Fair warning to all my Canadian and SDA-loving colleagues:
This is a LONG video. I did it to address a larger concern I had as I saw how my family and friends get depressed, some even contemplate suicide, because of the direction and future of the country and Western Civilization in general. I did it on a whim with some specific people in mind (thus a little rambling), but it has received a much larger and positive response than I thought it would. I speculate this is because MANY people are depressed about their futures and have a helplessness about them, but nobody has spoken directly about this topic.
If you know somebody who is down, depressed, hopeless, even suicidal over the apparent lack of a future, please send this to them, because life is too short to let a loser like Barack Obama ruin it.
Hmmm. Maybe the liblefttards are onto something; maybe ignorance IS bliss.
I no longer pay attention to politicians and the stupid meddling laws they make up to make my life miserable.
I go about my business, I am prepared and willing to go on my own with my family when i have to. Politicians can never give me my rights. I am a free and sovereign human being and I no longer wait for, nor do I ask permission to live my life freely. Depression over.
You either go postal in anger, buckle under in fear, can’t manage and become depressed or go around them and their stupid freedom limiting ways. Guess which one i picked?
Probably due to my naturally cranky nature, but I find adversity encouraging.
The worst thing about depression is loneliness. So, if you’re lonely and suicidal, wrap yourself in semtex, attend a progressive rally,and take some friends with you to Heaven.
It’s the trendy thing.
But seriously,whenever I get depressed,I look at the news and see how bad the situation is in other Countries and suddenly become damned thankful for all I’ve got.
This comes to mind…
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.”
Well, this certainly isn’t going to help. Tesla Motors releases vehicle logs contradicting the NYT’s. Now you guys have to decide who you hate more!
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive&
Buck up lil’ campers. It’s not as bad as you think. Like those on the far left, you’re just overly angry people. In fact, this trait, is not just a major part of your problem, but part of the problem with the world in general. As in, you guys are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Grey Lady and Christopher Swift
That’s the spirit! Te malos insolentesque vexare noli sinere! But I’m sure the Captain knows that this cuts both ways. I am certain however, that the condition is far more prevalent among our friends on the left.
The single most constructive step you can take towards shaking off depression, assuming you have already been to the doctor, is to SHUT OFF THE TELEVISION.
Get rid of cable television, don’t listen to the radio. I swear they program for maximum depressive effect these days, between the news, hideous commercials and the gawd-awful television shows.
Your brain will thank you for it.
Heh, no matter what Tesla, or John, says, nobody is buying their crap.
Depressing, eh John? 🙂
In the history of Western Civilization there have been some dark times when a sense of impending doom was about.
Collectively, much of our leadership and “elite” have lost confidence in our Civilization and it’s values, but not everyone.
Larger numbers are pushing back and the P.C. world is a fragile monster. It’s only a few good cavalry charges away from full retreat.
Gert Wilders and Lars Hedegard are examples of successful resistance, as is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, as is little Israel, who stands head and shoulders above it’s detractors who grovel in their sand castles.
Canada is weathering the economic storms well and is a ship of state that others are looking to emulate.
Obama is looking like a lame duck, two years early. Timbuktu is freed. There are many examples for inspiration if you look for them.
Just keep in mind the following quote 🙂
“The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.” (Thomas Carlyle)
Prophecy that shall come to pass…one world religious order with a chicken in every pot. There’ll even be a supernatural pretend Jesus…exciting times. Certainly not depressing.
1Th 5:3 … When they … say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Obama does not appear to be a loser by any measure. What is doing is certainly going to amount to a huge loss of wealth and power. I am pretty angry about the way things have gone in the USA, but I am not depressed about it. Being depressed is the same as whining or worrying, it does nothing to help.
Cappy is right …. try to ignore it as best you can and concentrate on the joy of your own personal life and surroundings.
Ofay Cat: “Obama does not appear to be a loser by any measure.”
