Clown World Chronicles: Education In Clown World

Going through the education system is tough at any time, in any place. Most children would rather be outside playing than sitting in a classroom, and for them it’s not always obvious what the value of an education might be. Although getting educated is, in theory, a great privilege, in practice the value of an education varies.

The education systems of the past have given us a foretaste of what Clown World would be like. With its indifferent authorities, its braying masses, its absurd rules and regulations, its propensity for fads and fashions and its non-consensual nature, the education system was always a Clown World in microcosm.

Clown World education began with the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999. This was the moment when most people realised how shit the school system really was. Up until then, it was laughed off or denied. After then, it was acknowledged that school truly sucked for a great number of people, and that bullying and emotional abuse were rife.

These shootings led to one of the stranger aspects of Clown World education: school shooter drills. Because schools have now been shot up by disgruntled students so many times, it’s common for them to run drills where children are taught to lock the classroom door and hide. Mass shooter drills are so common that psychologists have analysed how to conduct them most effectively.

These drills aren’t the most horrifying thing in Clown World education – that’s the brainwashing.

The problem is that school could be great. In theory, a place where a young person could go to learn accurate information about the world would be excellent. It would prepare them for life as an adult and would make that life much easier. After all, there are few things that cause as much suffering as ignorance.

Unfortunately, politics has prevailed. The opportunity to mold the minds of the next generation proved too tempting for those who had ambitions to reshape society. Schools have always been brainwashing centres, but they have become worse in recent decades as they have attracted a certain sort of person to their staff.

There is immense power in being able to dictate the terms of reality to impressionable people. So those who wish to reshape the world in their own image have always been drawn to taking jobs in education. Today, instead of being places of education, schools have become places of indoctrination.

The ‘Long March through the Institutions‘ is the name given to the Marxist strategy of reshaping society by infiltrating its institutions, taking high positions of power, then using that power to destroy their opponents. Along with the media, the education system has been a primary target of these activists.

The logic is that teachers can indoctrinate any children under their command into believing whatever the teacher desires. So if the teacher is on a social justice crusade, they have a captive audience to push that on. Even if some children reject the programming, most of them will be some form of NPC, and will repeat what they’re told uncritically.

So most teachers are now social justice warriors or at least committed leftists. One study found that, at America’s top 40 universities, leftist professors outnumbered right-wing ones by 12 to 1. The situation is similar at earlier levels. This has ensured that students in Clown World only get to hear the accepted, politically correct perspective.

This has recently led to several absurdities. One such was the renaming of the David Hume tower at Edinburgh University in honour of George Floyd. That such a university would be willing to flush the memory of one of Scotland’s greatest thinkers down the toilet, and all in the name of a temporary fad, shows the low esteem in which philosophy is held.

Another was lecturers at the University of New South Wales being forbidden to say that Aborigines arrived in Australia 40,000 years ago, because that contradicted Aboriginal lore that they had been there forever.

Complicating things is the influence of big business. From the advent of public education, business interests have lobbied politicians to design the education system in such a way that the needs of employers are met.

What big business wants are workers who are too traumatised to resist authority or to demand wage increases. They want mindless drones who turn up on time, do their jobs without complaint, and then fuck off home. The last thing they want is a population instructed about the workings of politics who could effectively oppose them.

The education system meets corporate needs as much as it meets anyone else’s. That’s why it isn’t fussed about the bullying that can lead to events like the Columbine Shootings. School bullying is simply the way that young people are broken in and brought to the heel of their elders. Only through repeated exposure to human sadism can the desired degree of submission be achieved.

This is also why children are educated to solve technical issues and not, for example, mental health issues. Children will learn trigonometry well before they learn to recognise the signs of depression, even though the latter skill is far more likely to be useful. Clown World doesn’t care about solving mental health issues. Mentally ill workers are chucked on the scrapheap and new ones imported.

