Nowhere is nothing like it used to be and everywhere is what nowhere once was. I'm staying here. As one of our Santa Barbarans yelled in a movie “Remember the Alamo!” I'm ready, Davy! Besides, where else in this country could I be walking down a street, see some broken down old guy across the way and think “Did I make out with him when I was a teen and he was a cute young hippie?”
I read this piece with a great deal of sadness and the realization that the California that we all knew and grew up with is gone. I believe it can come back, but, in a different form and, hopefully, better.
Approximately 1.6 million conservatives Left California in the previous few years. If they had stayed, that would’ve made the difference between the super majority that we have right now and a conservative legislature. I have often thought of leaving in California but will remain to fight.
A pitch also needs to be made for more conservatives to move to California. Touting its appeal as a prized retirement lifestyle, for those ............who can afford to live in California.
There is so much more to California than LA, SF and Sacramento. Even lower home prices, once one leaves the mismanaged Democrat population concentrated urban cess pits. Who unfortunately provide most of the harvested Democrat ballots, that control our state election outcomes.
A California native here, and I can still find "California" once I leave the coastal perversities and keep my head down in my adopted new home town of Santa Barbara. Which at one time when I first moved here in the 1970's was the southern-most limit for Northern California, according to demographic markers at the time. More people read the SF Chronicle, more people thought of SF when "going to the city, etc. etc.
No longer, Santa Barbara has morphed smack dab into fully-failed Southern California progressive dysfunction. And of course later SF outdid itself, following in suit.
The divide is no longer Northern or Southern California, but coastal and non-coastal California. A shout out to non-coastal California where one can still find some of the old California fundamentals, small towns, agrarian cycle ethics and a closer sense of community. And see more than one Trump signs left unvandalized.
BTW: it is apple time at Gopher Glen up the coast off Highway 101, where back country roads and farm stands remain a timeless road trip where the seasons do change.
California, as we remember it through our long & fond memories, is to never return, as with the remainder of the United States & The World… unfortunately, the decades, and hundreds of years in some cases, of mismanagement (by design) and abuse, has left a wake of destruction…
Fortunately, the worm is turned, and we are seeing the systematic destruction of the Old Guard, but it’s a war that we all must step up and fight, locally, here in California, across the nation. We are in the final battles of The Silent War…
TRUTH & TRANSPARENCY IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD> Transparency and Prosecution is the ONLY WAY forward to save our Republic and safeguard such criminal and treasonous acts from occurring again…
Let’s not give up on CA yet - once we dump the Dems we can start getting our beautiful California back on track. The fact that they’re doing their best to slide into oblivion gives us hope for a good shot.
I’ll tell ya what’s needed - a Governor like Steve Hilton. Conservative, practical and with some great traditional ideas. Trumpy’s having a more profound effect than most people realize, and Hilton, with his administration's connections could maybe bring back some of the good old days!
NO! Not another foreigner! Not another recent immigrant as CA Governor. We need a Californian! An acculturated American, smart business pro who loves our state and country. These dual citizens and foreign borns aren’t the leaders we need. Can’t we find to support one Californian super star in our population of 38M? Make CA Golden Again!
Hey Montecito, I absolutely agree about _no more foreigners_! - lock the door and keep ‘em out! Except for Steve Hilton - I followed his TV show and have seen his comments here and there - he’s more American than most U.S. politicians. Even tho he’s kind of a foreigner, (are people from England ‘foreigners’ ?), he’s got our values.
I’d love to find an American as conservative, smart and practical as Steve Hilton for CA Gov - have anyone in mind?
Boy, that is one vivid dream! Funny how they’re always scattered with truth’s and fantasy. I wish everyone had a chance to grow up in the California of yesteryear. It was such a magical place.
I was fortunate to grow up in Santa Barbara in the late '40's - 50's - and before the idiots of the late 60's. I was surfing before it became popular from '65 on up.... (a crowed day in late 50's early 60's was 5 guys at Hendry's, Leadbetter, or the Ranch.)
State and San Roque/Las Positas was the "sticks".... Lemons, what was left of the Walnuts, and Goleta was the grocery store for the ranches "out there." Post WWII military was mostly gone. It was a time when Mom would hand us a bag lunch (yes a real brown bag) and say go up to what is the Cater Water Plant and spend the day.
No longer.
