Hey Kitsune, check out the 7th scroll photo on our uni's homepage: https://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/. The kommie/marxist nonsense is big in Hiroshima - arguably the most UN/NGO/foreign money-controlled place in Japan. Not to mention Hiroshima-native (foreign-puppet) Kishida being installed as PM following the West's take-out of Abe.
Since Abe's takedown, the gene therapy death jabs weren't the only thing that was pushed into high gear. So too, was the insanity of SDG propaganda - at least here in Hiroshima.
A few profs have put on presentations about the SDG scam and I have offered to participate as the person opposing this kommie/marxist nonsense. They always decline my suggestion.
However, despite the western-kommie push for this gross nonsense, it will never be more than superficial anywhere in any of the Asian societies. i.e. Japan has had societal roles for cross-dressing dudes a helluva lot longer than any western society.
As for the not-so 'green' energy silliness - again, never going to happen in Asia. The western leaders are blinded by their own ideological retardation.
The encouraging thing is, the creepy globalist types pushing this acronym-infused, 'death-by-ideology' cult are losing, and they know it. Hence, the panicked push for more acronym garbage. Even in the euroland heartland of kommie/marxist nonsense, they're losing - recent Dutch and Spanish elections are cases in point.
India, China and Russia (and the vast majority of the planet) are happily, sitting back and letting the insane west, dig its own grave ever-faster.
I don’t know, though I hope you are right. I have had students use, “eko ga Waruii” (It’s bad for the environment.) as their excuse to turn of the air conditioner. Japanese go to hospital by the thousands each year due to heat stress but still refuse to turn on the AC or at least use it effectively. Set at 28 at low power is not cooling anything.
When then have the QR CODE ONLY restrooms I have seen in Tokyo. More and more are taking the cashless society bait. That surprises me still. Another thing from the past that lurks in the shadows of my mind is the experience a student’s family had. Around and probably more than 10 years ago, a student’s husband had just purchased his dream camping vehicle which ran on diesel only to have diesel vehicles banned from Tokyo. None to pleased was he nor his wife. Huge financial loss.
But the biggest thing that worries me about all this is how easily they got almost the entire population to fall in line on these idiotic covid counter measures. Admittedly, I had little faith in the masses following any logical path on any issue, but what I did have has been utterly destroyed these past three years. If they can pull that off, they can now use the same tools to get most to climb aboard the SDG, DEI, ESG band wagon. Hopefully it is just my perception that is dark and that reality is less so.
It's cultural Marxism. If you look at all these initiatives, what they end up doing is the very thing they claim they are fighting against. The phrase "Black Lives Matter" in and of itself is an indictment. Thus, the only real response to such an assertion is, "Who says they don't?"
This whole idea of "globally ending poverty" will only lead to widespread poverty. Zero hunger will lead to global hunger. Good health and well being will lead to lack of health.Quality Education will lead to global indoctrination. Gender Equality will end will Gender inequality far greater than before. Clean water and sanitation will lead to lack of water and bad sanitation. Affordable and Clean energy will lead to unaffordable lack of energy, Decent work and economic growth will lead to indecent work and economic stagnation, industry renovation will lead to de industrialization, reduced inequality will lead to more inequality, sustainable cities will lead to dependent cities, responsible consumption and production will lead to irresponsible consumption and severely hampered production... by now you see where this is going.
The one and only point I differ with you here is one of verb tense. I believe all this has already been leading to these outcomes. Just not universally so, yet.
I think most notably of the energy policy. Germany had a real tough time of it this winter with the green energy initiatives as well as the destruction of their natural gas pipeline which, let's face it, US or US allies probably had something to do with it. We seen places that have employed green policies only to realize they aren't (ironically) sustainable.
Yep and other countries are still at full steam ahead with this nonsense. Through to be honest, a few have at least taken their foot off the accelerator. Too little too late in my opinion but we”ll see.
Unfortunately, while we can and all should, there are a lot of people to whom “sustainability” is a religion. Every single thing they do or have must be “sustainable” or promote “sustainability” and they will not rest until the same goes for us.
