{"id":101765,"date":"2016-07-20T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T01:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101765"},"modified":"2016-07-21T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T19:59:35","slug":"silicon-valley-smoking-in-merica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101765","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley: Smoking in &#8216;merica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3A_0f4g8FLs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/nyt-on-peter-thiels-risk-in-supporting-trump-silicon-valleys-militant-open-mindedness-makes-it-place-that-will-severely-punish-any-deviations-from-accepted-schools-of-thought\/\">Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Google, under pressure for its low diversity numbers, addressed the issue by making groundskeepers and janitors employees instead of outsourcing the work.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Google is much more racially diverse than The New York Times, The Washington Post, Gawker and other media outlets complaining about the lack of diversity in the tech sector. This is because, for the media at least, Asians are no longer a minority because, well, because.<\/p>\n<p>* Classic quote from Mason Harrison, the token Silicon Valley Republican whose strategy is to surrender: \u201c\u2026 it almost seems like [Trump] has gone out of his way to smite Silicon Valley leaders on the issues they care about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No shit, Sherlock. Trump recognizes these Silicon Valley leaders are the enemy. He\u2019s not going to pander to them, he\u2019s going to attack them. That\u2019s how politics works.<\/p>\n<p>* More mass confusion on how the world works from the left. The same industry and area that they are constantly accusing of sexism, racism, and elitism is now the vanguard of leftist thought in business apparently. I have read other posts saying Trump opposing illegal immigration would kill high tech because forty percent of business in the Valley were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants, despite the complete non-existence of Mexicans and Central Americans, much less illegal immigrant Mexicans and Central Americans in Silicon Valley. No one says that virtually all the people in the industry that come from abroad come from South Asia, East Asia, Europe, and even the white population of South Africa ( More on that later ) . There is also a strong libertarian contingent in the Valley and always has been and Thiel is part of that, just more outspoken politically about it ( He was a big backer of Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012 ). Blacks and Latinos are practically non-existent in any leadership, technology, or founder capacity in the Valley at all ( I say practically because I don\u2019t know for a fact that the number is zero, but I suspect it is, notwithstanding the fact the NYT found a black libertarian in the valley who founded a wait for it\u2026. non-profit, a tech captain of industry indeed! ).<\/p>\n<p>In fact you could argue there are more white South Africans contributing to tech in the valley and elsewhere than there are native born American blacks. Just off the top of my head there is PayPal alums David O. Sacks, Elon Musk, and Roelof Botha, all major movers and shakers in the valley as well as Mark Shuttleworth, who founded the Linux software giant Ubuntu in the UK. I saw recently a list of the top 100 VC\u2019s in the US from Forbes magazine with photos, what was there was overwhelmingly white and Asian, overwhelmingly male, ( Among the roughly one third that were Asian, only two were women ) and a few white women, no Barry\u2019s, Michelle\u2019s, or Loretta\u2019s to be found anywhere on the list. When the NYT and other SJW\u2019s get riled up about the workforce demographics of tech giants like Apple and Facebook they count the numerous Asian tech guys working in the valley as white for purposes of moral condemnation, but now because the MSM wants to blackball Thiel, suddenly everyone is the valley is a closeted liberal. I also love them calling Trump a technological ignoramus? And Clinton is a masterful tech guru? Well we know both Obamas, Barry and Michelle, were instrumental founders of the PayPal Mafia, that group that went on to found dozens of startups in the Valley, No, oops, I\u2019m sorry, that was Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, two stale pale males from Germany and South Africa that did that, so easy to get successful tech entrepreneurs and affirmative action driven community activists who never practice law confused with each other, they are so similar.