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Naval Ravikant: How to be successful in life summarized in two words: productize yourself.
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Very powerful.
equator.org/articles/arundhaâŠ
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Jâai entendu dire que la France Ă©tait finie, quâil Ă©tait trop tard pour la sauver.
Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable mĂȘme. Sa grandeur nâa pas disparu, elle ne demande quâĂ renaĂźtre.
Nous avons surmonté en un an un problÚme cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.
La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
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Nous sommes à la conjonction des deux phénomÚnes civilisationnels distincts qui mÚnent à la révolution:
Le premier : dans une sociĂ©tĂ© dĂ©mocratique, comme le notait Tocqueville, toute inĂ©galitĂ© devient vite insupportable car il nây a plus que deux moyens dâexpliquer que certains rĂ©ussissent mieux que soi-mĂȘme : la corruption du systĂšme ou le mĂ©rite.
Et psychologiquement, sans surprise, on a plutĂŽt tendance Ă penser que ceux qui rĂ©ussissent mieux que nous bĂ©nĂ©ficient dâun systĂšme corrompu sont plutĂŽt quâils soient plus mĂ©ritants.
La démocratie est donc un régime qui crée structurellement des armées de mécontents, sauf quand il y a une forte croissance économique.
Car alors on peut prendre son mal en patience en se disant raisonnablement que dans quelques annĂ©es, on sera soi-mĂȘme au mĂȘme niveau que ceux que lâon envie.
Cela fait 15 ans quâil nây a plus de croissance en France.
Les jeunes générations ne croient pas que leur situation rattrapera naturellement celle des plus privilégiés.
En consĂ©quence de quoi, elles nâont plus grand intĂ©rĂȘt Ă maintenir le systĂšme en vie. Dâautant plus que nâayant souvent pas dâenfants et nâĂ©tant pas propriĂ©taires, elles ne sont soumise Ă aucunes des forces conservatrices traditionnelles.
Le deuxiĂšme : comme le notait Schumpeter, le capitalisme faisant exploser la productivitĂ© industrielle et agricole, il rĂ©duit Ă la portion congrue le nombre de mĂ©tiers manuels. La sociĂ©tĂ© se met donc Ă produire des cohortes gigantesques de personnes formĂ©es aux mĂ©tiers intellectuels, alors mĂȘme que lâĂ©conomie nâa pas besoin dâautant de personnes dans ces secteurs. On a beau dĂ©multiplier les bullshit jobs, on produit nĂ©anmoins un grand nombre dâindividus Ă©duquĂ©s et inemployables. (Ils considĂ©rĂšrent que les emplois manuels ne sont pas assez dignes.)
Ces cohortes sont structurellement rĂ©volutionnaires puisquâelles se vivent comme un Ă©lite Ă©clairĂ©e en opposition au systĂšme existant.
La France est une des Ă©conomies les plus tertiarisees du monde et avec un des plus hauts pourcentages dâindividus faisant des Ă©tudes supĂ©rieures.
Elle nâa plus de croissance depuis 15 ans.
Kaboum, donc ?
Pas encore, car il existe cependant une composante de la sociĂ©tĂ© qui a un intĂ©rĂȘt absolu Ă maintenir le systĂšme tel quel : les retraitĂ©s.
Et ils reprĂ©sentent un tiers de lâĂ©lectorat.
Leur rĂŽle est ambivalent : ils empĂȘchent la rĂ©volution destructrice tout comme toute rĂ©forme Ă mĂȘme de viabiliser le systĂšme.
Voici donc une des tĂąches clĂ© du politique aujourdâhui : relancer la croissance Ă©conomique et rediriger les richesses vers les actifs en rĂ©ussissant Ă la fois Ă contourner les blocages des retraitĂ©s et Ă contenir les pulsions rĂ©volutionnaires de la jeunesse.
Ce nâest quâun des nombreux chantiers urgents de la France, en cette pĂ©riode de crises multiples.
Mais avec la crise financiĂšre qui approche, câest la fin de lâamortisseur de lâendettement. La question fondamentale dâau service de qui et de quoi est la machine Ă©conomique française ne pourra plus longtemps rester sans rĂ©ponse satisfaisante.
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Have you noticed the insane pressure to put your kids through college â almost like a blackmail?
It is as if it was recruitment into a sectâŠ
Because it is.
The sect of leftism.
Look at how it works. Every sect uses the same toolkit.