I oftentimes think a lot of these sorts of things are akin to the Chinese custom of footbinding (for anyone young enough not to know, that was a thing among the elite, but ended when Mao came in, some generations ago). I mean, OK, I can accept that many people would think a small foot is a lovely thing on a young woman. But crushing the bones of a child to make a deformed miniature foot? Nuts. But there you have it: history (and the archeological record) shows that human societies do, on many occasion, go to extremes when it comes to status signalling. (And don't get me started on hairstyles of 18th century France!)
As an investor, OK, some things I would not want to invest in. It seems a lovely thing that someone else would agree with me, crunch a number for me: easy peasy. But in practise, it ends up being like Chinese footbinding: a lot of good things get broken and deformed-- and the whole scheme is just generally nuts.
As for me, the moment I see this sort of thing my bull-shale antennae go up. (And that looks to me like some Tyranosaurus Rex shale.)
From what I have seen, most of the people pushing this sort of thing are very eager to advertise their status-- that status being as international MBA types, the ones who think it's nifty to get to attend the annual see-and-be-seen powwow in Davos. They are also the first in line to volunteer how much they loathe the Bad Orange Man, & etc etc etc.
I'm sorry to say, I don't think they're too much of a concern in another 5 - 10 years: they've all taken anywhere from 3 to 6 jabs by now.
Meanwhile, the bottom line remains the bottom line.
I believe it is different this time. It is truly international, almost worldwide unlike the customs you cite. Yes, it is about the bottom line, but for whom. Companies have long been being run into the ground as the CEO escapes on his golden parachute. ESG is worse. Yes, some large corporations may fail, but will bought up by even more woke entities. Making a profit is no longer the purpose of being in business. Pushing looney leftie policies has now become the purpose and going under does not bother them. But here is the evil genius of ESG, they need not care if we buy their products, they get our money anyway. If you have any investments, you have been investing in these woke entities. Unbeknownst to you, unless you do all the work yourself, whoever you invest through are using your money to support companies with good ESG scores. When they get into financial trouble, they get bailed out as we have seen with several banks in the US recently. Or, as I stated earlier, a bigger, worker brand will buy them out. Others will probably be allowed to die. These will be companies that serve we undesirables. I can see Target being allowed to die. Bud Lite too.
It was not easy to find the second time I looked to see what ESG is, but the first time I searched I found the ESG statements of large, international investment firms, financial firms and legal firms. All stated that a good ESG score was essential to maintaining access to all products and services these industries offer. THAT is what is driving this, IMO. They were also advertising ESG score improvement services for individuals.
This is not new, the tech has just finally caught up with their desires. We have already seen what they want to do years ago when a Silicon Valley pioneer got fired when leftists in California got ahold of the donor list for a group supporting some proposition out there, I think it was an anti illegal alien bill. They did not like his politics and ruined his career. A police officer got fired for donating to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense fund. Go Fund ME has returned funds after they discovered the would be recipient to be of the wrong politics. The whole of “Cancel Culture” indicates clearly what they plan for ESG to enforce. People have lost their positions for tweets from years ago. Everything we type is stored to be combed through at a later date to see if we are politically pure enough for whatever activity we wish to engage in.
The tech already exists to enforce a social credit system, which ESG is. Look to China to see it in use. But not only there. I have run across QR CODE ONLY restrooms in Japan. To use the restrooms you first must have an idiot phone, I do not, and do as they tell you. In this case it was make an authorized purchase from an authorized merchant. When, not if, that is paired with ESG and installed at the bank, supermarket and gas station, we are done. You donated to X, your ESG score is too low to gain access to the ATM, grocery store, gas station. You did not donate to your local BLM and LGBTQWTFO chapters, your ESG score is too low to access A, B, and C. Right now, not the future, right now, in the present, this is the reality large multinational corporations are in. This does not fade away as proponents pass on as hair styles do. This is durable.
Keep in mind, that I had for a few years warned about how FATCA would be used, being called the usual names by those supposedly on my side of the argument, who thought I was paranoid. Briefly, the rift was over who would be reported upon, only “the rich” termed “whales” in this debate or us “minnows”. I argued it would be we minnows. To settle this long running debate, I went and opened a new bank account and low and behold, I learn that all depositors from the US or have spent too much time there regardless of citizenship were being reported to the US. All of us, every single one regardless of the balance in our accounts, just as I surmised. It had in fact been going for several years already by that time, according to documents I had to sign to open the account. My 9 year kid’s account will also be reported to the US, if not already, once they integrate the various systems (family register, financial and all others) as they have openly said they will. He is Japanese but has an American parent, so Japan has ceded the right of determining to whom he owes tax allegiance, to the US as has every other country on the planet. If banks in Japan will spy on their own clients for the US even those who are Japanese, then they will also follow whatever the ESG scoring systems dictates to them.
