of all oil these days is under 30-1. Below that number, you’ve got to shed some activities in our complex economy (or they just get too expensive to support) — things like high-paying labor jobs, medical care, tourism, college, commuting, heating 2500 square foot homes…). Oddly the way it’s actually working out is that America is simply shedding its whole middle class and all its accustomed habits and luxuries. At least that’s how it adds up in effect. Naturally, that produces a lot of bad feeling.

President Trump is unlikely to be able to fix that essential problem, unless he can pilot the whole political-economy into a glide-path leading toward neo-medievalism — what I call the World Made By Hand. Trump’s call for restoring the factory economy of 1962 is a low-percentage prospect. Instead, he’ll be saddled with the collateral damage caused by the dishonest effort of his recent predecessors to borrow from the future to pay for the way we live now — that is, racking up debt. This mighty debt-load, never before seen in history, and the accounting fraud that enables it, has helped produce all kinds of distortions, perversities, and fragilities in our money system (finance and banking) which can easily slip into collapse if a crucial prop fails here or there, and that is exactly what I think will happen under Trump. It will not be his fault, but he’ll get blamed for it. And when it happens, he won’t be able to give his attention to anything but that.

In the meantime, society shows all the symptoms of this literal economic disease in the political and cultural fissures of the day. The political Right failed in its role as prudent conservator of values, resources, and practical custom; the political Left has taken refuge in sentimental fantasy, using the semantic ploys of the graduate school seminars to pretend that reality is whatever they wish it to be. Uncomfortable with the age-old tensions of sexuality? Then pretend that you can opt out of the dynamics of biology by declaring yourself “non-binary,” a term with a pleasing science-y flavor. Tensions gone? Not really. You’ve only made them worse as, for instance, expressed in “non-binary” suicide rates. The perversities of transsexual triumphalism are related directly to the falsehoods of Federal Reserve trans-monetarist triumphalism, and all parties are subject to the matrix of racketeering that has taken the place of plain dealing in goods, money, and ideas in this society — especially ideas grounded in reality.

Societies may not exactly be organisms with intentions, but they move in a particular direction because they are emergent phenomena. That is, they are self-organizing according to the circumstances and forces they are subject to at a certain time and place in history. Decadence is specifically the decay of social and cultural boundaries, a process that is manifestly accelerating now. Both sides of the political spectrum are acting out this dynamic, with the vacuum in the middle sucking vitality out of each side. The Left has become a kind of pagan religion of sacred victims and victimhood, collecting sacred injuries and martyrs. Its dark secret, though, is that these sacred things are only straw-dogs and wicker-men. The real animating motive for the Left these days is simply the pleasure of coercion, of exercising the power to punish their adversaries and watch them suffer.

The Trump Right also enjoys the writhings and sufferings of its adversaries, squashed bug style, as it goes forth in the quixotic battle to bring back 1962 at all costs. Both the Left and the right show not a little sadism in their methods. In the background of these histrionics, the great groaning machine of Modernity lurches toward collapse — not the end-of-the-world as many foolishly imagine, but the end of a phase of history when things that used to work, don’t. At a certain point, we’ll have to try other ways of being with each other on this planet, and then for a while things will come together again.

Kunster

40 Comments on "Kunster: The Purpose of Decadence and the Pleasures of Coercion"

onlooker on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 9:36 am

Another entertaining article by JHK. His florid and metaphorical style pricks his prose with eloquent touches. In the substance he seems also to have a handle on the malfunctions that beset the declining phase of modern industrial civilization. Especially how obsolete and futile all that is transpiring in the Economic and political sphere is now. We certainly will need to find a totally different way to live and live with each other in the future. That future is fast approaching.

penury on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 9:49 am

I notice that even Kunstler tries to inject a little hope at the end. I guess everyone needs something to look forward to.

Sissyfuss on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:00 am

I take it that Kuntski is not an extinctionista
for I have never heard him expound on the concept. His observations are most credible and insightful however dire they may be. I agree that the Trumpster is headed for the dumpster with all the rest of creation but it is said that all the tears in the world will not alter the path of your fate one inch.

Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:06 am

In the background of these histrionics, the great groaning machine of Modernity lurches toward collapse — not the end-of-the-world as many foolishly imagine, but the end of a phase of history when things that used to work, don’t. At a certain point, we’ll have to try other ways of being with each other on this planet, and then for a while things will come together again.

Kunstler never was an adept of the Olduvai Gorge theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_theory

His vision was world made by hand, a society gearing down from 5th to 2nd gear.

I think it will be more from 5th to 4th gear.

joe on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:12 am

Decadence is a sign of decay.

Revi on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:34 am

I think it might be going from 4th down to second, then we’ll run out of gas…

onlooker on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:43 am

How do you see a viable in mass scale Renewable infrastructure coming into being while Modern Industrial Civilization is crumbling Clog? With what support as Institution large and small are closing down and consumers are destitute. I just do NOT see how we go from collapsing as we are beginning to do now to a bright hopeful dawn of Renewable Alternative fueled civilization. As they say once Humpty Dumpty is broken you cannot put it back together again.

Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:01 am

Onlooker. Clog believes his Europe can make the transition as the rest of the world collapses. Then, the high civilization of Europe with a brand new alternative energy infrastructure and great Euro Army will again lovingly spread its civilization to the surviving savages. A new Rome will rise with Amsterdam as the Capital. By then Amsterdam will be like Venice and they will speak German because no one can get the hang of Dutch.

Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:02 am

Left VS Right are like two clusters of cancer cells vying over the last of the healthy tissue. Same with nation VS nation and there ain’t enough to go around. If you are a student of history then you know that behind all the ideological and cultural and religious battles is power and wealth. Yes there have been billions of true believers, but it’s always undergirded by the money and power.

Kuntsler is almost pathologically hung up on trans and homo sexuality; a phenomna documented throughout the ages. There is no such thing as “normal” when it comes to sex or people. It was normal, practically mandatory, for the mighty Spartans to hump and suck each other silly and it actually made the brothers in arms more cohesive – normal for whom? Personally, I think the rainbow people are too fucking loud and PC about it, but I don’t know any or even see any since I do not live on a university campus or in the inner city. I thought Kunstler lived in rural NY? Is that a hot bed of gays and transvestites? Maybe he’s pissed that none of them have made a pass at him? All that PC shit is an irritating sideshow, same as the right with their attempt to legislate their Iron age fundamentalist religious beliefs on others. Freakshow getting freaker by the day.

The humans think they believe what they believe by choice when in fact for most they were indoctrinated by their parents and culture and all of it – religion, economics, politics is just made up bullshit to control and maintain the society. The humans are operating under the rules of evolution and the MPP. We’re going to tear each other up for the remaining glucose and it’s all perfectly natural. Programmed to do just that.

Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:19 am

How do you see a viable in mass scale Renewable infrastructure coming into being while Modern Industrial Civilization is crumbling Clog?

I can’t judge for America, but things are not crumbling over here. Materially things are better than ever. More air miles are made. Infrastructure is 100% as we don’t waste money on a useless MIC and military with zero returns. Germany surpassed China again in exports (Holland has twice the per capita export Germany has), unemployment is low in NW-Europe, we have a clear vision of phasing out fossil fuel before 2050 that everybody is taking seriously.

Will there be a collapse? You folks keep telling so. Perhaps, perhaps not. We’ll see. Economic or financial collapse doesn’t worry me, mass migration does.

Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:22 am

Kuntsler is almost pathologically hung up on trans and homo sexuality; a phenomna documented throughout the ages. There is no such thing as “normal” when it comes to sex or people

You want to talk about it Friday? Your strangle or sofa sex and how normal and documented it all is?

You can safely pour your heart with dr Sigmund Fraud here. The first 30 minutes intake comes for free.

Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:31 am

Clog believes his Europe can make the transition as the rest of the world collapses.

I do think that Europe can make the transition; about the collapse of the rest of the world I’m not 100% convinced that will occur, as you keep preaching, provided of course that a major war can be avoided.