What do you mean by that? The Obamanation’s one of the biggest losers, phonies, imposters there is. And he’s doing his best to make sure that hard-working, law-abiding, middle class Americans go to the bottom of the heap.
I repeat: What do you mean that he doesn’t appear to be a loser?
If conservative people were suicidal, they would not be stockpiling weapons and ammo. Cap, your recent essays are growing incoherent. Is that a result of alcohol abuse?
If you’re considering suicide because Obama is in power, maybe politics is the least of your problems?
I suggest seeing a physician to deal with the underlying, actual issues.
Obama is not the cause, simply a successful symptom.
Like the success of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming Scam.,open lying, outright blatant theft and breach of contract on the part of our government, Obama Bin Lying is a symbol of peak fraud.
Sit back enjoy,these are very temporary successes. I do mean peak fraud, cause these takers are destroying the makers wealth.
When there is nothing left to steal, they will turn on each other, because they can never have enough, enough money, enough power or enough control.These are fearful smallminded people.
We are repeating human history, civilization is a thin illusion drawn across the face of survival, AKA brutal reality, when we forget the value of civil society and where the cost of maintaining the illusion exceeds its worth to us individually, then civilization vanishes.
The comedy is those who are most voracious in their gnawing at the roots of society, ( the politicians, bureaucrats, academics and media) are the most dependant on its continuation.
The makers, growers and self reliant will do just fine if society loses its belief in civilization, we will return to values that work.
Consider the loss of the federal grain reserve, thanks to government there is no civil remedy if we experience a mass crop failure in the northern hemisphere.
Suicide is no response, this show is too funny to miss, socialism and other ideologies that run contrary to human nature, all fail when they steal too much.
Productivity is a coarse guide to when govt steals too much of the return on our labour.
If a bunch of useless thieves can take from me the greater part of the return on my work and increased effort on my part will ensure I will get even less, yet I am constrained by threat of death or imprisonment if I deal with these thieves as I see fit, I withdraw my effort.
When people do not know the benefit civilization provides us, then civilization will fall.
Today we see voters who believe that wealth comes from the government, food from a supermarket and water from a faucet .
That they can vote themselves other peoples stuff and suffer no consequence.
So is productivity rising ?
Or continuing to fall?
Nice going, John! Glad to see you are down with having your car company recording your every move. Just wait until your employer finds out about all those trips to the “medical marijuana” dispensary. Maybe Taliban Jack wasn’t so stupid after all; at least he had the sense to ride his bicycle to the rub-and-tug.
Depression is a mental illness which u would need to be to vote for Mitt Romney or Broke Obuma.
The way I see it the $21 Trillion U.S. in tax havens could be put to use to lift the spirits of all your “depressed” friends but then they’d have to pay 10% of all that money to the taxman. How Depressing.
Dante if you think a politician of either side is the real problem you haven’t been paying attention to life.
batb, Obama is NOT a loser! The Country and the people may go down the drain,but he’s doing just fine!
Who’d ever have thought a jug-eared dope smoking Kenyan could become President of the United States of America?
Loser? Not likely!
Aaron Clarey should have paid more attention to his father, the minister. One thing one learns from history, whether biblical or secular, is that “this too shall pass.” Where is the Babylonian Empire? The Persian Empire? the Roman Empire? The British Empire?
Dust. And so shall be the US.
I am not convinced that this is the end of the US. The US, certainly, as it has been. But the fall of the Roman Republic by no means marked the end of Rome.
Interesting that you would interpret the Captain’s advice in this way 454guy – that he is losing something by doing things that YOU consider risky! This is the mantra of the left – quit smoking, quit drinking booze, wear a stupid looking helmet when you ride a bike (nobody looks good in a helmet, unless it is one of Kate’s designer type), wear your seatbelt, don’t eat steak, don’t go swimming in the ocean, don’t party until the wee hours ……do all these things “for your own good”. As if suggesting that an adult would ever listen to any of that patronizing pap from anyone; these are ‘parent lines’ of the ilk for parent/dependent child relationships.
