Temple of Zagan

A 4chan anon’s rather bold post on the cultural decline of the US:

I wrote this up to be a normie friendly intro to how we got to where we are right now and why we’re all totally okay with being nazis at this point. I appreciate any thoughts or comments. It will be long, sorry about that.

America has been in cultural decline for 50 years. The point at which this started is the Assassination of JFK. Why JFK was killed is the subject of numerous writings, he was doing something someone really did not want him to do. This put LBJ in power and he screwed the American people.

To secure a larger voting bloc for the democratic party LBJ introduced welfare programs such as social security, welfare and Medicare. Medicare is the reason you go bankrupt if you are sent to the hospital without insurance, as it allowed hospitals to create incredibly expensive procedures which only the government could afford to pay. Everyone then wanted access to these expensive procedures and thus health insurance became mandatory.

So, while spending all the money the US made during WWII on social programs LBJ decides to spend even more by escalating Vietnam into a giant war and fires up the draft. Here we get the fuel that the Marxists in educational institutions needed to set off the cultural revolution. It turns out that McCarthy was right, the communists had planted people in the US to subvert our culture and the unpopular war in Vietnam was the opportunity they needed.

What was the crux of the “cultural revolution?” In reality it was an attack on the family structure and authority figures. Here we get the modern fad of criticism without a constructive suggestion. The best indication that this movement was a communist effort to weaken the US culture is that it sought to build nothing, the cultural revolution was created to destroy. It destroyed the idea of a monogamous relationship being good.

From here the family itself is no longer valued. Only the individual has value. From 1960 to 1980 the rate of single parent households more than doubled from 9% to 19% (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/17/1-the-american-family-today/). The shattering of monogamy and family structure is essentially the turning point which culturally broke America. With the importance of only the individual, as without monogamy an individual no longer is thinking for others close to them, other causes such as feminism became fashionable.

An independent woman must be able to support herself since she no longer has a partner, thus women entered the workforce and wages have stagnated since. I am not saying this to disparage a woman’s capacity to work, it is simply economics. We doubled the number of workers and didn’t increase the number of jobs, in fact, due to automation and increased worker productivity, it could be argued that we need fewer workers. As time progressed this movement for the individual broadened further to gay rights and followed the slippery slope to the point we are at now with transgendered children.

Why didn’t this stop when the Soviet Union collapsed nearly 30 years ago? It turns out that identity politics are very good at getting everyone arguing. So, the globalists, that is to say capitalists who have economic interests in multiple countries and therefore do not care so much what happens in any of these countries so long as their operations are not impacted, found out they could keep economic policy from being discussed in politics by continually promoting divisive identity politics.

Another aspect of this was the framing of economic issues in social terms. Immigration is a great example of this. Effort was put into making immigration about helping people and humanitarianism to shift the focus from the economic impact immigration has on US workers.

Other economic issues are made to be a show to induce arguments. Take the biggest economic non-issue to the globalists, income tax, and make a big deal about who should pay how much to get everyone arguing. Globalists don’t pay income tax, they pay capital gains tax on shares for the vast majority of their income. When was the last time you heard someone discuss raising the capital gains tax? That’s right, never. Just like you didn’t hear about it when Bill Clinton repealed Glass-Steagall.

The economic reasons for anger are just as severe as the cultural. Real wages have not increased since the 70s. As noted earlier, this is roughly the time women entered the workforce greatly increasing the labor supply in the United States. It is also the reason for the two-earner household which is the greatest scam ever committed against families.

Going back to LBJ, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was passed under his administration and it allowed a great deal more immigration than the prior system. The effects of this act are the following: “immigration constituted 11 percent of the total U.S. population growth between 1960 and 1970, growing to 33 percent from 1970–80, and to 39 percent from 1980–90” (Lind, 1995).

This again is increasing the supply of labor without increasing the demand. Even though wages were stagnant and there was a steady supply of cheap labor, the globalists wanted to reduce their labor costs. As a result of this we got free trade. Globalists were sick of OSHA, environmental regulations and workers having rights, so they convinced the politicians to sell out their constituent’s jobs. We had it all right here and let it go away.

