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"Everything else being equal, when the price of something goes down
people tend to consume more of it.
Up to the 1600s most people everywhere were poor and life was short,
nasty, and brutish. Being an idiot was a "severe selector" which would
cull you from the herd and assure that genes like yours would not
afflict future generations.
The price of stupidity on the individual and the societal levels was
pretty high. In a world where humanity existed at the edge of its
structural carrying capacity, there's small margin for error.
You didnrCOt lay in enough food or firewood for the winter? Guess what happens now.
You allow your society to choose systems that restrict human flourishing
and encourage dependence and predation? Same result.
Calamity used to be quick. Now it's a slow burn through the sizable fat reserves of the civilizational success that made everyone so comfortable
in the first place. The plenty of the post-enlightenment removed many of those penalties, replacing them with a well intentioned subsidy.
That's how you fertilize a moron farm.
It's also how you enable antisocial behavior and open up a society to conquest and collapse. As the price of being a moron has declined, the consumption of this metaphysical "good" has increased.
Too much plenty and the softness it encourages, seems to actually work against the societies that created that plenty, undermining the high-
trust underpinnings required for widespread human flourishing.
You may not like this and sincerely wish that we could just make things
nice for everyone, but when you subsidize behaviors that discourage
ideas like flourishing, self-sufficiency, and agency, well, thatrCOs why
we cannot have nice things.
ItrCOs simple emergent incentive.
Soft times create morons and morons create hard times. The next part of
the cycle is not kind to the stupid.
"Everything else being equal, when the price of something goes down
people tend to consume more of it.
Up to the 1600s most people everywhere were poor and life was short,
nasty, and brutish. Being an idiot was a "severe selector" which would
cull you from the herd and assure that genes like yours would not
afflict future generations.
The price of stupidity on the individual and the societal levels was
pretty high. In a world where humanity existed at the edge of its
structural carrying capacity, there's small margin for error.
You didnAt lay in enough food or firewood for the winter? Guess what
happens now.
You allow your society to choose systems that restrict human flourishing
and encourage dependence and predation? Same result.
Calamity used to be quick. Now it's a slow burn through the sizable fat >reserves of the civilizational success that made everyone so comfortable
in the first place. The plenty of the post-enlightenment removed many of >those penalties, replacing them with a well intentioned subsidy.
That's how you fertilize a moron farm.
It's also how you enable antisocial behavior and open up a society to >conquest and collapse. As the price of being a moron has declined, the >consumption of this metaphysical "good" has increased.
Too much plenty and the softness it encourages, seems to actually work >against the societies that created that plenty, undermining the
high-trust underpinnings required for widespread human flourishing.
You may not like this and sincerely wish that we could just make things
nice for everyone, but when you subsidize behaviors that discourage
ideas like flourishing, self-sufficiency, and agency, well, thatAs why
we cannot have nice things.
ItAs simple emergent incentive.
Soft times create morons and morons create hard times. The next part of
the cycle is not kind to the stupid.
On 10/8/2025 7:51 AM, Wilson wrote:
"Everything else being equal, when the price of something goes down
people tend to consume more of it.
Up to the 1600s most people everywhere were poor and life was short,
nasty, and brutish. Being an idiot was a "severe selector" which would
cull you from the herd and assure that genes like yours would not
afflict future generations.
The price of stupidity on the individual and the societal levels was
pretty high. In a world where humanity existed at the edge of its
structural carrying capacity, there's small margin for error.
You didnrCOt lay in enough food or firewood for the winter? Guess what
happens now.
You allow your society to choose systems that restrict human
flourishing and encourage dependence and predation? Same result.
Calamity used to be quick. Now it's a slow burn through the sizable
fat reserves of the civilizational success that made everyone so
comfortable in the first place. The plenty of the post-enlightenment
removed many of those penalties, replacing them with a well
intentioned subsidy.
That's how you fertilize a moron farm.
It's also how you enable antisocial behavior and open up a society to
conquest and collapse. As the price of being a moron has declined, the
consumption of this metaphysical "good" has increased.
Too much plenty and the softness it encourages, seems to actually work
against the societies that created that plenty, undermining the high-
trust underpinnings required for widespread human flourishing.
You may not like this and sincerely wish that we could just make
things nice for everyone, but when you subsidize behaviors that
discourage ideas like flourishing, self-sufficiency, and agency, well,
thatrCOs why we cannot have nice things.
ItrCOs simple emergent incentive.
Soft times create morons and morons create hard times. The next part
of the cycle is not kind to the stupid.
And, so it is the same today - we are slaves to the system.
You can't make this stuff up!
"In order to hold on their cheap illegal labor, Democrats have created a confederacy of lawless rCLsanctuaryrCY states and cities. And now, just like in 1860, these same Democrats are waging literal war against a federal government that is guilty of nothing more than wanting to enforce the federal law by lawfully deporting illegal aliens." - Breitbart
On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 10:51:12 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
"Everything else being equal, when the price of something goes down
people tend to consume more of it.
Up to the 1600s most people everywhere were poor and life was short,
nasty, and brutish. Being an idiot was a "severe selector" which would
cull you from the herd and assure that genes like yours would not
afflict future generations.
