Homelessness by design

 

Elizabeth Nickson researched a book titled Eco-Fascists. Over the years of her research, she came to some conclusions that relate to the collapse of the western world.  And her findings tie in to some of this blog’s earlier postings on the government’s plans for deliberate destruction (e.g., see here, here, and here). Here’s an example from her Substack posting: 

. . . All the poverty you see around you, all the lack, the financial pain in the faces you pass, the lost businesses of the last three years, the titanic risk in the markets, the actual recession, all of it has been engineered. We all, all of us, every single one of us, should be three times as wealthy, and three times as creative.

The most visible result of their malfeasance is homelessness. Which has been engineered to shame you. Entirely. 100%. Every time you drive by some poor soul dying on the sidewalk, you are meant to feel

1. Guilt
2. Anger at the system (capitalism) and
3. An urge to vote for the compassionate left who promise to work only for the dispossessed.

It’s a psy-op. It is why the homeless population is front and center in the richest, most beautiful city in the world: San Francisco. This fact is meant to shout that no matter how much money private enterprise generates, capitalism means losers, addicts, madmen and women, because our system is brutal and must be changed.

San Francisco’s beauty and reputation mean that its homeless catastrophe is publicized all over the world.

When I was researching Eco-Fascists for Adam Bellow at Harper Collins US, I drove 20,000 miles into the American hinterlands, talking to everyone who would talk to me about why their communities were dying. There was one reason: over-regulation. . . .

Ms. Nickson's full column is here.  Not pretty.

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Dr. Thomas Sowell retires

art credit: Benjamin T Brixey

One of my favorite columnists, Dr. Thomas Sowell, is retiring. His farewell column is here. And here are a few take-aways from it:

Most people living in officially defined poverty in the 21st century have things like cable television, microwave ovens and air-conditioning. Most Americans did not have such things, as late as the 1980s. People whom the intelligentsia continue to call the “have-nots” today have things that the “haves” did not have, just a generation ago.

In some other ways, however, there have been some serious retrogressions over the years. Politics, and especially citizens’ trust in their government, has gone way downhill.

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Years of lying presidents – Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Richard Nixon, especially – destroyed not only their own credibility, but the credibility which the office itself once conferred. The loss of that credibility was a loss to the country, not just to the people holding that office in later years.

With all the advances of blacks over the years, nothing so brought home to me the social degeneration in black ghettos like a visit to a Harlem high school some years ago.

When I looked out the window at the park across the street, I mentioned that, as a child, I used to walk my dog in that park. Looks of horror came over the students’ faces, at the thought of a kid going into the hell hole that park had become in their time.

When I have mentioned sleeping out on a fire escape in Harlem during hot summer nights, before most people could afford air-conditioning, young people have looked at me like I was a man from Mars. But blacks and whites alike had been sleeping out on fire escapes in New York since the 19th century. They did not have to contend with gunshots flying around during the night.

We cannot return to the past, even if we wanted to, but let us hope that we can learn something from the past to make for a better present and future.

Dr. Sowell is also a prolific author of books; he has made esoteric or downright boring subjects (such as economics) accessible and interesting. Check out some of them here. Most will be available at your local library. But his regular columns will be much missed.

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