An interesting article about how Tesla has been beaten by Chinese EV manufacturers at its own game. They are making better and cheaper EVs than the Tesla or any other Western car company. The only hope for Tesla is protectionism in the USA and Europe.
Summary
The Geely Automobile Holdings Limited Galaxy E8, a $25,000 EV with specs comparable to the Tesla, Inc. Model 3, highlights Chinese EV competitiveness and arrives 2 years earlier than Tesla’s Model 2 Redwood.
Chinese EV brands have surpassed Tesla on design, cost, range, charging speed, and potentially even driver assistance.
Tesla’s protected U.S. and EU markets will shield it from Chinese competition for at least 2 years, but its growth prospects are not priced in.
I have been thinking about this because when I look at the survival and progress of people past and present, those people with a strong moral and religious basis are more likely to survive and thrive. Look at the Amish and the Ultra-Orthodox Jews; those two groups are doing better than those people who have abandoned religion or who have turned their religion into tepid woke tools for globalist elites.
For instance I consider myself a ‘libertarian’, but it is impossible to ignore the failure of that movement to be more than a debating society. I think a part of that failure is the amoral ideology of libertarianism that turns off a lot of people – me included. I want less government and more community, but that depends upon who is in that community. I do not want to live among amoral people, or worse immoral people, who happen to agree with me about the importance of a free market to some degree or another.
My thought has been to create a type of techno-Amish religion that focuses upon promoting traditional morality and behavior while removing negative ‘modern’ influences from the community without necessarily abandoning modern technology and without physically isolating the community. Part of this will be to encourage commerce among the members, as much as possible, perhaps by using cryptocurrency.
I can go on a bit; I have a proposed name – the Universal Church of Noah, and I have prepared a proposed Creed for the church, but to date it has just been a mental exercise on my part. I am really just curious if anyone is interested in thinking more about such a project, and perhaps after more thought and consideration moving it forward?
This website has been dormant for several years. I really don’t know why I bother maintaining it other than a small bit of hope. For what I do not know. This project is dead, and I have no faith in the idea of organizing anything to make anything better. My goal is to obtain personal liberty for me and mine, and that is it. The rest of your are on your own!
For that reason I have been rather curious about the hundreds of ‘people’ who have registered with the site? Are they/you real? Or is it just bots trying to find a weakness in my system so that they can use it in some nefarious manner???
If you are a real person please respond to this post using the system provided below — perhaps you even want to leave a comment about the ideas set forth here. If you are a bot, or just don’t give a damn, well do whatever you think is best! TTFN
Like Georgia but not to the same extent, I no longer trust Armenia because of the tendency of some Armenians to irrationally lean towards Europe and the USA. Maybe it is because so much of the global Armenian population lives in Europe and the USA. But then if that was the case it would be countered in both Georgia and Armenia by the large populations living in Russia. Even in Russia you see this irrational desire to be part of ‘The West’ — the only problem being is that they don’t really understand ‘The West’. Its a gigantic fantasy fed by wishful thinking; perhaps even magical thinking.
Until I see Georgia and Armenia fully reject the fantasy of ‘The West’ I simply cannot trust those countries. I think that goes for just about every other country on earth.
I have given up on this project due to a lack of interest. Conservative who claim to be patriots seem to me to just be sheep.
Today I was in a chat with people discussing ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance). If you know anything about this it is a top down approach to slowly applying Chinese social credit system in the USA. Right now only large corporations are affected, but they have been taken in totally. If they don’t have the right ESG score (which is rated by some kind of ‘independent’ consortium) then they are locked out of bank loans, issuing shares, government contracts, etc.
I thought this stuff was not going to happen when the Biden Regime took over because I believed that the Big Businesses in control of the country like Blackrock, Vanguard, etc. would counter it (not because they want to protect our liberty, but to protect their power). However I was wrong. These companies are actually turning out to be the enforcers of the system.
