Now with bonus inspiration selected from my little home samizdat.
A friend asked me what I thought of Labour - I'm not a fan. My socialism is of a classic variety, something I didn't see under Blair's New Labour in 1997. Granted, I'd tolerate a small business, cooperative community national industries route, stripped of all internationalists' outsourcing and global financial controls, and thus preserving of natural - and nationally owned - resources and finances, and indeed an equal taxing. It may not necessarily be too high, tailored to general workers' incomes, not the rich, perhaps a Poll Tax equivalent (and preferably not domestic rates or Council Tax), but in general I'm very against mercantile consumerism and boorishness, and a genuinely benevolent nobility rulership government is far off, leaving me in the interim wishing to be as independent as possible from the power structure, albeit obliged to enter competition with them in practice, annoyingly (much as they're not ever going to do the noble thing and abdicate into exile). We are pushed down and manipulated by what is, as one peeks in adult rationality behind their smug pan spectrum propaganda, merely a well-presented criminal gang. It would be unlikely that they would be admitting that any time soon, for to do so would be to invalidate their sordid claim to legitimacy, these illegitimate political thugs in their corporate parliament buildings. The only real function of the people to them is to provide taxes to facilitate their criminality.
I despise conservative capitalism, especially the American model. I just don't see anything economically (i.e. the core point of socialism) socialistic about the British Labour Party. From the early failures of Harold Wilson, Brown's, Miliband's, Corbyn's (and especially Starmer's) party just strike me as corporate egalitarians, a strange liberal representative 'democracy' (as if), where all policies of worth are pre-decided by the bureaucrat classes without vote, not that mob-rule is a good idea either. They're no different to Mussolini's Italian fascist model, just with the social justice obsessions - their only real policy set. I have no problem with fascism as a rulership model if it is handled correctly, but what we have is a tyranny, as described by Aristotle, a natural development of democracies. Perhaps my position lies somewhere between a European aristocratic socialism and a Party of Order 'Liberal Conservatism', none too different from the Ancien Regime of the French countryside (and, in another context, the ambitious mentality of the Cliveden set). I choose the worldview of National Socialism as the obvious reality to adhere to, in alignment with the physical world. Either way, provided there is genuine strength, wisdom, goodness and heroic character, as seems to be the case, an iron rule patriarchy is not a hinderance for me. For a while in this country, at least since the end of the Second World War, we have existed in a cruel, petty, cack-handed matriarchy, and the problem in that is the emasculated feminist men, much as the women, by their nature amoral from time immemorial (not immoral, though there can be examples of anti-cultural hedonism and the ignorant, self-interested rationalizations of infanticide), are spoilt, domineering and vengeful, sacrificing maternity and motherly drives, in a society that no longer favours the existence of the family as a core structure to nurture its people.
I'm all for a temporary disabilities payments safeguard, until we get ourselves back on our feet, perhaps an unofficial community's 'pot' but in general I'm against a JSA/ESA extended use welfare system. People should work if they're able bodied/able minded. By that I include working from home, including online services, and independent small businesses. I think trade unions are corrupt, and just a throwback to the sort of Bolshevik era of collective farms and special settlement gulags. Mutual donations, gifts of time and supportive aid, and physical cooperation sustain independence.
I'm ok with people temporarily (until a victorious future) utilizing benefits in this system if they are to draw productive funds aside from the public pool of idiots, as well as not providing the government with a penny of it in taxes. In general, I feel someone should work if they can physically/mentally, but it does not so far have to be for any aspect of this terrible, corrupt system or the majority population of conformist bourgeois slaves who continue to sustain it, and neither should a salary or regular reward be automatically expected by them for their ordered self-management of their struggle and survival - one does not necessarily need to draw a salary to be a worker. If one can become truly independent, they are harder to manipulate or threaten.
On a side note, I'd at times like the financial system disbanded altogether: banks, hedge funds, shares and stock portfolios, bonds, and credit and debit, and cash and notes, including gold and silver, and Bitcoin etc., in a better future, and a return to Agrarian self-sufficiency, stockpiling, survivalism, and barter, with multiple small scale Vegan farms utilizing agribusiness professionalism, but none of the massive pollution, extensive tree felling, or eco-system destruction. I don't think humans are mature enough yet to even possess modern industrial age and postmodern technology. That said. it is unwise in the extreme in our modern geopolitical world to hinder military funding and training in any capacity given the continuous one-upmanship of defence technology innovation and the constant shifting of territories, boundaries and alliances...