First, the threat. Without us, you are nothing. Your child will flip burgers, marry badly, disappoint the family. Parents hear it from teachers, from neighbours, from other parents at dinner. Nobody says it outright. Everybody feels it.
Second, the price of entry. Years of the childâs life, and often a debt that follows him for decades. A sect that costs nothing is easy to leave. A sect that cost you everything you defend to the end, because the alternative is admitting you were fooled.
Third, separation from the family. The child leaves home at eighteen, the age when the mind is most open and the family most absent. He arrives where nobody knows his parents, and everybody knows what to think.
Fourth, a new language. He comes home at Christmas with words his parents donât understand, and a moral vocabulary in which they are the problem. The father who paid for it all is now part of what must be overcome.
Fifth, the reward for loyalty. The diploma is not proof of knowledge. It is proof of membership. It opens the doors â jobs, marriages, social standing â that members keep for each other.
And the cleverest part: the parents pay for it. Conservative families raise the child, feed him, form him for eighteen years. Then they pay to have him converted. No sect in history has managed that.
Now the honest part, which makes the blackmail worse, not better: the threat is partly real. In many professions the diploma is still the gate. That is exactly why it works. Blackmail only works when the hostage is real.
The diploma was meant to certify that a young person can think. It now certifies that he thinks correctly.
A society that only hires on the second has already stopped needing the first.
So what do we do? Not refuse education. Refuse the monopoly. Learning is not the same as college. A young person can master mathematics, physics, history, a trade and three languages without four years of moral re-education. If he must go, prepare him before he goes. Build alternatives that donât ask for his soul as tuition. Hire people for what they can do, not for which sect stamped their papers.
We can make flying cars without them!
Conservatism reproduces by birth. Leftism reproduces by conversion.
Look at almost any country. Conservatives have more children. Liberals have fewer. And yet the left does not die out. It grows. How?
It takes ours.
The left does not need children of its own. It needs schools, universities, big cities and screens. We raise our children for eighteen years. The university converts them in four. We do the work. They collect the harvest.
So conservatism has the children and keeps losing them. This has to stop, and ideally reverse.
First: stop giving them our children.
This doesnât mean hiding them from the world. It means refusing to hand them over by default. The school is not neutral. The university is not neutral. The big city is not neutral. A family that sends a child into all three unprepared is not being open-minded. It is making a donation to its opponents.
Second: give the young something worth staying for.
A young person doesnât leave because the left has better arguments. He leaves because the left offers belonging and a cause, and we offer him rules. The young are critical. Good. They will not swallow dogma. The Church asks them to believe first and understand later, and most of them walk away before later arrives.
We need an attractive ideological offering â ideally a religion, but one that doesnât reject the critical minds of todayâs young â not the Church with its dogma.
They need a faith that survives questioning. I suggest a Religion of Life (and Fertility).
The objection comes at once: invented religions fail. Comte tried a Religion of Humanity. Robespierre tried the Cult of the Supreme Being. The Soviets tried to worship the State. All dead.
But look at what they worshipped: abstractions. Nobody can love Humanity. Nobody can love Reason. You can love a child. Life is not an idea you must believe in. It is something you hold in your arms at three in the morning.
Fertility may or may not be in the name. Nobody has a child to improve a statistic. Fertility is the fruit, not the root⊠The root is a simple conviction: life is good, the future is worth inheriting, and what you received you owe forward. Believe that, and the children follow. Chase the birth rate without it, and you get Hungary: a bump, then a fall.
Such a religion asks for no miracles and fears no questions. It offers the one thing the left cannot: a reason to want tomorrow.
The left converts. We must convince. Better still, we must become something worth being born into. If we canât, the children will keep leaving. And they will be right to.
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Geen speld tussen te krijgen. We leven echt in een totalitair systeem waarbij het midden en vooral het rijke links de nieuwe fascisten zijn geworden.
Ze zeggen dat ze staan voor vrijheid, voor tolerantie en de rechtsstaat.
Dat iedereen in onze democratie is uitgenodigd om de richting die we met zân allen uitgaan mede te bepalen.
Ze noemen dat de open samenleving.
Maar wanneer we een referendum organiseren en winnen, negeren ze de uitslag en schaffen de mogelijkheid voor burgers om ooit nog zoân referendum te organiseren af.
