https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/rip-british-army-1415-2024/
https://www.barnhardtmemes.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-5124-the-russian-steamroller
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/breaking-exposing-the-cia-so-the
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/washington-moves-on-to-plan-b/
That Don’t Give Him Anything meme was $4 TRILIION ago…
Sorry, $SIX Trillion ago…
That last one reminds me of Raadiohead’s “Fitter, Happier”.
It starts out:
Fitter happier
More productive
Comfortable
Not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
A patient, better driver
Proceeds to:
No longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
Nothing so childish
At a better pace
Slower and more calculated
No chance of escape
Now self-employed
Concerned (but powerless)
An empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)
Will not cry in public
Less chance of illness
Ends with:
Like a cat
Tied to a stick
That’s driven into
Frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
Calm
Fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics