Mathematics and physics are my passions in life, but I have grave concerns about the survival of basic knowledge, which permits civilisation to continue. In a nutshell, people are becoming so dumbed down, even given technology, which they use like “magic,” that if some sort of collapse occurs, it may not be possible for any sort of speedy rebuilding of advanced knowledge, contrary to thinkers such as Lewis Dartnell, in The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, (Penguin, New York, 2015). People may not be even able to understand long sentences, like the previous one.
  http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/

     Rebuilding the world from first scientific principles will, at some point require a high degree of mathematical knowledge, and I do not believe that Dartnell has considered how difficult it will be to preserve mathematical knowledge. Consider:

     As a cradle Catholic, and now an ex-Catholic, I described myself as abandoned and betrayed by the Church. Almost every week the Third World Pope comes out with a new politically correct announcement to make the elite happy. But, I am not the only one feeling this way:
  http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/27/former-vatican-doctrinal-chief-many-catholics-feel-abandoned-and-betrayed-by-shepherds/

“Cardinal Gerhard Müller said this week that many bishops today are involved in “a blatant process of Protestantizing” the Catholic Church, leaving many of the faithful confused and disoriented. In a powerful interview published Tuesday in Catholic World Report, the former prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith had particularly strong words for his fellow German bishops. A group of these bishops, led by the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, “see themselves as trendsetters of the Catholic Church on the march into modernity,” Müller warned. These German bishops “consider the secularization and de-Christianization of Europe as an irreversible development,” he said, and for this reason have abandoned the “New Evangelization,” since it is in their view “a battle against the objective course of history, resembling Don Quixote’s battle against the windmills.”

     One litmus test of impending social collapse is when core institutions no longer function as they should. When workers begin committing suicide in significant numbers, one knows that there is a problem:
  http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/389999-american-health-care-workers-are-committing-suicide-in-unprecedented 
  http://collapse.news/2018-06-04-us-health-care-system-collapsing-so-rapidly-that-workers-are-now-committing-suicide.html

“As America focuses on one epidemic — the opioid crisis — another goes entirely ignored. American health-care workers are dying by suicide in unprecedented numbers. Earlier this month, a medical student and a resident at NYU medical school completed suicide less than a week apart. My junior colleague took her life just 11 days before her 35th birthday. I had supervised her as she transitioned into practice from fellowship. She said that the way I said her name foretold if the conversation pointed to a weakness or a strength in her patient assessment. My last sight of her was as she drove off to her new job. Less than six months later, she made a life-ending choice. A scan of her suicide note, asking that I be notified, was emailed to me. I did not show it to anyone. The news of her suicide was announced by an email in the department. We all went about our business, as if suicide by a young colleague is usual. And perhaps, in a way it is. After all, physician suicide — and more broadly health-care worker suicide — is a huge issue in the U.S. In my own experience, I have lost six colleagues to suicide — five physicians and one physician assistant. That does not include the suicides that I have heard about through the whisper network at work.”

     Writers are covering the development of civil war in the USA, but Greece also has its instabilities:
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/05/greeks-afraid-muslim-migrants.html/ 
  http://www.iefimerida.gr/video/412297/dimarhos-lesvoy-oi-katoikoi-fovoyntai-na-kykloforisoyn-vinteoo

“Spyros Galinis, the mayor of Mytilene, the capital of the island of Lesbos, told Greek news outlet Iefimerida, that the people in his city are increasingly concerned about migrants. Galinis said that “Women are afraid to go out of their homes, we keep our children in our houses”. According to the mayor, Lesbos is exhausted of the ongoing dangerous situation with migrants. The people of Lesbos were once represented by the media as the people of solidarity, who even opened their homes to refugees from Syria. But now the situation has completely changed, as the once solidary and tolerant residents of Lesbos are facing the cruel reality of the uncontrolled mass immigration crisis that is inflicting Europe once again. Mr Galinos added: “Our citizens feel abandoned by Greece and by the EU, Greek citizens meanwhile form only one third of the people living on this island”. Earlier , the Médecins Sans Frontières agency warned that Lesbos “has reached a point of eruption “

     More absurdities from our friends, the universities, full of Arts/Farts/Humanities departments where the-to-be described sort of bs is freely cultivated. Unfortunately, normal manure is natural and helps the garden grow, but the manure produced by the modern university is highly toxic and quite dangerous to life and society. I submit to your consideration a prime example of academic research in the Humanities/Social Sciences:
  http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/06/20/academic-journal-publishes-study-on-dog-rape-culture-claims-female-dogs-are-oppressed/

