Hello everyone!
I am reviving my Substack to serve as a newsletter, compiling my media appearances across various outlets to send to your inbox every week.
Expect to see articles, news items, and podcasts from the likes of LotusEaters.com, GB News, Talk TV, The First, and the Critic Magazine.
Speaking of…
‘Are we suffering from generational sink?‘
My new column in The Critic this week explains John B. Calhoun’s ‘Rat Utopia’ experiments — in which rodents were bred in enclosures with abundant food and water, to observe how they behaved in post-scarcity, predator-free environments.
They rapidly deteriorated into mothers devouring their infants; vagabond rat raiding parties bullying others who withdrew and went limp; and a class homosexual of “Beautiful Ones”, who groomed themselves obsessively.
The rats stopped reproducing after day 600.
I think this analogy maps onto some of Gen Z — but the Boomers are to blame. Are we shocked that some Zoomers derive their values and personalities from algorithms and perverse incentives, when the older generation have pulled the property and social mobility ladder up after them?
Both Zoomer reactionaries and progressive radicals are rejecting a paradigm which robbed them of the same cultural inheritance and moral instruction that Boomers benefited from. The generational divide is incommunicable.
Davos 2024
The World Economic Forum convened its annual supervillain summit this week.
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chinese-Communist-Party-apologist Jeremy Hunt MP, and Foreign Secretary and Former Prime Minister, least-deserving-Lord David Cameron, spoke on panels.
The Forum released its annual Risk Report — gaslighting us with scaremongering about rampant misinformation/disinformation, and an impending climate change apocalypse.
I discussed this “Conspiracy Theory” in the first clip of its kind on Talk TV two years ago, with Peter Cardwell:
https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1500098129697427461
This weekend, Peter invited me back into the studio for a sequel my friend, professor of economics at Webster University of Vienna, Ralph Schoellhammer.
https://twitter.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1749000660450750762
It was an exceptional segment, highlighting how governments and international bodies have lost all credibility over their mishandling of Brexit, mass immigration, and the COVID lockdowns.
Expect to see me back on Peter’s show one Saturday morning soon!
‘What is Disease X?’
On the topic of Davos, I did a roundup of the Forum’s top priorities and insidious policies for Jesse Kelly on The First On TV on Thursday.
I also had some words of praise, and of caution, for Argentian President Javier Milei — who gave a robust academic refutation of socialist economics straight to the faces of the most sycophantic advocates of the Doughnut Economy.
https://twitter.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1748504380041482690
Jesse also, unexpectedly, asked me to explain “The Ken Effect” at the end. So stick around till the conclusion of the clip to see a “HE’S LITERALLY ME” Wojack interrupt an otherwise very serious political discussion.
‘An army of genetically engineered mole men’
Ralph Schoellhammer joined us in the Lotus Eaters studio on Thrusday for an incredible episode of the Podcast with myself and Carl.
We discussed Britain’s seething envy of Germany and the Netherlands, as viable alternatives emerge ahead of this year’s elections who are promising to deport criminal foreigners.
We also dedicated a segment to Carl’s recent kerfuffle with James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose — which led to the (unsurprising) discovery that self-styled Liberals know little about Liberalism.
And we revised Ralph’s opinion on January 6th, as more information comes out that it looks like the intelligence agencies were agitating the crowds and inciting violence.
Afterwards, we went behind the Premium paywall for Lads Hour: where brought Beau and Josh in to discuss how we might spend Elon Musk’s net worth.
I proposed a I create a legion of Morlock-like creatures to tunnel beneath (a purely hypothetical, of course) Parliament, and hold the MPs hostage until the coutnry is sorted out.
Either that, or buy a large enough EMP to send us back to the Stone Age, and stop AI before it morphs into AM from I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream.
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We also enjoyed gin, supplied by a generous audience member. If you’d like to send us gifts, you can do so via our PO Box here.
That’s enough to keep you all busy for a few hours. See you next week!