Excerpt from The Less Than Jolly Heretic:
"I've never learned to drive. I don't like cars, or the idea of cars, or what cars have done to communities. It's nothing to do with any CO2 or fossil fuel worries as I don't buy into the anthropogenic climate change and sustainable development agenda. I acknowledge the argument for personal freedom but resent the dislocation that comes from decimating the countryside with roads, driving off to the city to sit in an office all day with other rootless cosmopolitan helots then driving back to sleep, and to pop into late night supermarkets and petrol station kiosks, congregating on foot along the high streets of towns on a weekend solely to browse retail outlets or meander through the tunnels of enormous shopping centres, as the community spirit around you withers and dies, all local industry and cooperative neighbourly interaction neglected. You see so much more of the world if you walk everywhere. I do take lifts though if I must, or if it’s offered for a pressing commitment.
I've been criticized for not being a fan of driving cars also, as if it was a hallowed rite of passage into adulthood, and simply turning 18 was not enough, as per the rest of our truncated customs over maturity. Somehow, there are traditional rites of passage, long forgotten (such as a juvenile koryos or the swearing of ephebic oaths). That’s not one of them though, as much as it’s a formally accepted convenience in line with the done thing.
Before the mass production of personal vehicles for the flippant relaxation and convenience of the commercial market, was there such a thing as a functioning civilization at any point? An obvious yes. Could we not have left this technology to necessary infrastructural logistics cargoes and industrial deliveries, and any long-distance supply to our newest outposts, to facilitate the transit of food supplies, heavy equipment, and raw materials, or to periodically convey teams of workmen to their sites? A journey on foot, even if it is an extended distance requiring periodic rest, will still bring you to that deep, much needed freedom, divorced from the toy race tracks we ferry our regularised exhilaration along, clipped in from A to B. If we must flee with such haste to be alive, conveying ourselves into the distance in fine little pockets aligned in rhythmic obligation to the drover's attentive ingenuity, something is broken.
A strong part of me wishes at times that we could do away with the currency system to its very roots and disband the human concept of money altogether, disposing of all banks and markets and banking systems, and destroying credit and debit cards, and all cryptocurrencies, coinages and paper notes, and even gold and silver bars and nuggets of precious metal, a waste of the metal itself in the long run, tying up a primary industrial resource. I tried to put this to an old friend not so long ago, but it blew his mind. He has asked me “what will we do about all this?” following our traditional pattern of periodically moaning about the government, the citizens, and all the architecture of the UK system by phone.
Off the top of my head I’d suggested an extensive brainstorm to him about us putting the idea to 750,000 to a million UK workers (the cream of the European crop as best as could be ascertained) to spend a single year working independently in their jobs to gather as much money as possible, and then quitting their careers and seeking no subsequent employment of any sort, extricating themselves from the threat of income tax altogether, much as I'm sure the huge loss of workers would kick the system's GPPP in the teeth too, and provide the government ministers with a funding problem. Still, they shouldn’t really be so eager to pay the taxes that fund their own systemic murder.
Given that the 2024 national minimum wage in the UK for those over 21 is, as I recall, about £11 an hour (£330 for a 30-hour week and £17,160 per year), and the average UK weekly full-time wage across all industry sectors is about £680, one can imagine an annual income of at least £17,160 to £35,360 (for the standard 52 weeks) is about right for most Millennial and Generation X age Europeans, before tax and necessary outgoings, suggesting, tentatively, that this initiative of mine isn’t entirely beyond sane remit. Take £10,000 off either income for self-needs and non-avoidable obligatory expenditures, unfortunately, as it’s hard to be entirely Spartan over what is acceptable to live on, and, it would seem, there’s always someone out for a new direct debit exploitation or a quick tax.
At the end of the year I suggested they could come together in groups of three or four so each foursome can buy a plot of building land, or a farming meadow, or a freehold forest with tree-felling permissions, or some other primary resource offering mineral or material wealth already or by future potential, and (as primary importance, though not exclusively so, always allowing for free choice from the set of options, and accepting of the geographical and environmental constraints as to what is available in any area) establish the foundations of a new small property or container home or prefab shelter, each individual providing that saved yearly income (assuming the approximate tax losses, bills, and interim food costs and fuels, etc., given that they have at least £7160 left over – and hopefully a lot more – after the £10,000 used on sustaining themselves through the obligated expenditures for that year), an ideal sum for the four of them of at least £28,640, if not £101,440, thus entirely suitable for the small acreage acquisitions and those tiny home materials and tools costs – much as UK land laws and hostile planning acts can be a laborious and unintuitive further burden to effectively negotiate against – and then to transfer any useful tools or equipment they already own, and the gift of their labour and their skills. I have added useful books for my library to this document, some of which cover aspects of this topic also.
