As Francis Yockey writes in The Enemy of Europe: “feebleminded liberals…make up the American generalcy”. He had them pegged 70 years ago!

Remember that the same people who fought the Civil War were of a civilizational caliber that they would erect monuments, plaques, and statues memorializing those on the other side … because we were a society of the same blood. Those people are being replaced with IQ 87 replacements with no interest in or aptitude for that culture.Today, 1619 gives blacks their comic book history and a rationale for believing it’s always1842. PoCs are encouraged to be maximally resentful about their place, fully unaware of the fact that American blacks are the most well-off of all blacks on Earth, ever, Their credentialed education is a reward for simply contemplating their own group’s bellybutton lint: Women’s Studies, Feminist Studies, Black Studies, Afro American Studies, Chicano Studies, Mexican American Studies, Latin Studies, Gay Studies, GLBT Studies, Queer Studies, Trans Studies, on and on it goes.The credentials give them a guaranteed slot in the DIE pyramid tucked into every C suite of every corporation, NGO, foundation, HR department, government agency, school, museum, and important institution in the land. Meaningless “status” titles, makework, and eternal employment are guaranteed in exchange for immersing themselves in what Derbyshire calls, their “blackety black black blackness” because anything more wideranging or rigorous is impossible on a mass-production basis. The ruling elite has both imported their potential enemies into the fold and have put them on the payroll for producing nothing but overhead. And just like that, the globalist’s “black problem” is largely tamed. The rest are free to run riot.Imagine introducing 15% drag on every single institution in the country …Not to mention the added friction of these 15% disagreeing over spoils among the various victim identity groups … In the politicization of the bug and we can already see serious cracks in medical care, travel and supply disruption. Urban areas will further empty out as businesses close late September when rent deferments expire. The only glue holding crime at bay in cities is the lowest common denominator of any shared cultural norms.Dr Jill truly believes she is on the same level as Dr Suess, Dr Spock, Herr Doktor Freud and especially that fresh Dr Watson (the DNA Watson, that is). Ditto for Michelle, whose thesis was a handful of diary entries complaining about her being offended. Michelle’s thesis eventually got her a law degree and a $300,000/yr DIE sinecure, First Ladydom, and that gold ring of “charity/ foundation” circuit. Yet poor Michelle still had to whine about being mistaken for an employee in Target by some random white lady, a most unbecoming incident.The importance of CRT isn’t the effect it has on black self-perception so much as it is a weapon for dividing whites against themselves.

All Z says is true. Left unsaid- they are in POWER and we are Powerless. If they are mediocre yet we their slaves, what are we?

Almost all the democratic movements that have troubled the world have been led by the nobility. An elite body can never satisfy the ambitions of all its members; there are always more talents and passions than tasks to deploy and there are bound to be a great number of men who, being unable to rise quickly enough by exploiting the privileges of the group, seek fast promotion by attacking these very privileges–Tocqueville

Journalism is the repository of access mediocrity that sees themselves as elites (and have dangerously powerful platforms through which to express their narcissism) but who instead wind up living in one bedroom apartments with cats fuming that capitalism has oppressed them and subverted their destiny.

You had me at “a mass culling of the ruling class”.

The problem of cognitive decline relative to the demands of the job is also a problem in academia and professions such as medicine and engineering. We are living in a Dunning-Kruger epidemic and it is probably caused by affluence having removed the nasty consequences of being wrong about important things. Then there’s a side of me that thinks ‘well, given the premise of a society that can no longer tell a lad from a lassie, what would you expect in the general competence department?’ We haven’t seen nothing yet….

My older son, who eschewed college, was as smart at age 11 when he took the SAT (unprepped/zero studying) for the Duke TIP test (grade 8/9), as the average high school SAT-taker today. But he’s not credentialed, so there are entire industries closed to him. Muh democracy. Rah rah.

The mass culling of lame elites is the only solution is natures solution to their overproduction. The elite has one job, to make it rain for the peasants. I disagreed with Rush Limbaugh on several things, including his great Reaganite lie that if you “sit average people down, and explain to them all they facts, they’l come to the right conclusion.” But one thing he did say that was perfectly accurate, and repeatedly, was that 10% of the country drives the rest. It’s around us every day. Of course he believed that if you just give them enough tax cuts everything would work out. But he never mentioned who they are, and yes (((they))) are a big subset of they, but not all of them. The political world isn’t the only one corrupted by democracy. The business world has been just as affected (see ESG investing) and will be the first to deal with the culling. It was corrupted by democracy’s penchant for unbacked currencies, which have allowed us to paper over each and every recession after 1982 with new debt. This means that bad businesses with bad management and bad actors stay in business (See AIG, Citibank etc.). the no talent hacks are never wrung out of the system. About 20% of companies on the S&P are now zombies surviving on finance. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. These zombies have lobbyists. But market forces will eventually overpower all of this in the currency market, overthrowing the business regime first. The political side of the regime will be dragged along by these forces.

