Reprint from 2011
While looking for links on the medieval version of Prosperity Gospel, ran into this item from 2011, which happened to use the word prosperity.

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This feature in New Superstitionist runs through a new 'theory' that links public health to democracy.

[According to Randy Thornhill,] ... the nature of the political system that holds sway in a particular country - whether it is a repressive dictatorship or a liberal democracy - may be determined in large part by a single factor: the prevalence of infectious disease.

NS, to its credit, kicks down three dozen absurdities in this notion, but still misses the most basic problems.

First, Thornhill totally ignores race and ethnicity. When you open your eyes to the fact that PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT, you don't need this theory at all. Racial tendencies explain both the competence of government and the prevalence of disease. (I thought the whole point of Sociobiology was to pay attention to biological differences, but apparently that has gone away.)

Second, Thornhill assumes that voting is a good measure of 'democracy', and assumes that 'democracy' is a desirable condition. There is no evidence for either assumption. Every society has some form of election. Tribal elders meet to choose the new chief. Modern quantitative democracy is a tool to eliminate popular consent. When you have a 'mandate' generated by publicity, trickery and cheating, and reinforced by a totally uniform 'free press', you don't need to listen to the real voice of the people. When your power depends solely on remaining unshot by bullets or unpierced by arrows, you're more likely to listen.

Third, modern 'democracy' eliminates the firmness and courage needed to maintain public health. We could have controlled AIDS much faster, using time-tested public health techniques, if our 'democracy' hadn't surrendered to the rich and powerful homosexual lobby. Several old diseases (plague, TB, polio) are coming back because politicians want maximum immigration from primitive countries in order to gain new voters. Other old diseases are returning because our 'democracy' listens to the Vaccines Cause Autism pressure group. Malaria is returning because our 'democracy' respects the rich and powerful Gaian fanatics more than it respects life.

Here's the basic fact: A well-organized and well-disciplined country that has some regard for its own people will eradicate parasites and diseases, and will also increase its prosperity. After a country reaches a certain degree of comfort and prosperity, it often turns toward 'democracy', which destroys its discipline and prosperity and brings it back to the default Haitian level. 'Democracy' is neither a cause nor an effect of good public health, 'democracy' is a disease that eliminates public health.

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Well, they gave us plenty of warning, didn't they? I'd completely forgotten about this clear statement that DISEASE MUST STOP FREEDOM.

I got two things right: (1) We were already destroying normal public health procedures in 2011. We finished the job this year. (2) The governments that resisted the holocaust longest were the "authoritarians" that weren't using the fakery of "democracy". Tanzania and Belarus have strong leaders who are considered "undemocratic" by Soros and Bezos.

But I didn't get the main variable.

In 2011 I side-mentioned a government that has some regard for its own people. This turns out to be the MOST important thing, not just one factor. Ethnically centered discipline without regard is the worst combination. See Germany. The regard variable is easily visible inside the US, where all of the states have the same nominal system.

Summing up, the best combination seems to have three ingredients:

(1) The leader must be human, not a demon. Ideally he should want to serve the people. Even an uncaring rich playboy who simply wants to indulge his own pleasure is fine, as long as his own pleasure isn't mass murder.

(2) The leader must be strong enough, and have enough support from his bureaucrats and military, to resist Soros and Bezos.

(3) He must NEED a population that is alive and working and relatively contented. The best way to insure this NEED is to depend on taxes, not debt. The countries and states that resisted best have REAL business and depend on taxing REAL business. They don't depend on abstract finance, and aren't in a position to generate counterfeit money through software magic. A government that needs live people will keep them alive. A government that doesn't need live people will kill everybody.

Labels: Fucking constants and fucking variables

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