Santa Barbara was the last of the hold outs for "compassionate? density" but that was gone by the 1980's. The ethic of work and honesty was fast fading when I started working full time in the summers (1959). Working for $1 week allowances (mowing, taking the garbage out, finding week-end jobs was considered "beneath" most of the kids in my neighborhood by 1963. Yep S. Calif is gone. Sacramento and the "everyone" is due housing and government supported jobs today is the rule. Think I am kidding look at the fast approaching government destruction of the carrying capacity of both land and "we demand housing." No longer affordable without government handouts.
Mr. Griswold is right. The California I once knew is gone but it is being hammered into dust by the we are government comply crowd. (Right Marti, Helene, Gil, Falcone, Dave, June, and the list goes on).
Ok, have a good day. Remember UCSB has an enrollment of about 40K this year.
A client from Colorado asked this week if this was Northern or Southern California? I said I prefer to call it "Coastal Central" as awkward as that sounds. But I hope to separate it from the twin horrors that SF and LA have become.
When I think back in nostalgia I am all too aware that the reasons I came to SB in 1975 and immediately decided to stay are GONE. Yet I remain now for other reasons, long evolved, persistent.
Yes, that is what I say now too -- except I say Central Coast California. Few ask for anything more. That usually gets a blank stare in return. Or one could say, "God's Country between mostly untouched by?) LA and SF".
When one concentrates only on this Central Coast chunk of California, it is remarkable what low key pleasure and quiet beauty it still offers. And well as very satisfying culinary destinations.
Who, anywhere, can beat the Toffee Crunch cake at the Madonna Inn outside San Luis Obispo. Or the Chocolate Mint ice cream pie and broiled lamb at the Loading Chute restaurant in Creston. Bob's Wellbred in Ballard or Los Alamos. Fish tacos on the San Luis pier. Freshly made sausages in Lockeford. The now sadly missed Tuna Melt and Peanut Butter Pie at Jack Ranch near where James Dean met his end. Now bypassed by the new and much safer back route from Paso Robles to Highway 5. At one time, there was a key lime pie in Salinas worth the detour but they switched to canned lime juice and all was lost.
Mainly I use the term Central Coast California because Santa Barbara is now such a pretentious brand, so I like to avoid that tainted association.
Been thinking about this piece and jotted down some memories of my own
I fell in love with California over 30 years ago and moved here in the ‘90’s
But the Appalachia is my home.
Everyone knows California, subject of books, songs, movies…but Appalachia…not so much.
Remembering autumn in the Appalachia as a young man walking to school thru the woods:
Everyone is both rich and poor at the same time. there is no frame of reference in the woods. No politics. No ocean or surf. No great causes…The smell is all around and through you…wood and dead leaves rotting everywhere you step and look. Winter bite in the air, you can see your breath for the 1st time since last winter ended. Walking quiet through the woods. Chilled air carries sound further. The only sounds being dried twigs cracking beneath my feet and my own breathing so I switch to silent mode by breathing through my mouth, stepping more carefully deliberately breaking any pattern or rhythm. You don’t see deer, raccoons, squirrels and birds as much as you “feel” them. You know exactly where they are and they know exactly where you are. There is equilibrium in the woods. I would go this way for half of an hour or more before reaching a clearing where my school was. Long before this point I could just make out the sound of the highschool marching band practicing, over a mile away, preparing for football season….The noises and voices of my schoolmates pull me completely out of the peaceful woods and into a different world.
A world without equilibrium.
I would quicken my step and abandon the quiet and yell to join in.
I miss that world most of all, that walk in the woods, Appalachia in the Fall. 😊
Eric, that’s a heartfelt, well-written tribute to this ancient neck of the woods. I consider myself blessed to reside near a river where I can paddle, and have land enough to enjoy routine visits from critters who know they’re among friends.
I could, however, live nicely without the frequent encounters with yellow jackets. Ouch! But they’re relatively small considering the size of those monsters I remember assaulting us at Jalama!
Lou, I did a lot of dream work once in my life and a few externals helped the process. To start, just say several times the last thing before you go to sleep, "I will remember my dreams, I will remember my dreams, etc." Then immediately upon waking write down even a snipped of a dream. Apparently their memory vanishes within a few minutes - so any thing at all, even if totally meaningless, will help start the process of remembering whole plots later.
This means keeping a dream journal. And if you wake in the middle of the night and can't turn a light on, use a voice recorder and just tell as much as you can remember, because voice recorders are even more interesting because they include often the emotions that have been triggered.