“A women’s studies researcher says she examined the genitals of 10,000 dogs for her study on canine “rape culture” this month. The journal Gender, Place, and Culture, is a monthly peer-reviewed publication that focuses on issues of feminist geography. In 2015, it was ranked the thirteenth most influential women’s studies academic journal in the world. This year, the journal published an unusual piece by researcher Helen Wilson about “rape culture” in “urban dog parks.” The article, titled “Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon,” astonishingly argues that female dogs suffer oppression at the paws of male dogs and that humans are indifferent to violence between dogs. In what must have been an attempt to reach peak academic absurdity, Wilson says that she examined the genitals of almost 10,000 dogs during her observational study into canine “rape culture.” “The usual caveats of observational research also apply here,” Wilson wrote. “While I closely and respectfully examined the genitals of slightly fewer than ten thousand dogs, being careful not to cause alarm and moving away if any dog appeared uncomfortable, there is some relevant margin of error concerning my observations about their gender in some instances.”

     There was shock! horror! among libtards when President Trump pardoned conservative film-maker Dinesh D’Souza, who claims that he was persecuted by President Obama:
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44319709 
  http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/06/01/maher-trump-turning-pardons-into-partisan-tool-to-undermine-our-democracy/
  http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/06/04/dinesh-dsouza-i-was-targeted-by-narcissistic-obama/

“Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” conservative political commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza said he was prosecuted for making an illegal campaign contribution because his film about former President Barack Obama was “emotionally damaging ” to “a narcissistic president.” D’Souza said, “You have to look at the context of this. Let’s remember, just weeks before all of this went down I released a movie in the theater, 2,000 theaters about Obama and it wasn’t just a critique of his policies. I was in Kenya at his family homestead. I interviewed his brother in a slum in Nairobi. It was an emotionally damaging movie to Obama, and the president was very upset by it. I’m not just speculating. I know this because he was regularly denouncing me on his website Barackobama.com. So when that happens and a few later the FBI comes banging on your door.”

     Here are some interesting comments of immigration limitation coming from the last remnants of the intelligent Left. The URL has a rude word in it for us gentle souls, so I have censored it so no-one is offended. But, that’s just the way the Left write. Nevertheless, it is good to see some of our points being made from the other side:
  http://kunstler.com/clusterf**k-nation/conflict-escalation/

“My website was down early this morning, and I’m just a little suspicious that it had something to do with me expressing an opinion outside the “Overton Window” of what is considered acceptable discourse on illegal immigration. Namely, that it’s illegal, with all that implies. At least I wasn’t thrown out of a restaurant over the weekend, though the fact is I didn’t even try to eat out. Now my particular problem may turn out to be no more than a cockroach chewing through some wires in the Jersey server farm where this blog dwells — we’ll find out soon enough — but there are obviously other signs that “the Resistance” is tuning up the antagonism against its perceived enemies. I’m in the peculiar position of not being a partisan of President Trump, and yet being a publicly avowed enemy — if there’s any doubt — of the Resistance, especially these days its institutional branch known as the Democratic Party. What a ragtag and bobtail of mendacious cowards it has become.

     Imagine my excitement when I read the article by Janet Albrechtsen, arguing this. Let the magic not be spoilt by my words:

“We are funding our own demise. A country that is the product of Western civilisation has a death wish when it sends billions of taxpayer dollars to a swag of fancy universities, few of which teach students the tenets of Western civilisation. Each year the federal government — meaning we taxpayers — sends $16.8 billion to universities because educating the next generation is a fine way to spend our money. Except for this: a detailed history audit conducted last year by the Institute of Public Affairs found that few Australian universities teach the core subjects about the history of Western civilisation. More university subjects cover the history of film than democracy, more focus on identity than the Enlightenment.

     It is the gold standard now, that Trump, according to American universities, and even our pathetic ones in Australia, is a dictator. Yet these universities are not only silent about the ultra-authoritarianism of China, the universities celebrate it. They do so because they court Chinese money, in the form of students, who will become migrants to the West, moving into the elite power structure, and ultimately cementing power for mother China:
  https://www.digitalprintaustralia.com/bookstore/non-fiction/politics-philosophy/the-howard-legacy.html

     Then there is the money universities borrow for their little building projects, most of which comes from China. The great irony in this form of colonialism is that the free speech that the academics and socialist cub students trade on to do as they do, does not exist in China. They would never get away with an attack on the Chinese nation as they do nations of the West in China, and I admire China for its strength in controlling the cancer of nation-eroding political correctness. However, while not being “anti-Chinese,” this does not mean that we should be oblivious to the China threat. I have written before about a brilliant book by Clive Hamilton, Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia, (Hardie Grant Books, Richmond, 2018), a book which has some trouble seeing the light of day. Probably, the university presses would not touch it.

