March 4, 2002
I can recall very clearly one morning many years ago while commuting to work in the North suburbs of Chicago hearing the announcement that the government was removing home prices from the CPI. That was 1981, if I am not mistaken. At that time, the CPI was running at about an 8% annual rate of increase, largely because of soaring home prices.
The rise in home prices created a new trend. After 14 years of stagnating stock prices some homeowners would keep their old homes when they moved and rent them in the expectation that the price of the home would keep rising. Thus, the rents were typically set at the homeowners old mortgage rate plus the real estate taxes. I was renting just such a home at the time, and the rent was a mere 3% of the market value of the house. The cash outlay, even net of taxes, was far less than a mortgage on the full market value of the home.
In the place of housing prices the government substituted precisely this type of rent, available on a mere 2% of the total housing stock, and called it "imputed rent." Thus, it was the rental rate charged by the 2% of homeowners who were the most optimistic about price appreciation, so that they could hold on to their first homes and sell them later. All they needed to cover was their cash outlay for mortgage and taxes, and they had to offer a rental bargain to lure away tenants from the siren song of appreciation and tax deductions that they might otherwise have if they purchased a house instead of renting a house.
Of course this imputed rental vastly understated the actual cash outlay for housing by about 55% of the American public which owned homes, but that was precisely the point. In response to the inflation of the 1970's Congress indexed both Social Security had Federal income tax marginal rates to the CPI, which was then based upon a fixed basket of goods. Thus, inflation hurt our imperial government by raising its costs (Social Security) and lowering its revenues (indexed marginal tax rates). This CPI adjustment had the effect of repealing the politically popular protections enacted by Congress to shield the public from the effects of inflation (raising their taxes and lowering their retirement incomes).
And since shelter costs represented 40% of the CPI, I knew that the CPI would chronically understate inflation from that point onward. Instead of a fixed basket of goods, it had become a political fiction, created by un-elected inner-party bureaucrats to preserve the power of the imperial government they so thoroughly idolized.
Some twenty years later I read a news article which states that the average Social Security Benefit has just been increased to reflect this year's CPI and is now $872 per month.
Tilt!!!
An efficiency apartment in what our imperial elites effectionately refer to as the "fly-over" areas of the country costs $550 per month.
So how on earth can anybody actually live on Social Security?
Folks, social security has already been repealed.
Game over!!!
Twenty years of inner party monkeying with the CPI has produced a pot of water with a gradually rising temperature which has finally cooked the frog.
As the infirmities of old age set in, most of the elderly end up in retirement homes.
A decent retirement home costs about $20,000 per year. What kind of care can a Social Security recipient expect in exchange for his monthly check of $872?
The answer - mean, nasty, brutish and short!
The inner party has crafted an old age program that more closely resembles Logan's Run (a sci-fi movie you all should see) than old age support. And this specially engineered Logan's Run will have a differential impact - hitting the hardest those population groups that are the least cohesive, the least tribal and the most infected by the culture of extreme individualism. Fifty percent of the Euro-American elderly face a very bleak future indeed.
The brutality and euthanasia carried out randomly against the Euro-Amercian elderly by nursing home staffs drawn from population groups trained to view us as oppressors, haters, and the racial enemy, will in practical effect serve the imperial government's interests by reducing its costs. Managements of these facilities will have a massive interest in hushing it up and spinning it out of existence, and while the rare instances of public exposure will call forth public investigations and promises of reform, nothing much will come of it because the inner party will not benefit.
Some of the more obvious fraud in the CPI has become public. For example, while less than 50% of the public has personal or home computers, personal computers are in the index because their prices are falling. Meanwhile, college tuition, which 60% of the public must pay, is not in the CPI because it has been rising very rapidly.
Jimmy Rogers, a long time critic of the CPI cites the famous example of the Chevy Camaro which may cost $22,000 on the dealer's lot, but which is carried on the books of the CPI at $7,600. The imperial government considers airbags, catalytic converters, fuel injection systems and anti-lock brakes "quality improvements" and has reduced the price of cars in the CPI to reflect these "improvements". When they first started this process, the adjustments were small, but now they have become so large as to be an obvious embarrassment.
Much less well understood are the effects of chain weighting.
Like most of the outer party, I never ventured into a grocery store during my working career. Similarly, I had never ventured inside a Wall Mart.
I used to mention that inflation was falling to my wife, and she would uniformly insist that the news reports were bull.
Indeed, early retirement has opened up whole new vistas on the problem of government lies (which have become one and the same with inner party lies) and their relation to our collective fate.
I actually went into a grocery store and did some shopping.
After 20 years of absence, it was a cultural shock. Suddenly, I had graphic images to associate with the manipulative techniques of "chain weighting," substitution effects and "quality improvements".