In Clown World, you get this form of education whether you like it or not. Children are the property of the government, and this goes for their minds as well as their bodies. This is why governments across the West are opposing moves to allow homeschooling of children. Homeschooling is either illegal or heavily regulated in most Western countries today.

You have to learn what the government wants you to learn – and that’s technical skills, submission or just crap. It’s in achieving the latter two objectives that so much time is taken up with Holocaust classes or hamfisted attempts to “end racism”. Such teaching instills submission-inducing guilt even more effectively than a priest could.

It’s also why there is so much emphasis on homework – students have to learn, as early as possible, that their time is owned by someone else. That someone with the power to punish them is always watching. Clown World education teaches delusion and submission for political and economic reasons. It’s so pozzed, some classrooms even teach that objectivity is white supremacy!

Unluckiest of all is the student who genuinely wants to learn, as he will most likely be surrounded by howling monkeys who don’t.

This article is an excerpt from Clown World Chronicles, a book about the insanity of life in the post-Industrial West. This is being compiled by Vince McLeod for an expected release in the middle of 2020.

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Clown World Chronicles: Business In Clown World

A common proverb states that the business of America is business. Indeed, America has long been the place where fortunes were made. But now that the West has degenerated into Clown World, business works in a different way. Fortunes are still made – but at a cost.

Clown World commerce is not what we’re used to. The story we’re all told at school is that productivity is a function of capital and labour, which work happily together to create needed goods and services. The supply of needed goods and services ameliorates human suffering and therefore earns profits and is a moral good.

The reality is much more complicated.

Although most of this book blames varieties of Marxism, atheism and materialism for Clown World’s woes, a large amount of the blame must be placed on capitalism. The political demands made by Marxists may be obvious, but the demands made by capitalists are no less pressing. These demands have had the effect of making Western society more of a twisted circus.

Capitalism is to blame for the fact that the growth of low and middle-income wages has decoupled from productivity. Although productivity has increased several times over recent decades, wage growth has lagged a long way behind. This has occurred because capital has exploited its strengthening negotiating position to offer workers worse deals. This change is shown graphically on the website WTF Happened in 1971.

The major consequence of this decoupling is that most of the increase in wealth accrues to an ever-smaller section of the population. Some studies suggest that the top 1% of the American population has looted as much as 85% of the growth in wealth since the Global Financial Crisis. In Clown World business, the system does not work for the good of the population, but only for the people at the top.

Capitalism is also to blame for the mass importation of cheap labour, as well as the sentiment that bringing in cheap labour is necessary because the locals are unwilling to do those jobs. Major industrial interests lobby government representatives to open borders and to lift restrictions on the movement of cheap labour. They also instruct their propaganda organs to manufacture public approval for such measures.

The Clown World workplace operates on a model closer to that of West Indian sugar plantations: if you won’t work for nothing, we’ll find someone who will. Any demand for a fair wage is portrayed as a refusal to work. The Clown World media plays a crucial role, supporting the capitalists by running stories about how fruit and vegetables will rot in the fields if immigration restrictions are not relaxed.

Things are so badly tilted towards capital now that it has become extremely difficult to buy a home without using inherited money. In New Zealand, house prices have increased 7 times since 1992, but wages have only increased 2.25 times. It’s a similar grim story in other Western countries. In the United States things are so bad that it was possible for the Wall Street Journal to headline an article with “Millions of Young People Shut Out of the Housing Market.”

Clown World business is about maximising short-term profit at the expense of all other considerations.

Because labour is usually one of the largest costs of any business, Clown World has seen extreme measures taken to cut labour costs. The most popular of those has been to ship manufacturing and services overseas to cheap labour zones that don’t have expensive regulation relating to worker protection.

The result of this drive for cheap labour is a lower quality of goods and services. We might have more of everything, but that everything is worse. By today, it’s all but impossible to speak to a customer service representative who has English as a native language. The result is confusion and frustration.

The drive to cut costs doesn’t stop at being cheap. It can extend to living entirely off someone else’s credit.