Every aspect of civil and private life has been invaded unopposed by these destructive ideologies and they have already established firm beachheads. And most are going along with it all.
But yes, this is a near-world-wide phenomenon, and it is being driven in part by a push-pull of electronic technology that ultimately imprisons / enslaves people-- or, to put it another way, constricts the human spirit. I say "driven in part" because there is another part: a species of something I don't know what else to call but madness. Then there is yet another part-- and here I hold some hopes-- citizens' lack of civic engagement. That can be remedied, even by a small group of people, be they creative, determined, courageous, and persistent. Your standing against the mask is an excellent example of this.
Madness it is indeed. As far as civic engagement, that is the one hope but I fear it is now too late. I tried for the better part of 10 years to get folks back home engaged civically on the FARCA/FBAR/CBT issue. Nothing. Zero success. They do not want to know and get angry when you try to persuade them to listen, much like with masks, vaccines and the rest of the current madness.
Unless they destroy the previous infrastructure, there is always a chance to return to something. I think in some ways it could lead to a renewal in regards to energy that does work like nuclear.
They are doing their level best at doing just that, destroying previous infrastructure. The supply chains for most everything have been as close to destroyed as possible with out actually destroying them. I believe that they have in fact been destroyed but that we had enough supply down stream that this fact is not yet known. We’ll see.
i don't know about that. I know for instance, someone who just had a children's book published. They had pallets of books shipped to them from China. And it did not seem that there were any odd or aberrant issues regarding it. But maybe what you are saying is that maybe the raw resources have been destroyed, or the means to acquire them has been hampered, and that he is the benefactor of the previous levels of resources stockpiled before Covid.
And we have seen examples of this throughout Covid. Like where meat producers were running at a lower capacity due to workers and those who were contact traced being unable to work. We've also been given excuses for chicken wing shortages and other hiccups in the supply chain. The problem is that we knew before the pandemic that this was a vulnerability. Because of the precision that ERP systems use in shipping, if something should happen between production and distribution, then we would be dealing with shortages. A great example of this was the new car shortage due to lack of computer chips being created.
It would not surprise me at all to know there are powers and mechanisms in place to disrupt our society, but at the same time, I think, like Jeff Goldblum asserts in Jurassic Park, that life will find a way. So if one system fails, another will supplant it. If in one way t here is crisis, it too will create opportunity.
Yes, those were some the examples I was thinking of. In addition to those, we had the obscene situation in the States where even the rich had to use food pantries there was no food to buy. We had people lining up in miles long lines for donated food on the consumer end of the food supply line while at the other we had egg producers burins their eggs, chicken farmers (Is that the right term?), and cattle and pig ranchers culling their flocks and herds, dairy farmers dumping their milk and produce farmers plowing their crops under because they could not get them to market. Meanwhile, public health agencies were and I believe still are shutting down direct sales from farmers to consumers, especially Amish farmers. While nowhere near as expensive as the US, eggs are still overly double what they were because farmers here in Japan can not get enough feed for their chickens. Then we have the Dutch trying to forcibly confiscate farms to reduce green house emissions from them and John Kerry, who BTW served in Viet Nam, saying the same is possible in the US.
You are right about the cars and chip shortage. We are now in the market for a new car and my son and I rode our bikes to the various dealerships in the area picking up catalogues. Many models are sold out and all the remaining have longer than usual waiting times. Crazy.
Are there things that are not experiencing these shortages? Yes, you are correct, there are. These seem to be nonessential and luxury items, or sourced from China. There is an extreme shortage of shipping containers caused first by covid lock downs stopping the flow of this essential to almost all supply chains item. As ports started to reopen, China is renting these at such a high price that owners are shipping them to China empty allowing China to fill them with their produce/products depriving even domestic producers of all other countries the means to ships their goods. It’s a mess and one a man made one.