The first thing I noticed is that there are two entirely separate freezer sections for cold cuts, hot dogs and sausage at opposite ends of the store. In one section, the cold cuts that I was familiar with 20 years ago cost about $7 per pound. I was shocked at how expensive the sliced roast beef, cheddar, Swiss cheese and summer sausage had become.
These expensive cold cuts were near the entrance to the store on the way to the section where busy yuppies can pick up their chicken dinners.
Back in the rear of the store next to the dairy section was a much larger selection of cold cuts and hot dogs that generally cost about $3 per pound. And I was fascinated to learn what this stuff was made of.
As it turns out, most of the hot dogs and bologna are chicken or turkey - something which they were never made from when I was growing up and which I had never been aware of before - apparently made up of 50 percent soy bean meal and 50 percent chicken or turkey parts. The few hot dogs and bologna selections labeled "beef" consisted of hearts, kidneys, and other parts that are hard on the digestive system, along with the usual helping of soy bean meal.
Suddenly it all became clear.
We now have our very own version of Soylent Green (another sci-fi movie you should see), as these new meat flavored and textured soybean concoctions have become a mainstay of most of our people's diets. Of course, it is dressed up to look like the foods we had 30 years ago.
In truth, it is one step above the fare offered for sale in the pet food isle, that costs about fifty cents a pound.
The imperial government has promulgated regulations allowing the food industry to deceive us by labeling as chicken or beef, that which is fractionally chicken or beef, while the statisticians have lowered CPI by taking advantage of the "substitution effects" of increasing consumption of the soy bean byproducts blended in with the chicken and beef.
Chain weighting means that as people respond to the inflation of beef prices and consume less, the government decreases the weight or percentage for beef in the CPI basket of goods. Thus, the only way you can have inflation with chain weighting is if wages are rising fast enough that people can afford to keep buying the same stuff.
Put another way, all you have to do to eliminate inflation in a chain weighted CPI is keep wage rates from rising. Then, people are forced to substitute cheaper goods, and the more expensive ones gradually disappear from the index.
My trips to the grocery store in retirement have taken on a special meaning. I now watch and wonder at my fellow Euro-Americans strolling contentedly in the isles. They remind me of a huge herd of docile cattle quite content to chew their cuds and hope that their imperial masters slaughter them slowly and painlessly.
The critcial point is that this herd is fully capable of a thunderous and wildly destructive stampede if aroused - but otherwise they are utterly incapable of organizing and doing the relatively easy and non-destructive things that would force their imperial masters to represent their interests. After all, the numbers are still on their side.
Every time I go to the grocery store I carefully observe my fellow Euro-Americans and ponder this central question. What exactly do we carry in our own evolutionary psychology that makes us so uniquely vulnerable among humankind?
What is it that makes our people unwilling to confront what they plainly see right in front of their noses?
Professor Kevin MacDonald has plumbed the depths of the evolutionary psychology of the inner party - a psychology that explains their total dominance of our society and culture. His discussions of the psychoanalytic movement, the Frankfurt School and the criticism of gentile culture in "The Culture of Critique" are so brilliant and important that I have assigned that book the status of one of the seven pillars of WN.
However, the inner party's strength does not explain our weakness and passivity - our total unfitness for survival in a multicultural society.
In fact, there is virtually nothing written about our own evolutionary psychology with one possible exception.
Back in 1978 John Murray Cuddihy wrote "No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste" a brilliant piece (the title of which was suggested by Jeffery Hart and Joe Sobran back in better days!) which suggests what is lodged so deeply in the Euro-American evolutionary psychology.
As Andrew M. Greeley states on the dust jacket:
"Bourgeois Civility ... is clearly one of the most important "compromises" by which we hold our multiethnic, pluralistic society together. Cuddihy is the first American sociologist to dig deeply into the greatest mystery of all about American pluralism: How does the nation survive? The book is critically important for anyone who finds it astonishing that a country as large, as diversified, as quickly put together as the United States has managed to endure with only one Civil War and with a bare minimum of violence compared to the other great continental pluralisms of the World."
In Cuddihy's own words:
"I argue in this book that we will never know what "civil religion" is until we stand it on its head, inverting civil religion into the religion of civility." ... under the cover of its prim title, [the religion of civility] in its rites and practices, is activist, aggrandizing, subversive, intrusive, incivil. This complex code of rites instructs us in the ways of being religiously inoffensive, of giving "no offense," of being religiously sensitive to religious differences. Being complexly aware of our religious appearances to others is to practice the religion of civility. Thus, [the religion of civility] is the social coreography of tolerance. It dances out an attitude."
Cuddihy has hit upon something profound. While the rules and dogmas of this religion of civility are nowhere set forth on paper, they are universally followed and vigorously enforced in our everyday lives. Being thus unexpressed but uniformly understood and enforced, this "religion of civility" is quintessentially a racial phenomenon. For better or for worse, it is our very own racial phenomenon. It can only exist as a result of our evolutionary psychology.