In Clown World business, it’s possible to live off investor money as it keeps rolling in, rather than make a profit. It’s not actually necessary to turn a profit and live off that, as a traditional business would. Investor money will keep coming into a business as long as that business retains a positive reputation. This means public relations.

As recently as 2015, media giant YouTube had never turned a profit, and it’s not clear that they turn one now. Twitter still doesn’t turn a profit. It’s not necessary to ever turn a profit as long as investor money keeps coming in to finance operations. And this money will keep rolling in as long as the company has good public relations. In Clown World business, success is mostly a matter of politics.

That politics trumps profit in Clown World can be seen from the bizarre alliances that corporate titans make with various political movements. Before the body of George Floyd had cooled to room temperature, major corporations had hit the media with campaigns showing their support for Black Lives Matter. Even McDonald’s ran an advertisement hailing the memory of Floyd.

These alliances help secure government funding, which is often even better than investor funding because it can come in the form of grants. The Government is a major source of funding for Clown World business, whether in the form of business development grants or tax breaks. Elon Musk got $4,900,000,000 of it! If you can convince an important person that your business is likely to provide jobs in the future, chances are good that person will cut you some public cash.

A business model where people are paid low wages, and hence can’t buy the goods and services of other businesses, isn’t sustainable for long. Sooner or later the impoverished masses start counting every last dollar, and when they do the consumerist economy shudders to a halt. Clown World business is when all long-term considerations are abandoned in favour of the next quarterly report.

There are many questions around Clown World business in the post-coronavirus future. If consumption falls sharply, how will people stay employed? If they can’t stay employed, must we introduce a universal basic income? And if 50% of women under 30 supplement their income with OnlyFans payments, where does that leave young men?

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Clown World Chronicles: Medicine In Clown World

Most people think of medicine as the practice of alleviating human suffering, and doctors as people who act to alleviate human suffering. This may have been true before Clown World started, but the story today is something else.

In Clown World, medicine serves two primary objectives: profit, and conforming to political correctness. Of these two, profit is by far the most important. There’s nothing in the world more profitable than human suffering, and so Clown World medicine seeks to profit first and foremost.

The old days where you were given a medicine that cured your ailment is long gone. Today, the focus of medicine is on giving the patient a lifetime prescription that they have to keep coming back to fill. As Chris Rock said, the money isn’t in the cure. The money’s in the medicine.

Doctors in Clown World are more motivated by making profit than by anything else. If Medicine A is 90% effective and generates $10 profit, and Medicine B is 50% effective but generates $100 profit, then the patient will get Medicine B every single time.

This is why cannabis, which is understood by all informed people to be a medicinal plant, is still banned in most of the world. A medicine that can be grown at the patient’s home in a bucket is simply not profitable. So the various medical associations, influenced by Big Pharma, have not made the medicinal benefits of cannabis clear to their respective legal authorities, who have left it illegal.

This is also why it’s so hard to get treatment with psilocybin and MDMA. Although psilocybin therapy has been declared a “breakthrough therapy” by the American Food and Drug Administration, it’s still all but impossible to access. The problem is that psilocybin, like MDMA, offers the promise of a permanent cure – and there’s no profit in permanent cures.

The horrifying reality is that there’s no money in resetting a person’s mind and realigning them with the secrets of Nature and the Will of God. Although such a measure might completely restructure the mind so that it doesn’t suffer, there’s more profit in getting a person to take a daily antidepressant or antipsychotic. The result is such pharmaceuticals being pushed.

Profit is also the reason for sex-change surgery, which is the most grotesque form of Frankenscience since electroshock therapy. The total yearly market for sex-change surgery in America has been estimated at over a billion dollars. Fees for surgery for one person can run into six figures.

Clown World medicine has reached its most ridiculous expression in America. Despite the fact that America spends more money on healthcare per capita than any other country on Earth, the American life expectancy at birth is no higher than that of Cuba or Lebanon. Where other countries have universal healthcare, Americans regularly get financially wiped out by medical expenses. Some two-thirds of their personal bankruptcies are tied to unpayable medical bills.

