Guest Post by The Zman
People who work with large complex systems understand that you don’t always know what will result from even the smallest change in the system. Usually this lesson is learned the hard way, by making some small change that seems simple, only to find out it caused serious downstream problems. Large complex systems are often highly dependent on initial conditions. Those small changes to the initial state, after they branch through the system, can have a huge impact.
This was a point wiser heads made about the Covid panic. The American economy is a wildly complex nonlinear system. The people in charge of it, the Federal Reserve, have mastered just one small set of inputs. This is why they are so cautious about tinkering with the money supply. They understand that beyond small changes in interest rates, they really don’t know what will happen. Through necessity they have figured out how to buy up distressed assets to keep the asset bubble inflated.
Otherwise, no one understands what is happening in the American economy, outside of their very narrow focus. It’s why the lock downs were an insane idea. What local governments have done is not dissimilar to what the Bolsheviks did to the Russian economy after they gained power. This massive reorganization will not fully play-out for years, maybe decades. Even at this point, no one seems to know how many people are out of work or how many businesses survived.
Something similar may be happening with the culture. Up until this year, the sports entertainment complex was the great distraction. Every type of sporting event enjoyed wide following on television and on-line. It’s always hard to know, given how our ruling class lies about everything, but television ratings for the professional sports leagues were strong enough to keep raising ad rates. The revenues of the sports leagues kept growing, despite decades of growth.
That brings us to now, when the ratings for sports entertainment have suddenly collapsed, even for the marquee events. The NBA, which is the blackest of black sports, cannot draw flies. Keep in mind that the television industry routinely inflates their ratings in their press releases used by the media. The endless celebration of all things black for the last five months seems to not have had the effect they expected. All of the other sports have also seen their ratings collapse.
It is tempting to blame this on the anti-white pogrom that has been foolishly embraced by all the sports leagues. There is certainly part of it. That said, the NFL has tried very hard to minimize this in their presentation. Even the players have realized that it is bad for business. The NHL made the required gestures, but otherwise just operated their business as usual and their ratings were immeasurably small. In other words, it’s not just the anti-white pogrom killing the circus.
The problems facing sports entertainment all of a sudden are an example of the large complex system problem. It turns out that the audience for sport is not just about interest in the product and the quality of the performance. Sports operates within the larger culture, which is a highly complex system. There are rhythms to the culture, which carry things like entertainment through the culture. The lock downs and resulting insanity have broken those rhythms.
It is not just sports entertainment that have seen their model upended by the sudden change in the social rhythms. The first debate show also saw a ratings dip. It was not as big as with sports, but given the amount of pre-game hype, the gap between reality and expectations is every bit as large. For six months the people in charge have been blasting us with anti-Trump agit-prop. Of course, everyone knows Biden is suffering from the early stages of dementia. Yet, not a lot of interest.
The American culture had evolved since the Cold War ended to provide the public with lots of things to keep them busy. For example, the entertainment rackets grew like a weed starting in the 1990’s. People forget that sellouts for sporting events were rare into the 1980’s, then all of a sudden, they were common. There was a time, within living memory, when people had three television channels. Of course, the internet of mass entertainment evolved in this time.
Easily forgotten is that politics as entertainment also grew in this period. In the 1980’s, for example, political junkies had to get by with magazines, the opinion section of the newspaper and the Sunday talk shows. People struggled with the idea of an actor running for political office. Imagine that. The political entertainment complex that evolved since the Cold War has probably been a bigger distraction for the American public than sports or Hollywood.
What seems to have happened is the Covid panic and now the color revolution has broken that system. People are not paying as much attention to these things as they did just a year ago. That means they are not being pulled along by the rhythms of that old system. Think about how many apolitical people that have suddenly been made aware of the reality of race and ethnicity. Put another way, the revolution of 2020 has changed the initial state of the American system.
How this ripples through the system is unknown. The current chaos may not be random at all, but determined by the evolving initial state of white America. In other words, this pogrom we are experiencing may, in fact, be a reaction to the changing attitudes sensed by the ruling class. The woke revolution is about restoring the old initial state, but has instead accelerated the evolution of it. The lock downs provided a better medium in which this evolution can occur.
At this point, the one safe conclusion we can draw is we have passed through a strange chaotic barrier on our way to a new normal. The old order, those old rhythms, are gone for good. That means the social controls that nudged people along toward the results desired by the ruling class are no longer working. All the make-believe excitement the media can generate is not getting people to watch the NBA finals, because it was never about the hype. It was the social structures, those rhythms.
In a complex system like a large human society, when the initial conditions change sufficiently, a new dynamic ensues. The unexpected downstream effects loop back and inform the evolution of those initial conditions. The feedback loop between downstream effects and those evolving initial conditions becomes fuel for the changing state of those initial conditions. This is the revolutionary dynamic. Change fuels more change, until the system collapses in on itself.
When the rulers broke the old rhythms with their lock downs, they started a revolution in the minds of the people over whom they rule. As those minds now evolve, seeing the reality of the world created by their betters, the ruling class is desperately trying to contain the process. Like all radicals, they remain supremely confident they will be the vanguard of this revolution. Like all revolutionaries, they will end up swinging from trees as that is the rhythm of every revolution.
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I would prefer, my betters as you put it, be put on old rust buckets without a motive means and towed out to sea about 5oo miles. Let them wrap their heads around the survival of that situation. They have screwed with our freedom of choice, jobs, health care, savings, retirement and property ownership to the point this might be to good for them.
Great idea — they’re so worried about global warming, let the globe run warm with their blood.
But I’m not sure I want them contaminating the seas, that’s unfair to marine life.
Poetic justice. Bottom feeders as feed for bottom feeders.
The fish have to eat too.
by Henry Makow Ph.D
The Doctrine of “Creative Destruction” provides a key to understanding the gratuitous destruction wreaked by lockdowns, mask orders, etc.
According to the Kabbalah, which is the defining doctrine of Judaism and Freemasonry, “Evil and catastrophe [are] endemic factors in the process of creation. Without evil there could be no good, without destruction, creation could not take place.” (Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism, by Byron L. Sherwin, p. 72.)
maurice-samuels-you-gentiles-we-destroyers.jpgCabalists believe the Old (Christian) Order must be ruthlessly destroyed before the New (Satanic) World Order, based on the Kabbalah, can be built.
Hence, the Illuminati motto: “Order Out of Chaos.” Hence, the Communist Manifesto advocates the destruction of nation, religion, and family and the transfer of all private wealth to the Illuminati bankers, in the guise of the state
The Oligarchs are only half way through the destruction of the Economy part of The Plan; the destruction of the US dollar and Stock Market are next on their chopping block; that will bring in the Chaos. As for Sports, some Blacks want “Equality” by destroying White culture (historic statues, school & street names etc); they salute the Black Liberation Movement (BLM) Revolution so maybe we take it to Battlefields and settle this BLM vs Whites issue once and for all.
The people “woke” and discovered, not only did our “ruling class” have no clothes, but they stink as well. As our predecessors used to say ‘the bloom is off the rose.’ Another scenario could be that the ruling class is losing their ability to “rule” over the masses, leading to their purposeful destruction of our lives as punishment.
talking about sports, I no longer watch at all, I’ll be damn if I’m going to watch black men make millions of dollars then tell me I’m to blame, so if I’m white guess what you lost me and my little dollar, you nasty cry baby. to slap the hand that helps you shame on you. And on BLM you ppl have just set race relations back 40 years.
There really never was “race relations” anyway. For over 50 years it’s been about transferring wealth/power/advantage from Whites to blacks so guilty Whites can feel good about themselves and so the groids won’t riot.
That, and all your other posts, reads like Jonathan Haidt.
Your analysis of the psychological/sociological components of this puzzle we call life are a refreshing view we don’t always ponder.
View from thirty thousand feet.
So, basically, TPTB pulled the pin on the grenade that is (was) our highly structured society, and now haven’t a clue when it’s going to blow.
Hhhmmmm,wonder what would happen to the Republic if we allowed women to vote?????
Worked with a few liberals years ago. They can never, never, ever, ever comprehend the reality that a small change in a complex system can be catastrophic. No ability to grasp the concept whatsoever. I learned to be so competent that my supervisors would insulate me from their intrusions and/or so physically intimidating they would steer clear of me and eff with someone else. Wasn’t real popular, except with the bosses and those who understood a P&L. Far and away the most consistently delusional and ignorant group of people I’ve ever worked around.
Ha!
We were corporate kindred spirits!
I learned to twist and squeeze the line items of the P&L until the net profit droplets became a wide and deep pool of black ink, then took over responsibility/power when the RESULTS were obvious. That was always my specialty, and then after I had enough of the corporate bullshit I built a consulting business on it.
It wasn’t so much the Liberals with me (all though I dealt with many, especially in HR earning the nickname Mark the Shark…once told to me by a drunken HR Manager) as much as it was the change blockers, the coasters, the lazy/slug members of the good ole boy network, politicians, and especially the ass kissers…all who often hated me for success. I was promoted 10 times in 14 years with three companies before I became a Paladin, and my enemy list was prodigious in all three. I was as much proud of who hated me as I was the promotions.
I found in Corporate America the cream and the scum both rise to the top.
I always reported up the financial food chain (with a dotted line to OPS, and eventually directly to CFO’s) and the bottom line was and always will be the Bean Counter’s bottom line, so like you I was protected during many corporate guerilla brawls when the CFO whispered in the CEO’s ear. It may be good to be the King, but it doesn’t hurt to be the Bean Counter’s Prince.
But I loved being a Paladin and reporting directly to owners, especially when they were bleeding and they brought me in to get RESULTS ASAP…you could hit the ground swinging bare knuckles and deal with change blockers, the coasters, the lazy/slug members of the good ole boy network, politicians, and especially the ass kissers with extreme prejudice…and ignore Libtard HR.