Then, the high civilization of Europe with a brand new alternative energy infrastructure and great Euro Army will again lovingly spread its civilization to the surviving savages.

I would never call my trans-Atlantic cousins “savages”. Difficult to handle perhaps or “lost children of Europe”, but savages, no.

A new Rome will rise with Amsterdam as the Capital. By then Amsterdam will be like Venice and they will speak German because no one can get the hang of Dutch.

That would be Paris-Berlin-Moscow, probably still using English as lingua franca for 300 years to come, f*. LOL

BobInget on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:43 am

Yesterday: The Trump Administration made moves to do away with Dodd/Frank, Consumer Protection Administration, ACA, a rule preventing financial advisors from putting their own interests before the clients.

bin Laden advised al Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood not to force “reforms” too quickly for fear for inflaming populations in resistance.

DJT and his American Taliban are ignoring that ‘good’
advice. At the end of the day, if we are still alive next year, our Taliban will have a highly organized pitch forked population at the gates.

Speaking of demonstrations, pipelines and oil:
http://taskandpurpose.com/north-dakota-considers-making-legal-run-protesters-car/

North Dakota Republicans have introduced a bill to exempt drivers from responsibility for accidentally hitting pedestrians with their vehicles.

It’s coming boys and girls, what will you do ?

onlooker on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:49 am

Davy, I think Cog never got the memo of how interlocked we are globally in resources, in information, in finances etc. Europe just stands to be caught in the firing line of resource depletion. I just read that the only country that is food self sufficient in Europe is France. They are also in the literal firing line of the Mass Refugee Wave and outright hostilities between Russia/China/US and its surrogates. Oh and also, energy dependent. I do not envy people in Europe or Asia. Not many places one can run and hide on this planet.

Cloud9 on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 12:01 pm

Clearly we are in transition. The difficulties of that transition are compounded by human error that will translate into even more suffering. Many of us here on Peak Oil accept the concept of declining resources. The collapse of trade and the localization of economies should be an expected outcome of this process. There is ample evidence of the rise and fall of civilization throughout history. Rome serves as an example of this process. It is not the only one, but for western civilization it is the best known. I suspect that most of the modern world, especially the megacities will follow this trajectory. It is worth noting that Rome had a significant decline in population after the collapse. Their population did not recover until the advent of fossil fuels and the modern complexity their exploitation brought with them. I expect a similar population decline here in the United States.

http://davidgalbraith.org/trivia/graph-of-the-population-of-rome-through-history/2189/

Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 12:50 pm

I just read that the only country that is food self sufficient in Europe is France.

Complete rubbish, Europe is a major agricultural power and more than self-sufficient:

http://cdn3.chartsbin.com/chartimages/l_38918_c2992bf1ee5bb3e9a4b49480e1a7a3c7

They are also in the literal firing line of the Mass Refugee Wave

In 2015 it was 1.5 million on a European population of 500 million. It is 1.5 million too many. Meanwhile, most European countries have build effective fences and very few reach NW-Europe.

The problem is not the fences (Europe is much easier to defend than the US), the problem are the leftist US vassals who are still in charge, but not much longer. Populism is on the rise everywhere in Europe.

The Soviet empire evaporated and everybody in Eastern Europe is right-wing. France will probably fall in May to the nationalists of Marine le Pen and we will have a little revolution and even repatriation as well. And much better relations with Russia.

Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 1:22 pm

Clogprude, you are a clueless fucking moron when it comes to understanding the world.

Here’s what your sweet, white, girl next door wives have been up to lately.

https://www.reddit.com/r/slutcollage/

Pay attention to the women’s left hands for wedding rings.

Ask yourself what percentage of women doing this have been photographed? How many actually end up online? This is just one venue for this kind of thing – there are hundreds more. How many do this and don’t allow the pictures to be taken? Do that math estimation in your head and get back to calling me the decadent freak. Cherry picker Kuntsler too. A hundred fucking times he’s bellyached about transgenders, but nary a word about the New American & Western big black cock and gang bang loving White wife.