<\/p>\n<p>* I wonder what the Silicon Valley bigwigs really think about IQ. They seem to be hiring more or less on the basis of it (specifically, talent at STEM-type fields).<\/p>\n<p>The resulting employees have the expected diversity: besides whites, there\u2019s lot of Chinese and Indians. Women are underrepresented and so are blacks and Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>So they\u2019re hypocrites.<\/p>\n<p>I support their right to hire as they please, but they need to realize that they can\u2019t pass for \u201cprogressives\u201d unless change their hiring practices.<\/p>\n<p>* Two men vie for the title of Father of Silicon Valley: William Shockley and Fred Terman. They were both friends and proponents of eugenics. Terman\u2019s father created America\u2019s first IQ test, the Stanford-Binet.<\/p>\n<p>* Re: 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>1) Ordinary Americans\u2019 purchasing power was never higher, before or since: peak purchasing power<\/p>\n<p>2) Wages continued to rise<\/p>\n<p>3) Jobs were so plentiful that you could walk out of one, and the next day get a new job, and for most jobs you didn\u2019t need a r\u00e9sum\u00e9; and you could house, feed, and educate a family on most jobs. Also, if you took a job you liked, you enjoyed every confidence you would work it until you\u2019d retire comfortably on its pension and benefits. And millions of American teens and college students worked ample summer jobs, often menial jobs that taught solid virtues<\/p>\n<p>4) Unprecedented numbers of ordinary Americans could and did afford one-family homes; and rents were also very affordable; and atop all that Americans socked away solid savings \u2013 the complete opposite of today\u2019s spreading indebtedness, insolvency, and rash of bankruptcies. Up to about 1970, banks paid depositors 5% interest on deposits \u2013 try finding that rate today<\/p>\n<p>5) College tuition was affordable \u2013 no one I\u2019d heard of had taken out a loan to send their children to college<\/p>\n<p>6) Pro sports were still a game. Yes, they were businesses, but no league would even think to hire criminals, or to pony up considerable sums to cover up players\u2019 or coaches\u2019 crimes or disgusting behavior. Even media of that time \u2013 as liberal as they were \u2013 maintained a probity that makes today\u2019s media foulness and enforcement of p.c. (which has replaced genuine, cultivated virtue with a fascist code) look pretty awful<\/p>\n<p>7) Movies and TV were not vehicles for smut or foul language<\/p>\n<p>8) There was nothing of today\u2019s burdensome, intrusive, obtrusive Anarcho-Tyranny<\/p>\n<p>9) Everyone could and did speak freely, without fear of being penalized, because there were no Diversity Commissars or Social Media Shaming mobs. No one then was so \u201coffended\u201d by another\u2019s speech that he telephone-summoned the entire neighborhood to mass en masse at the \u201coffending\u201d speaker\u2019s home. And someone disciplined, punished, or fired for a speech \u201cviolation\u201d was unheard of<\/p>\n<p>10) The illegtimacy rates of Whites and blacks were much lower; and many more dads had jobs than dads have today<\/p>\n<p>11) Schools (and media) had not yet become Indoctrination Gulags. Campuses were bucolic, safe whereon civilized and genuine free, open debate flourished. A well-rounded education in Western Civilization was the norm, and so was pride in America and in being American. Student misbehavior received well-deserved punishment \u2013 and the overwhelming majority of parents supported such condign punishment<\/p>\n<p>12) Children \u2013 including high school students \u2013 were still regarded, rightly, as children, and not as \u201cyoung people\u201d with \u201csomething to say\u201d; and no student of any race ever read aloud \u2013 or even in private silence \u2013 a pathetic ethnomasochist screed<\/p>\n<p>13) The U.S. enjoyed massive positive balance of trade (a negative trade deficit would have had Americans up in arms), solid, steady economic growth, and widespread domestic prosperity; national debt was low, manageable, and still under control; and GDP per capita was (if I recall correctly) at an all-time high, as trade protectionism kept American industries humming and kept Americans employed<\/p>\n<p>14) For all those liberal \u201cThe Sky Is Falling\u201d books &#038; films you listed, there were others that countered or refuted their doom-&#038;-gloom: Strategic Air Command; A Gathering Of Eagles; The Great Escape; Ben-Hur; The Ten Commandments; The Alamo; The Robe; Mister Roberts; The Longest Day; &#038; many more such<\/p>\n<p>15) There was none of today\u2019s nonstop saccharine worship, elevation, importation or imposition of inimical Third World \u201ccultures\u201d<\/p>\n<p>16) Common courtesy was common; there was none of today\u2019s knee-jerk indulgence in smearing, in contemptuous accusations of \u201chate\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cHitler\u201d; and there was no such Orwellian thing as a \u201chate crime\u201d<\/p>\n<p>17) Americans enjoyed broad trust in one another, and Americans had faith in the future and faith in the affordability of attaining the American Dream through conscientious hard work: everything was Looking UP!