The result of all this? Well we have an ever-growing service sector for people who want to work weird hours part time at two to three jobs because if you were full time they would have provide health insurance. But hey, you have an iPhone, right? The alternative to this is to go to school and acquire at least fifty thousand dollars in student loans.

Here we again see the impact of the government, the incredible cost of education, like with healthcare, is due to the federal government giving money to these institutions, do you see the pattern yet? However, even with your degree you must now compete with H-1B visa workers who have no debt and will work for far less than you need to have the life you want.

Now the financial sector. The biggest racket of them all. After the great depression investment (gambling) banks and traditional banks (mortgages, secured credit) were separated so a financial crash couldn’t wipe out farmer Joe’s savings account because a banker invested in a business that failed. This was called the Glass-Steagall act. Bill Clinton signed the repeal of this act. This is why the financial crisis of 2008 was so scary, all the traditional banks had started acting like investment banks and were gambling with other people’s money.

Now, investment banks are the most useless institutions ever devised and are the greatest economic liability ever encountered. Their sole purpose is to make more money for the already wealthy. They gamble, they buy things like petroleum futures and make financial products like bundled mortgages and trade them back and forth for profit. Meanwhile they produce nothing of value besides numbers on a screen. It is a bad joke.

Anyway, back to Glass-Steagall. This act set up the financial sector in such a way that all the investment banks could fail, but your normal banks would be just fine. The repeal of this act was simply an insurance policy for investment bankers. They knew the government wouldn’t let the entire banking system crash and burn, so they had to make sure traditional banks were no longer separate and safe from their cancerous pursuits.

I’m going to bring it back to culture here before closing up. White guilt. Seriously? I don’t own slaves and you didn’t pick cotton. Colonialism did more for Africa than any other force in history. Don’t believe me? Look at the population boom. White people built roads and bridges. White people brought agriculture and fed the locals. White people brought healthcare, education and government to a bunch of tribal warlords living in mud huts.

When we left Rhodesia, it collapsed and what once was the breadbasket of the world is now pleading for food aid under Mugabe. You are going to be able to watch this again with what is happening in South Africa. Sure, America had slaves, so what? Europe had serfdom. If black people want to be treated with respect they need to start having some respect for themselves.

Blacks that do respect themselves and others get that respect back. Whites that have no self-respect are looked down upon, why not blacks or Mexicans who are covered in tattoos and wear ill-fitting clothing, who speak in profanity and carry themselves poorly? Apparently equal standards are racist. Speaking of equal standards, affirmative action (another gem from Bill Clinton) is nothing short of a farce. If someone isn’t the best candidate, they shouldn’t get the job because of a government quota system.

There you have it. I tried to be as brief as possible while still hitting the main points. Culturally they have degraded our family values in favor of individualism. Economically they have squeezed all they can from us without paying us more and have everyone in the household having to work.

They bring in immigrants to reduce our wages and yet say the government should raise minimum wage. They move our jobs overseas. Government subsidies and spending have made education and healthcare absolutely ludicrous. Financially, they gamble with our savings with no liability and make millions by putting absolutely nothing of value into this world. Then they tell us to hate ourselves for being white when we’re taking care of everyone else.

Oh, and transgendered kids. We’re pissed about that too.

This was a really good and easily understood essay on the changes that the US has gone through in the past 50 years, and how they’ve impacted its citizens in general.

All the different parts of society are interlinked, and when changes are made to them blindly, they create real impact on the regular people living in said society.  Negative impacts have a way of slowly brewing discontent in society until it boils over to whatever it is that we have today.

I will nitpick, though, and say that I disagree with the sentiment in the essay proclaiming that colonialism did more good to Africa than any other force in history.  Forcing technology and systems of governance down on people who are not interested or flat out unready for them does not do them good.  Africa, and the rest of the world, would be in much better shape than it is today if it was simply left alone.  Hind sight is always 20/20, though – the rest of that section in the essay about affirmative actions and racial relations are on point.

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