Life will find a way, but I believe most of us will not live to see it. And it will not be pretty for most of those who survive. I am finding it harder and harder to believe that all this is not by design. Everything that governments are doing is exactly the opposite of what they should be doing. As even a broken clock is correct twice a day, the fact that these folks are not leads me to believe this is no accident.
After all we have had to endure over the last 3 years, I find this stressful even thinking about it and the origins. Other people have made similar observations and given various explanations but basically it’s just yet another destructive initiative and the only good news is that like all the other destructive things, it goes against nature and is therefore unsustainable in the long run. The only question is how long it will take to run its course. In the meantime, we need to be creative in our attempts to derail the whole thing. If you go up against it directly there’s a very high chance we’ll just get bulldozed into submission. On the other hand, if we play along - like the male teacher in Canada who recently turned up to class dressed in drag with huge fake breasts - we can show how absurd the whole thing is. Same with gender and pronouns - we can try to make up all kinds of ridiculous things which we identify with and they will have to go along with it even if they think we are taking the piss. We are smarter and more creative than they can ever be as only dumb people could really be taken in by this nonsense that’s going around.
There was a time I had similar beliefs on how best to deal with this. George Carlin did pretty much exactly this, however, instead of being an effective speed bump, they just co-opted his silly PC jokes and used them for real. Vertically and Horizontally Challenged were, I believe, first used by him to illustrate the absurdity of it all by being absurd. As I recall, there are a few of his absurdities that were co-opted and become honest to goodness PC terms.
There is a more sinister purpose behind this unnatural situation; they demand that we accept as true that which we know to be untrue. Sustainability matters not in such a scenario.
Is that Canadian shop teacher with the humongous prosthetic breasts doing it to illustrate the absurdity by being absurd? Had not heard anything on his motives. In fact, I do not recall reading a single quote for him nor hearing of an interview with him. Odd.
Hey Kitsune, check out the 7th scroll photo on our uni's homepage: https://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/. The kommie/marxist nonsense is big in Hiroshima - arguably the most UN/NGO/foreign money-controlled place in Japan. Not to mention Hiroshima-native (foreign-puppet) Kishida being installed as PM following the West's take-out of Abe.
Since Abe's takedown, the gene therapy death jabs weren't the only thing that was pushed into high gear. So too, was the insanity of SDG propaganda - at least here in Hiroshima.
A few profs have put on presentations about the SDG scam and I have offered to participate as the person opposing this kommie/marxist nonsense. They always decline my suggestion.
However, despite the western-kommie push for this gross nonsense, it will never be more than superficial anywhere in any of the Asian societies. i.e. Japan has had societal roles for cross-dressing dudes a helluva lot longer than any western society.
As for the not-so 'green' energy silliness - again, never going to happen in Asia. The western leaders are blinded by their own ideological retardation.
The encouraging thing is, the creepy globalist types pushing this acronym-infused, 'death-by-ideology' cult are losing, and they know it. Hence, the panicked push for more acronym garbage. Even in the euroland heartland of kommie/marxist nonsense, they're losing - recent Dutch and Spanish elections are cases in point.
India, China and Russia (and the vast majority of the planet) are happily, sitting back and letting the insane west, dig its own grave ever-faster.
Our response - 'No'.
and of course, never comply.
I don’t know, though I hope you are right. I have had students use, “eko ga Waruii” (It’s bad for the environment.) as their excuse to turn of the air conditioner. Japanese go to hospital by the thousands each year due to heat stress but still refuse to turn on the AC or at least use it effectively. Set at 28 at low power is not cooling anything.
When then have the QR CODE ONLY restrooms I have seen in Tokyo. More and more are taking the cashless society bait. That surprises me still. Another thing from the past that lurks in the shadows of my mind is the experience a student’s family had. Around and probably more than 10 years ago, a student’s husband had just purchased his dream camping vehicle which ran on diesel only to have diesel vehicles banned from Tokyo. None to pleased was he nor his wife. Huge financial loss.
But the biggest thing that worries me about all this is how easily they got almost the entire population to fall in line on these idiotic covid counter measures. Admittedly, I had little faith in the masses following any logical path on any issue, but what I did have has been utterly destroyed these past three years. If they can pull that off, they can now use the same tools to get most to climb aboard the SDG, DEI, ESG band wagon. Hopefully it is just my perception that is dark and that reality is less so.