At that point you have a potential for about 250,000 decentralized shelter plots to have sprung up. Each of these four person teams hands the remaining money in their each person’s prior possession independent of the year-saving drive over into an internal ‘pot’ for all 1 million of them, to purchase as many new pieces of self-sufficiency survival technology and supplies and equipment as possible, as elaborate, extensive, and advanced as can be budgeted for (and obviously including basics like print book learning resources, seeds, plants, long-lasting preserved food, water/irrigation necessities and water storage tanks and well-digging materials and purifiers, medical aids, fuels and engines, cooking and heating devices, machine tools and workbenches, solar generators and panels etc. and perhaps wired satellite terminals and their antennae) and then help out to distribute them among the entire group set to expand their farming and forestry operations, storerooms, kitchens and canteens, studios and workshops, and any assorted innovative spaces.
An internal barter system is established on grounds of trust and cooperation, but all barter trade external to them is barred, as is the very idea of privately selling a resource or service to anyone, either amongst themselves or to strangers alike, or exporting it in larger quantities to a managed organization, foundation, or external business headquarters, or for the use of any of that foundation or company's members or employees. Requesting financial payment for community work or receiving a salary of any sort for the labour of maintaining the group’s cooperative survival is forbidden, including one-off money gifts for the sake of any form of savings, and this very attitude of seeking individualistic material reward (via any tradable token or salary of goods) for the voluntary pragmatic actions and generation necessary to their success and extended survival is to be firmly discouraged.
The aim is for the whole group to reach an initial self-sustaining threshold and go from there, using up all the money to the last penny once enough safety checks are in place to provide them with reasonable confidence that any likely self-sufficiency dangers are accounted for, and their network’s self-propagation infrastructure is securely settled for the immediate future.
There is no point in reaching out for more people, and all print journalism and televised media is to be 100% ignored, as is the public arena of politics altogether. In fact, the group is to forget the entire concept of politics, and use of the term itself is to be discouraged outright. No parties, or organisations, or activism, or protests, or campaigns, or street marches are permitted, and the words, actions, and promoted activities of all politicians and State bodies and all factional activists and ideologues and all their recorded and self-promoted current affairs theatrics and demagogic machinations are to be totally ignored by default, leaving them starved of attention.
My friend didn’t really understand any of this hypothetical solution in a way that his mind could relate to, right from the very start of it. I see the decentralized ‘closed prepper business’ network community socialism was too much for him to get his head around, and, despite saying he understood me, and lots of “yes!”, “yeah!”, “yeah, yeah!!!!” yesses, he was still asking me by the very end if the group should think up a name for itself, or form a party, as if it was a literal bloody company or a corporate franchise or faction, and what they could do “then” to “make sure better politicians were elected to fix the economy and bring power back to the people”. I wasn’t sure what else he though was needed for that, as if it hasn’t twigged with him that the issue was already sorted. One could be assured that he didn’t mean instigating an open revolutionary struggle, which I concede is a further plan of action.
As for my own idea, I just couldn’t break his imagination out of the orthodox paradigm. It’s always the way. They can countenance a job-equivalent expenditure or enterprise in the interim to some degree, some project to get something done for someone, but ultimately they all want someone else to step in at the end of it and just sort it all out for them, tell them what’s happening next, and how it’s all going to be better, so they can move on to their next 'class assignment', as opposed to, say, doing it all themselves, and for themselves, in freedom, not bought servitude, dying for coin (no matter how vociferously they try and tell you different).
Anyway, it’s not an idea I’ve invested any grand thought in, and was just me improvising on the spot, but I suppose it’s always something I could return to considering later. I could have put it to National Socialism worldview parameters, to ward off a fear of it becoming a mere Laissez-faire dispassion or pretentious hippie anarchism, something merely idealistic. I’m talking about building an expansive, decentralised independent community, something a bit more ambitious and professional over time than a mere eco-warrior shack complex in the woods but I knew openly associating the project with my worldview would derail his concentration further. It’s not like you couldn’t also forcefully commandeer the workings of established orthodox industry buildings, and such, protecting production in a situation that was overtly revolutionary in full societal breakdown chaos.
