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src/content/journal/2021/interpretation-the-gods-of-the-copybook-headings.mdx

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ series: kipling-poems
 
 A few months ago, I stumbled over the poem <cite>The Gods of the Copybook Headings</cite> by _Rudyard Kipling_. I had never heard of the poem before, but the [visual interpretation of the poem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ARLInjLVE) by filmmaker and author [Lauren Southern](https://laurensouthern.net/) put me under a spell. I watched it over and over again and can recite the poem from my memory.
 
-As a reasonable person with political center-left libertarian views, I’m utterly frustrated with the ongoing global movement against reason that accelerated over the last 5 years. The poem echoes this feeling.
+As a reasonable person with political libertarian views, I’m utterly frustrated with the ongoing global movement against reason that accelerated over the last 5 years. The poem echoes this feeling.
 
 ## Historical Background
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The poet travels metaphorically through different times and as different people,
 
 The _Gods of the Marketplace_, are those <q>temporary fads like Dutch tulip bulbs, dot-com stocks, mortgage-backed securities, and […] carbon credits,</q>[^levinson2011kv] writes _William A. Levinson_. These gods are promises and ideas, social progress, and delusory ideologies that despise the truth. The 20th century had no shortage of these ideas, even though Kipling didn’t know about the harm that Socialism, Fascism, or Nazi ideology would unleash on the world.
 
-And the new century has, unfortunately, no shortage of bad ideas: The resurrection of Postmodernism and [Neo-Marxism](https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-neo-marxism/), [Identity Politics](https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-identity-politics/), [Critical Theory](https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-theory/), victimhood culture, the war on drugs, boys, masculinity, the nuclear family, merit, and market-based capitalism, or growth without limits, to name a few.
+And the new century has, unfortunately, no shortage of bad ideas: The resurrection of Postmodernism and [Neo-Marxism](https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-neo-marxism/), [Identity Politics](https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-identity-politics/), [Critical Theory](https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-theory/), victimhood culture, the war on drugs, boys, masculinity, the nuclear family, merit, and free market-based capitalism, or living on debt, to name a few.
 
 But all these bad ideas will fail and crumble and the _Gods of the Copybook Headings_ will prevail because they are <q>the nonpartisan, scientific, and implacable laws of economics and human behavior.</q>[^levinson2011kv]
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The poet tells the story that these laws were there from the beginning. Early hu
 
 But new gods arrived that looked more promising: progress, money, wealth, or comfort. Humanity forgot the common knowledge and wisdom and moved on.
 
-Not every progress is good for the individual. While agriculture led to an explosion in the growth of population, it resulted in declined health of humans and higher mother and child mortality. Less food variation resulted in malnutrition. Dense living conditions with other humans and animals, poor sewage, and waste conditions resulted in declining health. The bones and skulls of those humans were much smaller than their hunter-gatherer ancestors.[^curnoe2017dn] We can see this even today, where most people need their wisdom tooth’s removed because they don’t fit in the jaw because we don’t chew hard things anymore.
+Not every progress is good for the individual. While agriculture led to an explosion in the growth of population for example, it resulted in declined health of humans and higher mother and child mortality. Less food variation resulted in malnutrition. Dense living conditions with other humans and animals, poor sewage, and waste conditions resulted in declining health. The bones and skulls of those humans were much smaller than their hunter-gatherer ancestors.[^curnoe2017dn] We can see this even today, where most people need their wisdom tooth’s removed because they don’t fit in the jaw because we don’t chew hard things anymore.
 
 ### Stanza 3
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Not every progress is good for the individual. While agriculture led to an explo
 
 The _Gods of the Marketplace_ end civilizations that ignore common knowledge and objective truth.
 
-Where the hunter-gatherer knew <q>if I hunt two monkeys today, I have to walk twice as long tomorrow,</q> the humans who follow the ideas of the Marketplace don’t learn. Again and again, we can see them failing.
+Where the hunter-gatherer knew <q>if I hunt two monkeys today, I have to walk twice as long tomorrow,</q> the humans who follow the Gods of the Marketplace don’t learn. Again and again, we can see them failing.
 