Both of you old fucks suffer from some golden age delusion. Maybe it’s just comes with getting old?

Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 1:25 pm

Trump is doing something right when the establishment is shaking and shivering. The horror, the horror…..
“Now On The Cover Of Spiegel: Trump Beheading The Statue Of Liberty”
http://tinyurl.com/huomlar

“As President-Elect Trump visited Washington in December, and received calls from world leaders, Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine makes it clear just what the European establishment thinks of The Donald’s future…And now, with President Trump having taken office, the German media (having exclaimed his inauguration address as “a declaration of war”), have dropped their latest cover-bomb, dubbed “America First”…… clearly, Europe – or at least Spiegel – is confident it is next. The cover comes at the same time as the violently anti-Trump New Yorker released its own cover variation on a Statue of Liberty theme.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/DylanByers/status/827567423918219264/photo/1

Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 1:25 pm

This GIF of the day tells the tale of decadence.

http://folk.uio.no/roberan/t/MLO_weekly.shtml

Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 2:01 pm

“VIDEO: Rabid NYU Professor Melts Down, Orders Cops To Assault Conservative “Vice” Co-Founder Gavin McInnes”
http://tinyurl.com/gpryo7j

“If there’s a silver lining to the death of free speech on yet another US college campus, it’s exposing people like this slobbering NYU professor who had a total meltdown over McInnes’ mere presence. Her profanity-laced tirade is a perfect example of the type of fanatical, ignorant, intolerant, hyper-sensitized liberalism that US educators are steeping future generations in. She’s shrieking at the cops to assault Gavin McInness “because the students shouldn’t have to.” (NSFW)”

Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 2:02 pm

Here is a reference book for you guys who are reminding us Hitler is back:

https://ibankcoin.com/zeropointnow/files/2017/02/1486103078422.jpg

Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 2:30 pm

He is really back, now to watch via das Internetz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtW1Lq5c04E

Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 2:58 pm

Davy, “Trump is doing something right when the establishment is shaking and shivering.”

That’s illogical. It is perfectly possible that Cheeto could be doing something wrong and get the establishment shaking and shivering.

Also, what is the definition of “right”? Kinda vague. Right and wrong for whom?

As much as the establishment is corrupt and greedy to a level not seen in living memory, there are still a number of their interests that align with the common man’s, coincidental or otherwise. I lean heavily coincidental, because, rich, poor or in between, we all trapped in the system to varying degrees. Cheeto could easily make a decision that fucks any demographic or all.

I have noticed a pattern with the alt right Cheeto cult that is very similar to the Obama cult. Every time the POTUS speaks the faithful hurriedly start scribbling away and parroting his words as if they are written in stone and claiming another tribal victory. They’re all so giddy about it.

The level of child like assuredness from the Cheeto cult is staggering. “He speaks it and thus it is done”. God like powers eh? Grow up. Do y’all really think everyone Cheeto tries to fuck are just going to bend over and spread their ass cheeks? Only in your magical thinking heads. The push back has already started. It’s what the humans do. The fat geriatric Cheeto has already broken a bunch of his promises y’all were so damn excited about. The only way America could be great again in the way Cheeto means and most want- consumer dopamine hits galore – is if the rest of the world lays down and lets you come collect their resources. Lost in all the giddiness is the fact that throughout history the majority of wars have been started by rich, arrogant, old men – why not eh? Most of your life is over and you always were a gambler (most billionaires are). But this time it’s different. This time it’s different…………….again.

Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 3:06 pm

Europe imports energy and uses that energy to power manufacturing and food production. As energy increases in cost and decreases in supply you will find Europe productivity does the same. Europe without oil will be producing very little in the way of food exports.

Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 3:12 pm

Davy, “Trump is doing something right when the establishment is shaking and shivering.”

Trump is the establishment. Billionaire cabinet. F35 on track. Not one thing of significance has been altered. The only thing he has done differently is to give Putin a free ticket. Putin is making Russia great again and Trump is a big help in that. Trump is a faux populist billionaire. Anyone who sees solutions in his random blabbering is a fucking retard. Give it a few years. You’ll be eating street dogs.

