This is probably the most intelligent group of right-wing thinkers I've encountered on the internet so far.
It wasn't until maybe two years ago when I came across the kia2 reddit and discovered people who understood the truths of this world - whose arguments convinced me to start caring more about politics & to stop being a fence sitter. For that, I thank all of you.
I'm simply curious as to how any of you would describe your ideology. Libertarian? Nationalist? Generally anti-globalist? I see a lot of tradcon bashing and I know most of you aren't fans of mainstream Republicans.
Also, are there any real-world politicans you would like to see dominate the national stage? (Much like how the "socialists" want to see Bernie as president).
Dickensianism.
I believe without any irony that humanity reached its peak immediately prior to electrification. The state of the valuation of labor, the amount of manual labor needed to sustain a certain standard of living, the valuation of energy, and the energy cost to transport energy to where it was needed had reached an equilibrium point.
What disrupted that balance was energy that required essentially nothing to transport. It will take centuries for society to adapt to a new normal where human labor is essentially valueless because of free transport of energy to wherever it's needed.
Feminism basically doesn't happen, AT ALL, without the electric washing machine and the electric kitchen.
This is a great insight.
Every innovation since the Steam Engine has been devaluing labor and craftsmanship, replacing the artisan with the factory worker has been a disaster.
The outsourcing of energy production (and the effort and pollution entailed) lets polite society exist and denigrate the rural plebs who actually have to fight nature for the fuel which keeps the lights on.
The 'Green Revolution' is predicated on renewables making the blue collar unnecessary, which is why it is so monstrous and doomed to fail-- the whole left, from trans through green, all the way to revolutionary Marxism is an attempt to divorce Mother Nature. Minting 'a new man' from a 'tabula rasa' that doesn't exist.
Good fucking luck, Utopians. I hope you catch reality in the teeth. Hard & soon.
The steam engine was revolutionary but society survived contact with it. It was a self-limiting technology because it doesn't scale DOWN well. Even internal combustion wasn't a serious disruptor.
The Amish draw the line at electricity, not engines (many communities use gas tractors), and for good reason. Electricity divorced the use of the energy from the production of the energy. It was too convenient. Too scalable. It's impact on the individual was far greater.