The Last True Gael 😀

Many will bristle but there is truth in this. The embrace of all aspects of Anglo-American liberalism without genuine analysis or modification represents the perspective of an elite who manage Ireland like a twenty-first century tobacco colony. Profits and rewards are directed to insider cliques. Structural imbalances are ignored and exacerbated because they benefit these insiders. Public finances have never been as insecure. Energy and food security are rarely considered. Young Irish people intend on emigrating in record levels as a direct result of this mismanagement. Fertility is declining. Immigration is promoted because it benefits these insiders yet is harming Irish people directly. Many of this elite class revel in mocking the Irish people in this position. I have encountered many on here. Of course, we have to consider that a modern ruling elite is essentially a class that works across institutions far outside of party politics but who nonetheless embody a set of values and a world view. With this perspective, we have to face the fact that the ruling elite of Ireland has been produced in accordance with the values of an education system built upon the reform of education led by the OECD in the 1960s. That is education for economic growth and the dissemination of liberal values. The values of the modern Irish elite are vulgarian and filled with contempt for those outside of that D4/Montrose/Irish Times liberal and progressive setup which is basically a poundshop knockoff of Britain's elite minus a significant Tory wing. Vast amounts of energy are spent reminding us of how bad the country was before them, how uncivilised we were before their tenure. That speaks to the manner that the Irish elite class has been engaged in a project that aims to transform Ireland and its people into something more acceptable to themselves since liberalisation. I never see such a project in countries with an ostensibly Catholic culture such as Italy, Spain or Portugal. The D4/Malahide liberal elite are a curious phenomenon in how they relentlessly assail the very meaning of Irishness. It is vile. The assault on the Irish family, the relentless assault on Catholicism to an extent that is pathological, the parochial and low rent level of public discussion in the media, their aggressive pursuit of mass immigration and diversity along American and British lines despite the harm that it doing all speak to a malformed elite who are not really part of Ireland in a meaningful way.

I have just used AI to help prepare my taxes, something unthinkable a few years ago. No need to hire an accountant for simple tasks like that anymore. You can learn so many skills and develop yourself outside of the credentials mill of modern education. That is the Janus-faced nature of AI. As a working guy, AI has liberative qualities that mean certain professions that previously could hide behind obscure pricing scales and lack of alternatives are being replaced. It also makes creative people more productive. The chattering classes and professional types who were content to laugh at tradesmen and regular working people complaining about the ultra liberalised immigration expansion lowering wages and making things harder to live are no longer laughing. The middle class professional is now coming face to face with replacement. The real issue IMO is how the economy is structured with a lot of people on ultra low wages that are unsustainable, a squeezed small enterprise economy that is screwed by high taxes and energy costs etc and the expectation of college graduates for easy careers behind a desk. The answer so far has been to keep those low incomes low and import people whose existence is subsidised by the tax system for low skilled work. That is unsustainable and sooner or later we have to look at the whole area of sending such large numbers of people to college at all. Many people are sent to college but would be far happier with a family working part time in a restaurant or small business if that was viable. Many twentieth century expectations have evaporated in the last twenty years, home ownership, long-term employment, being able to live near family, etc. The Irish state is operating in a reckless manner that is premised upon the assumptions of twentieth century globalisation. The assumptions include the idea that immigration is always good, that is always of equal standards and that we can increase public spending by driving population growth through immigration. This was never the case long term. AI and automation will be developed in countries like Japan while we will have more Turkish barbers and ethnic mafias colonising entire sectors of our economy, monopolising housing and public sector jobs, and gaining political influence.