Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Is our current cultural approach to race actually making things worse?

I learened a lot about racism as a result of my years as a taxi driver. I noticed very early on that certain members of so-called "Equity deserving communities" were aware of the phenomenon even if it had never been explicitly articulated in their minds. Some of them behaved as though their victim status was a commodity that could be traded for privileges and entitlements. This mentality is powerfully reinforced by opportunistic politicians of low character to the point that it is now embedded in the law in Canada and is a factor in the distribution of the government's loot.

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Friday, July 24, 2026

Thursday, July 2, 2026

𝗡𝗲𝘁 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹.

There is more than one way to save the planet.

"Raw seal and sea-otter, whale and sea-lion blubber, fish, roots, and berries are staple articles of food among the Aleuts. To procure vegetable food is too much trouble. A dead, half-putrefied whale washed ashore is always the occasion of great rejoicing. From all parts the people congregate upon the shore, lay in their winter supplies, and stuff themselves until not a morsel remains. November is their best hunting-season. Whale-fishing is confined to certain families, and the spirit of the craft descends from father to son. Birds are caught in a net attached to the end of a pole; sea-otter are shot with arrows; spears, bone hooks, and nets are used in fishing. After the advent of the Russians, the natives were not allowed to kill fur-animals without accounting to them therefor."

Gender Equity

"The Aleuts have no marriage ceremony. Every man takes as many women to wife as he can support, or rather as he can get to support him. Presents are made to the relatives of the bride, and 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴. Wives are exchanged by the men, and rich women are permitted to indulge in two husbands. Male concubinage obtains throughout the Aleutian Islands, but not to the same extent as among the Koniagas.[129] Mothers plunge their crying babies under water in order to quiet them. This remedy performed in winter amid broken ice, is very effectual." <𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴 - mine>

Kadiak Pride

Please keep in mind the times in which this was written. Today, use of the adjective 'repugnant' would likely be considered to be 'hateful,' and its use in the current context could land the writer in a Canadian jail for thought crime. I have, therefore, opted to replace the word 'repugnant' with the word 'progressive' to avoid prosecution. The word 'inclusive' could also be used. The word 'woke' would be prohibited.

"But the most 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 of all their practices is that of male concubinage. A Kadiak mother will select her handsomest and most promising boy, and dress and rear him as a girl, teaching him only domestic duties, keeping him at woman's work, associating him only with women and girls, in order to render his effeminacy complete. Arriving at the age of ten or fifteen years, he is married to some wealthy man, who regards such a companion as a great acquisition. These male wives are called achnutschik or schopans."

'C'mon, mon, listen to the Schopan!'

Just when you start to think there is nothing new under the sun you find out there is nothing new under the sun.

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Friday, May 29, 2026

Canada Compared to the Soviet Union

I love this documentary. So should you.

Though the documentary focuses on the absurd outcomes of Soviet central planning, it ought to put Canadians on notice as to the expected results of continuing Liberal hegemony in this country. And not just from the Carney politburo, but from all of the institutions that now derive all or part of their sustenance from the fucking government.

Perhaps, I have too vivid an imagination. I see so many parallels between the current state of Canada, and the historical record emerging from the Soviet Union.

"Hey buddy! You wanna buy some shares in some underground CO2?"

From the video transcript:

"So what does all of this mean? Not as history, as a lesson that applies to something larger than one city, one navy, one collapsed empire. What happened in Vladivvasttoc in 1979 was not a story about Soviet evil or communist incompetence. As satisfying as those explanations might be for people who prefer their history simple, it was a story about what happens to any large hierarchical institution when the incentive system inside it makes lying the rational choice and truthtelling the dangerous one. When the person who reports the fire on the ship is threatened with treason and the person who covers up the fire is promoted, you do not need to assume that the people inside the system are uniquely corrupt or cowardly. You just need to understand that they are responding rationally to the incentives in front of them. Normal people making rational choices inside a system where the rational choice was catastrophic. This is a pattern that is not unique to the Soviet Union (recall COVID), and it is not confined to military institutions or authoritarian states. It operates in every organization large enough that the people at the top cannot directly observe what is happening at the bottom. (Carney sips champaign, Trudeau cavorts with some rock star.) It operates whenever the cost of delivering bad news exceeds the cost of concealing it. It operates whenever the metrics used to evaluate performance can be manipulated more easily than the underlying reality can be improved." Hmmm. Where have I heard talk about the metrics of performance?

I mean, doesn't that resemble what we see going on in Canada these days?

More from the transcript:

"They could wear smuggled Levis's jeans and listen to Japanese cassette players and feel in their bodies the difference between a system that produced things people actually wanted and a system that produced things the state had decided they should want."

Fuck. Ain't that the truth? I don't know if it accurately describes the old Soviet Union, but it sure as fuck describes Canada. Instead of a system that produces things people actually want, the chicken dancers elected people who will produce what the Liberals have decided they should want.

They might get what they want, but sooner or later, they will get exactly what they fucking deserve.

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The question that Vladivvastto in 1979 leaves you with is 37:48 not really a question about the Soviet Union. It is a question about every institution you have ever trusted to 37:54 tell you the truth about itself. When the cost of honesty inside a system becomes higher than the cost of silence. 38:02 When the person who reports the fire is the one who gets punished and the person who covers it up is the one who gets 38:08 promoted. How long does it take before the fire becomes something that cannot be hidden? And by the time it cannot be 38:14 hidden anymore, how much of the ship is already gone?

Monday, May 25, 2026

Woke Compassion

Woke 'compassion' always reminds me of Michael Stivik from 'All in the Family." That guy was overflowing with 'compassion' but it took me a few years before I realized the unspoken part of Stivik's noble proclamations - that Archie was the guy who should pay for it all.

I have a theory that the hordes of chicken dancing boomers in Canada had their political opinions given to them by assholes like Michael Stivik, and just about every rock and roll lyricist of the age.

Here are just a few examples:

Money - Pink FLoyd

Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.

I Don't Want Your Money - Chicago

"The song "I Don't Want Your Money" by the band Chicago is about rejecting material wealth, social status, and political influence in favor of personal integrity and authentic love."

If I remember correctly, the album contained a list of every venue Chicago played where they made at least $10,000.

Moody Blues - How is it We Are Here?

Em Am Em F
2)Men's mighty mine machines digging in the ground
Em Am Em F
stealing rare minerals where can they be found.
Em Am Em F
Concrete caves with iron doors bury it again.
Em Am Em F G7
While a starving frightened world fills the sea with grain.....

Five Man Electrical Band - Signs.

In typical Liberal fashion, that song contains a line about visiting a church service,

And the sign said "Everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray

But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all
I didn't have a penny to pay

So I got me a pen and a paper, and I made up my own little sign (virtue signaling)

I said "Thank you Lord for thinkin' about me, I'm alive and doin' fine"

When you take into account the fact that the Boomer generation has been absolutely marinated in woke anti-capitalistic propaganda, it's a wonder we have any remnant of a free market economy left at all. But don't worry, the Liberals are working hard to accomplish that end.

Definition of a Liberal:

Someone who would give a poor man the shirt off of someone else's back.

The Paradox of Higher Education Part II

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