The American population also suffers from an opioid crisis. If Clown World began at the turn of the century, American deaths by opioid overdose have increased six times since then, from some 8,000 a year to near 50,000 a year. One of the most popular of the medicinal opioids is OxyContin. This painkiller has made billions of dollars in profits for the Sackler family that control Purdue Pharma, its pharmaceutical manufacturer.

The Sackler family has pushed the overprescription of OxyContin, even when they knew it was killing people. In Clown World, profit is more important than human life.

Profit-seeking is not the only thing wrong with Clown World medicine. Social justice culture also plays a role. British health chiefs are trying to rid their National Health Service of “white privilege”. In reality, this will mean that white people find it harder to get jobs and healthcare. New Zealand has shown where this is likely headed: there, white people have been pushed to the back of some healthcare waiting lists.

Ironically, medicine, when correctly practiced, destroys political correctness. It’s extremely difficult for mixed-race bone marrow transplant patients to find a matching donor. This is proof that race is a real thing and that it has a biological basis, contradicting the social justice warrior position that there are no genetic differences between races.

On top of soulless profit-seeking and social justice logic is simple incompetence. This has also reached an apogee during Clown World. The worst of it happens to people who need mental health care.

The American suicide rate increased 24% between 1999 and 2014. This is mostly because the pressures of Clown World have led to widespread despair. For many Westerners, the future seems grim, if not hopeless – but Clown World mental health care is based around prescribing people the most expensive (and profitable) sedative possible. Any patient sedated to the point where they stop complaining is declared cured.

Assuaging the suffering of the soul is not considered important. All Clown World doctors are educated to believe that the brain generates consciousness, and therefore that the death of the brain means the extinction of consciousness. This is of less than no help to the many residents of Clown World who are threatened with deaths of despair. But medicine in Clown World only sometimes serves to alleviate human suffering.

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Clown World Chronicles: Science In Clown World

As mentioned in the previous chapter, everything in Clown World is now political. Like a toxic gas, the political world has seeped into every pore of every realm of being. The scientific world has not escaped this phenomenon. Clown World science is very far from a sober examination of reality.

In theory, the beauty of science is that it is apolitical. The archetypal scientific mind is one that has no fear for the truth, nor any fear of worldly terrors. As such, the true scientist is not influenced by political concerns. They have no desire for the world to be a particular way; they only wish to discover the world as it is, in all its florid, multivariate glory.

Unfortunately, true scientists are extremely rare in this phase of the political cycle. They’re even more rare in the university system, because the maverick mentality that makes a true scientist gets ostracised by the politically correct groupthink of the academy. This has led to a scientific establishment which is extremely easily influenced by the political fashions of the day.

In Clown World, science is subordinate to politics. What science says is one thing, but what politics says that science says is another. This is mostly because of cancel culture. In Clown World science, many topics of scientific study are taboo. Any scientist who speaks honestly about them risks having their entire lives destroyed by social pressure mobs.

The greatest taboo in Clown World relates to the science of human biodiversity. Although Nature is replete with diversity, with life flowing into every possible niche, the Clown World dogma is that all human groups are precisely the same when it comes to genetic intellectual potential. Anything one human group can achieve can be achieved by any other.

The reality is very different, with the science suggesting that between 60-80% of intelligence is hereditary. If intelligence is 70% hereditary, that means that the often-noted IQ gap between whites and blacks is mostly attributable to inherent genetic differences between the two populations, and not to environmental factors such as poverty during one’s upbringing.

Indeed, experts believe that 45% of the variance in socioeconomic status can be explained by intelligence alone. Once one factors in things like conscientiousness, drive and luck, there is very little room left over for structural discrimination to explain variance in socioeconomic status between races.

However, this line of reasoning is forbidden in Clown World. This is because the scientific facts about race and IQ demonstrate a major flaw of neoliberalism. If intelligence is mostly hereditary, then it isn’t possible to simply import cheap labour from overseas and have their offspring grow up to behave indistinguishably from the natives.

