Europe, the not boring thread

[Smitty-48]

I mean, were they really worse off in Vietnam?

They're like moths to the flame, they weren't seeking freedom,

they were chasing a lifestyle which is actually vacuous,

Died for what ? A Prada bag ? A Mercedes-Benz ?

I'd rather live in a village in Vietnam, a tropical paradise, rainy old England is a hell hole

[SuburbanFarmer]

I mean, were they really worse off in Vietnam?

They're like moths to the flame, they weren't seeking freedom,

they were chasing a lifestyle which is actually vacuous,

Died for what ? A Prada bag ? A Mercedes-Benz ?

Hard to convince someone they’re better off in abject poverty.

[Smitty-48]

I mean, were they really worse off in Vietnam?

They're like moths to the flame, they weren't seeking freedom,

they were chasing a lifestyle which is actually vacuous,

Died for what ? A Prada bag ? A Mercedes-Benz ?

Hard to convince someone they’re better off in abject poverty.

It's not abject poverty in Vietnam, Vietnam is booming,

You don't need money to enjoy life in a tropical paradise, eat your rice and fish heads, mmm good.

They were no escaping poverty, they were chasing the vacuous Western consumer lifestyle

Cry me a river,

[Fife]

Western navel-gazing is circling the bowl.

The Gibs are hawt for the moment, at least for the low-IQ ne'er-do-wells looking for the Rainbow Stew buffet.

People who know the difference know that the urbanite West is a losing bet.

Austrian Economics Looks East

But today the concept of East and West are metaphoric as much as geographic.

Maybe we need to turn back toward Vienna, toward the Balkans, the Baltics, the former Eastern Bloc, and even toward Asia to find people interested in what makes a free and prosperous society. We cannot ignore how sad, tired, and addled the West has become. We cannot ignore how many in the West simply no longer care about what makes us rich, or even worse imagine wealth will continue to manifest itself all around us regardless of incentives or state depredations. This is why we see the rise of candidates like Elizabeth Warren and growing support for socialism among the young across America and Europe.

Many in the West simply have given up.

The great investor and fan of Austrian economics Jimmy Rogers says that young people seeking their fortune in 1900 moved West to America, while young people seeking their fortune in 2000 moved East to Asia — which is why he raises his children in Singapore. Of course recent events in Hong Kong show the terrible reality of Chinese state authoritarianism, but the people of the East in the twenty-first century want to get rich, to build wealth, to enjoy all the material comforts of the West — while the West is reduced to socialist schemes for redistribution of already existing wealth. The West consumes capital created by our grandparents, the East builds capital for their grandchildren.

. . .

In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, our revolution is paleo, not neo. It takes its cues from Vienna, and finds its origins in a better, older Misesian worldview. It increasingly looks East, not West to the failing and sclerotic thinking of Frankfurt or Brussels or London or New York or Washington DC. It is localist and decentralist, not globalist. And it places property front and center in the liberal program, as Mises did 100 years ago.

And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I mean, were they really worse off in Vietnam?

They're like moths to the flame, they weren't seeking freedom,

they were chasing a lifestyle which is actually vacuous,

Died for what ? A Prada bag ? A Mercedes-Benz ?

Hard to convince someone they’re better off in abject poverty.

It's not abject poverty in Vietnam, Vietnam is booming,

You don't need money to enjoy life in a tropical paradise, eat your rice and fish heads, mmm good.

They were no escaping poverty, they were chasing the vacuous Western consumer lifestyle

Cry me a river,

Can’t blame em really. All they know of us is financial porn and cowboys.

[Smitty-48]

Hard to convince someone they’re better off in abject poverty.

It's not abject poverty in Vietnam, Vietnam is booming,

You don't need money to enjoy life in a tropical paradise, eat your rice and fish heads, mmm good.

They were no escaping poverty, they were chasing the vacuous Western consumer lifestyle

Cry me a river,

Can’t blame em really. All they know of us is financial porn and cowboys.

I don't blame them, but I am not their keeper, they do as they please, more power to them, and good luck.

[TheReal_ND]

[Hastur]

[de officiis]

Not sure how to respond to shit like that anymore. I guess this is the way we're going.

[Smitty-48]

We don't have children and I don't have the parental instinct, so I couldn't care less about other people's children.

So long as they don't bother me on my property, they are none of my concern.

Even if somebody were to bother me on my property, I seriously doubt it's going to be these sorts of people.