 Be it Rome that fell through decadence and politics unable to defend the Empire against invading barbarians, or the Maya that created cities with millions of inhabitants, artificial soil, and streets but destroyed themselves with endless war and unrestrained extraction of natural resources.
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ But when investigated, the stories begin to crumble quickly. The “Black Lives
 
 Until recently, they stated one of their goals was the “destruction of the nuclear family.” The organization is used every four years to help the Democrats win elections. It is used to transfer billions of donations through dubious channels to political agitators, the money will likely never reach Black communities. Even the mother of _Breonna Taylor_, a victim of a police shooting, called the organization a fraud.[^byrne2021pl] The co-founder, however, grew exceptionally rich for a Marxist since she started the organization.[^vincent2021en]
 
-While they claim Blacks are hunted in the streets by racist cops, the number of shot unarmed Blacks for 2019 was between 13-27 (depending on the database), and the numbers for Whites are higher.[^mccaffree2021li] Taking the crime and murder rate to the proportion of the US population these numbers are explained.
+While they claim Blacks are hunted in the streets by racist cops, the number of shot unarmed Blacks for 2019 was between 13-27 (depending on the database), and the numbers for Whites are higher.[^mccaffree2021li] Taking the crime and murder rate to the proportion of the US population these numbers are explained as unfortunate accidents.
 
 Though each shooting is tragic, it’s far from being a major problem, considering that the police conduct over 300 million checks each year.
 
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Socialism is again high in favor in Western countries, particularly among the ed
 
 They paint capitalism as the devil even though it cut extreme poverty (less than $1.90 per day) in half between 1990 and 2010.[^murphy2018ez][^mitchell2018qu][^rosling2015lc]
 
-It seems we never learn from our past. More and more people want to destroy the current way of life. Everywhere, people talk about a restart of “how we live” or a “Great Reset.” These utopian ideas always end in bloodshed and millions of dead people because you can’t create a society on the drawing board. <q>Communism doesn’t know how</q>[^lindsay2021ut] which is why it fails each time. 100 million dead people should have been enough to learn that it won’t work, but it seems like it doesn’t.
+It seems we never learn from our past. More and more people want to destroy the current way of life. Everywhere, people talk about a restart of “how we live”, “degrowth”, or a “Great Reset.” These utopian ideas always end in bloodshed and millions of dead people because you can’t create a society on the drawing board. But these people that think they have the idea for a perfect society, regularly fail dramatically, because as James Lindsay qyotes <q>Communism doesn’t know how</q>[^lindsay2021ut] which is why it fails each time. 100-200 million murdered or starved people should have been enough to learn that it won’t work, but it seems like it doesn’t.
 
 ### Stanza 8
 
@@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ There will be no war, that ends all wars, no “Great Reset”, no restart witho
 
 The pandemic or climate crisis offers convenient reasons to justify authoritarian or totalitarian ideas for “the greater good.” The German _Supreme Court_ hinted that massive personal restrictions might be justified to reach the climate goals.[^escritt2021ap]
 
-A recent survey asked how many Germans would be willing to pay every month to stop climate change. If I remember correctly, the number was below €20 per month. Even risking disillusioning large numbers of my readers, every German (including children and senior citizens) would have to pay between **€300** and **€600** net every month **for the next 30 years** to reach the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.[^unger2021pf] This would reduce Germany’s global CO₂ emissions from **2%** to **1%**, which is as many savings as China generates _additionally_ each year.[^unger2021pf] It will not only destroy the country’s competitiveness, and make the energy supply unreliable, but have no measurable effect. Neither will stop eating meat. But if the self-righteous voters demand measures from the politicians, that will be what we are given.
+A recent survey asked how many Germans would be willing to pay every month to stop climate change. If I remember correctly, the number was below €20 per month. Even risking disillusioning large numbers of people, every German (including children and senior citizens) would have to pay between **€300** and **€600** net every month **for the next 30 years** to reach the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.[^unger2021pf] This would reduce Germany’s global CO₂ emissions from **2%** to **1%**, which is as many savings as China generates _additionally_ each year.[^unger2021pf] It will not only destroy the country’s competitiveness, and make the energy supply unreliable, but have no measurable effect. Neither will stop eating meat. But if the self-righteous voters demand measures from the politicians, that will be what we are given.
 
-Be prepared to have fewer (or no) flights in the future, lose your car, and be restricted in your movement and freedoms. If you think the COVID-19 restrictions were bad, you have no clue what is coming.
+Be prepared to have fewer (or no) flights in the future, to lose your car, and to be restricted in your movement and freedoms. If you think the COVID-19 restrictions were bad, you have no clue what is coming with digital IDs and CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies).
 
 All these endeavors ignore human nature, reason, personal liberty, and self-determination. To achieve a reset one would have to suppress, intimidate, incarcerate, reeducate, or even kill millions of people. I don’t think any sane person would like to live in a totalitarian, digitalized surveillance state like China is currently building. We have to call out and shame people that push for these ideas before it is too late.