The offspring of immigrants will behave as their genes induce them to behave, with a small amount of variation due to environmental influence. This means that immigrants from low-IQ countries will tend to have children with low IQs, and being low IQ they are likely to end up criminal and poor. This, in turn, means that immigration from low-IQ countries ought to be opposed – but this belief is a threat to the powers that profit from it.

In Clown World, a scientist cannot publicly state the facts about race and IQ without their reputation getting destroyed. This even happened to no less a luminary than the discoverer of DNA himself, James Watson. Watson was stripped of honourary titles because he stated that genes caused a difference in IQ test results between blacks and whites.

Not even winning a Nobel Prize is sufficient to make you a scientific authority in a subject if your opinions contradict the political fashions. Anyone with an interest in race and IQ is a racist, and therefore the findings of that entire field of science can be dismissed (and replaced with political dogma).

Sex differences between men and women also are another taboo subject where the science is denied. Clown World scientists talk about something called the Gender Equality Paradox. This refers to the observation that the proportion of women in STEM subjects is lower in countries where women are more free (such as Scandinavia) than in countries where women are less free (such as the Islamic ones).

Clown World dogma holds that women have been unfairly excluded from scientific communities because of the prejudices of men. Men wanted to subjugate women and keep them in the kitchen, and so women were not allowed in. This dogma contrasts sharply with the observed reality that free women tend not to study STEM subjects.

The reality is that women don’t think the same way that men do, and so they don’t value the same things. In all species, the female is the gatekeeper of sex. As such, the male must strive to distinguish himself from the other males if he wants to reproduce. So the male is generally much more motivated than the female to strive for high status: this is true of nearly every species.

Women in free countries choose not to study STEM because women in general are interested in other subjects. There is no paradox. When a woman is free to study what she likes, without the pressure to earn prestige for her family that exists in less free societies, she will study what’s in her nature to study. Usually that isn’t STEM.

The rulers of Clown World don’t want to admit that the different sexes are motivated by different things, because they want cheap female workers in the labour force, and not at home raising children. The real threat, too dangerous to be spoken, is that if women were given absolute freedom most of them would prefer homemaking to the pointless stress of the Clown World workplace. This would drastically reduce the supply of labour and cause wage costs to spike.

In Clown World, even mathematics gets decolonised. The rise of the concept of ethnomathematics represents the absolute pollution of scientific space with political influence. The true absurdity is that the politically correct deny that human subgroups are different when it comes to IQ, but also assert that those populations are different enough that each one has its own mathematics.

The push to diversify everything has led to a promise from NASA to put a woman on the Moon by 2024. It can be predicted with confidence that, once this is achieved, the next mission will be to put a black man on the Moon, and then a gay man, and so on down the list until every minority group is ticked off.

Science is now pozzed root and branch. Today, many science departments are more worried about diversity than about making original contributions to human knowledge. Clown World logic insists that, because all human groups are perfectly equal in all measures, any proportional under-representation of any group must be because of exclusionary prejudice. Therefore, diversification is an end unto itself.

Because diversity is now prized above merit, scientific journals are flooded with garbage articles about ludicrous concepts like stereotype threat. This concept, invented to excuse away lower black academic performance, has now come under suspicion on account of that it could not be replicated. Unfortunately, so much of social psychology has failed replication that the reputation of the science is now in tatters.

Clown World science is everything science shouldn’t be, which is coming up with a desired conclusion first and then finding evidence that fits it. The reason for this is, as mentioned above, politics. The desire of people to force the world to conform to their political conceptions is stronger than their desire to discover the truth. Many people enter the scientific world with the intent of winning the political battle for their team. These people do not advance science.

In fact, it has now been argued that scientific progress is slowing down. Even worse, scientific literacy is decreasing, which means that we’re going backwards by at least one major measure. In Clown World, scientific activity destroys knowledge as often as it uncovers it.

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