The Captain is suggesting that Conservatives enjoy their lives! Enjoying life and doing things that are enjoyable is liberating. Crawling out from under depression and hopelessness is a mission that is worth pursuing. Skiing downhill at breakneck speed (not wearing a helmet; hair straight back,) is an thrill – having a drink from a flask of shnapps and a smoke at the top of the run is a pleasant ‘normality’ that has been ripped from the skier by the control freaks. When I was young, all of the above were part of a day on the slopes. Very few skiing accidents in those days…
Do it anyway, in your own life, is what the Captain is suggesting, IMO. Don’t let the control freaks ruin the only life a freedom loving person has – do it in spite of them, enjoy it and don’t worry about what ‘they’ will think or what ‘they’ will do – most of the control freaks are terrified of people like the Captain; they will run away and pick on someone more sensitive (easy to intimidate). The rules are so stupid that they are not enforecable, creative people ignore stupid rules and live! Sheeple torment themselves, dwelling on what the rulers say they cannot do and exist. Life is too short to be endured like a turkey if you were born to live like an eagle.
Well, dmorris, in the long run, Oblahblah is a loser in the sense that he’s a total incompetent, narcissistic imposter. The sycophantic, low-information electorate, the media and Hollywood dummies all love him — but they’re losers too!
I’m taking the long view of things. History will show that the Obamanation was the worst POTUS ever.
tl;dw
20-ish years ago I met a man who immigrated here from central America. He explained to me, at the time, that north America was going through the same transitions that he experienced in his homeland, only in slow-motion. This was the reason that he moved. Being a dumb kid, I didn’t understand what he was on about and really didn’t care at the time. I see it now though, and it all makes sense… The 51% have figured out that they can vote themselves entitlements at the expense of the 49% and we are now in a downward spiral. It’s a given. It’s happening all around us. We can fight it politically with marginal success (reff the current CPC) but that only slows the progression. The Captain is correct… It’s time to start covering your own ass… Take back what you can, don’t leave them a crumb and enjoy the show. Personally, I’m going Galt… They’ll get nothing from me unless I choose to give it…
Right now am in the process of enjoying the Captain’s book Enjoy the Decline and I fully intend to now. Not putting any money into RRSP’s this year, slowly cashing out the ones that I have and taking a week off a month instead of working. I also am getting prepared for when TSHTF although what one needs in that situation is a very large knowledge base and the ability to quickly improvise in novel situations as well as being armed.
Phantom, you’re quite right — there’s nothing more depressing than TV and the last time mine was on was when I was testing out my Beagleboard and using the TV as a large monitor. Agree with you about radio. I also never read newspapers and even a glance at the headlines of the mope and wail is enough to alter my mood in a downwards direction.
I also ignore whatever I can. I haven’t had a “smart meter” installed as a simple sign with a threat of charging BC Hydro with criminal trespass if they attempted to install an unconstitutional surveillance device was sufficient to prevent this instrusion on my privacy. I find that most statist robots are unready to stand their ground when one meets them one on one during the course of ones daily activities. I refuse to wear a bicycle helmet, don’t fasten my seat belt and the only thing I have against drinking is the amount of tax extorted from me by the state when I buy a bottle of tequila. And Captain, it would take about 3/4 of a bottle of tequila for me to sit through your 45 minute rant. I’d much rather read your books.
Dealing with police is more difficult as I’ve noticed a steady decline in their civility over the past few decades. At some point my run ins with them won’t go in my favor, but I make it a point now to let them know I’m not about to take direction from statist goons.
I admire Aaron for doing what he’s doing but I won’t go as far as he has in terms of simplifying my life. Right now I’d rather stand my ground on my own property if the situation required rather than keep all my possessions in my backpack. Kind of hard to transport thousands of rounds of ammo that way. I also like my toys and I’m spending time enjoying them now. If the tax situation gets worse, then I’ll just work less. Right now I can’t spend all the money I make and there’s no damn way I’m letting the government take it from me. If that means taking 6 months off/year, then so be it. Any patients that need to see me during that time off can be arranged on a barter basis.
