I remember joking with people about how this would be how the collapse would happen. The media would present it as something positive, even fun. Although we always imagined they'd be more sophisticated about it. https://t.co/lPe7fGupRb

— scientism (@mr_scientism) November 13, 2021

I did not imagine they’d be more sophisticated about it; I’ve been writing for years about how the liberal side loves the idea of taking things away from people. Never mind that it’ll hurt precisely the people libs are supposed to care about: the poor and downtrodden.

If food prices go up two times or even ten times, it’s a mild inconvenience for me. For many, that just means they starve.

Liberalism must be destroyed and the ground beneath the immolated edifice salted so nothing can grow there ever again.

I know econs will cry big about this, but actual inflation on the ground as most people experience it is about 25% YoY. That’s going to also cause some enormous political changes, and bad ones, in the near future.

The Fallacy of Eating The Way Your Great-Grandmother Ate.

Been saying this for years. Pollan’s stuff is kind of like Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: it’s pseudo-intellectual crapola that makes midwits feel smart. To be fair I was taken in by some of it, but then I thought about it for 10 minutes and I was like, this is garbage advice.

Pollan is a liberal example of the 1950s-yearning conservative.