What Cuddihy fails to note is that this religion of civility has no hold whatsoever on the inner party which routinely sponsors artists and art exhibitions with display "piss Christ" and other offensive works. The unending inner party efforts to drive even neutered and watered down religious themes from public Christmas celebrations is also offensive, as are their unending demands that various parts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John be ignored by Christian denominations (these demands are set forth in "Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism", a research project and book sponsored by the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (1966) and the acquiescence of organized Christendom to all those demands is recounted triumphantly by Elliott Abrams in his 1997 book "Faith or Fear.")
The religion of civility is confined to the European Descendants of Christendom.
Cuddihy argues that in response to the bloody religious wars from 1500 - 1700 in Europe, a reaction set in during the Enlightenment (1700 - 1800) which gradually stripped religions of their intense beliefs, rendering them mere denominations capable of coexisting in a civil society.
Sir Arthur Keith would argue that the development of Cuddihy's religion of civility was a by-product of a 1000 year process of tribal amalgamation of Europe, during which kings conquered neighboring tribes and fused their loyalties into those of broader multi-ethnic nationalisms. During this 1000 year process, tribal loyalties were repressed by force, and tolerance drummed into the heads of our European populations by the sticks and carrots of force and patronage.
The Ole Ygg would argue that the process of tribal amalgamation was only possible in Europe because of a 5000 year old evolutionary psychology forged by the certainty of starvation in northern winters for those who carelessly offended neighboring villagers upon whom they might have to depend for survival if crops failed or fish migrated from habitual fishing banks.
In such a harsh environment, habits of civility would confer an enormous survival advantage. Indeed an invader could find lots of uninhabited spaces to settle in the northern wastes, but unless that invader was already familiar with the local fishing and farming techniques, it would perish by spring. Suspicion and hostility toward strangers were not necessary to secure genetic separation nor safety from invasion from afar.
Sadly, we were all illiterate 2000 years ago and have no records of this.
The only tantalizing scrap I have been able to find is Wayne Johnston's marvelous description of the Southern Coast of Newfoundland in pages 344 through 355 of his historical novel "Colony of Unrequited Dreams." He notes the generosity and complete lack of suspicion toward strangers exhibited by desperately poor and isolated subsistence fishermen 75 years ago. These people were so completely isolated from contact with the outside world and with the neighboring villages that each developed its own dialect of English that was very difficult for anyone outside the village to understand.
"What I had not realized was how cut off from the world in both space and time these people were. Most of them did not understand or even have a word for the concept of government . [They] had only a rudimentary understanding of what a country was. And at the same time were destitute beyond anything I imagined when I first set out. And these were the people I thought to unionize, organize? I was able to get across only the notion that I had come to try to help them. But as I had with me none of the forms of help they were familiar with - no supply boat, no medicine, no clerical collar - they regarded me as something of a crackpot, showing up from out of nowhere empty-handed but apparently convinced that my mere presence among them would somehow improve their lot. Yet if I had told the head of any household that from now on I would live with him, he would have assured me that I was welcome.
"At the sight of an unfamiliar person in their harbor, people came running from their houses. They ran, it turned out, because to the first person to shake my hand would go the privilege of serving us a cup of tea or putting us up for the night. I was greeted with open hearted bemusement, welcomed into a home where my insistence on talking unions and politics was viewed as a forgivable, but not to be encouraged shortcoming. Of course they would join my union, they said, seeming embarrassed as if it impugned their hospitality for me to have to ask for anything. But it turned out they had no money for union dues nor for anything else."
Where could such natural and unschooled civil behavior toward strangers come from?
Apparently the ancestors of these people were English farmers transported to Newfoundland 200 years earlier, who had to be teach themselves how to fish in order to survive.
And isn't this exactly the kind of behavior you would expect if you were transported back in time 6000 years to the stone houses pictured in National Geographic in the Orkney Islands north of Scotland when they were first built?
This is what I ponder while roaming the isles of the grocery store and surveying the great herds of docile Euro-Americans.
They seem incapable of recognizing obvious facts that might offend other groups in our multi- cultural experiment just as the primitive Newfoundlanders of 75 years ago were incapable of considering the option of expelling Joe Smallwood (protagonist of this historical novel and first provincial premier of Newfoundland following Union with Canada in 1949) back onto the ice floes from which he came.
Sadly, we can no longer go to Newfoundland and study these people, because Joe Smallwood removed them from their remote island villages and sent them to government sponsored "employment centers" on the main island, where they have been deluged with televised images from Hollywood.
So one is left to ponder just how deeply rooted this instinctive lack of suspicion might be, and at what point empathy for the individual casualties of this multicultural experiment might galvanize us to collective defensive action?
