{"id":23564,"date":"2023-05-01T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=23564"},"modified":"2023-04-30T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T18:01:11","slug":"living-a-good-life-in-a-dystopian-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/living-a-good-life-in-a-dystopian-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Living a Good Life in a Dystopian Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/States-with-Republican-Governors-and-Legislatures-..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22456\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/States-with-Republican-Governors-and-Legislatures-..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/States-with-Republican-Governors-and-Legislatures-..jpg 801w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/States-with-Republican-Governors-and-Legislatures-.-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/States-with-Republican-Governors-and-Legislatures-.-768x477.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why did millions of immigrants come to America in its first hundred or so years as a nation?\u00a0 Opportunity.\u00a0 And that includes both economic opportunity and the opportunity to enjoy a measure of freedom that did not exist anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Now, part of that economic opportunity was predicated on the opening up of an empty continent.\u00a0 There was land being given away for a song and also the tremendous advantages that the industrial revolution was creating meant that all the potential locked up in this empty new world could be extracted at a phenomenal rate.\u00a0 The steam engine and then the internal combustion engine created the modern world and with it the enormous middle class that was the heart of America in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Now we live in the aftermath of those events.\u00a0 The continent has been tamed and to some extent filled.\u00a0 Technology has more or less leveled off.\u00a0 But as we experienced after World War II there is an enormous dynamism to the human capital that was mid-century America.<\/p>\n<p>And that dynamism was fueled by a meritocratic outlook that tried to select the best man for the job and let him earn his way from there.\u00a0 Business was a sort of Darwinian selection where everyone competed for the highest salary, the biggest office, the best benefits package and if truth be told, the prettiest secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Well, things have changed.\u00a0 In the last ten or twenty years all of the major sectors of our society have said that merit is racist, sexist, homophobic and now transphobic.\u00a0 Children will no longer be graded in school according to ability and effort and workers will no longer be hired or promoted according to ability or achievements.\u00a0 They will instead be given these academic and career rewards based on the color of their skins and their position in the sexual dysfunction hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Now this will have a devastating effect on both the people who aren\u2019t advantaged by the hierarchy (i.e., white people in general and straight white men in particular) and also the society itself.\u00a0 After all, if meritocracy was the driving force that powered the American century and its dominance of the world in almost every field, then the removal of this force will create the opposite effect.\u00a0 And we are already seeing this in multiple instances.\u00a0 Wherever \u201cequity\u201d has been introduced, mediocrity, at best, has set in.\u00a0 Anyone who has observed the American workplace from within over the last thirty years can think of several examples where a woman or minority affirmative action hire has proven so incredibly incompetent that people were hard pressed not to assume it was done as a way to punish those who worked in the same department as these disasters.<\/p>\n<p>So now that equity has been codified by the government and this race based corporate sabotage will be practiced on an industrial scale, we can expect severe economic and societal dislocations.\u00a0 Companies that employ unqualified individuals and then shield these individuals from answering for the results of their incompetence will not be able to compete with meritocratic organizations.\u00a0 They will produce inferior and over-priced products that won\u2019t be bought.\u00a0 So, this policy, if enforced, will doom American industry when competing against products and services provided by competitors who hire based on ability.<\/p>\n<p>And so, after that long and winding introduction, I reach the point of my essay.\u00a0 In the future, it will only be possible to thrive by living in a place that allows people to be rewarded for competence and hard work.\u00a0 Maybe that will be a red state.\u00a0 Maybe it will be a foreign country.\u00a0 But for the foreseeable future it won\u2019t be a Fortune 500 company operating in a blue state.\u00a0 Theoretically you can still be a small businessman living in a blue state if your skill set is in high demand.\u00a0 Tradesmen and technicians who can pick and choose their assignments may still be able to write their own tickets.\u00a0 Especially if their skills are needed for critical equipment and components.<\/p>\n<p>But even these exceptions still have to endure the other shortcomings of living in these awful places.\u00a0 Their kids will have to be taught by leftist propagandists (unless they\u2019re home-schooled).\u00a0 They will be subject to absurd administrative interference in their lives.\u00a0 They will be surrounded by brain-dead zombies.\u00a0 And they will be in proximity to dangerous urban areas from which violent mobs may erupt at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Our current leftist leaders want to turn you into a serf.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t want that to happen then you will have to do something about it.\u00a0 The best thing you can do is figure out where merit is rewarded and move there.\u00a0 I\u2019m still trying to figure out which place makes the most sense for me.\u00a0 For younger people it\u2019s easier.\u00a0 The only caveat I make for them is this.\u00a0 Make sure it\u2019s a place where you can find a wife and raise a family.\u00a0 Everything else will probably take care of itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did millions of immigrants come to America in its first hundred or so years as a nation?\u00a0 Opportunity.\u00a0 And that includes both economic 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