Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Why The Elites Can't Solve The Demographic Crisis" video.

  1. IQ has gone down over the last century, we aren't happier, such simplistic models have absolutely no value at all even if you can pick up some correlations if you stare hard enough for the specifics to all fudge.
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  2. That is an example of the decayed cultur cultural attitudes and social institutions, part of the overall problem.
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  3. There is always an elite caste, humans are hierarchical and stuff needs to be organised to be done, egalitarianism has been helpful to the current elite as it justified their displacement of elites based on sentiment and bonds of loyalty to people, place, God, the King and oaths. They replaced it with a meritocratic system with a more static class system than feudalism, one in which they rule by exception, "for my friends; everything, for my enemies; the law".
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  4. The 1950's were already deep into this problem, the negative associated trends largely started in the 1920's, the birthrate started to downtrend even long before that. What is lacking is strong social institutions and motivation.
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  5. They have plenty of both. It is after all a regime based in large part in hedonism, our ancestors would understand it perfectly, however rather than this long description they would adequately sum all of it up with the word 'satanic'.
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  6. Not at all, the managerial regime is highly influenced by marx and the liberal thinkers. The opposition is just traditionalist in nature, meaning it is not very democratic or secular, but then both of those things are intrinsically liberal as expressed in our civilisation. Christianity and ethnic loyalties tend to be the most associated with the rejection of the current ruling system.
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  7. How?
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  8. They have an overly corporate business sector, but rents, living costs and the availability of work are actually much better than in the west. The main thing eating them away is despondency (most expected a corporate job and a standard of living they will never get) and the insistence that work hours equate to productivity. However in most regards they are in a much better situation, notably their elite culture is much better (for Japan, South Korea makes eastern Europe look above board) and most of the problems are caused by them importing western fashions in the same way as they used to Chinese ones without really understanding the underlying logic or motivations.
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  9. J. D. Vance is intellectually influenced by many of the thinkers talking about these problems. That is why those on the intellectual right were pleasantly surprised by his pick, he wasn't a neo-con so the future of the American right might well be something that actually wants to do stuff for the country and not just lower taxes and bomb strangers.
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  10. Who said any of us were democrats or cared about democracy. In talking about these issues their are higher loyalties involved, those to family, ethnos and God. What is happening is not a refinement of liberalism but a rejection of it.
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  11. Socialism argues actively for much of what has been built, it is materialistic and morally deranged (with it's ideals taken whole cloth from Rousseau, who believed that humans were innately good creatures corrupted by the existence of society, the ideal of communism is Rousseau's ideal on man free from all bonds, if you have even a basic understanding of human nature and history you will no this is insane, man was never pre-social and making him so is a form of torture, no wonder the social reforms towards this aim have lead to an immense mental crisis in the populations on which it is inflicted). Capitalism as an ideology has little to recommend it, but it is not like socialism is in any sense an answer, indeed they are as bad if not worse.
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  12. They don't have kids and many of them express beliefs very similar to older doomsday cults. Increasingly said elite also is very ethnically and culturally distinct from the population, there is little chance of them having a road to Damascus moment, and even if they did it would probably not be in a stable way just like their current policies.
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