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Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 7:21 pmBut the way I see it is the Indians are the Jews of the new dark age. They will play an appropriate role as we collapse versus the Jews played an appropriate role pre-collapse.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

“Our corporations and, increasingly, our algorithms, also resemble these kinds of people,” he says. “They’re basically amplifying the worst of us.”

Kemp points to these “agents of doom” as the source of the current trajectory towards societal collapse. “These are the large, psychopathic corporations and groups which produce global catastrophic risk,” he says. “Nuclear weapons, climate change, AI, are only produced by a very small number of secretive, highly wealthy, powerful groups, like the military-industrial complex, big tech and the fossil fuel industry.

“The key thing is this is not about all of humanity creating these threats. It is not about human nature. It is about small groups who bring out the worst in us, competing for profit and power and covering all [the risks] up.”

He also has a message for individuals: “Collapse isn’t just caused by structures, but also people. If you want to save the world then the first step is to stop destroying it. In other words: don’t be a dick. Don’t work for big tech, arms manufacturers or the fossil fuel industry. Don’t accept relationships based on domination and share power whenever you can.”

Despite the possibility of avoiding collapse, Kemp remains pessimistic about our prospects. “I think it’s unlikely,” he says. “We’re dealing with a 5,000-year process that is going to be incredibly difficult to reverse, as we have increasing levels of inequality and of elite capture of our politics.

The New Jews? Why hatred against Indians is exploding across the world

Nirmalya Dutta / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Aug 21, 2025, 19:58 IST

So when you read about assaults against Indians today — online, offline, in the workplace, on the streets of Dublin, Melbourne, or California — it feels less like an aberration and more like a revert to an old system where politesse had merely deemed that one not be openly racist. Bubbling under the surface, WENA (Western Europe and North America) folks never quite got over their antagonist Lagaan inner Captain Russell maxim: “Tum ghulam log jooti ke neeche rahega.” Except now the “ghulam log” are running tech companies, topping global exams, dictating terms in boardrooms and even becoming prime ministers or vice presidents.

The New Jews? Why hatred against Indians is exploding across the world

With the benefit of hindsight, it’s not surprising to see the recent spate of attacks on diaspora Indians, NRIs or people of Indian origin across the globe.

Except now the “ghulam log” are running tech companies...

00:03:00 [Barry Ritholtz] I read a quote from you way back when you said your parents were pushing you to be either an engineer or a doctor. Is this true? I mean, it’s such a cliche. Indian parents, Jewish parents, go to school, become a doctor.
Savita Subramanian: Well, I mean, there’s a reason it’s a cliche. It’s pretty much the norm. I mean, it happened to, like me and everybody I know who’s a, you know, child of a, an immigrant from India. So it’s kind of, I mean, I think it was, you know, it was the seventies. It was unclear how anybody was gonna make their living. My parents were both in high tech. My dad was an engineer and my mom was a software person, so...
Oh, really?
Yeah. They were both steeped in technology. We
00:03:42 [Speaker Changed] Lived in Silicon Valley.
00:03:43 [Speaker Changed] In Silicon Valley. They were, you know, early, early days in Mountain View before it was, you know, Google
00:03:50 [Speaker Changed] Crowded and, and just
00:03:52 [Speaker Changed] Exactly before there was traffic. But it was, it was, I think that my parents,
you know, they came here for us to have a better life to make some money, you know, not, you know,
to to, to basically live the American dream. And I think that the only legitimate careers were really in the
sciences or, you know, kind of practical applications today. They’ve completely accepted me for who I
am as the dark, you know, dark art of finance person. But, but back then,
00:04:23 [Speaker Changed] You’re the black sheep in the family. You didn’t become a doctor.
00:04:26 [Speaker Changed] I’m black sheep in the family. Exactly. You know,
00:04:27 [Speaker Changed] My, see, see, for Jewish parents, if you go to law school, they’ll put up with
that. It’s like the, the, the old joke
00:04:34 [Speaker Changed] Law school is just barely accepted.
00:04:35 [Speaker Changed] Right. It’s all right, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll allow it. It’s three years. We’ll allow it.
Right, right. But really, medical school is our first choice.
00:04:42 [Speaker Changed] Exactly, yes. You know, the drill. So yeah, so I was a rebel...

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 4:02 pm Mentioning Von Neumann reminded me that Roosevelt had his "Dollar a Year Men" and the immigrant Jewish Manhattan Project scientists, while Trump is in the process of assembling the likes of Elon Musk and the H1-B Indian "Tech Bros" around him. It's already been discussed that, while Trump fits the correct mold to be the Gray Champion (Obama did not), it's an open question as to whether he has the temperament and resources to successfully pull it off. Some quotes from Strauss and Howe were reproduced to support that notion.

