I don't know if I would take the Rat Utopia experiment to the pulpit. I would like to see it repeated with more intelligent mammals (like monkeys), but I can't deny that it's saying some stuff we should pay attention to.
I think that a lot of problems have to do with capitalism, not technology. Capitalism has put women in the workplace, kids in daycares, and the elderly in nursing homes for the sake of profits. If there was some way to curtail capitalism's tendency to mess with family units for the sake of greater short-term economic efficiency then that would probably fix things to some degree.
Suffering against nature is altogether different than suffering against kin and their negligence. Learning one lesson slowly for a century makes for a society which then rots for one and a half that length. 1787-1887 to rise, and then 1887-2037 to bloat under ego and then fall. Every empire must gets its day to rise, and then it fails after 250 years thereabouts.
Humanity never changes, once we succeed we lock ourselves in a room with only each other and no nature to judge. Every year we march toward a sort of slow suffocation of soul. What once came easily as men lived according to natures limits, now it mortgages joy from its own children for them to pay. We are not the generation who got the joy, and we either submit and nastily steal from others cannibalistically or we riot against a system which hates us as much as our parents did. For who put national debt and the taxes to pay it with onto our shoulders for whose benefit but the Boomer? Imagine going to a restaurant only to have to pay a tab your parents left. Money lost most of its value, and we're so used to public collapse that two recessions hardly surprises us. We know we're being raped financially, we have only the ability to tell ourselves someone else will take it today rather than I. But look to all the Redditors and their Antiwork subreddits, who is being bent over a table to make the math work out? Its a MLM pyramid scheme. All societies turn into this, or they transform against their ruin and forestall their fate for another 250 years like the Eastern Romans or the British whose constitution barely uses its crown anymore where once the crown ruled in every way.
Capitalism ruined things because it lent one generation what the next had to pay, it ruined things because it made one corporation (or its lender) win where many hands used to be made heavier, and its ruined things because it can shift payment through a vast system to make everything just a little grayer and sadder generations after the next. Who would speak for the dead from that, who today speaks for the suicides to come? Let that be America's epitaph. I hope we let justice be done as the heavens fall, and those thereafter chose something new.
People started realizing that you need periodic fires, because that's how the weeds, insects, invasive species, etc. are controlled so they don't choke out the stronger species, especially since if that isn't accomplished eventually the hardier species will be choked out, all that will be left is the less hardy ones, and eventually a fire will happen and everything will die.
It's a bleak thing to accept, but death is just as vital to the maintenance of biological life as birth is. At some point you have to accept that not all life is made equal, there are lesser things that are built to die, and by not letting them do so you're defying nature and will pay the price.
That doesn't mean anyone should "do" anything about it, don't go shoot people or w/e, but it does mean you need to be able to steel yourself against the plight of other people who can't or won't help themselves.
We're not actually helping, we're just feeling guilt for something that cannot be stopped. Somethings are not in humanity's control, and Mother Nature truly has a mother's patience with us. It is a sign of nobility to cry out against fate, rather than to bow one's head. It is human nature to seek out culpability in a time of tragedy, and to take the responsibility when blame cannot be found. However their doom was fixed by their nature, and it is to nature that we must ultimately submit however long it takes our pride.
Welfare is a safety net when its sold, a lifestyle when its in place. You withheld their fate, you never changed it. Some people you cannot help, the sub-80 IQ populations after three generations of Welfare are not suddenly better off.
The sooner people realize that sometimes its better that you had never helped at all, the better for society. Iron, out of Calvary, is master of men all.
we'd want our schools to be indoctrination centers for how to live a healthy, virtuous lifestyle. We'd need mass manipulation of the culture and media and make it acceptable to call for violence and censorship against those advocating alternative lifestyles (like it's acceptable to bash white people, "Nazis", men, or anything symbolic of traditional society). Education would reinforce children's connection to their region, the nation, and the planet (in that order), teach why things are, and glorify exemplary figures while cultivating a new leadership class from the ordinary plebs (who will always exist).
Culture would heavily emphasize sports (actually playing them, not just worshipping basketball players), physical education (making you actually work your ass off), self-improvement, and activities like farming, hunting, hiking, etc. For those living in cities, there would be programs (possibly mandatory) to get people to experience the land around them. There would be mandatory national service which could include the military, farm labor, public works, etc. Welfare checks would come with this requirement, assuming one was too physically unfit or of course mentally unfit (in which case they'd be thrown in an asylum). Eugenics would be a major part of life where people with bad genes would be sterilized or otherwise limited in how many children they might have.
Basically it's about improving the quality of society to make people lead more meaningful lives.
This is why I think Germany should have won WWI. National Service was a much deeper system in Germany with their Pflichtfeuerwehr (Compulsory fire service) or Gemeindedienste (mandatory community service). The idea that people are happier when they are capable and disciplined is just destroyed by admittedly good arguments today about governments abusing any power you give them. That Europe would have looked remarkably like modern Europe, maybe the EU would be the European Empire instead.
Proper Civic Culture about giving people the worldview that the family is the smallest unit of the nation and that achievements alone make life worth living. Government Dating Apps should exist to promote endless questionnaires to women to sort them at men who are suggested by AI for their compatibility. PUA-like communities should be declared Child-Corruptors, although not only them. Men should be taught how to not be creepy, and additionally how to be romantic, by government psychologists through Dating App recommendations. Women would happily select men for it, and the results would be better for everyone. Hobbies groups should be merged with dating Apps to ensure safe locations for people to meet and bond enough to see if they should grab a drink later. People should have to preform certain group exercises like 10 mile runs in order to vote, every week. There should be times when the economy is closed every week to ensure people have time to get together as family or friends in order to socialize. I would restrict store hours to 10am-6pm weekdays, 8am-8pm on Saturdays, and close stores on Sundays. Government Offices should be open Sun-Thurs.
People should be offered money to sterilize themselves, anyone who doesn't feel the need to continue their line isn't going to be a good citizen anyway. What's in it for them? Admittedly again, modern society and its multiculturalism telling good people they're evil for thinking about nationalism and the public welfare is going to make citizens not want to put their children through a hell of compulsion which is coming before multiculturalism collapses due to the host population hating the parasitism and the parasite population not stepping up because hard work is for the host population alone. Its their country again once there's work to be done, then its right back to multiculturalism. So maybe good people will be sterilized too, but the answer is to instill proper national values first not let society run mad.
Society should guarantee free housing and food, just not good housing or food. But if people cannot afford better, then let them work and bank it all without taxing them. Let them get free of their predicament. Municipalities which cannot house its working classes, and invest in upper class housing only should have their population recover by National Housing and flee from such hostile lands. Fuck capitalistic winner-take-all urban conditions today.
We need a new frontier to explore.
First, I thought we were fighting for a dream of a future amongst the stars. Then I realized we were fighting for wealth and the pride of wealthy men. I was ashamed. I hope one day humanity finds another frontier to conquer, humanity needs the wilds to house those who can still dream.
We peaked either in 1885 culturally or 1969 with the cancellation of the Manned Venus flyby because the only point of going to space was anti-Soviet propaganda. The space race was just one part of America dunking on the Soviet Union like a jock bully. Capitalism had better abilities, whatever Communism's better goals of putting permanent life on other worlds and moons. Once Communism was humiliated, Capitalism lost interest because it never cared about space. It only cared about showing up Communism dreams. America wasn't the good guy in the lunar race, and if America lost then it would have raced for the next goal and we might have gotten a better civilization out of it. Instead we peaked when Communism admitted their dreams didn't make for a better economy in general.
Having the realization we aren't going to go to space again was the moment that killed my sense of Whig Historiography.