“It is easy to forget, but the army advertised as the greatest fighting force in human history has not won a war in generations. Within this decade there will be no one alive who remembers the last time America won a war.” What, no one recognizes the falsity of this comment? There was, after all, the first Gulf War. I’ll agree that our military is vastly overrated and extraordinarily inefficient for the money spent on it, and it obviously is loaded with incompetence at all levels, particularly the highest. But please, let’s not get carried away with exaggeration.

“What is not debatable is that we are plagued by mediocre men with delusions of grandeur and access to power”.That there are men (and lest we forget – even more so women) with delusions of grandeur and access to power is not debatable.What is debatable is that they are mediocre. If only they were simply mediocre. It would be a vast improvement over the plague of absolute morons (the current resident at 1600 PA Avenue as exhibit A).

“Elite” white men are a threat to the system and the people at the top. White men in general have a lower BS tolerance and are more willing to call out bad behaviour, stupid ideas, or incompetent people.So, the ignorant white/Jewish people, especially women, on top prevent normal white men from moving up, and prefer to hire indians, gays, women, or other foreigners. These indians always make the people higher up feel smart, while ignoring everything they say. But feels are more important than realz, as they say.What strong wimmin really want is respect. No matter how many degrees they have, or how many “deliverables” they make, they are still never as respected as a white man. It’s just a natural response. Even the white auto mechanic in his shop commands more respect than a top level corporate woman. Not including druggies and wigger men, (which seem to be making up an increasingly large share of the white male population).Obviously, this model doesn’t scale up and leads to gross incompetence. Nonetheless, we can also learn. Be cunning, say stupid things to a strong wahmen to pump her up. Defer to her authority. Until we get our women back in control we need to play the game as well.

Meanwhile, in pro-covidPanic Countercurrent… -still articles about the mad and useless FP Yockey-article about a french attention whore, as stupid as she looks like, estelle redpill (in short : a democrat + anti-islam)-article about and by Alain de benoist, a sinister guy very coward, which admitted having vote for french’s B.Sanders, JL Melenchon-and tons of articles based on this stupid “paganist” POW (i.e. atheist) this site should be cancelled from “bad thoughts” list.

We take equality and “education” way too seriously. People think “education” is like magic and turns dumb people into smart people. Many people seem to believe the definition of smart is to be “educated.” The primary school system is designed with the goal that 100% of people finish that primary education and be given a high school diploma. While it is generally not said explicitly, there is also the underlying idea that anyone who wants to go to college should be allowed and encouraged to do so.A big part of why we have this excess of people who imagine themselves to be in the elite is that we send far too many of our children to college. Too many kids “graduate” high school and too many “graduate” from college. Of course, being clownworld, we’ve turned “education” into a racket besides.

As some one who is currently in school for a Bachelors in Accounting, how do I avoid being a mediocrity. Now you all have me worried I chose the wrong degree.

Rumpswab:a person who is so intense and sloppy while ass kissing that he or she might as well be a bidet. . What a great word I found that on Urban dictionary

Don’t forget the “Who You Know” factor, the key determinant of success in this culture. Mediocre as the examples you site may be, how did Sullivan and Milley or, for that matter, Biden and AOC rise to the top? It takes great talent of a certain kind to promote oneself to the high level elite. You can’t just be a yes (wo)man. You need to be able to read people instantly and know, on the spot, how to turn interactions to your advantage. We live in the age of the hustler, not the intellectual. It’s not just any mediocrity who can polish up the handle on the big front door and become the ruler of the Queen’s nay-vee.

“Short of a mass culling of the ruling class, America will just have to wait for nature to solve the overproduction of elites.”Nature takes too long. Recall the “culling of the ruling class” in the Roman Republic. It took one hundred years, from the murder of the Gracchi (133 – 121 BC) until the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra (30 BC). Entire families of elites were wiped out in a series of wars civil and foreign. When Octavian took the stage, hardly anyone else was upon it.Does anyone think that the US can wait for one hundred years to clear things up?I prefer a much quicker culling.