The price of stupidity on the individual and the societal levels was
pretty high. In a world where humanity existed at the edge of its
structural carrying capacity, there's small margin for error.
You didnrCOt lay in enough food or firewood for the winter? Guess what
happens now.
You allow your society to choose systems that restrict human flourishing
and encourage dependence and predation? Same result.
Calamity used to be quick. Now it's a slow burn through the sizable fat
reserves of the civilizational success that made everyone so comfortable
in the first place. The plenty of the post-enlightenment removed many of
those penalties, replacing them with a well intentioned subsidy.
That's how you fertilize a moron farm.
It's also how you enable antisocial behavior and open up a society to
conquest and collapse. As the price of being a moron has declined, the
consumption of this metaphysical "good" has increased.
Too much plenty and the softness it encourages, seems to actually work
against the societies that created that plenty, undermining the
high-trust underpinnings required for widespread human flourishing.
You may not like this and sincerely wish that we could just make things
nice for everyone, but when you subsidize behaviors that discourage
ideas like flourishing, self-sufficiency, and agency, well, thatrCOs why
we cannot have nice things.
ItrCOs simple emergent incentive.
Soft times create morons and morons create hard times. The next part of
the cycle is not kind to the stupid.
A typical version of reality for somebody who congratulates himself
for not being a moron.
This is another one of those self-serving half truths from the
self-satisfied libertarian mind. But sorta half true. It is a
suficient but not necessary explanation.
On 10/8/2025 12:37 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 10:51:12 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
"Everything else being equal, when the price of something goes down
people tend to consume more of it.
Up to the 1600s most people everywhere were poor and life was short,
nasty, and brutish. Being an idiot was a "severe selector" which would
cull you from the herd and assure that genes like yours would not
afflict future generations.
The price of stupidity on the individual and the societal levels was
pretty high. In a world where humanity existed at the edge of its
structural carrying capacity, there's small margin for error.
You didnAt lay in enough food or firewood for the winter? Guess what
happens now.
You allow your society to choose systems that restrict human flourishing >>> and encourage dependence and predation? Same result.
Calamity used to be quick. Now it's a slow burn through the sizable fat
reserves of the civilizational success that made everyone so comfortable >>> in the first place. The plenty of the post-enlightenment removed many of >>> those penalties, replacing them with a well intentioned subsidy.
That's how you fertilize a moron farm.
It's also how you enable antisocial behavior and open up a society to
conquest and collapse. As the price of being a moron has declined, the
consumption of this metaphysical "good" has increased.
Too much plenty and the softness it encourages, seems to actually work
against the societies that created that plenty, undermining the
high-trust underpinnings required for widespread human flourishing.
You may not like this and sincerely wish that we could just make things
nice for everyone, but when you subsidize behaviors that discourage
ideas like flourishing, self-sufficiency, and agency, well, thatAs why
we cannot have nice things.
ItAs simple emergent incentive.
Soft times create morons and morons create hard times. The next part of
the cycle is not kind to the stupid.
A typical version of reality for somebody who congratulates himself
for not being a moron.
This is another one of those self-serving half truths from the
self-satisfied libertarian mind. But sorta half true. It is a
suficient but not necessary explanation.
Whatever you do, remember that it's "not necessary" to notice the idiots
who are degrading civilization all around us. Because that would be mean.
On 10/8/2025 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:
On 10/8/2025 7:51 AM, Wilson wrote:
And, so it is the same today - we are slaves to the system.
"Everything else being equal, when the price of something goes down
people tend to consume more of it.
Up to the 1600s most people everywhere were poor and life was short,
nasty, and brutish. Being an idiot was a "severe selector" which
would cull you from the herd and assure that genes like yours would
not afflict future generations.
The price of stupidity on the individual and the societal levels was
pretty high. In a world where humanity existed at the edge of its
structural carrying capacity, there's small margin for error.
You didnrCOt lay in enough food or firewood for the winter? Guess what
happens now.
You allow your society to choose systems that restrict human
flourishing and encourage dependence and predation? Same result.
Calamity used to be quick. Now it's a slow burn through the sizable
fat reserves of the civilizational success that made everyone so
comfortable in the first place. The plenty of the post-enlightenment
removed many of those penalties, replacing them with a well
intentioned subsidy.
That's how you fertilize a moron farm.
It's also how you enable antisocial behavior and open up a society to
conquest and collapse. As the price of being a moron has declined,
the consumption of this metaphysical "good" has increased.
Too much plenty and the softness it encourages, seems to actually
work against the societies that created that plenty, undermining the
high- trust underpinnings required for widespread human flourishing.
You may not like this and sincerely wish that we could just make
things nice for everyone, but when you subsidize behaviors that
discourage ideas like flourishing, self-sufficiency, and agency,
well, thatrCOs why we cannot have nice things.
ItrCOs simple emergent incentive.
Soft times create morons and morons create hard times. The next part
of the cycle is not kind to the stupid.
You can't make this stuff up!
"In order to hold on their cheap illegal labor, Democrats have created
a confederacy of lawless rCLsanctuaryrCY states and cities. And now, just >> like in 1860, these same Democrats are waging literal war against a
federal government that is guilty of nothing more than wanting to
enforce the federal law by lawfully deporting illegal aliens." -
Breitbart
Pretty much.