[ExI] Social Mobility and Bioconservatism

[Dagon Gmail]

As the arguments mount that the social contract are collapsing, even the
italians, always in the last guard of acknowledging demographic disasters,
are confiming, as declared by papal bull from the Bank of Italy, that
western
societies are clenched shut in place. Losers and underachievers and the
geneticaly despicale can no longer be meted out punishment and banished
to the dantes inferno of Underclass, whereas those "good people" that by
virtue of manifest destiny, good intentions, sound morals, good genes and
a halo - are no longer able to ascend into the plush heavens up spoiled
upper classism.

The sociopaths on the right, as well as the xenophobic impotents on the left
maintain the disgusting trench warfare, shooting the same arguments back
and forth. People are waking up their have little to win on ths mutually
excludist clusterfuck and looking for alternatives, Pretty soon the
stalemate
will be broken and he old infantile dichotomy of left and right, good and
evil,
blue versus red, cowboys versus indians will end.

...but not without a fight. As leftist idiots seek to take vengeance on the
corporate caste, by gathering up votes and burning the amassed treasures
of thebankers in the streets to roast livestock they nationalized from the
grounds of Mister Burns, the rightwing political elite are still working
hard
to erode the state itself, throw society back into a damage control state
and laugh laugh LAUGH at the ghettoes and favellas, as the righteous
and virtuous laugh laugh LAUGH at the damned in hell.

This is evolutionary push for a third way - something that can protect the
interest of humans faced with being faced with third world attrition - and
something that can stimulate people to achieve as must as they can.

My expectation is it will involve basic incomes.

2009/2/18 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>

> According to a report published not by some fringe Trozkist group, but
> by the Bank of Italy, it would appear that social mobility in Italy
> has by now been reduced to a practical *zero*, even amongst contiguous
> classes, irrespective of the succession of governments.
>
> In other words, super-rich are bound to stay super-rich, middle-class
> people middle-class, blue-collar blue-collar and dropouts dropouts.
>
> This vastly exceeds whatever hypothetical role genetic traits may play
> in the achievement and maintaining of social positions in western
> societies and illustrates how routine, "humanitarian" attacks from the
> "left" against presumed Social Darwinist penchants in the conservative
> discourse deal in fact with a strayman, since no matter how weak,
> stupid, misfit and handicapped you are, your chances are today the
> best ever of your remaining nevertheless in the position you were
> born, and to have your children just do the same; while conversely
> being strong, clever, driven, etc. does not seem to change much in
> your lot, except perhaps in giving you more chances to become the war
> chief of a youth gang. Today, Howard Roark and John Galt would have
> clearly been employees in a post office, if this had been their
> parents' work.
>
> The fact that most people, including those relatively underprivileged,
> seem also to believe, owing perhaps also to an aging population, that
> they have more to lose than to gain from any change to such scenario
> may also explain why bioconservatism remains so popular. "Avoid
> rocking the boat" sounds as a the primary slogan in an increasingly
> Brave-New-Worldish scenario... :-(
>
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