Then start exploring legitimate dream symbology - Jungian only in my opinion are valid - A handy little dream symbol book to get you started is "The Dreamers Dictionary" by Thomas Chetwynd. These are not literal interpretations but link to the Jugnian archtyple themes that dream diaries start exposing over time.
The unfolding of your own dream "avatars" - repeated situations, places, persons, and even colors and forms - may take weeks, months and years to fully understand evolving patterns in your own mind.
How you feel in the dream setting is as important as the dream symbology itself. Mad, sad, glad, fearful .....awestruck, curious, wanting to actively intervene in the dream action itself - active dreaming .... there is much to explore and much to gain making friends with that "movie in your mind" showing double and triple features every single night.
Always great getting to read you, Al. Thanks for this. I think you should pen this into lyrics and turn it into: Anthem, Hymn, March or Dirge. You would need to decide. Shades of Van Gogh that dream has.
Thanks, David. I feel a little twisted about even writing the piece. My love for the Golden State runs deep. I also have amassed much enmity for politicians who seem bent on ruining it.
I'll dare to call it what it is: White erasure. As our people are erased, our norms are erased. People are not equal. They are not interchangeable. We were lied to about that.
It has always been a values thing anyway, not a distinct peoples thing. Old values are lost and one now struggles to find value in the new replacement values.
The older generation raised by Depression-experience parents, left a unique mark on American life. Soon gone, and erased from memory. Only the growing government nanny-state is the detritus left from that Depression era law of unexpected consequences.
Each people has a unique biospirit. Generations (especially children raised on antiwhite media) are different, true. But biology has consequences. Values like honesty, keeping a clean environment, consent for sex, "fighting fair", etc.
Third world countries are the way they are because of the people in them.
When third world people come here, they bring their ways here and the California my people made turns into the California their people make.
I'm sorry that this goes against the religion of our time, but facts are facts.
elce: You hit it right between the nostrils: "Raid the treasury and hire the relatives" is exactly why so many countries fall into disrepair and eventual bankruptcy. Which is, of course, what has happened to so many of our cities both large and small. Sadly, Santa Barbara has finally fallen into that black hole from which there is no evidence that anyone or anything escapes. Just before we descend into that hole-of-no-return, I have no doubt voters will have passed legislation to give everyone (hey, maybe even non-citizens too; compassion knows no bounds!) a "guaranteed income."
JB: They practice REI - relatives- equity -inclusion.
Recently back from Tunisia and learned only 13 families control the wealth in this country. And the neighborhoods clustered around the site of ancient Carthage can rival Beverly Hills. Which is not what you a say for the rest of the country.
The rule keeps playing out whether it applies to the Detroit school district's long history of total failure and bloated hiring practices, or illegal migrant export countries which continue to disrupt the stability of the rest of the first world, since endemic nepotism grabs and tenaciously holds on to what riches the country may well have.
The growing Democrat nanny-state is our own US equivalent of this rule --raid the treasury and hire the relatives.
The "It’s Not Happening" and "It’s Happening But It’s a Good Thing" phases are key components of modern propaganda strategies, particularly as described in the "Law of Salutary Contradiction" and the "Law of Merited Impossibility." These phases represent a deliberate shift in messaging: first, denying an event or trend to disarm opposition, and then, once the event occurs, re-framing it as inevitable and desirable to justify its implementation and silence dissent.
This pattern is evident in political discourse, where claims about immigration, gender identity, or surveillance are initially dismissed as conspiracy theories before being celebrated as necessary or progressive outcomes.
"It’s Not Happening" Phase: This phase involves the denial of a current or emerging phenomenon to prevent public concern or resistance. For example, the Biden administration denied that it was shipping illegal immigrants on military planes, despite evidence suggesting otherwise.
Similarly, the idea that allowing self-identification of gender would lead to inappropriate behavior in spaces like locker rooms was dismissed as a "conspiracy theory" or "alarmist bigotry".
This denial is often used to enforce a new social order by labeling opposition as irrational or hateful.
"It’s Not Happening as Much" Phase: While not explicitly detailed in the provided sources, this phase can be inferred as a subtle downplaying of a phenomenon after initial denial. It may involve minimizing the scale or impact of an event to reduce public alarm, often through selective data presentation or framing. This tactic aligns with the broader strategy of controlling perception by manipulating the narrative around a trend.
