I'd be fine with conservatives embracing pessimism. Americans hate pessimistic leaders. Given a choice between an optimistic candidate and a pessimistic candidate, the American public always votes for the latter.
Recently, conservatives have started to embrace a darker view of society. What has followed from this? The conservative movement is starting to fracture and conservatives are turning on eachother. For liberals, this conservative embracing of pessimism is to their benefit.
This guy I think is a loser. Because he is ugly he married a Chinese woman, only bitch that loved this face, that's why he is now depressed about the race problem. Do you know why he quote so much science? It's because of his second failure, he could not become a mathematician, probably because of his stupid brain, that's why he desperately quote science, it makes him feel like he is mathematician
@MrAsiansunite Wow. I am no fan of Dr. Derbyshire at all, but those remarks are very mean-spirited and irrelevant to this video. Why don't you bash his ideas or his thought process with your own facts or point of view. Dr. Derbyshire is a soft "white nationalist," which I find hilariously stupid; one could easily bash his point of view, and how do you know he failed as a mathematician? I'm just curious.
The most brilliant thing about this guy is his pessimism. The West of today is living in such luxury and wealth, that even among it's lower classes there's a widespread belief that nature is built out of free healthcare, cable TV and microwave dinners. People forget that where civilization stops, jungle begins. And I really see no other way but slowly going into that jungle, deeper and deeper. The thing we need is pessimism - less cheerful happiness, more dark thoughts on possible catastrophes.
You think our cultural outlook is chipper and cheerful like the 1950's?
All I see around me is a culture of paranoia inducing apocalyptoids---whether it's 2012, nuclear war, economic depression, islamophobia, global climate change, extraterrestrial invasion (See David Icke), artificial intellegence, biological pandemics, school shooters, pollution, giant oil spills, the next great mass extinction, and the icecapades----I fail to see where all the "optimism" is
I think the main problem is that people think that whatever happens their standard and their way of life will stay on a certain level - a very high level. Apocalyptic visions of nuclear holocaust or global ice ages may be a romantic comfort to the dark future that may be ahead of us - future might be a bit less fatal then Mad Max or The Road scenario, but still very ugly. The optimism in my opinion consists of a false belief in a very high "default" state in western civilization.
I think you're right in some respects, but I still get the feeling of impending doom from a lot of people all across the political and cultural spectrum.
Speaking about this video, I think the author is right, conservatives need to get crankier. No more "compassionate conservativism".
I was talking to a relative of mine, quite a realistic person, 62 years of age, and during our conversation he mention that the world today is such that whatever happens, there will be food available for people, there will be no starvation.
Although this guy knows very well how complex the "mechanism" of providing food for people in large cities is, he is still being so cheerful about this matter. That is that "sick" optimism.
Did you mention to him that people are starving to death all over the world and that malnutrition is one of the leading causes of death in the third world.
Well, no, it had nothing to do with the third world, it was all about our world (Middle Europe).
Anyway, in my opinion, there are only two reasons of malnutrition and starving in the late 20 century: socialism and wars. Some places which are symbols of poverty and misery use to be relatively good. But, they were also doomed. :-)
Diversity has benefitted America from bringing people with the best skills to the US. There have alwas been arguments against bringing this or that group from allowing Catholic Europeans and Jews during earliest days of America to today when the immigrants are Chinese and Indian.
If we close this tap we are turning off one of the major sources of wealth creation and now there is more competition from newly industralising nations for the best minds no matter where they are from.
9-11-01 Muslim extremists let in to the USA on unsupervised student visas hi-jack US airplanes, murder the pilots, and crash the airplanes in to WTC, Pentagon killing over 3,000
The US Population prior to 1965 didn't have any problems with Muslim extremists murdering our people in our country because they weren't here.
Thus the horrible hatreds and slaughters of India - Muslims vs Hindus wasn't a problem in US. Now it is.
This man should be King and Supreme Chancellor of Earth
Abr022575 4 months ago
Man, that's some audience. Guess this is what happens when your entire reason for life is to make white people fear minorities.
Jujuman2003 6 months ago
I'd be fine with conservatives embracing pessimism. Americans hate pessimistic leaders. Given a choice between an optimistic candidate and a pessimistic candidate, the American public always votes for the latter.
Recently, conservatives have started to embrace a darker view of society. What has followed from this? The conservative movement is starting to fracture and conservatives are turning on eachother. For liberals, this conservative embracing of pessimism is to their benefit.
