Neanderpundit

I might even sleep through a night without being cocooned in wool for once.

We are within a few years of an event horizon in industry.

Modern manufacturing, both light and heavy industry, have adapted to the stupidity that has come down from on high; the free market cannot be denied. No matter how hard the fedgov makes it on businesses, they will always find ways to turn some kind of profit, and so far, they mostly have.

But to do so, they have had to change. Some, knowing that a fixed number of products must still be manufactured, have turned to automation. others have decided to make fewer products at a greater margin with far fewer (Or no) employees, and some have decided to keep their existing employees but at a reduced rate or at a partial employment status.

But the industry can only get so lean. And it has come to that point, almost. At some point the regulations and laws will make it impossible for businesses of certain sizes to survive, and then things will change dramatically. People will turn to practices that are illegal in order to make a living, just as the oppression of communism drove commerce underground. We are very near to that tipping point; I see people doing riskier and riskier things to stay afloat. Do not confuse illegal with immoral; and do not assign moral values to legislators- in the main, they have none to impart.

American industry is prepared to do what it has to, to get through the coming shitstorm. And it will involve, in many cases, bending, skirting, or downright breaking the law. Are you ready? Can you break the law day in and day out without acting so guilty a cop notices immediately?

In ten years if you cannot you will be in trouble.

is one of those semireligious/semisecular holidays in the jewish faith that very few people understand- hell, I didn’t understand it myself for many years, though I had many close Jewish friends. Turns out they were what Daniel Greenfield calls “New Age Jews”

This column is over a year old, I think he resurrected it for Purim’s sake, and I’m glad he did so Pascal could point me to it. It’s another example of how renfields exist everywhere (Pardon the link. I am among those who feel strongly that the more your links reference yourself as a source, the further down the rabbit hole of insanity you have gone).

Anyway, read the whole thing. The point of Purim, the Whole Megillah, as it were, is that sometimes there is no choice to be had except the change involving total annihilation of your enemy, because the alternative is your enemy totally annihilating YOU.

Deeply faithful people understand this. It is a HUGE burden to bear. Those lacking faith will always tell you there is another way- Craigie, Chamberlain, Wilson were all born appeasers and this post, also by Greenfield, talks clearly about how these situations should be handled, and what should be avoided.

Even Hale, G-d bless him, touches on the subject in his essay “America’s Hitler” about how sometimes you have the opportunity to kill something while it is small instead of waiting for it to get big.

No, I’m not warmongering. Frankly, in the technological age the idea of conventional war disgusts me. We have the ability without hardly spending a dime (Relatively speaking) to take out anyone on earth we desire, and we lack only a commander in chief with the spine to do so.