I’m not entirely sure who to run it by as a curious idea, or to run it by first, if anyone. I’m always aware that the timeframe for dithering over this sort of thing isn’t as generous as one would perhaps yearn for.
Personally, I acknowledge that there is simply no way remaining to prevent a global breakdown, inevitable on the horizon by 2023 - 100% - drawing from decades of continual analysis into the plotted data of the Anglo-American central banking system, and its fundamental flaws from conception, though still impossible so far to precisely date within the 2020s and early 2030s, compounded by an exponential energy crisis and the impotence of green energy theories, and we have no way to implement this flawed technology effectively. I closely monitor the pronouncements of the economist Chris Martenson, and his overviews in The Crash Course, and take Peter Schiff’s forecasts on board, and the insights of Mike Maloney, as much as those ideas in The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of The International Monetary System by the US intelligence community’s capital markets advisor James Rickards, the classic The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at The Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin, Bill Bodri’s Bankism, and the work of Markus K. Brunnermeier and Ricardo Reis in A Crash Course on Crises, as well as reading into broader Austrian macroeconomics, and the problems with green energy technology in The Death Cult: Technocratic Failure at the End of the Industrial Age by Tim Watkins, Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure by Steve Goreham, and such books as The Unpopular Truth About Electricity and the Future of Energy by Lars Schernikau and Willam Hayden Smith, Not Zero by Ross Smith, Anschluss: The Politics of Vesica Pisces by Sebastian Ernst Ronin, Spiraling Downward: Thinking About and Planning for Economic Collapse by Peter Damaris, Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money by Detlev S. Schlichter, and Climate Change Delusion and the Great Electricity Rip-Off by Ian Pilmer.
Though I can at least acknowledge all this openly without automatic dismissals for the sake of my ego's sense of calm and complacency, I co-currently understand that, unfortunately, the people of the UK are so far gone and so self-defeatist racially that it would literally require the historical conditions presented by this lingering, comprehensive, existential nightmare to foster the slightest spark of solidarity in them.
The conditions of collapse with occur inexorably and deteriorate whether they cooperate or not and will affect immigrants and other races as well as Europeans. However, accepting the anti-European nature of their system as well as their dwindling postwar status, the low European birth rates contributing to their generational collapse into a racial minority, and accepting that the mass immigration of hostile, competitive non-Europeans to their island will never be curbed by their government, a trend that by 2022 resulted in just under three-quarters of a million documented arrivals at the shores of England, illegal migrations unaccounted for, we know that if the European natives do not learn to cooperative in solidarity, the harsh survival conditions of collapse will act as a catalyst in what is already their slow extinction.
Much as it’s disappointing to know that they would only – hopefully – attempt to get on in a genuine non-factional solidarity if they absolutely, categorically had to, and would otherwise remain observably content to let their own race die out in order to maintain the feelings, safety, and comfort of those directly stimulating their extinction, I’m glad at least that, despite the situational horror this entails, they will be left with no environmental choice at that point but to physically do something, and no literal means to campaign to vote it away, or to fundraise for that, or to worm out of the obvious predicament all around them, much as survival does not seem likely for the majority of them.
Though they have failed their sacred duty so far and have proved unable to protect the future of their own children, I would hope by then that European families could make every effort possible to protect their offspring’s lives, a real display of genuine love over their contemporary child abuse, content as they are in the here and now only to ruin their children’s minds into a rigidly submissive politically correct line, turning them against each other, and draining them of their self-respect, just as their schoolteachers inform them that they must all get on by presenting the European students in their classes with the lives and complaints of non-Europeans, an “all” that does not seem to include themselves as defendable interests, that does not prioritize their own people, each one of them, on their own homeland’s soil, a deeper, traitor ‘love’, the inverse of the European soul, given instead by these parents to the hostile adults of non-European races, who hate them, and whose non-European children are raised to hate them, at home, and then at school, then all across the gaps in between and on from that, encouraged to hate them, allowed to hate them, unopposed, and our own European children forever chided and demeaned, disregarded, and silenced, judged, outraged over, pushed to the side as second class citizens, forgotten. A race that does this to its own children does not really deserve life.