It's cultural Marxism. If you look at all these initiatives, what they end up doing is the very thing they claim they are fighting against. The phrase "Black Lives Matter" in and of itself is an indictment. Thus, the only real response to such an assertion is, "Who says they don't?"
This whole idea of "globally ending poverty" will only lead to widespread poverty. Zero hunger will lead to global hunger. Good health and well being will lead to lack of health.Quality Education will lead to global indoctrination. Gender Equality will end will Gender inequality far greater than before. Clean water and sanitation will lead to lack of water and bad sanitation. Affordable and Clean energy will lead to unaffordable lack of energy, Decent work and economic growth will lead to indecent work and economic stagnation, industry renovation will lead to de industrialization, reduced inequality will lead to more inequality, sustainable cities will lead to dependent cities, responsible consumption and production will lead to irresponsible consumption and severely hampered production... by now you see where this is going.
The one and only point I differ with you here is one of verb tense. I believe all this has already been leading to these outcomes. Just not universally so, yet.
Definitely.
I think most notably of the energy policy. Germany had a real tough time of it this winter with the green energy initiatives as well as the destruction of their natural gas pipeline which, let's face it, US or US allies probably had something to do with it. We seen places that have employed green policies only to realize they aren't (ironically) sustainable.
Yep and other countries are still at full steam ahead with this nonsense. Through to be honest, a few have at least taken their foot off the accelerator. Too little too late in my opinion but we”ll see.
instead of “sustainable” which reeks of UN Agenda 2030, substitute with “viable”
Unfortunately, while we can and all should, there are a lot of people to whom “sustainability” is a religion. Every single thing they do or have must be “sustainable” or promote “sustainability” and they will not rest until the same goes for us.
I believe you are referring to a work, the origins of which have long been debunked.
I oftentimes think a lot of these sorts of things are akin to the Chinese custom of footbinding (for anyone young enough not to know, that was a thing among the elite, but ended when Mao came in, some generations ago). I mean, OK, I can accept that many people would think a small foot is a lovely thing on a young woman. But crushing the bones of a child to make a deformed miniature foot? Nuts. But there you have it: history (and the archeological record) shows that human societies do, on many occasion, go to extremes when it comes to status signalling. (And don't get me started on hairstyles of 18th century France!)
As an investor, OK, some things I would not want to invest in. It seems a lovely thing that someone else would agree with me, crunch a number for me: easy peasy. But in practise, it ends up being like Chinese footbinding: a lot of good things get broken and deformed-- and the whole scheme is just generally nuts.
As for me, the moment I see this sort of thing my bull-shale antennae go up. (And that looks to me like some Tyranosaurus Rex shale.)
From what I have seen, most of the people pushing this sort of thing are very eager to advertise their status-- that status being as international MBA types, the ones who think it's nifty to get to attend the annual see-and-be-seen powwow in Davos. They are also the first in line to volunteer how much they loathe the Bad Orange Man, & etc etc etc.
I'm sorry to say, I don't think they're too much of a concern in another 5 - 10 years: they've all taken anywhere from 3 to 6 jabs by now.
Meanwhile, the bottom line remains the bottom line.
I believe it is different this time. It is truly international, almost worldwide unlike the customs you cite. Yes, it is about the bottom line, but for whom. Companies have long been being run into the ground as the CEO escapes on his golden parachute. ESG is worse. Yes, some large corporations may fail, but will bought up by even more woke entities. Making a profit is no longer the purpose of being in business. Pushing looney leftie policies has now become the purpose and going under does not bother them. But here is the evil genius of ESG, they need not care if we buy their products, they get our money anyway. If you have any investments, you have been investing in these woke entities. Unbeknownst to you, unless you do all the work yourself, whoever you invest through are using your money to support companies with good ESG scores. When they get into financial trouble, they get bailed out as we have seen with several banks in the US recently. Or, as I stated earlier, a bigger, worker brand will buy them out. Others will probably be allowed to die. These will be companies that serve we undesirables. I can see Target being allowed to die. Bud Lite too.
It was not easy to find the second time I looked to see what ESG is, but the first time I searched I found the ESG statements of large, international investment firms, financial firms and legal firms. All stated that a good ESG score was essential to maintaining access to all products and services these industries offer. THAT is what is driving this, IMO. They were also advertising ESG score improvement services for individuals.