"It’s Happening But It’s a Good Thing" Phase: This phase, known as the "Law of Salutary Contradiction," occurs when a previously denied event is acknowledged but re-framed as positive or necessary. For instance, once the demographic changes from immigration are undeniable, they are celebrated as a "glorious trend" that ensures a more "vibrant" future and a permanent Democratic majority.
Similarly, the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson was initially dismissed as a "conspiracy theory," but later justified as warranted due to his "treasonous contacts" with Russian officials.
This shift allows the ruling class to claim moral authority while dismissing criticism as backward or unjustified.
These phases are part of a broader propaganda model characterized by continuous, rapid, and inconsistent messaging, as seen in Russian disinformation campaigns that change narratives when exposed.
The effectiveness of such strategies lies in their ability to manipulate public perception by controlling the narrative across different stages of an event’s emergence.
Nowhere is nothing like it used to be and everywhere is what nowhere once was. I'm staying here. As one of our Santa Barbarans yelled in a movie “Remember the Alamo!” I'm ready, Davy! Besides, where else in this country could I be walking down a street, see some broken down old guy across the way and think “Did I make out with him when I was a teen and he was a cute young hippie?”
I read this piece with a great deal of sadness and the realization that the California that we all knew and grew up with is gone. I believe it can come back, but, in a different form and, hopefully, better.
Approximately 1.6 million conservatives Left California in the previous few years. If they had stayed, that would’ve made the difference between the super majority that we have right now and a conservative legislature. I have often thought of leaving in California but will remain to fight.
A pitch also needs to be made for more conservatives to move to California. Touting its appeal as a prized retirement lifestyle, for those ............who can afford to live in California.
There is so much more to California than LA, SF and Sacramento. Even lower home prices, once one leaves the mismanaged Democrat population concentrated urban cess pits. Who unfortunately provide most of the harvested Democrat ballots, that control our state election outcomes.
A California native here, and I can still find "California" once I leave the coastal perversities and keep my head down in my adopted new home town of Santa Barbara. Which at one time when I first moved here in the 1970's was the southern-most limit for Northern California, according to demographic markers at the time. More people read the SF Chronicle, more people thought of SF when "going to the city, etc. etc.
No longer, Santa Barbara has morphed smack dab into fully-failed Southern California progressive dysfunction. And of course later SF outdid itself, following in suit.
The divide is no longer Northern or Southern California, but coastal and non-coastal California. A shout out to non-coastal California where one can still find some of the old California fundamentals, small towns, agrarian cycle ethics and a closer sense of community. And see more than one Trump signs left unvandalized.
Look what $650,000 on 3.5 acres could still buy you in Marysville, CA https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/770-Ramirez-Rd-Marysville-CA-95901/16546536_zpid/
BTW: it is apple time at Gopher Glen up the coast off Highway 101, where back country roads and farm stands remain a timeless road trip where the seasons do change.
California, as we remember it through our long & fond memories, is to never return, as with the remainder of the United States & The World… unfortunately, the decades, and hundreds of years in some cases, of mismanagement (by design) and abuse, has left a wake of destruction…
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1964894148244459764?s=61
Fortunately, the worm is turned, and we are seeing the systematic destruction of the Old Guard, but it’s a war that we all must step up and fight, locally, here in California, across the nation. We are in the final battles of The Silent War…
TRUTH & TRANSPARENCY IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD> Transparency and Prosecution is the ONLY WAY forward to save our Republic and safeguard such criminal and treasonous acts from occurring again…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2qIXXafxCQ
PS…Great Article, surf is up…hope to see you riding the Rincon waves soon again
Thanks for this piece. I am from where you are now (Appalachia) and 1st fell in love with the California of the 1970’s.
It was a magical place to be sure.
I’m sorry for your loss. I miss the Appalachian mountains and family and slower simpler pace of life I once had.
I am guessing our respective hometowns miss us as well, but we have changed as much as the places we remember.
You can’t go home again except in our dreams; and living in the past is self indulgent. But it is nice to reminisce from time to time.
Let’s not give up on CA yet - once we dump the Dems we can start getting our beautiful California back on track. The fact that they’re doing their best to slide into oblivion gives us hope for a good shot.
I’ll tell ya what’s needed - a Governor like Steve Hilton. Conservative, practical and with some great traditional ideas. Trumpy’s having a more profound effect than most people realize, and Hilton, with his administration's connections could maybe bring back some of the good old days!