     Here is some good news from the United States, about one university which is eliminating useless disciplines that do not generate employment:
  http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/22/university-of-wisconsin-campus-considers-eliminating-13-majors-that-dont-lead-to-lucrative-careers/ 
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/21/university-of-wisconsin-campus-pushes-plan-to-drop-13-majors-including-english-history-and-philosophy/?utm_term=.02d9b72f9203

“The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point has proposed dropping 13 majors in the humanities and social sciences — including English, philosophy, history, sociology and Spanish — while adding programs with “clear career pathways” as a way to address declining enrolment and a multimillion-dollar deficit. Students and faculty members have reacted with surprise and concern to the news, which is being portrayed by the school’s administration as a path to regain enrolment and provide new opportunities to students. Critics see something else: a waning commitment to liberal arts education and a chance to lay off faculty under new rules that weakened tenure.

     Really, incidents like the one I am about to describe make one lose all faith in the belief of the goodness of the human race. I type this with my one good finger, not crippled with arthritis, in anger, sweat dripping onto the computer key board. I hope that I don’t get electrocuted before finishing. So, here I was in Rundle Mall, in a far away land called “Adelaide,” outside a shopping centre and this Buddhist monk approaches me and gives me a Buddhist card for peace, and puts a thingy of beads around my wrist. Thank you I say in my most friendly, love ‘n’ peace voice.

     Then he asks me for $30 and writes my name in a note book. I had previously told him my name. What, I said, where is the religion of poverty and humbleness! I am the poorest person in Adelaide, and am bin shopping at the moment. I can give you 50 cents. He was offended at this, so I said: “here, have your junk back. I prefer war anyway.” Then I walked off to leave him to try his luck with the wealthy Asian students living along North Terrace, while I searched the bins to survive. Yes, it is a metaphor for the plight of the dispossessed Anglo Saxon. I am a living metaphor for dispossessed (too many S’s) Anglo Saxons. It’s my day job.

     Britain has become a putrid corpse of a once-healthy society, a body social destroyed by the diseases of modernity. Consider:
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/23/police-emergency-calls-priority-hate/

The British police are so busy policing thought control of white Britons that they can no longer respond to emergency calls: “As forces in Britain declare tackling so-called hate crime a “priority”, the police watchdog has released a report revealing officers are taking days to respond to emergency calls. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) asserted that “the system is under severe strain and in some forces the cracks are showing” in its annual review of policing in England and Wales, which found that there were “considerable delays” in response to 999 calls for assistance in two forces. Vulnerable people are being put “at risk” by the lack of timely response from some forces, according to the report, which disclosed that between 20 per cent and 50 per cent of reports requiring police to send a unit within 24 hours missed the target in one region.

     Pardon the French, but I hate the bloody globalists who are intent to destroy our world. I am not a “hate’ kind of guy, and I know that it is illegal, punishable by death, to hate anything except racists, but I really can’t help it. If some bully kicked sand in your lunch every day at school, and when you turned the other cheek, he smacked you in the neck, wouldn’t it be hard for man cursed with original sin, not to be a wee bit angry? Just a tiny bit?
Here is something interesting, if not tasty:
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/20/economist-open-society-advocates-are-narcissistic-cosmopolitans/ 
  https://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2018/03/globalisation 
  https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/04/the-ignoble-lie 

“The globalists’ premier weekly magazine has thrown a spear into their smug claim that they represent the open-minded, open-economy, open-society future. The Economist‘s supposedly anonymous “Bagehot” columnist described progressives as “narcissistic cosmopolitans” as he wrote: ONE of the most popular interpretations of modern politics is that it is increasingly defined by the difference between open and closed rather than left and right. Openness means support for both economic openness (immigration and free trade) and cultural openness (gays and other minorities). Closedness means hostility to these things.…

     Merkel has said words to the effect that Islam is part of Germany, no doubt the best part. But, not all establishment figures agree with her, totally:
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/21/merkel-party-ally-islam-little-contribution-identity-europe/ 

“A senior politician in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Union has said that Islam “makes little contribution” to the foundation of Europe and that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “holds the key” to solving the EU’s migrant problems. “Islam belongs just as little to Europe as it belongs to Germany,” Christian Social Union (CSU) of Bavaria Vice-Chairman Manfred Weber told German newspaper Die Welt. “Of course, today Muslims are part of Europe.