<\/p>\n<p>18) Standards held: there was no Affirmative Action absurdity or any other race-based set-asides or preferences \u2013 to get ahead one had to make the grade, had to show that one had the goods and could cut the mustard<\/p>\n<p>19) Perpetual Adolescence was not the rule, but was the extreme exception. There were no Trekkies, no mohawks, no piercings or tattoos, no goth or zombie \u201clifestyles\u201d \u2013 and, aside from some military men and veterans, anyone who wore a tatto or had any part of their bodies (except for women\u2019s earlobes) pierced was rightly regarded as gutter trash to avoid, or as an oddball to be, at best, tolerantly humored<\/p>\n<p>20) The overwhelming majority of adults didn\u2019t enthuse about, or endlessly analyze, or even much discuss pop music, or follow the antics of pop group members, or jaw endlessly or ludicrously emulate pop stars or pop culture: adults had more important things to do with their minds and their time, and so did children. TV\/mass media had yet to completely monopolize people\u2019s attention, time, or energies<\/p>\n<p>21) Appliances and other goods were often repaired or mended, often in the home (thrift was still a common virtue); or you took your shoes to the shoemaker, you took your radio or toaster to the appliance shop; much less was then disposable. Mending work employed millions, often in their own Mom &#038; Pop shops<\/p>\n<p>22) If you\u2019d told someone in those days there\u2019d be a multi-decades-long, multi-mega-billions of dollar taxpayer-funded War on Drugs because scores of millions of Americans would abuse God knows how many kinds of illegal and prescription substances, he\u2019d have directed you to an asylum: \u201cWhy would Americans want to take illegal drugs?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>23) Welfare was still an embarrassment; welfare rolls were much, much shorter; and the number of taxpayer-funded welfare programs you could count on the fingers of one hand<\/p>\n<p>24) The middle class was large and growing; today\u2019s rump middle class verges on extinction. The wealth inequality gap was much smaller than today\u2019s vast wealth gulf \u2013 so too was the power gap smaller, and political power was far more balanced between the top and ordinary Americans. Our elites were note nearly so remote from or so alien to us as they now are, because they were still of us<\/p>\n<p>25) Infrastructure was still growing: the Interstate Highway System became reality; the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge; the World Trade Center. Today infrastructure crumbles.<\/p>\n<p>26) Last but not least: Americans were still 90% White and both Whites and blacks were overwhelmingly Christian \u2013 the Protestant Ethic held, but soon would perform its swan song. That much homogeneity was its own reward, its own most widely-ever shared blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to today, the 1950\u2032s and early 1960\u2032s were an American Paradise, a genuine Golden Age. By every measure of civilization \u2013 except those of improved appliances and today\u2019s improved (though far more costly) medicine \u2013 for the largest proportion of Americans ever, those days had today beat by several parsecs.<\/p>\n<p>* Life in America prior to 1965 was superior for 95% of the people who were here then, almost all whites except the hyper-wealthy, and most blacks, and most of the others. The only Muslims here were a few oil sheiks, but the kind of Muslims we have now would probably have found it somewhat less to their liking. Orientals in general and Chinese in specific might have been a little worse off because no AA and no government programs for blacks and mestizos they can occasionally exploit and get rich off.