I think we have very limited options: surrender and obey, go Galt (I think it is too late to try that one), or go Techno-Amish. The last one is my choice. You withdraw from society and only do business with people in your church. You don’t buy or sell from others unless you absolutely have to. You don’t use their money unless you absolutely have to. But that will never happen. People cannot give up their Disney+ account.
In response to the YouTube video created by Russel Brand 18 July 2021:
My only problem here is semantics… what I consider the misuse of the term ‘Capitalism’. The proper understanding of the meaning of words is important in order to avoid confusion.
Capitalism is not what you are describing in this video. Capitalism is simply a set of rules that under ideal circumstances creates a fair and free system for people to work and compete within. Of course there are never true ideal circumstances, but Capitalism comes closest to liberating the creative spirit and humanity of the individual.
I think what you are justly criticizing is closer to Oligarchic Fascism or Corporate Fascism (or just Corporatism) which grew out of classic Marxism/Socialism and is the opposite of Capitalism. Corporatism was designed to unify the ‘means of production’ under government control by imagining/creating distinct autonomous classes which are then integrated into the state. You have the investor class, the manager class, and the workers all separate but equal under the firm guidance of the government apparatus. However, even in the 19th and early 20th centuries these separate classes were largely contrivances, and now they are wholly artificial having to be maintained by the heavy hand of authoritarianism in order to prop up an unnatural system. Marxism on the other hand seeks to wholly eliminate such classes and in so doing people become dehumanized cogs in a grand authoritarian scheme.
Corporatism is not Capitalism. Nor is it even a natural reality… at least not a reality as it would exist in a non-contrived and artificial system. Does a worker who saves some money to invest cease being a worker because he is now also an investor? And if the worker/investor decides to invest his savings into his own business rather than another business, does he cease acting as a worker/investor and instead becomes a manager? These separate classes, if they were ever historically real, were artificially imposed by a rigid social system that needed or needs to keep people in certain roles in order to preserve the authority of the rulers.
By using the term Capitalism to describe Corporatism you encourage the false dichotomy of Left vs Right (Socialism vs Capitalism). You say this is not your intention, and I believe you, but it is still a risk of misusing such inappropriate semantics.
Corporatism is not Capitalism. It is instead a soft form of Socialism. Instead of wholly destroying the various roles that people have within the ‘means of production’ under Socialism, and thus wholly destroying the humanity of the people involved, Corporatism gives people a contrived community role within the system while depriving them of their individual agency.
Under the ideal Capitalist system the individual would be free to participate in whatever role he chose at a given place and time. Since not everyone is identical there will of course be inequalities of outcome. But these inequalities of outcome would result from the natural interaction of free and independent people making their own choices, and not imposed upon people by a rigid authoritarian system that deprives individuals of their humanity and agency.
I have been thinking about my progression to my current state of thought regarding ‘freedom’. I think that to be free you have to not really give a shit about too much of anything. I am no longer looking for that perfect place where ‘WE’ can all be free together! I now realize that most people don’t really want freedom or privacy or yada yada yada. Its just the noise that some sheep make while jabbering. Most people like being in the warm and comforting embrace of tyranny. I have given up on finding a ‘home’ that I can share with fellow freedom lovers. That animal is far too rare to come across on a regular basis. Nor am I looking for an ideal place where I can settle down. No, now I am just looking for places where I can be free to do what I want on my own without too much interference from others.
As some of you may be aware I have been working on this project since 2013 (and actually much earlier… but that is another story), and that I left the USSA in 2015 for sunny Israel. I was pursuing my dream of returning to Israel (in both meanings of the term — as a ‘returning’ Jew and as someone who visited Israel in the late 1980s and really liked it). I went to Israel expecting to be at ‘home’.
