THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND WESTERN EDUCATION, by Gaius Baltar
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Sunday, August 6, 2023 02:28
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It's rare that I get a chance to read and ponder on someone musing in a general way on our human social condition. I agree with some points, disagree with others, and need to think about some. But if you want an interesting read, here it is:
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Authored by Gaius Baltar ( http://gaiusbaltar.substack.com)
It is becoming increasingly clear to more and more people in the West that something has gone terribly wrong with the Ukraine project. Predictions and projections didn’t pan out and the West doesn’t seem to know what to do. The Russian economy wasn’t a house of cards as predicted, Russian weapons weren’t inferior as predicted, Russian soldiers and commanders weren’t incompetent as predicted, and Russian technology wasn‘t inferior as predicted.
In some respects the Russians even seem to be superior to the West. Their weapons are effective and in many cases outright technologically superior, as clearly demonstrated by their hypersonic missiles, SAM systems and electronic warfare systems. Their economy appears to be surprisingly advanced and diversified and based on real wealth creation rather than financialization and debt like the West’s. Their strategic and tactical thinking also seems to work, while the West‘s clearly doesn‘t.
The whole mess is often explained as a result of a miscalculation by the western elites – they underestimated Russia and overestimated the West. The situation, however, is far worse than that. Every day that passes reveals the impotence of the West more and more and the situation is becoming outright humiliating. At this point the rest of the world either shakes their heads or simply laughs at the West and its politicians and diplomats – not to mention its crazed populations.
[But] The dysfunction of the West is far deeper than just the situation around the Ukraine project. It’s absolutely everywhere. The West can’t do diplomacy in general, it can’t run its cities or countries except into the ground, its high-tech projects fail almost as a rule, its infrastructure is crumbling, its economies are crumbling, and all public policies seem to have a civilizational suicide as a final goal. The West’s control mechanisms over the rest of the world are also crumbling, including the dollar, sanctions, color revolutions, military interventions and threats. Nothing seems to work and everything the West does seems to make things worse.
Any rational person upon hearing a western leader, diplomat or “expert” speak, asks himself this question: “Are they just lying or are they really this incompetent and delusional?” The answer is “both” but the incompetence factor is far greater than most people can imagine.
Why has this happened? It’s clear that the cause is far deeper than the deindustrialization of the West or economic problems in general. The economy doesn’t explain the incredible incompetence shown by the West before and during the war in Ukraine.
I suggest that the cause of this unfolding disaster is a serious structural problem in the West – which Russia seems to have largely avoided. This structural problem is a necessary condition for the current western system and has been purposely created to bring it about and maintain it. This problem is the subject of this article – as well as the “mechanism” behind it. This is unfortunately a long article, but the subject matter demands it.
Human capital and its properties
The current ideologically-based power structure of the West outright requires that certain types of people be in positions of influence and certain types of people be sidelined. This applies to all steps of the social ladder; from kindergarten teachers to university teachers and corporate executives, and all the way up to the leaders of society itself. This has been progressing steadily for the last five decades or so, and has resulted in a major structural problem for the West. That problem is the obvious and massive degradatNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Can you imagine that you name your writing blog newsletter platform after
'Darth Vader' or 'Hannibal Lecter'
and what does the article truly mean
His name the Judas Traitor to Humanity from Battlestar Galactica who joined the Robot/Lizard people a character played by John Colicos and later James Callis in the remake, originally putting Mormon theology into the show
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Yes, that is a STRANGE nom de plume!
Do you have any comments on the article itself?
Oh BTW, I liked Battlestar Galactica but I found the Gaius character very frustrating. A smart man who used all of his smarts to justify his irrational desires. I think in the end he straightened himself out, but not before causing a lot of damage to what remained of humanity.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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These are headlines just from today
Hollywood Starlets Face Extinction As Sexy AI-Influencers Invade Social Media
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/sexy-ai-influencers-invade-social
-media
Australian Intelligence Agency Funding Research To Merge Human Brain Cells With AI
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/australian-intelligence-agency-fu
nding-research-merge-human-brain-cells-ai
The Next Generation Is Being Groomed For Destruction – Here's Why They Are Vulnerable
https://alt-market.us/the-next-generation-is-being-groomed-for-destruc
tion-heres-why-they-are-vulnerable/
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Quote:As of June 2023, the 737 MAX has 4,359 unfilled orders and 1,244 deliveries, meaning you are full of bullshit, Signym. If you knew what you are pontificating on, Boeing would have zero orders to fill.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
This is exactly the situation in the western economies now. Monopoly and oligopoly is the rule and the main objective of most large western companies is to prevent anyone from infiltrating their sector – usually by bribing regulators or by buying the competition. This is a necessity because a huge number of western companies are now run by incompetent management and staffed by incompetent people, particularly in support and management functions. The immortal words of the nameless Boeing employee about the 737 MAX apply to most large western companies; “this airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.” Western companies are no longer competitive. They cannot compete with Chinese companies now and soon they won’t be able to compete with companies in general outside the West. They simply can’t function except inside an economic safe-space. In fact, the situation is such that the Chinese already do the real work for many of them and reshoring the work is problematic because of (surprise!) the human capital degradation in the West caused by the repurposing of its education system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_and_delive
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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Quote:Your "expert" on education is Jake Tran who also made videos:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
BlackRock: The Company that Owns the World
Recycling is literally a scam
Nestle: The Most Evil Business in the World
Goldman Sachs: The Most Evil Bankers in the World
Apple: The Most Evil Business in the World
https://www.youtube.com/@jaketran/videos
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Your point?
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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Quote:You don't know who Jake Tran is? He caters to major league cranks such as you by producing numerous videos each month in order to attract advertising revenue for himself. He will say anything, do anything, to attract the attention of kooks and nutjobs like you, 6ix, for the money. Signym quotes from "Gaius Baltar" (fake name) another person catering to major league cranks like 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your point?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You don't know who Jake Tran is? He caters to major league cranks such as you by producing numerous videos each month in order to attract advertising revenue for himself. He will say anything, do anything, to attract the attention of kooks and nutjobs like you, 6ix, for the money. Signym quotes from "Gaius Baltar" (fake name) another person catering to major league cranks like 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your point?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
So are there any specific points in the video that you argue with, or you just hate Asian people then?
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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