NO! Not another foreigner! Not another recent immigrant as CA Governor. We need a Californian! An acculturated American, smart business pro who loves our state and country. These dual citizens and foreign borns aren’t the leaders we need. Can’t we find to support one Californian super star in our population of 38M? Make CA Golden Again!
Hey Montecito, I absolutely agree about _no more foreigners_! - lock the door and keep ‘em out! Except for Steve Hilton - I followed his TV show and have seen his comments here and there - he’s more American than most U.S. politicians. Even tho he’s kind of a foreigner, (are people from England ‘foreigners’ ?), he’s got our values.
I’d love to find an American as conservative, smart and practical as Steve Hilton for CA Gov - have anyone in mind?
Boy, that is one vivid dream! Funny how they’re always scattered with truth’s and fantasy. I wish everyone had a chance to grow up in the California of yesteryear. It was such a magical place.
I was fortunate to grow up in Santa Barbara in the late '40's - 50's - and before the idiots of the late 60's. I was surfing before it became popular from '65 on up.... (a crowed day in late 50's early 60's was 5 guys at Hendry's, Leadbetter, or the Ranch.)
State and San Roque/Las Positas was the "sticks".... Lemons, what was left of the Walnuts, and Goleta was the grocery store for the ranches "out there." Post WWII military was mostly gone. It was a time when Mom would hand us a bag lunch (yes a real brown bag) and say go up to what is the Cater Water Plant and spend the day.
No longer.
Santa Barbara was the last of the hold outs for "compassionate? density" but that was gone by the 1980's. The ethic of work and honesty was fast fading when I started working full time in the summers (1959). Working for $1 week allowances (mowing, taking the garbage out, finding week-end jobs was considered "beneath" most of the kids in my neighborhood by 1963. Yep S. Calif is gone. Sacramento and the "everyone" is due housing and government supported jobs today is the rule. Think I am kidding look at the fast approaching government destruction of the carrying capacity of both land and "we demand housing." No longer affordable without government handouts.
Mr. Griswold is right. The California I once knew is gone but it is being hammered into dust by the we are government comply crowd. (Right Marti, Helene, Gil, Falcone, Dave, June, and the list goes on).
Ok, have a good day. Remember UCSB has an enrollment of about 40K this year.
Yes, the SB Destroyers do have names. Thanks for listing them. And they kept getting re-elected and re-cloned. That is now on us.
The California we knew is gone thanks to Newsom and the corrupt politicians. We don’t even have a good senator or rep anymore. Sad.
A client from Colorado asked this week if this was Northern or Southern California? I said I prefer to call it "Coastal Central" as awkward as that sounds. But I hope to separate it from the twin horrors that SF and LA have become.
When I think back in nostalgia I am all too aware that the reasons I came to SB in 1975 and immediately decided to stay are GONE. Yet I remain now for other reasons, long evolved, persistent.
Yes, that is what I say now too -- except I say Central Coast California. Few ask for anything more. That usually gets a blank stare in return. Or one could say, "God's Country between mostly untouched by?) LA and SF".
When one concentrates only on this Central Coast chunk of California, it is remarkable what low key pleasure and quiet beauty it still offers. And well as very satisfying culinary destinations.
Who, anywhere, can beat the Toffee Crunch cake at the Madonna Inn outside San Luis Obispo. Or the Chocolate Mint ice cream pie and broiled lamb at the Loading Chute restaurant in Creston. Bob's Wellbred in Ballard or Los Alamos. Fish tacos on the San Luis pier. Freshly made sausages in Lockeford. The now sadly missed Tuna Melt and Peanut Butter Pie at Jack Ranch near where James Dean met his end. Now bypassed by the new and much safer back route from Paso Robles to Highway 5. At one time, there was a key lime pie in Salinas worth the detour but they switched to canned lime juice and all was lost.
Mainly I use the term Central Coast California because Santa Barbara is now such a pretentious brand, so I like to avoid that tainted association.
A pretentious brand SB may well be, but weirdly enough it is a rare magazine I read that doesn't somewhere in it mention the city.
Glen shaped a handful of my boards. He was a great person.
You can’t go home again. 😊
Been thinking about this piece and jotted down some memories of my own
I fell in love with California over 30 years ago and moved here in the ‘90’s
But the Appalachia is my home.
Everyone knows California, subject of books, songs, movies…but Appalachia…not so much.