MarmaladeINFP 1 year ago
This guy I think is a loser. Because he is ugly he married a Chinese woman, only bitch that loved this face, that's why he is now depressed about the race problem. Do you know why he quote so much science? It's because of his second failure, he could not become a mathematician, probably because of his stupid brain, that's why he desperately quote science, it makes him feel like he is mathematician
MrAsiansunite 1 year ago
@MrAsiansunite Wow. I am no fan of Dr. Derbyshire at all, but those remarks are very mean-spirited and irrelevant to this video. Why don't you bash his ideas or his thought process with your own facts or point of view. Dr. Derbyshire is a soft "white nationalist," which I find hilariously stupid; one could easily bash his point of view, and how do you know he failed as a mathematician? I'm just curious.
ateamga 11 months ago
@ateamga He studied math at college and now he is a journalist))) Feel it?
MrAsiansunite 10 months ago
Hi John,
I read your book and it had some well argued points. Looking forward to Radio Derb this week.
mjd001 1 year ago
The most brilliant thing about this guy is his pessimism. The West of today is living in such luxury and wealth, that even among it's lower classes there's a widespread belief that nature is built out of free healthcare, cable TV and microwave dinners. People forget that where civilization stops, jungle begins. And I really see no other way but slowly going into that jungle, deeper and deeper. The thing we need is pessimism - less cheerful happiness, more dark thoughts on possible catastrophes.
D503z 1 year ago
@D503z
You think our cultural outlook is chipper and cheerful like the 1950's?
All I see around me is a culture of paranoia inducing apocalyptoids---whether it's 2012, nuclear war, economic depression, islamophobia, global climate change, extraterrestrial invasion (See David Icke), artificial intellegence, biological pandemics, school shooters, pollution, giant oil spills, the next great mass extinction, and the icecapades----I fail to see where all the "optimism" is
metalreign81 1 year ago
@metalreign81
I think the main problem is that people think that whatever happens their standard and their way of life will stay on a certain level - a very high level. Apocalyptic visions of nuclear holocaust or global ice ages may be a romantic comfort to the dark future that may be ahead of us - future might be a bit less fatal then Mad Max or The Road scenario, but still very ugly. The optimism in my opinion consists of a false belief in a very high "default" state in western civilization.
D503z 1 year ago
I think you're right in some respects, but I still get the feeling of impending doom from a lot of people all across the political and cultural spectrum.
Speaking about this video, I think the author is right, conservatives need to get crankier. No more "compassionate conservativism".
metalreign81 1 year ago
@metalreign81
Just one example, that happened a few hours ago.
I was talking to a relative of mine, quite a realistic person, 62 years of age, and during our conversation he mention that the world today is such that whatever happens, there will be food available for people, there will be no starvation.
Although this guy knows very well how complex the "mechanism" of providing food for people in large cities is, he is still being so cheerful about this matter. That is that "sick" optimism.
D503z 1 year ago
@D503z
Did you mention to him that people are starving to death all over the world and that malnutrition is one of the leading causes of death in the third world.
metalreign81 1 year ago
@metalreign81
Well, no, it had nothing to do with the third world, it was all about our world (Middle Europe).
Anyway, in my opinion, there are only two reasons of malnutrition and starving in the late 20 century: socialism and wars. Some places which are symbols of poverty and misery use to be relatively good. But, they were also doomed. :-)
D503z 1 year ago
Diversity has benefitted America from bringing people with the best skills to the US. There have alwas been arguments against bringing this or that group from allowing Catholic Europeans and Jews during earliest days of America to today when the immigrants are Chinese and Indian.
If we close this tap we are turning off one of the major sources of wealth creation and now there is more competition from newly industralising nations for the best minds no matter where they are from.
muffinnman 1 year ago
You are doomed yourself. What a prick. Go back to England. Get your effeminised nut out of America. We don't need atheistic bigots like you.
menafik 1 year ago
You are doomed yourself. What a prick. Go back to England.
menafik 1 year ago
Diversity would have added to the small audience that showed up to listen to this drivel. Stick to writing about mathematics, Derbyshire.
dudev 2 years ago
How exactly has diversity hurt America? And what diversity is he speaking about. Effeminisation is definitely bad for a society.
Saracenkiller 2 years ago
Sarancenkiller writes:
"How exactly has diversity hurt America?"
9-11-01 Muslim extremists let in to the USA on unsupervised student visas hi-jack US airplanes, murder the pilots, and crash the airplanes in to WTC, Pentagon killing over 3,000
The US Population prior to 1965 didn't have any problems with Muslim extremists murdering our people in our country because they weren't here.
Thus the horrible hatreds and slaughters of India - Muslims vs Hindus wasn't a problem in US. Now it is.
johnrobinsonh 1 year ago
Arthur Schopenhauer would agree.
Elissinia 2 years ago
@Elissinia precisely my thoughts
clubsandwedge 1 year ago