Khanna, a House Democrat who represents Silicon Valley and a potential future presidential candidate, has known Musk for more than 10 years. In an interview, he called Musk an “an extraordinary entrepreneur” and said that he fits the mold of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “dollar-a-year men,” the corporate executives who were paid a symbolic salary of $1 annually to help the federal government mobilize for WWII.

Khanna said he has “exchanged texts” with Musk since Trump tapped him to head DOGE. He declined to “go into private exchanges” but said they have discussed “the places where we can collaborate.”

“We have a candid conversation. He also knows where I disagree with him,” he said. “We need to engage these technologists and builders to be part of our coalition, but without compromising our values.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/1 ... hip-000579

There are a lot of reasons to think that this is not an apt comparison. But first it would behoove me to further investigate who Roosevelt's dollar a year men were and what they accomplished. Also, Trump's recent appointments and support of the Indian "Tech Bros" and H1-B has caused a backlash from MAGA voters who feel they have been betrayed. I don't see that anybody has attempted to compare the Indian "Tech Bros" to the eminent Jewish Manhattan Project scientists, but there's still plenty of time for that. There are a lot of reasons to think that, in the event that comparison is attempted, it is not apt either.

Higgenbotham wrote: Tue Aug 19, 2025 6:16 pm

People sun tan on the Lakefront Trail on the North Side as a haze of Canadian wildfire smoke blankets the Chicago area and creates poor air quality, Thursday, July 31, 2025. Credit: Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

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In her current work as a divorce coach, Nataf said she hears the same from female clients all the time: They aren't reeling from betrayal, falling out of love, or yearning to pursue someone new. They're just tired.

"You don't need your husband to financially support you anymore. You're still doing all of the household labor. So now you just have basically an additional child you're taking care of, and that is exhausting," she said.

Data shows the average woman is outpacing the average man. As single women continue to gain power and prominence in society — earning more bachelor's degrees, buying more homes, dominating healthy sectors of the workforce, and even living longer than their married counterparts — pushback has manifested in the form of "trad wives" and "manosphere" influencers, most of whom label themselves as anti-feminists and boast about their return to "traditional" gender roles.

This kind of content romanticizes and fortifies the conservative ideals that a woman's domain is the home, while men are responsible for bringing home the bacon. Poll after poll shows that Gen Z men are particularly receptive to these ideals, while women of the same age are increasingly resistant, overwhelmingly expressing support for female leaders in politics, preference for female bosses in the workplace, and interest in advancing social causes. As the ideological gap widens between men and women, expectations for the division of relationship admin fall further out of alignment.

"Feminism brought women into the workforce, but men haven't had the same social movement into the home," Audrey Schoen, a licensed marriage and family therapist, told Business Insider.

Vetrano has seen this mismatch bring couples into his office. "My dad was the primary wage earner. My mom took care of everything in the household. Now, what you're finding is women are more often doctors, lawyers, CEOs running their own companies — high-powered professions that take 40, 50, 60 hours a week, and in addition, they're doing everything else just like my mom did when I grew up," he said.

"They're paying the bills, or even the bulk of the bills, and they're doing everything else," Vetrano added of his female clients. "They're getting frustrated and they're getting burned out."

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2019 11:13 pm This shift in the job mix has the effect of accelerating the decline (further reducing births and the effects that result from the further reduction in births).

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2019 11:13 pm When the number of births is rising, since men tend to marry younger women, there is always a surplus of women (and men able to start families are scarce and therefore valuable). When that trend reverses, men are now in surplus (and somewhat more so because of the sex ratio at birth being around 1.05 though it can also be argued that effect is reduced somewhat but not entirely because there are more homosexuals than lesbians, higher male prison population, etc.) and younger women are now scarce and therefore valuable.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2019 11:13 pmThe mix of jobs begins to change and women are able to better do many of the jobs that become prominent during the maintenance and decline phase (like health care and education, which really just serve to milk out the surplus of the civilization before it collapses).

Corporate black holes prevent fair play in the U.S. economy

Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple and Microsoft

Like black holes, the largest companies have a reach that seemingly exceeds human capabilities, writes Frazier.

By Kevin Frazier
Aug 23, 2024
Frazier is an assistant professor at the Crump College of Law at St. Thomas University and a Tarbell fellow.