Third Worldizing of America

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In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s—hole of a city.”
The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger. Rogen claimed that a car’s contents were minor things to lose. He added that while living in West Hollywood, he had his own car broken into 15 times, but thought little of it. Online bloggers ridiculed Rogen. No wonder: The actor lives in multimillion-dollar homes in the Los Angeles area, guarded by sophisticated security systems and fencing. Yet both Neistat and Rogen accurately defined Third Worldization: the utter breakdown of the law and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.

After traveling the last 45 years in the Middle East, southern Europe, Mexico, and Asia Minor, I observed some common characteristics of a so-called Third World society. And all of them might feel increasingly familiar to contemporary Americans. Whether in Cairo or Naples, theft was commonplace. Yet property crimes were almost never seriously prosecuted. In a medieval-type society of two rather than three classes, the rich in walled estates rarely worry that much about thievery. Crime is written off as an intramural problem of the poor, especially when the middle class is in decline or nonexistent.

Violent crime is now soaring in America. But two things are different about America’s new criminality. One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the merchandise without worry of arrest. Second, the left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system. So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”

Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not. There were 120 days of continuous looting, arson, and lethal violence during the summer of 2020. Rioters burned courthouses, police precincts, and an iconic church. And there was also a frightening riot on Jan. 6, when a mob entered Washington, D.C.’s Capitol and damaged federal property. Of those arrested during the violence, many have been held in solitary confinement or under harsh jail conditions. That one-day riot is currently the subject of a congressional investigation. Some of those arrested are still—10 months later—awaiting trial. The convicted are facing long prison sentences.

In contrast, some 14,000 were arrested in the longer and more violent rioting of 2020. Most were released without bail. The majority had their charges dropped. Very few are still being held awaiting capital charges. A common denominator to recent controversies at the Justice Department, CIA, FBI, and the Pentagon is that all these agencies under dubious pretexts have investigated American citizens with little or no justification—after demonizing their targets as “treasonous,” “domestic terrorists,” “white supremacists,” or “racists.”

In the Third World, basic services like power, fuel, transportation, and water are characteristically unreliable. In other words, much like a frequent California brownout. I’ve been on five flights in my life where it was announced there was not enough fuel to continue to the scheduled destination. The plane was required either to turn around or land somewhere on the way. One such aborted flight took off from Cairo, another from southern Mexico. The other three were this spring and summer inside the United States.

One of the most memorable scenes that I remember of Ankara, Old Cairo, or Algiers of the early 1970s were legions of beggars and the impoverished sleeping on sidewalks. But such impoverishment pales in comparison to the encampments of present-day Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, or San Francisco. Tens of thousands live on sidewalks and in open view use them to defecate, urinate, inject drugs, and dispose of refuse.

In the old Third World, extreme wealth and poverty existed in close proximity. It was common to see peasants on horse-drawn wagons a few miles from coastal villas. But there is now far more contiguous wealth and poverty in Silicon Valley. In Redwood City and East Palo Alto, multiple families cram into tiny bungalows and garages, often a few blocks from Tony Atherton. On the main streets outside of Stanford University and the Google campus, the helot classes sleep in decrepit trailers and buses parked on the streets.

Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization. But so was Rogen, though unknowingly so. The actor played the predictable role of the smug, indifferent Third World rich who master ignoring—and navigating around—the misery of others in their midst.



It's hard to argue against the possibility that America is turning into a banana republic. The democrats were only one or two votes away from destroying the two-party political system we live under and the checks and balances gov't that at least tries to protect our rights. Or used to. If anyone wants a one-party gov't, they obviously don't understand what that means in terms of reality. That's how you end up like North Korea.

Over the past 60 years or so, most of the institutions we trusted are in decay or distrust. Too many people no longer trust our justice system, and not without reason. Too many people do not trust our education system, and with good reason. Too many people do not trust our gov't at any level, and with good reason. How many of us believe we can print or borrow more money into infinity without consequence? How much longer can the carousel keep going before it stops, and what happens then?