About a year or so ago it occurred to me that I’m never going to retire so why am I socking away all this money in RRSP’s? That money is just too tempting a target for the government kleptocracy.
I don’t get depressed or concerned about what’s happening in the rest of the world. It doesn’t affect my life in any major way.
There are major problems in isolated regions but they’re far away from here. I don’t let the media con me into believing that every isolated anomaly is a tragedy that will arrive on my doorstep if I don’t do something right now.
Paranoia and fear sells papers [or their modern equivalent].
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Hope for the best, plan for the worst, but don’t let it run your life.
The world has always had dark eras. It is the human condition that causes them. It is also the human condition to survive and live life to the fullest.
Obama will get his, if not in this life then in the next. He can chum around with Hitler in one of the circles of hell.
So buck up!
The Cap has his good points. I’ve learned some economics from him, and I won’t say that the news isn’t depressing these days.
Still I’m not inclined to sympathy towards Cap or his friends. So your dad’s a minister, and you decide you are to smart to believe in God and walk away from religion. A wife and kids would mean responsibility and commitment and those take time away from video games and motorcycle riding, so you walk away from that too. The political principles you so espouse? Turns out it’s just a bit to much trouble to, you know, actually FIGHT for them because our side is on a loosing streak of late, so you walk away from that too…
And then you turn around and wonder why you have so few fulfilling things in your life and you feel so EMPTY??
“Jinkeys Scooby! that IS a Mystery!
Brendan Kelly, I’d be curious how you propose to fight a system that has become so dysfunctional that it’s the equivalent of a bus headed for a cliff at 100 mph with no brakes? The primary fact we’re up against is that, in the US, 51% of the population are parasites and will endlessly vote themselves more entitlements. Considering that the parasite class is breeding prodigiously, the fraction of parasites will exceed 50% of the population for the indefinite future.
So, one has two choices:
(a) start an armed revolution and depose the TOTUS. Very messy as the parasite class probably would fight for the entitlements they believe they’re entitled to. We’ve got most of the guns and people with military experience, but the end result might be worse than what we started with.
(b) Drop out of society. That’s a round about way to deal with the problem and it means just working enough to get buy and not pay any taxes. By refusing to give the goverment your time, you starve the parasite class. Look at the Captain’s approach as a strike of the productive classes.
Yes, societal collapse will happen in any event and option (b) gives one a lot more free time to pursue ones interests instead of being a wage slave for the state. I’d also recommend moving out of large cities as the parasite classes are going to get very angry when the government can no longer provide them with entitlements. By country, I mean any city with a population under 100,000 as one can live on a few acres just outside of the main population area and have enough room to grow ones own food, have chickens, etc.
The last US election is the most depressing thing I’ve seen happen in my lifetime. I view the Captain’s approach of dropping out of society to starve the parasites as the most logical approach we currently have. One can do quite well in a barter economy and this is already taking place in the interior of BC as I’m not the only one who hates paying taxes.
I’ll fight if there’s no alternative, but until then I’m enjoying the decline.
“The last US election is the most depressing thing I’ve seen happen in my lifetime.” I agree to the extent that what happens in the US will directly affect us and when the collapse accelerates we will be seriously sideswiped. A close second was when Pierre Trudeau was elected, and Canada was turned upside down and a collectivist mentality took hold of our bureaucracy and educational systems.
As you know many of my extended family suffered and died under a monstrous system in Russia. We may well get our turn at the brick walls and gulags…in slow motion. The entitlement crowd seem to want that, but they know not what they will reap.
I’m not trying to make light of the serious times we are living through, but having to worry my way through another colonoscopy makes me realize that the most important thing is your health and your family.