This is not new, the tech has just finally caught up with their desires. We have already seen what they want to do years ago when a Silicon Valley pioneer got fired when leftists in California got ahold of the donor list for a group supporting some proposition out there, I think it was an anti illegal alien bill. They did not like his politics and ruined his career. A police officer got fired for donating to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense fund. Go Fund ME has returned funds after they discovered the would be recipient to be of the wrong politics. The whole of “Cancel Culture” indicates clearly what they plan for ESG to enforce. People have lost their positions for tweets from years ago. Everything we type is stored to be combed through at a later date to see if we are politically pure enough for whatever activity we wish to engage in.
The tech already exists to enforce a social credit system, which ESG is. Look to China to see it in use. But not only there. I have run across QR CODE ONLY restrooms in Japan. To use the restrooms you first must have an idiot phone, I do not, and do as they tell you. In this case it was make an authorized purchase from an authorized merchant. When, not if, that is paired with ESG and installed at the bank, supermarket and gas station, we are done. You donated to X, your ESG score is too low to gain access to the ATM, grocery store, gas station. You did not donate to your local BLM and LGBTQWTFO chapters, your ESG score is too low to access A, B, and C. Right now, not the future, right now, in the present, this is the reality large multinational corporations are in. This does not fade away as proponents pass on as hair styles do. This is durable.
Keep in mind, that I had for a few years warned about how FATCA would be used, being called the usual names by those supposedly on my side of the argument, who thought I was paranoid. Briefly, the rift was over who would be reported upon, only “the rich” termed “whales” in this debate or us “minnows”. I argued it would be we minnows. To settle this long running debate, I went and opened a new bank account and low and behold, I learn that all depositors from the US or have spent too much time there regardless of citizenship were being reported to the US. All of us, every single one regardless of the balance in our accounts, just as I surmised. It had in fact been going for several years already by that time, according to documents I had to sign to open the account. My 9 year kid’s account will also be reported to the US, if not already, once they integrate the various systems (family register, financial and all others) as they have openly said they will. He is Japanese but has an American parent, so Japan has ceded the right of determining to whom he owes tax allegiance, to the US as has every other country on the planet. If banks in Japan will spy on their own clients for the US even those who are Japanese, then they will also follow whatever the ESG scoring systems dictates to them.
Every aspect of civil and private life has been invaded unopposed by these destructive ideologies and they have already established firm beachheads. And most are going along with it all.
Good points.
I hope you are and I not, though.
But yes, this is a near-world-wide phenomenon, and it is being driven in part by a push-pull of electronic technology that ultimately imprisons / enslaves people-- or, to put it another way, constricts the human spirit. I say "driven in part" because there is another part: a species of something I don't know what else to call but madness. Then there is yet another part-- and here I hold some hopes-- citizens' lack of civic engagement. That can be remedied, even by a small group of people, be they creative, determined, courageous, and persistent. Your standing against the mask is an excellent example of this.
Madness it is indeed. As far as civic engagement, that is the one hope but I fear it is now too late. I tried for the better part of 10 years to get folks back home engaged civically on the FARCA/FBAR/CBT issue. Nothing. Zero success. They do not want to know and get angry when you try to persuade them to listen, much like with masks, vaccines and the rest of the current madness.
Unless they destroy the previous infrastructure, there is always a chance to return to something. I think in some ways it could lead to a renewal in regards to energy that does work like nuclear.
They are doing their level best at doing just that, destroying previous infrastructure. The supply chains for most everything have been as close to destroyed as possible with out actually destroying them. I believe that they have in fact been destroyed but that we had enough supply down stream that this fact is not yet known. We’ll see.
i don't know about that. I know for instance, someone who just had a children's book published. They had pallets of books shipped to them from China. And it did not seem that there were any odd or aberrant issues regarding it. But maybe what you are saying is that maybe the raw resources have been destroyed, or the means to acquire them has been hampered, and that he is the benefactor of the previous levels of resources stockpiled before Covid.
