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The infantilizing effect: if you tell someone that they’re not responsible for where they are today, you are also telling them that they are not responsible for where they will be tomorrow.
For a Christian, marriage and family are the ultimate school of discipleship. Properly embraced, it teaches you more about holiness than most people care to learn - more than a lifetime spent in a monastery.
Why I am a Zionist? I am a Christian who believes in the Jewish Scriptures - perhaps more than most Jews do.
“It takes a village” is a progressive mantra but the answer to it is not <no> village but rather another village. We all need community, no one can raise a healthy family in isolation but they need a healthy community to raise it in. The church at its best is this community.
TLDR: living low maximizes your present and future freedom.
The secret is that you’re just as happy as you would be with all the fixings, but a lot less stressed. Driving a beater sits a lot easier when you have the cash to buy that new F150, but choose not to.
⚡️The real unit being discussed is not money.
It is uncommitted future time.
Every fixed obligation reaches forward and pre-spends part of your future before you arrive there. Mortgage, car note, lifestyle, dependents, subscriptions, debt service, social expectations. Enough of those stacked together and your future stops being open territory.
It becomes collateral.
That is why burn rate is fundamentally about sovereignty.
A person with low obligations can absorb uncertainty without immediately surrendering decision quality. They can wait. They can walk. They can refuse. They can take asymmetric risks. They can endure a bad year without selling themselves cheaply.
A person with high obligations can look wealthy while living under permanent compulsion.
The trap is subtle because modern culture rewards visible consumption while hiding the liability structure underneath it. Bigger house, better car, nicer everything. The outside looks like progress while the inside becomes less free.
And this matters far more in the world now forming.
Career continuity is weakening. Expertise is depreciating faster. AI is compressing labor demand. Income paths are becoming less predictable. In that environment, high personal burn behaves like leverage on an asset whose cash flows are becoming more volatile.
That is dangerous.
The strongest position is therefore not maximal consumption.
It is maximum optionality per unit of income.
Because optionality lets you survive long enough to catch the right move.
And the deepest form of wealth is probably this:
How much of your future still belongs to you?
That is what low burn protects.
This is woke inversion. You call genocidal those you openly wish to genocide because if you wish to commit a great crime, you must first accuse your intended victims of that crime.
“[Israel] is a scalding hole in the ground where a genocidal state once existed.”
Ron Lauder is a Jewish American who lives in America.
He is probably noticing, like everyone else, that the leech has upset the host. This is a panicked response.
Without the United States host, the leech Israel dies.
That's why he's concerned for Israels future. Without the United States, Israel is NOTHING.
Its a scalding hole in the ground where a genocidal state once existed.
The double standard between mainstream Canadians and indigenous is particularly glaring in Canada. It’s as if indigenous have all blood-and-soil rights, we have none.
My take is, don’t be fooled into selling if current rental rates seem attractive, it is a trap. We are on our way to “you will own nothing and be happy”. The house you sell may be the last house you ever own. At the very least keep your house and rent it out if you have to move.
I like that, turbo immigration as “human quantitative easing”.
As an introverted young man I used to like to go to the bar down the block, find a table in the corner and enjoy my beer while reading a book and listening to the ambient conversation. I didn’t feel the need to talk to anyone or meet anyone.
As an extrovert, some of these blow my mind. 26% of Americans didn’t go out for breakfast a SINGLE time in 365 days? 54% didn’t go to a sports game and 51% didn’t go to a bar/tavern even once? Even with the increase, 68% of adults didn’t attend a single concert? Are there people out there that just don’t do anything??
Opportunities for land or work in the community….. children as an asset on the farm.
Coincidentally these are still the material conditions for most of the remaining high TFR groups in the West. Rural, agrarian, low mech, the kids expected to pitch in.
WHEN YOU REALIZE THE COLONIAL BIRTH RATE WASN’T JUST PURITANS BEING HORNY OR RELIGIOUS.
It was settlers arriving to abundant, cheap land that let a young man clear a farm and set up his own household by his mid-20s.
It was early marriage, high demand for labor, and children who were economic assets on the frontier rather than pure costs.
It was the realistic chance that your kids could strike out on their own land or trade without waiting for an inheritance or a closed guild.
It was confidence that the continent was still filling up and the future had room for them.
That’s what produced roughly 8–9 children per woman in many colonial communities. Not romance or sermons. Opportunity and security.
You want a higher birth rate now?
Give people a future where they know their kids can actually become independent adults without crushing debt, housing shortages, or zero margin for error.
That’s the whole formula. It’s not complicated. It just requires open opportunity and the willingness to let the next generation capture some of the surplus—something current arrangements make expensive and politically inconvenient.
When I look at these groups I see a pattern of them constantly acquiring undervalued and poorly developed farm land - in part because such land doesn’t give sufficient returns for a capital intensive modern farming operation - but it works for a family with many hands.
We downsized from a four bedroom home in a mountain resort town to a four bedroom home in inner city Calgary. Same floor area, but without the mortgage.
The difference between the two is that a simple lock off transforms our 4 br home into two 2 br suites. So we can earn rental income or accommodate extended family if the need arises. That is how we intend to “age in place”.
With the passing of the Shekinah glory from the formerly Christian West, it no longer knows why it exists or why it should any longer exist. So it is passing away as well.
People know it and are disturbed but can’t well explain why. But it is simply that God has left them.
By "late-stage secularization" I mean a secularism which is no longer preserved by parasitism upon underlying religious beliefs (or their vapors or the habits formed by them) and which must therefore "stand on its own" by providing an order of the soul and of civilization - or even a reason to live, at least.
Secularity is failing in -real-time, as I write this - MAID, late-term abortion/infanticide, antinatalism, I could go on with less obvious examples.
(But of course I am also mocking secularized eschatology - of course.)
Keep your friends close and your kids closer.
It is going to be much, much worse than mass affluence elderly vacationing in Europe and then being cared for by the state
The way demographics are headed it seems like we probably won't even be able to give basic medicine and housing to the next gen of elderly
very silly to set up a society on the assumption of infinity young people and then have a tanking TFR
most likely scenario is people can't rely on the state and people who have kids will be taken care of by them, those without well....not good