Life isn’t for the fainthearted. And when you’re 84, neither is the prep.
Don’t let outside forces make you depressed as it’s what is on the inside that counts and we will, repeat “will”, make it through.
When you look at the free world today, what you see is a slow motion death spiral of everything we once took for granted. Other than vote for sanity and tilt at windmills we are all bystanders watching the band play on as the economic Titanic is sinking. I marvel at the number of occupants crowded in the shallow end of the gene pool. Rather than lash out at the situation I decided long ago to view the decline and inevitable crash as entertainment. So many well educated idiots with not a lick of common sense, and they are in charge. Although most don’t have a clue as to what they are doing as they have learned nothing from History. You simply can’t buy this kind of entertainment. I even watch MSNBC if I need a laugh. Entertainment is what you make it. Fear of the unknown has a much greater impact than fear of the inevitable. Every blogger on this site knows what’s coming. Prepare, sit back and enjoy the show. It’s just a little history repeating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WAgPs9To-8
What’s old is new again, hippies used to drop out…
Agreed. BTW not all us far-right extremist hatemongering fanatics are against electric cars. Once electric cars become viable they will succeed in the marketplace, at which point I’m sure “you guys” will start hating them. Because capitalism. And because public transit.
And I think the right’s opposition mainly comes from propaganda fatigue. Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining and all that.
The actual technology for DC electrical storage (AKA batteries) is about as advanced as sails to propel the first ocean explorers. The disavantages including the massive land waste disposal these poisonous heavy blocks of chemicals would produce would by far exceed the supposebly harm we are currently doing using direct energy to propel ourselves; combustible fuels.
Battery propelled vehicles is as stupid as bottled water. Instead of using the energy source directly (Like our current infrastructure brings us clean, dependable water right at our faucet), the idea is to use a source of energy (Most likely a carbon one too) to charge a heavy block.
Totally insane until something like dyletium crystals (See Star Trek) are discovered or invented.
BTW, Hydrogen as a fuel is still a pipe dream too…It takes tremendous amounts of electrical energy to produce hydrogen…Same idea as the batterie right now.
Right Honorable Terry Tory, completely correct. What’s mystifying is that the adherents of electric vehicles don’t see this. The time when one makes a change is when one has a bettery system than what currently exists. Right now battery technology isn’t even close to matching the energy density of gasoline and still miles away from liquid propane. Before I switch to a battery vehicle, I would want an increased energy density compared to what I have now, ie the battery system weight would be less than that of a full tank of gasoline + the fuel tank weight. Also, I’d like recharging to take no longer than it takes me to currently fill my gas tank. The regenerative braking alone would save on fuel costs. My Grand Cherokee has an instanteous mpg indicator and when I’m going down the long hill from my office, it maxes out at 60 mpg whereas it’s down at 10 mpg during city driving and 5 mpg driving uphill fast.
That’s a very tall order and I don’t know of a single chemically based battery system that can do this in theory. Ultracapacitors, maybe but again we’re talking about huge amounts of energy here and there may well be theoretic limitations on how much one can pump into an ultracapacitor before it blows up. The only possible systems I can see that would work are room temperature superconductions where one can inject a humungous current into them, but then the superconductivity vanishes once the magnetic field strength gets too large (and the superconductor blows up). And of course there’s the small, portable cold fusion device which I suspect will be the battery of the future. I believe that this device works, but the hot fusion adherents are getting 99.9% of the money for fusion research. The political climate is wrong for tiny nuclear reactors although I suspect these would be far less dangerous in vehicular collisions than two large Li batteries catching on fire.
Just occurred to me that one of the big causes of forest fires in BC during dry years was vehicular collisions where one of the vehicles caught on first and the started the nearby forest on fire. So, one exploding electric vehicle could start a large enough forest fire to negate the supposed “carbon savings” of every electric vehicle on the planet. We’re screwed as all governments are run by morons. That’s why I’m back to enjoying the decline.