<\/p>\n<p>Homosexuals-they did exist then-had to keep it \u201con the down low\u201d, and opportunities for the most promiscuous sex for them were probably much less. They were probably better off healthwise for it, because even with no AIDS, they had syphilis, hepatitis, and of course mechanical damage to the anus and rectum, and the surgeries for that were far cruder. Most homosexuals accepted the fact they were a tiny minority and that the rest of us did not need to know how they were or what they did with equanimity. Those that didn\u2019t, a minority of a minority, had to move to a place where that sort of thing could be done more or less openly. Lesbians were more open as lesbianism \u201cwasn\u2019t a thing\u201d in people\u2019s minds. If two women lived together, well, that just made them friends, not girl-girl friends. Women could dance with other women all the time and no one thought of it. Plausible deniability was incredibly simple-unless they went around telling everyone they were lesbians, or were munching each other out on the front porch, well, they were not lesbians as far as anyone but other lesbians or beatniks or male homoisexuals knew or cared.<\/p>\n<p>Illegitimacy simply didn\u2019t exist for middle class people. A girl who \u201cgot caught\u201d married the guy, some cuck she could talk into it or put it up for adoption. It could be \u201ctaken care of\u201d if the girl had no scruples and enough money, but it never entered most girls\u2019 mind to do that. The very poor and the very rich, then as now, did just what they wanted. If you were rich you sham-married a guy and divorced him and kept custody if you wanted, and there were always men who\u2019d go along: if they were gay they\u2019d do it for cover (they didn\u2019t actually have to, you know, consummate the marriage-bloody sheets off the balcony are not a White thing, and even if they were\u2026.) and otherwise if just poor would take a pay packet or two to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Middle class people did not use illegal drugs. Period. There was alcohol, of course, and women especially could get doctors to prescribe barbiturates and amphetamines easier than now, but overall there was much less abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Pornography and \u201cfilthy\u201d music and comedy records did exist-but were kept under the counter at any establishment and even their existence was unknown to most underage people and most women. Most men had either nothing to do with them or they would watch a \u201csmoker\u201d (a 16mm film of, almost always, one man and one woman \u201cdoing it\u201d) with a bunch of frat or lodge brothers, fully clothed and usually puffing frantically on cigars, or-a littlemore common in mixed party company-would play \u201cparty records\u201d like Rusty Warren, risque but not over the top filthy. Black and hillbilly raunchy records somewhat more explicit did exist and again were vended discreetly. (The famous outro to the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cStart Me Up\u201d-\u2019you\u2019d make a dead man come\u2019- was pilfered from 1930s \u201chokum blues\u201d records, that one by one Lucille Bogan ((Shave \u2018Em Dry,1935)). YouTube features most of these raunchy blues records for those of a musico-sexological bent.)<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, because so many women were full-time homemakers, and because of the lack of computer automation, jobs were plentiful. Any white male, almost, and also any white female who wasn\u2019t married or whose kids were grown, and any black of any intelligence and determination could find a job. They all paid a lot more in relation to housing costs.<\/p>\n<p>You repaired torn or frayed clothes, most appliances and electrical items, and so forth, instead of throwing them out. Furniture was a bigger investment than today, if bought new, but it was all solid wood and held up a lot better. If it broke, you repaired it. People ate at home a lot more and women were expected to cook and sew well. The prospect of steady home cooked meals rivalled even the prospect for legit sex in the minds of many men contemplating giving up on bachelorhood.<\/p>\n<p>In all, if you were a person with an animus against the social mores of the time, or could exploit things like affirmative action and the welfare-warfare state, you might be better off now. And if you had a medical condition treatable now not treatable in 1965, you are better off now. But most normal people would have been much happier in 1965. I know I would.<\/p>\n<p>* I too was born in the early \u201950s. It makes me sad that my children will never understand how great things were in this country before 2000 and how everything was ruined. When I was a teenager, summer jobs were yours for the asking. In my 20s through 40s, there was plenty of high-paying work available in my field.<\/p>\n<p>Young Americans face a very bleak future. Most of them have no idea what\u2019s wrong because the propaganda is relentless and effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments at Steve Sailer: * Google, under pressure for its low diversity numbers, addressed the issue by making groundskeepers and janitors employees instead of outsourcing the work. 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