Brilliant minds thinking globally and locally. Spiteful mutants. Expressing appreciation (not) for Anthony Fauci

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So many brilliant minds have risen to the occasion and written about the threat to the American and Western European way of life posed by the new normal and all its features: the WEF, the engineered Covid virus, the draconian governmental measures imposed in the name of controlling it, the weird gender bending going on, the widespread acceptance of dangerous drugs and even pederasty, and so on that I wonder what I have to add.

Among the brilliant minds are Bret and Heather Weinstein and their two guests from a couple of years back, Robert Malone and Steve Kirsch. These guys are amazingly productive. I link to them frequently.

Through this pandemic I have gotten to know Stephanie Seneff, a long time friend of my friend Rob Moore, who is on top of the chemical threats to our health such as glyphosate and Covid. Another impressive woman, the much-maligned Judy Mikovits, framed the Covid situation succinctly in her movie Plandemic in May 2020. She was remarkably precient. Brilliant women on Substack such as Celia Farber, Jessica Rose and Margaret Anna Alice incisively analyze what’s going on and moreover, express their outrage eloquently.

So, what is the value of this blog?

First of all, as evidenced by my 500+ Amazon reviews, I am a reader. I am likely to see things that you didn’t run across in your own reading.

There are two articles today on what’s happening to American government by these aforementioned brilliant minds. Robert Malone has a long piece on the way American governance has evolved over the last few decades to bring us to this point. His broad knowledge of history and philosophy would be impressive for anybody, but especially for a man whose career has been spent in medicine.  el gato malo has his own valuable take on the same theme.

Now, what do I offer that is unique, where do I differ?

My focus is not America. I left the United States 15 years ago in the conviction that I would not be able to start a second family there. It was not only a question of my age. The phenomena that had made it difficult to find a wife in the 1970s, and had coached my millennial children in distrust of the opposite sex and to despise received wisdom such as that of their father, were even more pronounced.

Therefore, whereas Malone and gato devote themselves to an analysis of why America is failing and how to fix it, I am inclined to accept its fall as a fait accompli and ask what I should do for my family.

The Substack scribes ask the question, what should we do as a society? I have a young family. My question is, given the direction in which our civilization is headed, what should I do for my children?

I take an evolutionary perspective. The authors who best express it are Frank Salter and Edward Dutton, four or five of whose books I have reviewed and whose most recent book, Spiteful Mutants, is on my list. To put it briefly, Dutton’s thesis is that Darwinian selection was highly operative in Western European populations up until the Industrial Revolution. The most intelligent members of society were also the most likely to leave descendants. Less capable people did not find marriage partners or saw their children die in childhood.

For the past two centuries most children have survived to adulthood. Having a large family is no longer a mark of status; quite the opposite. With the decline of religion the more intelligent are given no societal push to have children, and increasingly do not.

One of Dutton’s recurrent themes is that Spiteful Mutants, personalities that would in previous ages not have left progeny, are becoming dominant in the population.

My evolutionary perspective dissuades me from asking the question “What can we do?” as if there were a societal level, political solution to the malaise of this age. As Oswald Spengler wrote a century ago, there will not be one. Evolution is a blind, ungovernable force. Therefore my question is “What can I do?” to prepare my children to play their own role in evolution, that is, to survive these turbulent times and have their own children.

Bringing it down to earth, I write about insights I gain raising my children. Oksana has Marianna run around without a diaper. She makes messes. She pees and poops on the floor. However, she is getting better and better at using the potty, especially for poop. Whereas Zoriana used to wake up with a poopy diaper every morning, Marianna does not. Somehow this is working.

A second advantage is that she does not have diaper rash. I have rarely seen a child scratch their diaper rash – it bothers mom a lot more than it bothers the kid – but I assume it is better not to have it.  A third advantage is that we don’t have to buy as many diapers. It saves money. I do not know if Procter & Gamble or Kimberly-Clark are part of the woke parade, but at this point I am inclined to buy from Korean rather than American manufacturers just as a matter of principle. A vast number of American corporations seem willing to jettison traditional American values to appease the radical left. I don’t have time to research who’s who. If you know better, please let me know via a comment.

“Let’s go Brandon” was an indication that traditional America is finally coming around. Here’s another one from today’s news. Anthony Fauci was invited to throw the opening pitch for the Seattle Mariners baseball team. Seattle is one of the most liberal, drug-addled, criminal-friendly, poop-stained formerly beautiful cities in the country. Here is the reception that Fauci received.

Those are the musings from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man continues to impress on son Eddie that the ability to write is going to be critical, and the time to practice is now. The good-looking woman is downstairs teaching music to Marianna and three other kids her age, and Zoriana and I had our usual bucolic bicycle ride down dirt roads to kindergarten this lovely morning.

Graham