We richten een politieke partij op, die meedoet aan de verkiezingen en het parlementaire spel meespeelt. Die wordt vervolgens uitgesloten van coalitievorming, mag nooit in de media verschijnen, wordt structureel gedemoniseerd en er wordt zelfs een wetsvoorstel opgesteld om te komen tot een partijverbod.
We richten een uitgeverij op. We publiceren een boek met fundamentele overheidskritiek (âHet Coronabedrogâ) en winnen daarmee de NS Publieksprijs. Ze besluiten de prijs niet uit te reiken en veranderen de procedure zodat buitenstaanders vanaf het jaar daarna nooit meer kans maken om te winnen.
We richten een omroep op. Met leden. En zendtijd. Maar de licentie trekken ze in op onzinnige gronden.
We richten een school op. Ze zijn diep verontwaardigd en onderzoeken mogelijkheden om âm te sluiten of om de wet aan te passen om hierna in elk geval nóóit meer nĂłg zoân school te laten ontstaan.
Wat zijn de begrippen democratie, rechtsstaat, tolerantie en de open samenleving nog waard?
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En France, on a inventé le Concorde.
En 1969, il décollait et atteignait Mach 2 symbole de la grandeur gaullienne, conçu pour défier les Américains.
En 1972, le TGV 001 battait le record mondial Ă turbine (318 km/h).
En 1981, le TGV électrique reliait Paris à Lyon à 260 km/h. En 2007, il pulvérisait encore le record mondial sur rail : 574,8 km/h.
Dans les annĂ©es 70, le plan Messmer lançait le plus grand programme nuclĂ©aire civil de lâHistoire : 58 rĂ©acteurs, jusquâĂ 70-80 % de notre Ă©lectricitĂ©, une indĂ©pendance Ă©nergĂ©tique que le monde entier nous enviait.
Dassault, Sud-Aviation, EDF, Framatome, la SNCF : nos ingĂ©nieurs Ă©taient les meilleurs. On avait dix Ă vingt ans dâavance sur presque tout le monde.
Puis 1981, Mitterrand. Nationalisations massives (banques, acier, chimie, électronique, aéronautique). Semaine de 39 heures. Lois Auroux. Charges sociales qui explosent. Syndicats tout-puissants. Fiscalité punitive. Droit du travail rigidifié.
En moins de cinquante ans, le socialisme a transformĂ© un pays dâingĂ©nieurs conquĂ©rants en un pays de grĂšves, de dĂ©localisations et de stagnation relative.
Lâindustrie est passĂ©e dâenviron 28 % du PIB Ă 11 %.
Le Concorde a été abandonné. Notre nucléaire a été presque démantelé pendant des décennies faute de choix politique mortifÚre.
Ce nâest pas le destin, câest le prix dâune idĂ©ologie qui a prĂ©fĂ©rĂ© redistribuer et rĂ©glementer plutĂŽt que construire et innover.
A bon entendeur.
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Happy Mondays Hallelujah the club mix that blew the doors off Factory and dragged indie straight onto the dancefloor.
Andrew Weatherall and Paul Oakenfold at the controls, twisting the Mondays into a fullâblown acidâhouse riot.
Pure Madchester energy.
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Just thinking back to the days of buying NME and Melody Maker every week and how exciting that connection to new music was. Inky fingers. Cutting out photos for the bedroom wall. Writers who were the word of god. Proper connection. Nice era to grow up in.
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I think Socrates was right.
How many of his symptoms of a declining society so you recognise ?
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Seeking the truth is not natural for humans.
For most of history, and all of prehistory, agreeing with your group mattered far more for survival than being right. So it went into our nature.
That is the comfort in illusions: the comfort of holding the same beliefs as everyone around you. It means you wonât be stoned or burned.
Only the weird ones went looking for the truth â and they often paid dearly for it. In many societies they were weeded out of the gene pool. The safe conformists stayed.
That is what makes the West so rare. It is the civilization that learned to protect its weird ones: free speech, the scientific method, the market â institutions that make being right pay more than being agreeable. Socrates still had to drink the hemlock. But eventually the West turned heresy into progress.
And today, for the first time, the cost of being right is falling for everyone.
The 4chan guy is back and I am literally shaking. That anon called the 2019 bottom, the 2021 top and the exact month of the halving run before any of it happened. Now there is a new post and the levels line up with every chart I have been drawing for months đ€Ż



