As I see it, we are going to hit rock-bottom as a society, sooner or later. Another Great Depression that rivals or exceeds the 1930s is highly likely IMHO, and things are pretty much going to turn to shit. Will we be fortunate enough to have a leader come along that leads us back to what we once were, imperfect though it was. Or maybe even a better society than we once were, who knows?

Or not.
 
In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s—hole of a city.”
The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger. Rogen claimed that a car’s contents were minor things to lose. He added that while living in West Hollywood, he had his own car broken into 15 times, but thought little of it. Online bloggers ridiculed Rogen. No wonder: The actor lives in multimillion-dollar homes in the Los Angeles area, guarded by sophisticated security systems and fencing. Yet both Neistat and Rogen accurately defined Third Worldization: the utter breakdown of the law and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.

After traveling the last 45 years in the Middle East, southern Europe, Mexico, and Asia Minor, I observed some common characteristics of a so-called Third World society. And all of them might feel increasingly familiar to contemporary Americans. Whether in Cairo or Naples, theft was commonplace. Yet property crimes were almost never seriously prosecuted. In a medieval-type society of two rather than three classes, the rich in walled estates rarely worry that much about thievery. Crime is written off as an intramural problem of the poor, especially when the middle class is in decline or nonexistent.

Violent crime is now soaring in America. But two things are different about America’s new criminality. One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the merchandise without worry of arrest. Second, the left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system. So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”

Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not. There were 120 days of continuous looting, arson, and lethal violence during the summer of 2020. Rioters burned courthouses, police precincts, and an iconic church. And there was also a frightening riot on Jan. 6, when a mob entered Washington, D.C.’s Capitol and damaged federal property. Of those arrested during the violence, many have been held in solitary confinement or under harsh jail conditions. That one-day riot is currently the subject of a congressional investigation. Some of those arrested are still—10 months later—awaiting trial. The convicted are facing long prison sentences.

In contrast, some 14,000 were arrested in the longer and more violent rioting of 2020. Most were released without bail. The majority had their charges dropped. Very few are still being held awaiting capital charges. A common denominator to recent controversies at the Justice Department, CIA, FBI, and the Pentagon is that all these agencies under dubious pretexts have investigated American citizens with little or no justification—after demonizing their targets as “treasonous,” “domestic terrorists,” “white supremacists,” or “racists.”

In the Third World, basic services like power, fuel, transportation, and water are characteristically unreliable. In other words, much like a frequent California brownout. I’ve been on five flights in my life where it was announced there was not enough fuel to continue to the scheduled destination. The plane was required either to turn around or land somewhere on the way. One such aborted flight took off from Cairo, another from southern Mexico. The other three were this spring and summer inside the United States.

One of the most memorable scenes that I remember of Ankara, Old Cairo, or Algiers of the early 1970s were legions of beggars and the impoverished sleeping on sidewalks. But such impoverishment pales in comparison to the encampments of present-day Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, or San Francisco. Tens of thousands live on sidewalks and in open view use them to defecate, urinate, inject drugs, and dispose of refuse.

In the old Third World, extreme wealth and poverty existed in close proximity. It was common to see peasants on horse-drawn wagons a few miles from coastal villas. But there is now far more contiguous wealth and poverty in Silicon Valley. In Redwood City and East Palo Alto, multiple families cram into tiny bungalows and garages, often a few blocks from Tony Atherton. On the main streets outside of Stanford University and the Google campus, the helot classes sleep in decrepit trailers and buses parked on the streets.

Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization. But so was Rogen, though unknowingly so. The actor played the predictable role of the smug, indifferent Third World rich who master ignoring—and navigating around—the misery of others in their midst.



It's hard to argue against the possibility that America is turning into a banana republic. The democrats were only one or two votes away from destroying the two-party political system we live under and the checks and balances gov't that at least tries to protect our rights. Or used to. If anyone wants a one-party gov't, they obviously don't understand what that means in terms of reality. That's how you end up like North Korea.