Chic with a Dic on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 4:13 pm

Kunstler seems to be hung up about notions of sexuality and gender identity. It’s worth noting that homosexuality as we know it today was practised by men in Ancient Rome but homosexuality as an idea didn’t exist. It didn’t matter if you were fucking a guy or a girl. What mattered was whether or not you were doing the fucking or getting fucked. It was about dominance not about same sex partners. Sexuality is biological but gender is a hypothetical cultural construct. It’s not likely collapse will sort out kunstlers gender issues baggage. It seems odd that he seems so preoccupied about it. As if he believes restoring traditional manliness will somehow restore the order and make America great again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greece

Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 5:20 pm

THLB, I don’t care if he is a 2ft midget. If he disturbs liberal biass and the whining establishment then he is my man.

Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 5:25 pm

Good point Ape but at this point in time we don’t have the luxury of picking the right or wrong means of destroying the inbred establishment. It’s all bad.

onlooker on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 6:06 pm

Davy, the only thing with the Trumpster is he is a bit too unpredictable and proud too be fully controlled. Otherwise agree with other posters he is just part of the establishment as witnessed by those he chose to surround him. US does not get to dictate to anyone anymore except maybe some small place like Grenada or Guyana. We live in interesting times now in a bad way

makati1 on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 6:06 pm

“Mainly what’s happening is the running down of fossil fuel based techno-industrial economies, and the main symptom is falling standards of living, with fading prospects for future happiness and security.” Bingo!

JHK never mentioned one word about the dinosaur in the room, Climate Change. His world made by hand will be a short, brutal one. Ap points out why everyday. So politics are entertaining but the end is NOT going to change because someone thinks he/she can change it … except by causing a nuclear war. But then, if you believe, as many of the U$ elite do, you can survive even that, why not?

Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 7:07 pm

Thanks Davy and I agree that the establishment, as in every other collapse, is rotten to the core and need to go. Their natural clinging to power, at any cost, almost always leads to violence. Power only gives itself up on pain of death and not even always. Something about the powerful – they are gamblers and history has shown that many are in all the way and would rather die trying then give it up. This all fits within the scope normal human behaviour time and time again.

Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality over the millennia

“It is almost universally true that violence has been necessary to ensure the redistribution of wealth at any point in time,” said Scheidel, summarizing the thesis of The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, his newly published book.

Surveying long stretches of human history, Scheidel said that “the big equalizing moments in history may not have always had the same cause, but they shared one common root: massive and violent disruptions of the established order.”

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/stanford-historian-uncovers-grim-correlation-violence-inequality-millennia/

New book, but not exactly a revelation to any history buff and/or student of collapse. So? So here we go again.

Elites VS Elites & Elites VS the commoners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWOYT3n06x0

Theedrich on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 4:35 am

Borderlessness and fag flags are doomed. The movement they represent is careening toward chaos, which is what the nihilist Left really wants. As far as the Right is concerned, it seems not to recognize that the U.S. Constitution is premissed on White civilization only, not on some miscegenated sludge of all hominid subspecies; now that that civilization is crumbling, all of the proprieties and niceties of traditional America are finished. The non-Whites along with the politically correct Whites want Stalinism, with themselves in the role of Stalin. (Of course, Stalin himself had other ideas about what to do with such useful idiots after he mounted the throne.)

One way or another, even despite Trump (may God bless his soul), we are slowly descending into tyranny — more quickly if the “great” religion of female genital mutilation takes over. The vast overpopulation of Planet Three is demanding to be given admission to the White West, where it will immediately screech about how “we” have to empty our treasuries for all the human trash not yet here.

In the many millennia of the earth’s civilizations, monarchical regimes have been the norm. America was a temporary deviation from that norm — to which we are now returning.

