Patrick Berzai

I started a @Substack today in the lead-up to ‘Creditworthy: A Ledger Theory of History.’ You can use it to see how the framework shows up in the everyday. The goal is to make the underlying patterns visible. Once you see them, you can't unsee them. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…

Wow, that’s too bad. Anyway how is the elephant?

@marissastreit Not so. Iran isn’t about Iran. It’s another episode in the seventy year elite civil war (going back to before DeGaulle) between the US and Europe. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…

Amen

@TheDuranReal All that Democracy!

A picture worth a thousand words. The speeches about “values,” “unity,” and “the European project” are nice, but Europeans are dealing with rising costs, strained services, and declining prospects. Billions flow easily when it comes to sustaining conflicts. But for healthcare, education, economic development, suddenly there are limits. It's time for the citizens of Europe to matter.

@johannesmkx It’s because oikophobia is the status signal. It’s really anti-competence. They hate competent white men. The racism stuff of just the moral user interface of their anti-competence.

How come liberal women are able to divide people by sex but not by race? Why is race their big blind spot? Because it's still official policy to get white women to hate their own, and to promote racial miscegenation. To destabilize white communities.

@LadyoftheLakefr Back then, people like this would be high in conscientiousness and work at a museum that a billionaire donated to for their name in posterity. Today’s billionaires are high in openness and need to change the world, so their money flows to NGOs to influence the world now.

boomers were previously insulated from this

@Steve_Sailer @FischerKing64 It’s turned that way recently. The people in Orange County or the burbs used to say “ew” when they found out you’re going to that side of town.

@FischerKing64 Dodger Stadium fans seem to me to often be high income blue collar: e.g., successful contractors. That's the class vibe I get from their traveling fan club, Pantone 294, which can get 10,000 Dodger fans to travel to road games in Denver or Phoenix.

Watching the Cubs play the Dodgers on Apple. It’s a good experience. But it isn’t a blue collar game of yelling from the stands with a cheap beer and hotdog. There must be a way to make the original economic model work.

@FischerKing64 The original economic model was day games and AM radio.

@johannesmkx I do! The heuristic is the noblesse d’epee (competence class) vs the noblesse de robe (compliance/credentialed class) a constant elite civil war (from the Fronde). All the robe’s -isms & -ologies are but a moral user interface of the OS: anti-competence. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…

Western governments are anti-White but nobody understands why.

@BarstoolHubbs Both teams are bad.

My brain can’t comprehend sweeping Boston in Fenway and then obliterating Houston. The Stanton injury makes sense to bring us back down to Earth

@Lovecrafti42129 @nxt888 @420GHz It’s AI written. The Fronde wasn’t about colonization so you didn’t read what I wrote. Fanon had a finely sharpened, mid-witted grievance. The end.

@patrickberzai @nxt888 @420GHz You obviously haven't been following Sonny if you think this is Ai written. That being said, you didn't read his response. Or I should say, you did not comprehend it. Colonialism rots both the colonized and the colonizers. That is what Fonde wrote. It is about class.

There is a specific class that empire produces in every country it touches. They were educated at Western universities or Western-modeled universities. They read Western newspapers. They attend the conferences where Western think tanks set the terms of "respectable debate." They have absorbed, so deeply they cannot locate it as an assumption, the belief that "modernity" has a single address and that address is approximately in the North Atlantic. This class does not think of itself as colonized. It thinks of itself as "educated." It serves as the transmission belt. Between the imperial center and the domestic population. Translating imperial priorities into local language. Making the acceptable range of political debate the same in Jakarta as in Washington. Frantz Fanon described this class in The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, specifically in the chapter "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness," and called them the national bourgeoisie. He predicted, before most of these countries had fully demonstrated it, that this class would inherit the flag of independence and the function of the colonizer simultaneously. They are still here. They run newspapers. They staff central banks. They advise governments. The empire does not need to be present. It left its people behind when it educated them.

@CityBureaucrat Indulgences were the first futures market and Luther just called their margin. It was well received by city states that no longer wanted to pay the church.

There's a type of Germanic who always needs to speak directly to the god, because he trusts his own senses and intuitions. Look at the sagas. This type should be encouraged over the type that needs weekly software patches from a guru/priest/rabbi to assuage the anxiety that attends consciousness of the irreconcilable contradictions inherent to formalized belief and rule systems.

Tocqueville’s Paradox is the idea that in America we will become more unsatisfied with our lives, the easier they get. In our technocratic need to create efficiency and remove friction and hierarchies flatten, humans will invent new frictions. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…

@wesyang @dicentra33 It’s just language, right? It’s not like it’s reality or anything. Right?

You have to lobotomize yourself to believe this. Unfortunately, the governing and chattering classes of the Western world all obediently lobotomized themselves. It was a test of the moral and epistemic integrity of that class -- a test that those who administered the test knew the takers would fail. Can we make you contort yourself to believe self-evident nonsense and join in treating those who don't also lobotomize themselves as hated pariahs? Yes, yes we can.

@emilykmay @SoniaBaschez Rosie the Riveter quit after a week. reddit.com/r/todayilearne…

if men stopped doing all the heavy duty, necessary, dirty jobs that make the world run...women would do them. we already know this, it happened in WWII. if women stopped doing the thankless, routine care work that makes the world go round, vulnerable people would be neglected.

Feminism! DEI! Nation of immigrants! All feel good stories in our lifetime that mask true ledger-based reasons for these movements— wage suppression. Competency has given way to creditor signals & compliance. It hasn’t made any products any better. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…

@vadneighhhh @ProfMSinha So no. Got it.

@vadneighhhh @ProfMSinha It’s literally in the Federalist Papers and the Constitution. You can provide any countervailing evidence. Have you heard of evidence? Do you know what it is?

Historian here time for a third Reconstruction of American democracy.

@vadneighhhh @ProfMSinha So you called me illiterate and then asked me to read the tweet again? And you are mocking others literacy with bad punctuation and grammar? I’m not worried about what you think.

@patrickberzai @ProfMSinha my darling my angel, read the tweet again. see if you can grasp the meaning of the words. i believe you can do it, with significant effort!

@FischerKing64 It’s an anxiety demand company.

So basically a ‘non-profit’ is a highly profitable enterprise for the people who run them - their friends in government funnel taxpayer dollars to them, and they pretend to engage in some kind of charitable activities that don’t achieve anything.

@ACCass I think that keeping NYC a “Goldilocks” city — shitty but not too shitty — is the convergent design of a class of wealthy investors and NGO donors. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…

NEW POLL: New Yorkers say the best way to address the budget deficit is to tax the wealthy, not cut city services. Voters favor a millionaire and corporate tax increase over the status quo 60% to 35%, and choose taxes over "smart savings" 51% to 42% as a deficit reduction strategy—even though nearly half say inefficiency is a big problem with city government today. mailchi.mp/a06f6a59747a/g…