Over the past 60 years or so, most of the institutions we trusted are in decay or distrust. Too many people no longer trust our justice system, and not without reason. Too many people do not trust our education system, and with good reason. Too many people do not trust our gov't at any level, and with good reason. How many of us believe we can print or borrow more money into infinity without consequence? How much longer can the carousel keep going before it stops, and what happens then?

As I see it, we are going to hit rock-bottom as a society, sooner or later. Another Great Depression that rivals or exceeds the 1930s is highly likely IMHO, and things are pretty much going to turn to shit. Will we be fortunate enough to have a leader come along that leads us back to what we once were, imperfect though it was. Or maybe even a better society than we once were, who knows?

Or not.
We are no where near a third world society!
 
"Worldizing".....................


Refers to playing back existing recordings through a speaker or speakers in real-world acoustic situations, and recording that playback with microphones so that the new recording takes on the acoustic characteristics of the place it was "re-recorded." Worldizing is a sound design concept created by Walter Murch.

 
It's hard to argue against the possibility that America is turning into a banana republic.
Immigration Act of 1965, and our open southern border have made it SO.

I have stated time and time again, if you want to see where we are headed look at Brazil, and the Republic of South Africa.

If you are white, and have means, emigrate to Asia.
 
Immigration Act of 1965, and our open southern border have made it SO.

I have stated time and time again, if you want to see where we are headed look at Brazil, and the Republic of South Africa.

If you are white, and have means, emigrate to Asia.

Not being a smartass, but where in Asia would you go? It looks like the Chinese will be running the eastern part and the Russians the western part, with what could be WWIII when they finally clash. Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
 
Not being a smartass, but where in Asia would you go? It looks like the Chinese will be running the eastern part and the Russians the western part, with what could be WWIII when they finally clash. Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Anywhere in East Asia. Literally.

Even the poorer nations in SE Asia are safer than our major cities.

WHY? Cultural homogeneity, and they are not filled with sub-Saharan Africans and Mestizos.

IF WW3 with China does come it will come because the west will initiate it.
 
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Yes, cultural homogeneity. You and your kids will always be outsiders.
You're damned straight.

However, being white in Asia is looking a FUCKLOAD more palatable over the next 20 years than it will be in the USA.

The fun is JUST beginning here.

It's gonna get B-A-D.
 
You're damned straight.

However, being white in Asia is looking a FUCKLOAD more palatable over the next 20 years than it will be in the USA.

The fun is JUST beginning here.

It's gonna get B-A-D.
Yeah, palatable. To run from your homeland and live as a second-class citizen (or, more correctly, non-citizen).
 
Yeah, palatable. To run from your homeland and live as a second-class citizen (or, more correctly, non-citizen).
Second class?

You should go spend some time in Asia.

Would I have a say?

Fuck no.

Would I want one?

Fuck no.
 
Second class?

You should go spend some time in Asia.

Would I have a say?

Fuck no.

Would I want one?

Fuck no.
And what will I see after spending some time there? That everyone respects you only when you have some money?
 
That everyone respects you only when you have some money?
News flash...that's not an Asia thing.

No free rides.

And what will I see after spending some time there?
Well, you will see an immediate jump in your quality and standard of living.

This runs the spectrum.

Medical costs, housing costs, availability of goods and services, quality and selection of food.

The one thing I love is that, with the exception of Japan, there are not a constant barrage of laws laws laws staring you in the face.

You do not immediately feel like the state, through taxation or penalty (fines, levies etc.) is trying to syphon every cent out of your pocket.

I have been living back in America now, after living in Europe and Asia for the better part of 25 years...and it is fucking dreadful.

The FOOD is dogshit, everything is ridiculously expensive, taxation is through the roof, inflation is as well, medical costs are beyond absurd.

Asia is not for everyone...but I encourage a look.
 

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