Seven years ago I released a children’s book titled The Big-Headed Farmer.
The basic premise is that Justin Trudeau sweet talks his way into being in charge of a farm, makes a deal with Satan to gain more influence, and then boggles the farm so badly that the farm animals chase him off.
The book is a perfect primer on welfare with a touch of wishful thinking.
Wealth redistribution, at the point of a gun, does not work and is immoral.
The effect of welfare is that people engage in all manner of hedonistic, degenerate, high time preference behavior that sullies everything it touches.
The more welfare in a society, the more it reflects “welfarism” back to others.
Everything becomes catered to abortionist, careerist women.
The halcyon days of White guy guitar virtuosos putting on sincere, soulful shows for factory worker White guys are over.
The people who do most poorly under race Communism are the people most capable in a free society. This cannot be denied.
The media landscape in 2026 is a whole lot of signal-boosted welfarism.
Every bit of celebrity gossip.
Every arena concert.
Every sitcom in syndication.
Every opinion column.
Every facet of the mainstream media – all of it a leftist fabrication meant to eradicate the remaining productive people of the world.
You can feel the desolation and opiate nature of places like New Mexico, Arizona, Kentucky, or Rhode Island.
My home state of Oregon has “legalized” rent caps, tax per mile on hybrid vehicles (you have to report your odometer), and the prospect of making any kind of money in your 20’s or 30’s has been completely gone for at least 25 years. The only reason healthy, decent people even live there is because the natural beauty is completely off the charts. And the State of Oregon knows it and squeezes your balls for it.
Government employment is a form of welfare.
You have all of these untalented, spiteful people who exist primarily because their parents “worked” in government or next to it in some kind of contracting role.
You also have “entrepreneurs” who act like big hot shots because they sold for a big exit. But when you ask what they actually did, it was some kind of government-integrated service. Even one of my very favorites, Stefan Molyneux, ran a waste-management software company that had big government contracts (I’m open to a correction here!)
The path to an independent livelihood has never been narrower.
Government touches everything. Even the ballyhooed trades are flush with cash only because of mass migration and the mass surveillance state that is being erected.
Rules are put into place everywhere, particularly through land-use laws but now through aquifer capture via surveillance centers, to adversely impact the middle class, independent operators who still manage to earn an honest living. Their lot is compounded by Trump and Netanyahu’s Forever War with Iran that is choking fertilizer and fuel prices to death.
Here’s the bottom of the welfare usage per capita list:
You can really feel the difference when you step into states where there is a low government budget and a lower welfare per capita usage. Places like Wyoming, Missouri, South Dakota, and Utah (outside of SLC) spring to mind. The people in these places forgo the “competitive advantage” of welfare in order to live as more free, independent people. Even Florida, a place where people would use welfare like gangbusters if the rules allowed it, has an air of business to it that you don’t feel in liberal hellholes like California or Maine.
Welfare is completely disturbed in a certain sense, when you consider it.
For example, with abortions: to get a “free market” abortion —which is a ludicrous prospect— would cost many hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. The liability that the child-murdering doctor would incur for taking a risk like that would be off the charts. That gets priced in.
But in Blue states, you can get an abortion for the cost of gasoline to get to the “clinic”.
In America, women have aborted 60 million children, which is more people than have ever died in American wars — and America has been at war for all but like 5 years of its existence.
Let’s say a “free market abortion” costs $1.5million X 60 million dead kids = $90trillion.
“Women’s health” has cost White men more money than the national debt, which recently surpassed $39trillion. Those are our brothers and sisters that have gone missing in such massive numbers. Those 2-child households in the 1990’s should have been 4-child households. Now people aren’t even having kids.
Who can afford them?
If you’re wondering why everything is a complete hellscape of irrationality, consider the hidden costs of all those abortions: money burned, genius children blinked out of existence, marriages and relationships destroyed, baby-killers raking in money and using it to advance their personal and political interests, and on and on everything compounds into further and further entropy.
Culture is a social phenomena. I plug away in obscurity because there is no popular support for a stateless society, peaceful parenting, AND breaking from abusive parents. That last piece has cost me any popularity I could have gained. And I did an A – B test in my life, my stint in politics, to prove to myself that I could attain popularity if I diluted a couple key components of philosophy for a time. Censorship finished me off. But still I hang in there like a junkyard dog because I’m proud and ornery.
People don’t need to be governed.
Welfare people want to be governed.
There is a tremendous difference here. Just yesterday you had, at the socialist World Cup, professional lip readers noting Trudeau and Newsom blabbing to each other about how Trump was a “great President”:
Trudeau and Newsom mean it in the sense that Trump is a capable governor, not that they agree with his policies.
Governance is the policy.
The world will just have to suffer more fools thinking they can “go in and change things” while simultaneously deliberately omitting the kind of education for their audience that would permit their audience to be free of their governance. It’s so cynical how it all works.
Parenting that inoculates children against abuse isn’t allowed.
Music that inoculates people against ugliness and artificiality isn’t allowed.
Open-source tech that puts people in the driver’s seat of their workflow isn’t allowed.
Energy technology that breaks people meaningfully from the grid isn’t allowed and is one of the quickest ways to ensure government agents show up with rifles at your house.
Privacy isn’t allowed. Space Force has a live low-orbit satellite view of everything you do on American soil. Trump basically said as much this week. This is welfare.
So the government has shitted out tens of millions of work-averse people who are brain damaged by the schools, the food supply, antibiotics, and media programming and those people will then vote for increased government budgets — whether owing to EMERGENCIES or owing to suicidal empathy.
It’s all too much to track so I’ll leave it here for today.
If you can pierce the veil, you can see through to the beauty in life.
“To see the farm is to leave the farm,” Molyneux used to say. I always appreciate him for that one.
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