That feeling lasted about a month, and then I started getting pissed. What really pissed me off, and what made it impossible for me to live happily there, was the false expectation on my part that I would be accepted as an Israeli. When I realized that I would never be accepted as an Israeli no matter what I did (learn Hebrew, happily swallow the shit Israelis have to put up with, repeat the dumb ass shit that Israelis tell each other, etc.) — that I would always be a profoundly distrusted Oleh (Hebrew for immigrant) — I completely lost interest. My Hebrew actually got worse while I was there. My subconscious mind went out of its way to remove it my from skull.
Now I don’t really give a shit about any of that anymore. At least that is what I tell myself.
I ended up leaving Israel for a one month vacation to the Republic of Georgia… and I never went back. I bought a nice house in an old neighborhood in Tbilisi, and thought I had found ‘home’. For the first 2 years everything was going so great that I actually bought into all the bullshit that they were dishing out about Georgia; that it was a free market paradise, that the people really liked foreigners, that I had found a place where I could be at home! Not only that, but I bought into the bullshit that I was some sort of genius or prophet! What an idiot I was. About 3 years ago everything started going south in Georgia. The Georgians went from being insanely pro-foreigner to being insanely anti-foreigner. I should have picked up on the ‘insane’ part earlier. Oh well. I managed to pick up on it early enough to divest myself of most of my very unwise investments in the country, at a substantial profit, and now I just have some real property there which is not even worth trying to sell.
Real property that I have not been able to see since January of 2020. I was visiting the USSA on some personal business, and then the BeerBug Lockdowns trapped me there. No more flights to Georgia for me! I stayed in the USSA as long as I could, pretending to be happy, but the place just gets under my skin like a bad rash.
Right now I am in Mexico, and mostly I am enjoying myself. I feel free here. More free than most Mexicans I suspect. You can go on and on about this or that bad news about Mexico, but I don’t give a shit. Not only do I not care about what happens here, other than to the point that it directly effects me, I don’t even understand most of what they are saying. Its rather liberating!
I tried to get to that point in the USSA — just don’t give a shit — do whatever I want regardless of what the assholes tell me to do — but I can’t do it. I look around at my country and it makes me want to weep.
No matter how fucked up Mexico or Georgia or wherever may be I just don’t give a shit. Its good for me now and that’s good enough. If I found out that Mexico was no longer good for me, I would be on the next airplane out without a second thought. No matter how hard I try with the USSA I just cannot do that.
I have no delusions anymore that I am going to find some perfect place. Nor do I have any belief that I will find other people who share my desires and beliefs. Everyplace you go is going to be screwed up more or less, and everyone I meet is a sheep… more or less. Now I am just looking for a place where I can hang my hat and not be fucked around too much. Mexico is working out pretty good for me. And if that changes? I will be out of here like a bat out of hell.
I went out for a walk in my neighborhood and I noticed something interesting. There were very few political yard signs up, but those few that were present were uniformly supporting Biden.
Curious.
My neighborhood is usually very politically active, and a very conservative place too. I would say 90% conservative.
So what’s up with the Biden yard signs? Does this mean my neighborhood is tired of Trump and is going to pull that Big Democratic lever on November 3, 2020?
I don’t think so.
Conservative Trump supporters are refraining from posting their usual conservative yard signs because they are afraid. Unlike my Democrat neighbors who can express their political beliefs without fear of being attacked, my conservative neighbors are afraid that someone will vandalize their property, or worse assault and kill them and their family. Or perhaps simply vilifying them at work or in social settings because of their conservative political opinions?
Biden supporters have no fear of any conservative backlash against them… at least not personally for posting political yard signs supporting Biden. They are safe and secure with their Biden signs proclaiming their political beliefs even though they reside within an ocean of conservative neighbors. They are confident that no one will attack them and theirs in any way because of a pro-Democrat political yard sign.
Should the Democrats be happy about this? Should they be smug in their dominance of their meek conservative neighbors? Should they celebrate how they have successfully intimidated their timid and fearful foes?
Congratulations Democrats — you have terrorized your neighbors into silence! Your neighbors dare not mutter a word about their political beliefs let alone putting out a political yard sign, or even worse a pro-Trump bumper sticker. They probably still have payments on that car.