Remembering autumn in the Appalachia as a young man walking to school thru the woods:
Everyone is both rich and poor at the same time. there is no frame of reference in the woods. No politics. No ocean or surf. No great causes…The smell is all around and through you…wood and dead leaves rotting everywhere you step and look. Winter bite in the air, you can see your breath for the 1st time since last winter ended. Walking quiet through the woods. Chilled air carries sound further. The only sounds being dried twigs cracking beneath my feet and my own breathing so I switch to silent mode by breathing through my mouth, stepping more carefully deliberately breaking any pattern or rhythm. You don’t see deer, raccoons, squirrels and birds as much as you “feel” them. You know exactly where they are and they know exactly where you are. There is equilibrium in the woods. I would go this way for half of an hour or more before reaching a clearing where my school was. Long before this point I could just make out the sound of the highschool marching band practicing, over a mile away, preparing for football season….The noises and voices of my schoolmates pull me completely out of the peaceful woods and into a different world.
A world without equilibrium.
I would quicken my step and abandon the quiet and yell to join in.
I miss that world most of all, that walk in the woods, Appalachia in the Fall. 😊
...Take me home country roads, West Virginia ..... John Denver ....who does/did not just love that song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAGHgVhR6TY
Thanks for the link. What a pure voice he had.
Eric, that’s a heartfelt, well-written tribute to this ancient neck of the woods. I consider myself blessed to reside near a river where I can paddle, and have land enough to enjoy routine visits from critters who know they’re among friends.
I could, however, live nicely without the frequent encounters with yellow jackets. Ouch! But they’re relatively small considering the size of those monsters I remember assaulting us at Jalama!
Fantastic perspective!
Ouch.
lol - you have a very active subconscious. Are you doing or taking something to trigger these dreams. If you are, tell me so I can do it too.
Lol Lou. Seems old age has improved my nightly theatre.
Lou, I did a lot of dream work once in my life and a few externals helped the process. To start, just say several times the last thing before you go to sleep, "I will remember my dreams, I will remember my dreams, etc." Then immediately upon waking write down even a snipped of a dream. Apparently their memory vanishes within a few minutes - so any thing at all, even if totally meaningless, will help start the process of remembering whole plots later.
This means keeping a dream journal. And if you wake in the middle of the night and can't turn a light on, use a voice recorder and just tell as much as you can remember, because voice recorders are even more interesting because they include often the emotions that have been triggered.
Then start exploring legitimate dream symbology - Jungian only in my opinion are valid - A handy little dream symbol book to get you started is "The Dreamers Dictionary" by Thomas Chetwynd. These are not literal interpretations but link to the Jugnian archtyple themes that dream diaries start exposing over time.
The unfolding of your own dream "avatars" - repeated situations, places, persons, and even colors and forms - may take weeks, months and years to fully understand evolving patterns in your own mind.
How you feel in the dream setting is as important as the dream symbology itself. Mad, sad, glad, fearful .....awestruck, curious, wanting to actively intervene in the dream action itself - active dreaming .... there is much to explore and much to gain making friends with that "movie in your mind" showing double and triple features every single night.
Thank you, elce. That is very interesting.
Always great getting to read you, Al. Thanks for this. I think you should pen this into lyrics and turn it into: Anthem, Hymn, March or Dirge. You would need to decide. Shades of Van Gogh that dream has.
Thanks, David. I feel a little twisted about even writing the piece. My love for the Golden State runs deep. I also have amassed much enmity for politicians who seem bent on ruining it.
I'll dare to call it what it is: White erasure. As our people are erased, our norms are erased. People are not equal. They are not interchangeable. We were lied to about that.
It has always been a values thing anyway, not a distinct peoples thing. Old values are lost and one now struggles to find value in the new replacement values.
The older generation raised by Depression-experience parents, left a unique mark on American life. Soon gone, and erased from memory. Only the growing government nanny-state is the detritus left from that Depression era law of unexpected consequences.
Each people has a unique biospirit. Generations (especially children raised on antiwhite media) are different, true. But biology has consequences. Values like honesty, keeping a clean environment, consent for sex, "fighting fair", etc.
Third world countries are the way they are because of the people in them.
When third world people come here, they bring their ways here and the California my people made turns into the California their people make.
I'm sorry that this goes against the religion of our time, but facts are facts.