Davy on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 6:38 am

Thee, the posse of horsemen will not distinguish between colors. They have been given order to reap and cleanse in balance. They have all the tools of nature at their disposal and your whiny whity loving mentality will melt like a sand castle before a rising tide. Whities deserve a special death for introducing the world to this death wish. They can be considered Eve but to be fair Adam is the dumb ass that accepted so these other nations and cultures that are non-white likewise deserve their consequences. They did not have the wisdom to say no and or had and chose the dark side. Those who say they had no choice are hypocrites. Only the poorest and meekest of the world deserve sympathy. The rest feasted on greed in a glutinous orgy of rape and pillage.

Cloggie on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 7:46 am

Only the poorest and meekest of the world deserve sympathy.

The Christian creed in full display.

Good luck sympathizing with the poorest and the meekest, ironically from the safe distance of the Ozarks or the Canadian forest resp. These “meek” folks will have you for breakfast. Give us a call when you need help from Europe, won’t be long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXw8FZcF0L0

There are no good or bad ethnicities, only very different ethnicities. You have ethnicities that are able to put a man on the moon and there are those who never got further than building mud huts and wooden penis shafts, even before white man arrived and no “rape of pillaging” had yet taken place.

From your Christian-egalitarian perspective you judge that since all people are equal, there must be a reason why these poor folks are poor. And you are willing to blame yourself, or your race rather and spread words like “rape” and “pillage” around. That might have happened occasionally, but that is not the whole story. If you sum up the interaction, we were a blessing for them, because they came into contact with a higher civilization and benefited from it, morphing from pathetic stone age cannibals into semi-literates.

Don’t trust me, watch the boats with African deplorables trying to make it to Europe and America, 50 years after decolonization and the “rape and pillaging” stopped.lol

A far more reasonable approach would be to acknowledge first the vast difference in ability between diverse groups.

Even the #1 do-gooder and hardcore Christian Albert Schweitzer came at the end of his life to a conclusion that might shock the Christian hobbyists, who prefer to virtue-signal (from a safe distance):

A word in conclusion about the relations between the whites and blacks. What must be the general character of the intercourse between them? Am I to treat the black man as my equal or my inferior? I must show him that I can respect the dignity of human personality in every one, and this attitude in me he must be able to see for himself; but the essential thing is that there shall be a real feeling of brotherliness. How far this is to find complete expression in the sayings and doings of daily life must be settled by circumstances. The negro is a child, and with children nothing can be done without the use of authority. We must, therefore, so arrange the circumstances of daily life that my natural authority can find expression. With regard to the negroes, then, I have coined the formula: “I am your brother, it is true, but your elder brother.”

There is an even more controversial quote, that the guardians of his heritage emphatically denied that he ever said it:

I have given my life to try to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is something that all white men who have lived here like I must learn and know: that these individuals are a sub-race. They have neither the intellectual, mental, or emotional abilities to equate or to share equally with white men in any function of our civilization. I have given my life to try to bring them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status: the superior and they the inferior. For whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equals they will either destroy him or devour him. And they will destroy all of his work. Let white men from anywhere in the world, who would come to Africa, remember that you must continually retain this status; you the master and they the inferior like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternize with them as equals. Never accept them as your social equals or they will devour you. They will destroy you.

Even if Schweitzer didn’t say it, it is true anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdgGoSVvIo

Good luck. Your country will go down the drain immediately after the first next black swan event, that would not have led to disaster in the thirties, but will now, due to demographic developments.

Davy on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 8:04 am

Cloggieland meets makatiland in absurdity. LOL. I know we are going down clog it is called the Trump effect. He is blackest MF black swan I have ever come across. Europeans are in worse shape and think the opposite. There is a word for that and it always ends badly. Your Europe is a bitch having her tail waged and too proud to see it. Double LOL. But I love you guys anyway.

Cloggie on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 8:22 am

We will remain allies, but the Europeans will play a bigger role than today within the alliance.

After the break.

Davy on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 8:27 am

I just hope you guys keep making cheese the old fashion way I hate American cheese.

Cloggie on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 9:54 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nAyZWJ2HHc

Already looking forward to tonight, 23:05:

Swedish Millenium III movie
Spanish Rioja
Large bowl with young Gouda cheese

Yummie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(novel_series)

https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi365805/federico-paternina-rioja-reserva