     This is part of a disturbing trend, which we saw in Australia with the same sex marriage campaign, where the corporates threw their weight around to squash opposition. It’s a trend in the US as well, and we are going to see much more of it, in the final stages of the decline and fall:
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/22/citigroup-announces-gun-control-requirements-for-clients-and-small-businesses/

“Citi group, the fourth-largest bank in the United States, has announced it will no longer do business with clients that do not meet a host of progressive gun control requirements, none of which are mandated by federal law. In a blog post, Citi group announced: Under this new policy, we will require new retail sector clients or partners to adhere to these best practices: (1) they don’t sell firearms to someone who hasn’t passed a background check, (2) they restrict the sale of firearms for individuals under 21 years of age, and (3) they don’t sell bump stocks or high-capacity magazines. This policy will apply across the firm, including to small business, commercial and institutional clients, as well as credit card partners, whether co-brand or private label.

     Perhaps the Chinese communist party reads all the sites tracing Western decline and has decided that the time is ripe to put the West out of its misery?
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/china-readies-for-war-with-new-unmanned-super-tanks-powered-by-ai_03222018 
  https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/690635/ww3-news-china-nuclear-military-unmanned-tanks-ai-technology

     China is preparing for war, the above articles say, making use of AI and intelligent unmanned vehicles such as tanks, which will probably be better suited to the toxic chemically and nuclear polluted battlefield just around the corner.

     We all know that Trump was a womaniser in his time. He was, and is, no Christian saint. So, probably he did have sex with “that woman.” Hell, Bill Clinton had his share, even in the White House, literally. Consider:
  http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/380061-stormy-daniels-attorney-sends-a-warning-shot-to-trump 

     A “warning shot”? Trump needs to man up and be what he said he was in his books, and what he falsely portrayed himself to be in the election: oblivious of political correctness. Ok, so I had sex with her. So what! Is that a crime? No? Well, liberal scum, shut up! Hey, I have plenty of dirt on the sex lives of Democrats I can reveal if you want! Maybe Trump’s doctor could give him an injection of testosterone so he can do what is needed. The man is just pathetic.

     She, in my opinion was once one of the most beautiful women in the world, but in recent times, she has become one of the bravest, constantly speaking out about what she sees as the planned destruction of her beloved France.
  https://www.rt.com/news/421652-brigitte-bardot-france-islamists/ 

“French actress Brigitte Bardot has spoken out against the state of her country, saying that Islamists are “practically everywhere” and that France should not resemble Algeria. Speaking to the French weekly Valeurs Actuelles, Bardot said that France is not what it once was. “I have been brought up in honor, patriotism, love and respect for my country, and when I see what it has become, I feel desperate,” she said. The 83-year-old also said that it is “unacceptable” to see burqas become commonplace in France, and Islamists are “practically everywhere.”

     It looks like the novel The Camp of the Saints was optimistic, for most of Africa seems not to believe the Black Panther movie, and wants to move to Europe and the United States:
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/23/two-thirds-sub-saharan-africans-migrate-europe-us/

“Up to two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s 1.1 billion population want to migrate to Europe or to the United States, with millions planning to make the move in the next five years. Around half of people in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, and South Africa, and three quarters of those questioned in Ghana and Nigeria, want to immigrate to the U.S. or Europe, according to a study by Pew Research Centre published Thursday. Around 40 per cent of those in Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria who want to leave said they intend to do so in the next five years.

     Most traditionalist Americans voted for Trump realising it was the last chance to democratically solve the problem of America’s decline. Trump has been a spectacular failure, which is not surprising given his background as a 1 percenter. The future, as Ann Coulter says, is grim:
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/24/ann-coulter-in-one-generation-u-s-will-be-south-africa-trump-betrayed-voters-with-paul-ryan-republicanism/ 
  http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/03/26/donald-trump-expels-60-russian-diplomats-from-the-united-states/ 

“New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says the United States will, “in one generation,” become South Africa after President Trump signed off on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s omnibus spending bill that does not include a single provision from the president’s 70-point list of pro-American immigration reforms. In an interview with Fox News Radio’s Tom Shillue, Coulter slammed Trump, saying he has “betrayed” his base of supporters by signing the omnibus without it including any border wall funding, increasing the “Catch and Release” program, and not adding any new deportation agents to help deport illegal aliens living in the interior of the country. “I can’t imagine how it could be any worse,” Coulter said. “There’s zero funding for the wall, and in fact, he’s prevented from putting up even one little inch from those prototypes. No, all he can do is build a little pedestrian fence. Nothing that he’s been looking at. None of the prototypes, totally banned.”