JV: My own long life of far-ranging global travels, observed the common recipe for third world status: Raid the treasury and hire the relatives.
elce: You hit it right between the nostrils: "Raid the treasury and hire the relatives" is exactly why so many countries fall into disrepair and eventual bankruptcy. Which is, of course, what has happened to so many of our cities both large and small. Sadly, Santa Barbara has finally fallen into that black hole from which there is no evidence that anyone or anything escapes. Just before we descend into that hole-of-no-return, I have no doubt voters will have passed legislation to give everyone (hey, maybe even non-citizens too; compassion knows no bounds!) a "guaranteed income."
And no doubt this UBI will be digital in nature and come with some gnarly behavioral strings attached.
JB: They practice REI - relatives- equity -inclusion.
Recently back from Tunisia and learned only 13 families control the wealth in this country. And the neighborhoods clustered around the site of ancient Carthage can rival Beverly Hills. Which is not what you a say for the rest of the country.
The rule keeps playing out whether it applies to the Detroit school district's long history of total failure and bloated hiring practices, or illegal migrant export countries which continue to disrupt the stability of the rest of the first world, since endemic nepotism grabs and tenaciously holds on to what riches the country may well have.
The growing Democrat nanny-state is our own US equivalent of this rule --raid the treasury and hire the relatives.
Exactly. It's happening here right now. See the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees.
"Our people"
"White erasure"
White is modern concept - in the days old a person was connected to their realm/Kingdom and faith.
A Spaniard under the Hapsburg would see the English Heretics with contempt and a French Apostate with resentment too.
Why do unify heretics, secularists, etc under one demographic - a made up one that was inconceivable for most of history?
I don't see any "white" person as a friend for being "white", because I actually think faith matters, ideology matters, and realms matter.
I have no love for Anglo-Germanic [or France...] nations, they are the very nations who helped destroy the Christendom.
In the 30 Years War the Spanish tercios sent lots of "white" heretic to their grave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theory
Ah, you're still stuck in phase 1. We're well past that phase now:
Search Result AI summary:
The "It’s Not Happening" and "It’s Happening But It’s a Good Thing" phases are key components of modern propaganda strategies, particularly as described in the "Law of Salutary Contradiction" and the "Law of Merited Impossibility." These phases represent a deliberate shift in messaging: first, denying an event or trend to disarm opposition, and then, once the event occurs, re-framing it as inevitable and desirable to justify its implementation and silence dissent.
This pattern is evident in political discourse, where claims about immigration, gender identity, or surveillance are initially dismissed as conspiracy theories before being celebrated as necessary or progressive outcomes.
"It’s Not Happening" Phase: This phase involves the denial of a current or emerging phenomenon to prevent public concern or resistance. For example, the Biden administration denied that it was shipping illegal immigrants on military planes, despite evidence suggesting otherwise.
Similarly, the idea that allowing self-identification of gender would lead to inappropriate behavior in spaces like locker rooms was dismissed as a "conspiracy theory" or "alarmist bigotry".
This denial is often used to enforce a new social order by labeling opposition as irrational or hateful.
"It’s Not Happening as Much" Phase: While not explicitly detailed in the provided sources, this phase can be inferred as a subtle downplaying of a phenomenon after initial denial. It may involve minimizing the scale or impact of an event to reduce public alarm, often through selective data presentation or framing. This tactic aligns with the broader strategy of controlling perception by manipulating the narrative around a trend.
"It’s Happening But It’s a Good Thing" Phase: This phase, known as the "Law of Salutary Contradiction," occurs when a previously denied event is acknowledged but re-framed as positive or necessary. For instance, once the demographic changes from immigration are undeniable, they are celebrated as a "glorious trend" that ensures a more "vibrant" future and a permanent Democratic majority.
Similarly, the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson was initially dismissed as a "conspiracy theory," but later justified as warranted due to his "treasonous contacts" with Russian officials.
This shift allows the ruling class to claim moral authority while dismissing criticism as backward or unjustified.
These phases are part of a broader propaganda model characterized by continuous, rapid, and inconsistent messaging, as seen in Russian disinformation campaigns that change narratives when exposed.
The effectiveness of such strategies lies in their ability to manipulate public perception by controlling the narrative across different stages of an event’s emergence.
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Better get a full head of hair and start making babies.
I moved to SB 40 years ago next January. Yes it's changed but most of it is the same to me.
Santa Barbara has held up much better than 90% of California.
Try visiting some of the formerly nice neighborhoods in Modesto.
I did once, in 1977 when our bus had to change drivers on our way from Phoenix to Northern CA, to a summer camp.
Glad you got to see them before they were so White erased.
Feel free to go pick some veggies.