And we have seen examples of this throughout Covid. Like where meat producers were running at a lower capacity due to workers and those who were contact traced being unable to work. We've also been given excuses for chicken wing shortages and other hiccups in the supply chain. The problem is that we knew before the pandemic that this was a vulnerability. Because of the precision that ERP systems use in shipping, if something should happen between production and distribution, then we would be dealing with shortages. A great example of this was the new car shortage due to lack of computer chips being created.
It would not surprise me at all to know there are powers and mechanisms in place to disrupt our society, but at the same time, I think, like Jeff Goldblum asserts in Jurassic Park, that life will find a way. So if one system fails, another will supplant it. If in one way t here is crisis, it too will create opportunity.
Yes, those were some the examples I was thinking of. In addition to those, we had the obscene situation in the States where even the rich had to use food pantries there was no food to buy. We had people lining up in miles long lines for donated food on the consumer end of the food supply line while at the other we had egg producers burins their eggs, chicken farmers (Is that the right term?), and cattle and pig ranchers culling their flocks and herds, dairy farmers dumping their milk and produce farmers plowing their crops under because they could not get them to market. Meanwhile, public health agencies were and I believe still are shutting down direct sales from farmers to consumers, especially Amish farmers. While nowhere near as expensive as the US, eggs are still overly double what they were because farmers here in Japan can not get enough feed for their chickens. Then we have the Dutch trying to forcibly confiscate farms to reduce green house emissions from them and John Kerry, who BTW served in Viet Nam, saying the same is possible in the US.
You are right about the cars and chip shortage. We are now in the market for a new car and my son and I rode our bikes to the various dealerships in the area picking up catalogues. Many models are sold out and all the remaining have longer than usual waiting times. Crazy.
Are there things that are not experiencing these shortages? Yes, you are correct, there are. These seem to be nonessential and luxury items, or sourced from China. There is an extreme shortage of shipping containers caused first by covid lock downs stopping the flow of this essential to almost all supply chains item. As ports started to reopen, China is renting these at such a high price that owners are shipping them to China empty allowing China to fill them with their produce/products depriving even domestic producers of all other countries the means to ships their goods. It’s a mess and one a man made one.
Life will find a way, but I believe most of us will not live to see it. And it will not be pretty for most of those who survive. I am finding it harder and harder to believe that all this is not by design. Everything that governments are doing is exactly the opposite of what they should be doing. As even a broken clock is correct twice a day, the fact that these folks are not leads me to believe this is no accident.
That final sentence in your comment...same.
And yet another threat to Japan --
"Warning: Islam Sets its Sight on Japan"
https://rairfoundation.com/warning-islam-sets-its-sight-on-japan/
There is an increasing number of Muslim women in Japan. From rarer than a Maiko to seen almost every time I go into Tokyo.
After all we have had to endure over the last 3 years, I find this stressful even thinking about it and the origins. Other people have made similar observations and given various explanations but basically it’s just yet another destructive initiative and the only good news is that like all the other destructive things, it goes against nature and is therefore unsustainable in the long run. The only question is how long it will take to run its course. In the meantime, we need to be creative in our attempts to derail the whole thing. If you go up against it directly there’s a very high chance we’ll just get bulldozed into submission. On the other hand, if we play along - like the male teacher in Canada who recently turned up to class dressed in drag with huge fake breasts - we can show how absurd the whole thing is. Same with gender and pronouns - we can try to make up all kinds of ridiculous things which we identify with and they will have to go along with it even if they think we are taking the piss. We are smarter and more creative than they can ever be as only dumb people could really be taken in by this nonsense that’s going around.
There was a time I had similar beliefs on how best to deal with this. George Carlin did pretty much exactly this, however, instead of being an effective speed bump, they just co-opted his silly PC jokes and used them for real. Vertically and Horizontally Challenged were, I believe, first used by him to illustrate the absurdity of it all by being absurd. As I recall, there are a few of his absurdities that were co-opted and become honest to goodness PC terms.
There is a more sinister purpose behind this unnatural situation; they demand that we accept as true that which we know to be untrue. Sustainability matters not in such a scenario.
Is that Canadian shop teacher with the humongous prosthetic breasts doing it to illustrate the absurdity by being absurd? Had not heard anything on his motives. In fact, I do not recall reading a single quote for him nor hearing of an interview with him. Odd.
For younger readers, the title is a reference to Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist. The "tv people."
*Edit* - Link to clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mryry64Aafk