It seems readily apparent that a certain focused rudeness is essential for survival in a multicultural society. Can our people figure out appropriate non-violent behaviors on their own and implement them as individuals? Or are they completely dependent on charismatic leaders to stir them up against an ememy and its agenda?
Only time will tell.
In the meantime the domestic end-game of our imperial government is quite clear.
The fundamental falsehood of the CPI has produced a perpetual and enormous tax increase aimed largely at the middle class - a tax increase that has allowed the imperial government to dramatically reduce its outstanding debt. This huge tax increase has created a vast and permanent fiscal drag on the economy which our imperial government has managed to counteract by convincing the consumer to do the opposite of what the government is doing, namely, to pile into debt, thereby vastly increasing his risk profile.
To facilitate increasing consumer indebtedness, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have financed a spectacular boom in housing prices (all comfortably outside of the CPI) that has allowed consumers to pull cash out of their homes by periodically refinancing their mortgages and increasing their debt.
At the same time, Trotskyite inner party vanguardists like Alan Greenspan have infiltrated the Republican party and actively encourage the more extreme ideologies of atomized individualism, one of which is a seething contempt for Social Security which they have successfully implanted among outer party baby boomers (ensuring that they will not come to the defense of their lesser brethren dependent upon it). The vanguard has convinced them that they can do better for themselves by investing in the stock market and in MacMansions.
It is an obviously absurd strategy, as the very same ugly demographics which inform the conservative's contempt for Social Security - and which have induced our imperial government to lie its way out of Social Security - will be absolutely lethal for housing and stock prices just as soon as baby boomers begin to retire in significant numbers.
Nevertheless, our upper middle class baby boomers want to believe that they can escape without resort to rudeness.
The central characteristic of all multicultural societies is that groups use the central government to compete for resources. Groups compete even as individual members of those groups smile in the faces of members of other groups with whom they interact from day to day. Groups which master this essentially duality of existence do very well in multicultural societies.
Members of groups which refuse to compete experience significant adverse headwinds, the effects of which are, from a statistical perspective, incredibly difficult for an individual to escape.
As I wander through the isles of the local grocery store I watch and wonder. It occurs to me that the obedient herd is not really contented. They clearly cannot be happy with the $3 per pound mystery "meat" parading as hot dogs and cold cuts.
But it is a profound inhibition against rudeness and uncivil behavior that keeps the discontent in check.
Meanwhile our imperial government has created a wildly unbalanced and unstable economic structure that is certain to be the source of much serious discontent over the next 20 years.
But when you watch what the imperial government actually does, you see that it is paring back its debt and conserving its resources as if to save them to counter that discontent not with ameliorative relief efforts (which it vigorously foreswears with lies) but with force.
It is spending a significant amount of money to accustom its core Euro-American population to the sight of other Euro-Americans being randomly selected and searched in public, thereby de-sensitizing them to the very techniques that will routinely be used against them once they are provoked to resistance by the inevitable economic crises.
It is only a question of time before we are required to carry ID cards and submit to arbitrary searches just like Palestinians.
Forget about the gentle slaps on the wrist that our imperial government meted out to inner party rioters back during the civil rights, SDS and free speech riots of the 1960s. The treatment the imperial government is preparing to dish out to us is - how shall we say it - a tad more brusque!
I see an imperial government that fully expects to be able to exploit economic crises it knows are coming to speed up our destruction and displacement, and is preparing to do just that!
The collector from Northern Virginia, who I often mention, runs ad hoc focus groups in which he pokes and prods members of the outer party to articulate that which they all clearly must see and understand.
He reports that they all understand the taboos quite well, and that they all firmly resist articulating some fairly obvious truths. The source of the inhibition is unclear, particularly when it can reasonably be deduced from the questions that the questioner will not be offended by a taboo response.
The older respondents are so pleased with their stock portfolios and their home price appreciation that they feel no discontent at all. It is only the younger Euro-American males who almost uniformly express a mild if unfocused sense of dissatisfaction.
The good news is, I think we can work with that.
We know from history that Euros are not always peaceful, cooperative and trusting of strangers.
Further, in its hubris, the inner party has constructed a very complex and unstable train with lots of moving parts, and may opportunities to derail.
We have the option of sitting and waiting as passive observers for one of those accidental derailments.
But the key to our success when those happen will be a clear understanding of our own evolutionary psychology and the limits it imposes upon our ability to persuade our own people to become pushy, demanding, and rude.
To be credible, we are going to have to demonstrate a concern and caring for our own through tangible relief efforts when the economic calamities arrive.
And if collective self defense requires passionate acts and charismatic leaders, we can produce them.
But like any good infantry platoon leader, my task is to keep the young hero's head down and out of the line of fire until his organizing activities and oratory can actually produce worthwhile results.
And to that task I remain firmly committed.
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