Why don’t we have proper space exploration these days? Where are all our deep space interstellar dreams? Anything too practical of that nature has been stalled, and put on hold indefinitely perhaps, so you can work in a pharmaceutical research and development lab for 10 months designing reverse monoamine oxidase A inhibitors for the child psychiatry market in order to purchase a second hand state of the art Jaguar I-Pace for £33,000 to power round the block in for 2 minutes whilst engaging with your marvellous 10-inch touchscreen infotainments and summoning a Google virtual assistant with your in-built Android Auto smartphone integration to help you locate a nearby charging point* from the 2 available within a 50 miles radius, both 28 miles away in the wrong direction, so you can pay 22 quid to spend 13 hours waiting for it to charge, ready for another 220 miles, as your synchronized flow lodges comfortably into a wide moving jam once again after travelling 900 metres from your front door, to inch along for another two and a half hours as the sun begins to set, and then turn back, and perhaps burst into flames, or at least wait a bit longer in the congested queue so the battery pack can fail 3 years later and, unable to trade it in on their now defunct exchange scheme, you can be free to wow yourself again with an upgrade for the next few minutes until the National Grid shuts down."
*I'm sure I could refine these figures, but as far as I can ascertain so far, on preliminary draft calculations:
Petrol in 2024 is at about (just over by now) £6.57 a gallon, with an average fuel efficiency of 36 miles per gallon, and with an average 164 gallons used per year, so at average distances per year of 6000 miles you're set back a little over £1095 annually.
Given that you're going out of your way drastically to find this wretched charging point, if you ever do get there, we can take two 28 mile journeys off the 220 miles per £22 charge so you've got 164 available miles after charging dilemmas, at an ideal efficiency, and £0.10 charge per mile, not that this is standard, giving a proxied travel cost of £600 annually, and a £495 comparative saving annually (though you've wasted £7.28 per charging round trip).
We can happily assume you won't be going an identical £16 miles every single day in your vehicle, so it's not so likely anymore, given average road commuter (cars being the most popular mode of transport by a long shot) travel times alone of (ideal conditions) 30 minutes each way per day in the UK (so around an hour taken), and average distances of that commute of 11.7 miles per each way for rural inhabitants or 10.2 miles for towns outside London (or 18.3 miles for business trips), that you'd get 10 days' worth out of your charge, or even 7, and these figures are just for one person's journeys. Traffic congestion and road works affect 35% of motorists.
For a 52-week year (assuming 5 days' work travel alone per week), and assuming 7 days' worth of travel per charge, you've wasted £378.56 on journeys to charge, leaving a more realistic £116.44 electric vehicle saving compared with petrol car costs. That said, is it worth it if you have to wait 13 hours for a public charge?
8am - 8.30 Monday-Friday = 11.7 miles
5pm - 5.30 pm Monday-Friday = 11.7miles
9pm Friday/Saturday = 28 miles
10am Saturday/Sunday = 28 miles
That's 173 miles per week. Do you still have freedom to drive otherwise? It's tight on both timing and 'spare' miles.
How does one return whilst the vehicle is charging? Public transport? Electric public transport? Another electric private-ownership vehicle? And, um, presuming they're commuting also weekly, how do they find time to charge in all this, and then to come and pick you up, considering that, if you need charging yourself, you can't pick them up prior to that)? Would one be booking into a cheap hotel instead, to wait overnight? Is this worthwhile, really?
LaMonaca and Ryan 2021 suggests a level 1 AC 120 V 3.3 kW charger, the sort that could be mounted at home, takes 6-8 hours to charge for 62 miles of driving range. The fast DC 480-66 V 50 kW chargers at urban charging stations and motorways take 20-30 minutes for the same 62 mile range. But how many of the latter are there? It's still a pain, especially given human nature regarding time management and topping up. Not convenient, which is considered a godly necessity these days. 72% of UK charging is at home.
It's all a moot point as we can't mine enough lithium in time to fulfil market stockpile demands for the majority of road users (which is also expensive to mine, utilising fossil fuels in the mining and transport logistics process anyway), or indeed the cobalt, manganese, graphite and chromium, then there's aluminium and steel.
With peak oil, an energy devolution mass power problem on the way, plus of course an international (global) currency collapse, we're kind of screwed, indubitably. It's like what Stephen Emmott's student said.
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