Technology is dysgenic.
A fundamental truth that many question.
Palladium Mag just published a fantastic article about the coming collapse of our complex systems. It is worth your time. Some talking heads are convinced that the ‘woke is about to be put away’. Those same talking heads would do well to remember the Seneca Effect: complex systems collapse far quicker than they are built.
At the root of our collapse is not the trans agenda being shoved in your face by beer companies. That’s the tail end of it. The commentator class are by and large too obsessed with views and takes to cotton on. That’s why the Palladium magazine article is so good. You can’t just put this away and nor is technology the light switch.
Technology is dysgenic.
Perhaps the hope of the elite was that with more advanced technology it could pick up the slack of not having meritocratic systems. Boeing’s 737 Maxx saga that cost hundreds of lives should instantly put that theory to bed. More advanced technology combined with bad practices and collapsing systems still failed.
It will only get worse. Those who think we can ‘put it away’ are in danger of being surface level day dreamers. The rot is deeper. A friend who works with zoomers in blue collar work remarks repeatedly to me how stupid and ignorant his youngest employees are. They can barely use Google to solve problems.
Technology is dysgenic.
What’s the way out?
A vision of the future involving competency has to start with you, me, and us as a wider whole. Complaining online doesn’t move us forward. Starting businesses and learning skills does. Those are the foundations of the alternative economy, the folkish economy, Torba’s Christian economy.
Skills not pills.
We’ve taken all the red-pills we can but now it is time to get to the skills.
Whilst technology is dysgenic we must fight it the same way we fight the atrophy of our bodies in older age. Elderly people who continue to move and walk up stairs are in better shape than those who don’t we can fight against that dying of the light, effectively in many cases.
It starts with technology we have access to today. A more self sustaining household with a patriarch should have goals to move towards. Yes we buy lots of cheap plastic crap that breaks but the solution is right there if you care to learn. Just as an example of skills not pills.
Makerspaces have been around for a while and offer classes. 3D printers are still cheap. We all have access via the internet. There is no reason why you reading this blog could not over the course of the next year learn how to print 3d replacement parts for plastic things that break. If you need more advanced and stronger equipment services like Xometry can 3d print on demand using more advanced technologies.
Here’s another example.
We complain about the anti-white agenda of advertising but most of us still do want to watch YouTube or other services from time to time. Installing ad blockers is one route but you could get yourself a Raspberry Pi computer and set it up with your router to block all ads at the front door. Some skills and money now has you house advertisement free!
Last example of the skills we could be aiming towards. Imagine you want to have chickens - being able to just bodge together a chicken coop from scrap off craigslist is an underappreciated skill but going to the next level is perhaps using some technology that we have (maybe using AI to help you) to write a program that will open the coop door in the mornings or at night.
Enough
The more I look ahead the more risk I see on the horizon. Maybe some of us unfortunately die in the incompetency crisis that comes. Perhaps it is from forest fires, plane crashes, bridge collapses or any other plethora of brewing complexity crisis. We are still in a window though where the lights stay on for the most part. The time to pontificate is over. The time to prepare yourself and your family for the future is now and it starts with skills over pills.
Totally ideological as they know they are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs... or do they? Do they just think it will "work out" because it's always worked out? (It hasn't always worked out)