Question: Will this terrorism, that has so successfully driven pro-Trump yard signs from a very conservative neighborhood, proceed to terrorize those same frightened conservatives into voting for Joe Biden and the Party identified with bullying them?
This summer’s Marxist revolution involving BLM and ANTIFA (if you are interested in my opinion regarding the true nature of BLM and ANTIFA: The Ideologies of ANTIFA and BLM in a Nutshell) is part of an ongoing over-reaction to The Donald (or Orange Man Bad if you prefer) by the Leftist Elites (or the The Swamp or the Deep State — take your pick).
And it may very well be the undoing of them. But don’t start celebrating just yet. It may be the undoing of the rest of us as well.
During the last 50 to 70 years, the Marxists inside the USA have accomplished a non-violent ‘Long March through the Institutions’ and came out in control of the universities, the media (news and entertainment), the national and state government bureaucracies, big businesses, and they have gained effective control of the Democratic Party and a great deal of influence in the Republican Party. They are still a minority, but they control all the political tools of society. With Obama they took control of the national law enforcement and military hierarchy. If you were going to execute a coup those would be the levers of power you would want to seize control over. All the while the rest of us complained ineffectually and did nothing.
Then Trump was elected when he was supposed to lose to the Anointed One. The Elites were shocked.
How did it happen?
Unfortunately for the Elites they really did not make any sincere effort to answer that question. If they had seriously sought an answer they would have concluded that the election of Trump was more of an opposition vote against a particularly vile candidate and perhaps a vague knee-jerk reaction against a globalist set of policies that were impoverishing the working class. Instead of reacting calmly to to the setback… working to co-opt the inexperienced and unprepared Trump in an effort to neutralize him, they responded in a rather hysterical manner opposing him at all levels and seeking to remove him.
Instead of treating Trump as an anomaly caused by their over-reaching and heavy handedness — an anomaly that would most likely have passed as the restive masses who elected him resumed their supine positions after having a few bones thrown their way — our Elites decided to threaten their own hard won victories in the Long March and the Culture Wars by fomenting a real revolution using the violent, and in their eyes gullible fools, in BLM and ANTIFA in a final effort to topple Trump and restore themselves to power.
All they had to do was outlast Trump — another 4 years at worst — and then they would have been back in power. But it turned out they were a bunch of nervous Nellies and they couldn’t wait that long.
Starting a real revolution is very dangerous. First of all the revolutionary genie may not want to go back into the bottle after the Master’s goals have been achieved, and there is a possibility that the obvious excesses that take place during a revolution will result in a counter-revolution that the Elites will not be able to suppress.
We will see if the American Sheeple have any fight left in them. And more importantly if there is any leadership capable of taking control of a counter-revolution and leading it effectively. My guess is NO. So the Swamp has that going for them.
As for what happens to the revolutionary genies of BLM and ANTIFA, that will be an interesting thing to watch. But probably not a pleasant thing. Leading up to the Russian Revolution the Bolsheviks were supported by an odd mixture of German military intelligence seeking to undermine the Russian war effort during WWI, and ‘Elite’ elements within the Russian government, military and intelligence services, and Russian cultural intelligentsia that wanted to modernize Russia at any cost. These Elites thought the radical Bolsheviks, along with other revolutionary movements, would be ideal tools to use to topple the government… and that these revolutionary movements would then be very easy to dispose of once the Elites were in power. That didn’t quite work out as they planned.
I suspect BLM and ANTIFA may prove to be similarly resilient, and will ignore the calls by the Elites to go home after they have served their intended purpose. If they follow the historical course of most such revolutions there will be a brief but very nasty internal purge that will leave only one operating revolutionary movement standing. Then the surviving group will begin consolidating power by turning against the very Elites that brought them into existence, and destroying any other groups that might stand in their way.
We will see. A lot depends upon the result of this election. Or not.
PS: Some of you may take issue with my dismissive and less than optimistic view of the rise of a successful counter-revolution. A counter-revolution needs leadership. There is no such leadership in the USA. At best such a counter-revolution could evolve on a regional basis and thus could be attacked and eliminated piecemeal — or just ignored and allowed to putter about until the revolutionaries decided they were powerful enough to force them back into the ‘Union’. “But surely you are under-estimating the influence of Trump! He won’t let the country devolve into a Marxist Revolution!” He already has. Roughly half of the country is now controlled by Marxists in one way or another — California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, etc (I am sure I am missing some). As described above the ‘Long March through the Institutions’ have effectively given control over most of the national political infrastructure to the Leftist Elites. Trump is not a leader of the future. He is the last gasp of a dead regime — the national government fell to the Marxists over a decade ago. Trump is an anachronistic hold over from the ‘ancien regime’ — an anomaly that never represented a viable governing force within the national apparatus. At the national level Trump is surrounded by powerful enemies that have and will continue to oppose anything he tries to do. One step out of line and he will be eliminated. I suspect trying to lead a counter-revolution would be suicide for him and his family. That is too much to expect of anyone.
The only hope America has is that the Elites turn out to be so incompetent and the revolutionaries so irrational as to begin fighting among themselves before actually obtaining a complete victory, giving the rest of us an opportunity to step up and form a viable alternative. Hope costs nothing, but is not a good strategy. Again, we will see what happens next.
A response to a video from Russel Brand
In response to the YouTube video created by Russel Brand 18 July 2021:
My only problem here is semantics… what I consider the misuse of the term ‘Capitalism’. The proper understanding of the meaning of words is important in order to avoid confusion.
Capitalism is not what you are describing in this video. Capitalism is simply a set of rules that under ideal circumstances creates a fair and free system for people to work and compete within. Of course there are never true ideal circumstances, but Capitalism comes closest to liberating the creative spirit and humanity of the individual.
I think what you are justly criticizing is closer to Oligarchic Fascism or Corporate Fascism (or just Corporatism) which grew out of classic Marxism/Socialism and is the opposite of Capitalism. Corporatism was designed to unify the ‘means of production’ under government control by imagining/creating distinct autonomous classes which are then integrated into the state. You have the investor class, the manager class, and the workers all separate but equal under the firm guidance of the government apparatus. However, even in the 19th and early 20th centuries these separate classes were largely contrivances, and now they are wholly artificial having to be maintained by the heavy hand of authoritarianism in order to prop up an unnatural system. Marxism on the other hand seeks to wholly eliminate such classes and in so doing people become dehumanized cogs in a grand authoritarian scheme.
Corporatism is not Capitalism. Nor is it even a natural reality… at least not a reality as it would exist in a non-contrived and artificial system. Does a worker who saves some money to invest cease being a worker because he is now also an investor? And if the worker/investor decides to invest his savings into his own business rather than another business, does he cease acting as a worker/investor and instead becomes a manager? These separate classes, if they were ever historically real, were artificially imposed by a rigid social system that needed or needs to keep people in certain roles in order to preserve the authority of the rulers.
By using the term Capitalism to describe Corporatism you encourage the false dichotomy of Left vs Right (Socialism vs Capitalism). You say this is not your intention, and I believe you, but it is still a risk of misusing such inappropriate semantics.
Corporatism is not Capitalism. It is instead a soft form of Socialism. Instead of wholly destroying the various roles that people have within the ‘means of production’ under Socialism, and thus wholly destroying the humanity of the people involved, Corporatism gives people a contrived community role within the system while depriving them of their individual agency.
Under the ideal Capitalist system the individual would be free to participate in whatever role he chose at a given place and time. Since not everyone is identical there will of course be inequalities of outcome. But these inequalities of outcome would result from the natural interaction of free and independent people making their own choices, and not imposed upon people by a rigid authoritarian system that deprives individuals of their humanity and agency.
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