The question is, why are so many elites so manifestly incompetent. Elites in Ike’s day, or Reagan’s, could manage. I think it is because the pipeline incorporating the young White male flyover state men of ability was shut down after the victory over the USSR in 1991. This meant that elites increasingly became hysterical, shrill woke-tard females, various Mulatto Ascendancy types (Obama, Jussie Smollet, Kamala), and superannuated aging White pols notable only for their corruption: Pelosi, Schumer, Biden.That’s possibly even worse in the Military, where the leadership is basically a bunch of woke-tards who cannot even manage a retreat against illiterate goatherds.I believe that the upper echelons of the system have seen White men of ability principally a threat, and have embraced woke politics and wokism to make sure we don’t usurp their position or their planning to pass on their power to their idiot offspring. Thus in the absence of any outside threat the system invariably degenerates into the worst to stave off replacement by those more able.

The salience of the Taki article is as one more anecdote validating the prediction that a collapse is not only very likely, but a necessary catalyst for the changes needed in order to right the ship. Hence the reference to mass culling, either via our ancestral evolutionary fitness selection process (resurrected in collapse) or an artificial variant (think new miracle drug that activates our body’s own natural antibodies). The former will take a long time and leave a lot of painful harm in its wake. The latter, in theory, could work much quicker, result in a higher bottom, and save countless innocent lives. I suspect there may be a moral imperative buried in this choice.As a side note, if there were actual honor & integrity in the upper ranks of the US military, there should have been numerous resignations over the Afghan debacle and abandonment of US citizens. Many people will now begin to openly and rationally hate the military for this betrayal. And that is no trivial thing.

The US did win a war back in 1991, against a Iraq weakened by 8 years of war against Iran (1980-1988) that ended where the Iraqis had already been bled to the tune of 300,000+ dead, which already fatally compromised the Iraqi Army before a shot was fired in Iraq War I three years later. So the US took on an already exhausted opponent on the ropes.The key difference is they didn’t turn a textbook blitzkreig into Operation Endless Occupation, like Bush’s idiot son did. It was, essentially, a punitive expedition.But the hubris engendered in that easy, almost casualty free “victory“ infected both the civilian and military leadership that led the Durka Durka Disaster and Iraq War II. It was a poisoned chalice the bitch made Pentagon bureaucrats in stupid uniforms like Milley and “Lap Dog” Mattis drank deeply from.

I’m calling bullshit on Z (again). His output rivals the entirety of NRO. I looked the other day and 2-3 of the trending articles at takis were his. The podcasts and daily posts here? Plus subscribe star stuff. Plus a day job. What the hell is up with this guy? Notwithstanding the glowie vibes if you haven’t subscribed, do so.

“As American society increases in complexity, the relative number of people who possess the minimum cognitive ability to manage the institutions declines.” It would probably be more accurate to say that as society increasingly rewards specialists, generalists become less common. Complexity is the result of more minute specialization, so as people master increasingly narrow specialties to an even greater degree, their cognitive capacity becomes more rigidly narrow. Breadth of thought is necessarily shallower than depth of thought, but training for depth makes people more blinkered to broader vision.

Dumbest guy I ever met in the business world had a degree in accounting and an MBA from a name university. Legacy admission, grandpa endowed a chair.

Sharp take.Three of the last four Democratic nominees for president were utter medocrities. The one who wasn’t, Hillary Clinton, is a deranged sociopath. While Biden probably in more stupid, the sine qua non of the mediocre syndrome you described is John Kerry. It is hard to imagine another time and place in human history where this dullard would have been anything other than the gigolo gasbag he is preying on widowed heiresses and holding forth in front of bemused charity ball attendees. He, too, is a product of contemporary New England and embodies the vapidity that courses through the veins of the idiot sons of the region’s once great people. It is no surprise Kerry and Joe Biden were close friends. Neither could make the other seem worse.On a related note, mediocrity almost has become a requirement to be an elite in modern America because anyone with merit would make the others in the class look bad. It is no coincidence Austin and Milley came to prominence in the military at this particular time, by way of example, one through affirmative action, the other through serpentine felattio. The shock that their resignations were not tendered is wildly misplaced. Their performance was exactly as expected.This only will get worse until the United States implodes.