it's obviously paramount to save the West
a lot of what we now take as universal and fundamental exists only because the West made it happen. if it was inevitable, it would have happened somewhere else
but the West is not just an idea. the West is its people
the West and its
“Here, in Athens, we found the first full realization of all the essential traits that would come to define the West: fierce individuality and relentless ambition; daring exploration and invention; a yearning for discovery, for adventure, risk and glory.
An insatiable curiosity
What Bukele did in El Salvador is proof that having the courage to remove the bottom 1% of a population would eliminate virtually every problem and allow a country to look like a paradise
but we are too scared to accept it because it would make some people sad
Broke: the bottom quintile
Woke: the bottom permille
This reminds me of the finding that a third of all shoplifting arrests in NYC in 2022 were of just 327 people–0.00385% doing 33%.
We don't have to live like this!
Permanently incapacitating 0.07% of the population would eliminate a huge fraction of the problems in our shared public spaces, along with a tremendous cost in support and emergency services.
Every one of these hopeless cases is responsible for consuming the entire local tax
