Hello, friends. Welcome back. This is going to be the last weekly roundup for the foreseeable. I’m shaking things up around here. I’ve decided I’m going to post during the middle of the week (i.e. Monday to Friday) and do retrospectives every fortnight or month. I’m stretched rather thin at the moment and want to ensure you continue to get the high-quality posts you deserve.
So let’s see what happened over the last seven days.
In Case You Missed It
HOT OFF THE PRESS: NEW OPINION PIECE
That’s what tens of thousands of Chinese nationals are now doing every year, entering the US illegally across the southern border. Figures for the first six months of the year show that nearly 25,000 Chinese nationals were apprehended crossing the border illegally. If rates continue for the rest of the year, that will be a 14,000% increase on figures from 2021, when just 342 Chinese nationals were apprehended by Border Patrol.
Remember: these are just the ones who are apprehended. The real figures are likely to be much higher.
Many of these people must be spies. The Chinese would be stupid not to be sending spies. And the Chinese aren’t stupid.
Here’s my latest Infowars opinion piece, written today, on the record numbers of Chinese migrants crossing the US southern border, and why this is a security nightmare.
Read it now on Infowars dot com!
IN THE RAW: KULT
My good friend Roland returns to talk about the reception of his new game The Great Rebellion, including the German government’s attempts to have the game banned (because it’s based).
Click here to listen to the full discussion.
THE OG: VINCE GIRONDA IN THE RAW
This week we’ve got something a little different: a rare interview with Vince from the early 1990s, not long before he died. This is Vince at his spiky best. He talks about all sorts of things, from his father’s job as a Hollywood stuntman to why he’s got no time for depression.
Check out this great answer.
“I don't argue with doctors. You know what I'd say to them? ‘Take your clothes off and let me see what you look like.’ I don't argue with them, because what do they know? They don't get any formal nutritional training in medical school.”
Pure Vince.
Click here to read it.
ANCESTRAL EATING: SOME SPECULATIONS ON THE ORIGINS OF DAIRYING
Why did the people of the great Eurasian steppe start domesticating animals like horses, cows and sheep and milking them at the beginning of the Bronze Age?
Could it be because milk tastes great and makes you feel so good when you drink it?
Yes, actually. Maybe it could.
The invention of dairying on the Eurasian steppe at the beginning of the Bronze Age was one of the most important events in human history. In this piece I speculate on exactly why that came about. Could it have something to do with a class of substance called “exorphins”?
Click here to find out.
Study of the Week
I’ve talked at length, in my books and various writings, about the social consequences of different forms of food production.
It’s my central thesis in my last book, The Eggs Benedict Option, that social control and control of the food supply go hand in hand, and have since at least the dawn of agriculture in the Near East, about 10-12,000 years ago. Different forms of control of the food supply—hunter-gatherer vs settled agriculture, in particular—necessarily lead to different social forms with different kinds of hierarchy and authority. This relationship was identified early by ancient thinkers, including Plato in his Republic, who had Socrates claim a perfect harmonious society could be created simply by making sure everyone in it is vegetarian.
Today, though, we seem to have stopped thinking critically about the relationship between food and freedom—to our detriment.
Indeed, we seem to think that the food supply has nothing to do with politics and society any more. This couldn’t be further from the truth. As I lay out in The Eggs Benedict Option, the “plant-based agenda”—the aim, supported by governments, NGOs, corporations, and the scientific and medical establishment, to get the entire world population to abandon animal products for plant foods—is clearly part of a broader agenda of social and political transformation to a system of corporate socialism. Global population growth and the “Climate Crisis” are the justifications for the adoption of the world’s first uniform global diet, but this can’t disguise the fact that the main beneficiaries of this change will not be ordinary people but corporations and their partners in government.
On to today’s subject for analysis. It’s long been suggested that one of the main differences between Western and Chinese societies, between their individualistic and communalistic tendencies respectively, is a result of the different social demands made by wheat as opposed to rice farming. This was a central part of Marx’s theory of “oriental despotism,” for example, and was developed in the historian Karl Wittfogel’s 1957 book of the same name. It’s a compelling argument, frankly.
A new study in social psychology claims, for the first time, to verify this old theory on the basis of a strict “scientific” comparison of two neighbouring communities in China one of which cultivates rice, the other wheat. Previous work on the differences between “oriental despotism” and the freer systems of grain cultivation have lacked comparative rigour, because they’ve had to jump across massive expanses of time and geography, which introduces a lot of other variables into the mix…
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