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How Liberals Have Wrecked Society
What was going on at the track meet, when Karmelo Anthony, of Centennial High School, entered the tent of the Memorial High School track team. It led to an altercation with Austin Metcalf that ended with black guy Anthony stabbing white guy Metcalf with a knife.
What was going on?
I will tell you. This is basic male territorial behavior. Scientists have detected it in the behavior of male chimpanzees as they defend the border of their territory from the troop next door. And they have detected it in the behavior of human hunter-gatherers.
In those societies the males do nothing except sit around sharpening their weapons and looking for trouble with the troop next door.
But with the advent of agriculture human males were domesticated to work and to provide. It developed into the monogamous marriage in which the male provided for the wife and children instead of just letting the women work it out amongst themselves while the guys were out hunting. The principal contribution the male now made was in the heavy labor of plowing. Experts tell us that women tend to suffer miscarriages when doing the heavy work of plowing with horses.
This cultural framework survived the industrial revolution as people moved from the country to the city. A working-class family lived in a single family row house: the husband went out to work and the wife usually stayed at home. But with child labor the wife and children often went out to work.
I say that the welfare state, in particular the Great Society of the 1960s, has broken the mold. As Charles Murray noted in Coming Apart, today in the white lower class the men don’t work much and the women don’t marry much. That’s because a woman don’t need a man to keep the groceries coming when she’s pregnant. She looks to the government to support her.
Liberals did it.
As a vile racist, I say that this culture is particularly notable in the black community, where about 70 percent of children are born to unmarried mothers.
And as a racist, I say that young black males are reverting to the culture of the hunter-gatherers, where the males just defend the border or attack the territory of the neighboring high school. Or, according to Google AI:
Mass gatherings of teenagers, commonly known as “teen takeovers,” are surging across U.S. cities. Organized rapidly via social media, hundreds of youths have descended on public spaces like shopping malls, beaches, and transit hubs, occasionally resulting in chaotic brawls, property damage, and gunfire.
Don’t they got no jobs?
It is my belief that 97.2 percent of our current problems are the fault of our liberal overlords that, for the last century or so, have ruled over us on the belief that they know best and that they should have the political power to administer and regulate just about everything.
That’s a problem, I believe, because politics is only good for going to war against the enemy, and 97.2 percent of life involves interacting with people who are not the enemy. In our society almost everything is supervised and regulated by the state, i.e., an apparatus of force rather than cooperation. Society is much more complicated than that, and cooperation is almost always more effective than force — except when killing Nazis.
Our mission, if we accept it, is to unwind the vast apparatus of force and compulsion deployed by the modern state and return most of life back to non-political interaction. For instance:
The moral, the distinction between good and evil. It works mostly by shaming people that do evil things and celebrating people that do good things.
The cultural, the distinction between the way we do things and the way we don’t do things. The point here is that cultural norms represent the accumulated knowledge of society about what works. You don’t have to go with the culture, but people will think you are a kook if you don’t/
The economic, the distinction between the useful and the wasteful. The market economy, of course, is our modern development of how millions of people can do useful things and cooperate through the price system to do things that benefit ourselves and other people. All is not roses, of course. If you don’t do useful things you may go broke.
The aesthetic, the distinction between beauty and ugly. I think there is probably a deep meaning in the celebration and love of the beautiful. More research is needed.
It’s really not that hard. Politics and government are really good for fighting wars and arresting criminals. For most everything else, there has to be a better way. And we humans have developed all kinds of ways to interact and cooperate without resorting to force.
| Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:56:28 GMT |
The Tech Bros are Not Just Billionaires
If you check the X feed of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) it seems that every other post is complaining about billionaires. Then she complains about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire:
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk’s level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
You can see the game she is playing. She is creating the notion that Elon’s fortune is similar to a Dickens villain, counting gold bars in his counting house.
Probably Sen. Warren wouldn’t have said that back in the day when Route 128 was Boston’s Tech Corridor, featuring hardware and minicomputer companies like Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Wang Laboratories, and Data General. That was then; this is now. You think any of the woke kids supporting Warren have even heard of DEC and Wang?
I’ve been pondering the tech bros in recent years, because more and more I think of the tech entrepreneurs as the decisive cultural and intellectual force in our era.
But first, Sen. Warren, please stop demonstrating how ignorant you are. Elon Musk’s wealth is not in gold bars or NGO contracts, but simply the present value of his remarkable business success. Elon Musk made the electric car into a consumer thing working night and day to get the manufacturing cost down. He made reusable rockets into a routine thing. Can you even begin to imagine the value of the business that made reusable rockets into a routine thing, Senator?
If Elon Musk weren’t a trillionaire, the typical American household would be paying a lot more for internet service and typical liberal households wouldn’t be able to virtue signal with their Save-the-Planet EVs.
And then Sen. Warren, if the US had a wealth tax we would be taking start-up capital away from entrepreneurs trying to deliver the Next Big Thing and giving it to corrupt NGOs. I realize that you really don’t have a clue about stuff like that. All you care about is getting the vote of college educated women with useless degrees and big student loans.
Now, I want you to think about something really carefully, senator, although I fear that what I am about to say is just not comprehensible to a senator from Massachusetts and her ignorant aides and staffers. It has to do with what the burghers of medieval cities were up to at the end of the Middle Ages.
Basically, the “medieval burghers (town merchants and artisans) secured their liberty by paying rents or taxes directly to their feudal lords or sovereign in exchange for autonomy.” The feudal lords were dumb enough not to care about what the burghers were up to as long as they paid their annual toll in gold and silver.
But in fact the burghers were changing the world, creating a global market economy while the noble lords weren’t looking. And in the end the middle-class revolution kicked the feudal lords out of power. Oh dear.
I have the idea that the tech lords are changing the world in a similar way right now. They have been bowing and scraping to the lords of the neo-feudal welfare state — people like you, Sen. Warren — while behind the curtain they are backing a thousand tech startups that may well make the welfare state and the educated class and their NGO supporters as surplus as the burghers made the feudal lords and their feudal retainers.
Over the last century politicians like you, senator, have tried to marginalize successful businessmen by calling them names: robber barons, economic royalists, oligarchs. But in fact they do not have the power of feudal barons; they do not have the power of absolute monarchs. And as for oligarchs: ever looked in the mirror, Sen. Warren?
And I suppose that the snobbery had a point when a store clerk created the world’s first big oil company, and a telegraph messenger created the world’s biggest steel company. And a simple mechanic put together the Ford Model T. Or a couple of nerds built the first powered airplane. Or the son of a coastguard mechanic put together the world’s first smartphone. Not really out of the top drawer. And now:
“SpaceX’s IPO created 4,400 millionaires, according to the New York Times. Critics like Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren have created one each — themselves.”
Dirty grubby millionaires. Eeuw!
Over the last few years I have noticed that our current tech lords are actually pretty fancy, intellectually. I’ve seen Marc Andreessen mention Nietzsche. Peter Thiel is a fan of René Girard and his Mimetic Theory. There’s Rod D. Martin, who was one of the PayPal mafia and is now a venture capitalist and Christian thinker.
I just have this feeling, Sen. Warren, that you and your political pals really don’t measure up against the tech lords.
I would recommend that you join their team. Because otherwise I suspect that they will humiliate you and put you in the back of the bus. Where you belong.
| Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:13:08 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
He runs usgovernmentspending.com, the go-to resource for government finance data, and is a frequent contributor to the American Thinker. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Click for more.
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
Good men do the right thing; good women say the right thing.
The world must be made safe for democracy — Woodrow Wilson
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: Against Government Education
