During the ongoing showdown about the harebrained scheme of Elon Musk and henchman Vivek Ramaswamy to completely replace Americans with people from India, Musk repeatedly defended the scheme by claiming that America is a sports team competing with China.
This is actually a very fitting metaphor for the scheme.
I understand that Americans are very into cheering for team sports. Personally, I’ve never really understood it. I understand it in the abstract, as a transmogrification of the tribal instincts of men to associate with group iconography, and as a social unifier. Sports provide colors and symbols that ostensibly represent the people of a territory, and unify them around a simulated warfare process against the people of another territory. The purest sports team fan is a woman who knows nothing about the sport and yet is obsessed with the iconography and the process of cheering the home team.
But I’ve never been drawn to it on a personal level. I’ve been more interested in combat sports. These sports are more technically interesting to me, and the idea of two individual champions facing off is more stimulating than the sublimation of tribal drives to paint war-banners. UFC is also much less of a consumer mania spectacle. Most importantly here, there is much less emotional investment in combat sports than there is in the hysterical mania of team sports. A man watching UFC usually has a financial rather than an emotional investment, and this is a lot more masculine. In fact, there is something sad and emasculating about men dressing up in these outfits and getting very intense about these sports, as the outcome has no effect on their lives.
Certainly, the natural tribal drive to support the representatives of the homeland is healthy, but the human sex drive is healthy, and yet the way it is fulfilled in modern society certainly is not healthy. Team sports fandom is to the tribal instinct what chronic masturbation to hardcore pornography is to male sexuality, or what OnlyFans whoring is to female sexuality. Modern consumerist society systematically exploits the most basic instincts of humans. “Inter-dimensional reptilians who feed on the life essence of humans” has always been the best analogy for a post-scarcity society which meets all human needs with ease and therefore must create new needs from base drives in order to fuel an “economy” no one can explain the purpose of.
When resources were actually scarce, many and actually most societies used do human sacrifices to various gods. Human sacrifice was about gifting the life energy of the victim to these alleged cosmic entities that have dominion over the material world in exchange for resource abundance. The stated purpose of human sacrifice was most often related to food, with Aztecs and Hindus asking for crop fertility, or Agamemnon giving the life of his daughter to Artemis as the result of a deer-hunting dispute. Now, with resources abundant due to efficiency, the humans are sacrificing their vital essence, stripping all higher meaning from their lives in exchange for specified instruments purpose-designed to stimulate. Homosexuals have drilled the deepest into the material world of sensation, and it is not a coincidence that they are “connoisseurs of consumption.”
One could also mention the fact that most of these sports are primarily black people, and the sports mania creates a culture of idolizing blacks as physically superior specimen, infinity more virile than the obese white men cheering for them while chugging liquid estrogen.
But that’s pretty low-hanging fruit, I think. We won’t linger there.
I should note that I’m not attempting to insult people interested in sports. I’m sure there is a lot of fun to be had in simply following the game itself, and there is nothing wrong with that.
There are various different arguments being made in response to Elon’s sports metaphor, but the most prominent seems to be simply saying “but it’s not a sports team.” Obviously, a country is not a sports team, hence the term “metaphor.” A metaphor or any other type of analogy serves the purpose of simplifying meaning through symbolism.
It’s notable that the use of this specific metaphor by an oligarch addressing an army of angry middle class white people is grotesquely patronizing. Musk might as well have said:
Think of it like pornography: if you want your DICK to get hard so you can fuck your sow wife, you need to think about a porno whore you watched, whoever that might be. That enables your DICK to ejaculate.
But I digress (or do I?).
It has also been argued that if Indians were the star players Elon claims they are, China would be importing them. However, that would assume that China is playing the same game Elon wants to play, and there is no basis for that assumption. China’s goal is to do things that are good for Chinese people, collectively, and this is leading to them emerging as the dominant force in every industry. If they are attempting to “beat” the United States, they are doing so defensively, due to US aggression against them which includes a hostile US occupation of their sovereign territory (Taiwan), along with a massive military buildup attempting to encircle China, and multitude forms of economic warfare. This is to say that China’s definitions of victory are different: if having a lower GDP than the United States was what was best for Chinese people collectively, that would be the goal of China. If China would not even consider trying to “win” by replacing Chinese people with Indians, because this would be devastating to Chinese people collectively, and thus far outside of their goals. Elon’s stated game is abstract, and has nothing to do with the wellbeing of the American people.
Others have noted that the entire basis of the claims are false, that these H-1B Indians are not “top tier talent,” and in fact do a much worse job than whites, and therefore it is like drafting cripples onto your sports team. However, that misses the core of Elon’s metaphor, which is about the scoreboard, which is the national GDP. At least in the short term, flooding America with cheap Indian labor would run up that scoreboard.
The reality is that America is exactly like a sports team in the minds of Elon as his ilk, and understanding that highlights the difference between the way normal Americans view America and the way Elon Musk views America.
It’s useful to distinguish between the way Elon Musk views America and the way left liberals view America. Both these parties are calling for mass immigration and the replacement of white people, but their reasoning is much different. Ideological leftists have the specific and explicitly stated goal of replacing white people in order to build a utopian Marxist society where differences between humans are erased. Musk does not specifically desire to replace the white race, he simply does not care if that happens. (Vivek Ramaswamy does want to replace the white race, though not as a part of a utopian vision, but rather in service of his own ethnic nepotism and desire for his race to defeat and conquer whites.)
The ideological framework for Muskian race-replacement is a stated existential economic competition between America and the Chinese. This is actually much less appealing than the idea of replacing whites on purpose in order to create a utopia. At least with the leftist anti-white agenda, you have the clearly stated end goal of building a certain kind of future. Obviously, utopia will not actually manifest as a result eliminating white people, but this goal exists.
What then is the goal of out-competing the Chinese? No one is claiming that having a higher GDP than the Chinese will result in a utopia. So what then is the point?
It’s the same thing as a sports game: if your team wins, nothing happens to you. Also, if your team loses, nothing happens to you. It’s all in your mind. Sports is an extremely profitable industry, but it is not profitable to the fans. The fans are made to believe that a sports victory is important on an emotional level, while the owners of sports teams make large amounts of money off of them.
Elon Musk and others in the tech industry are making a profit, and that is their goal. GDP increase is good for all of their portfolios, while it has no bearing at all on the average American. Further, the companies that hire Indians over white Americans have larger profit margins because they pay them less.
This is Not “The Long Game”
I want to state again that I don’t believe in this game, as I don’t think it affects the lives of normal people in any way whatsoever. Frankly, I don’t think it affects the lives of the wealthy either, as while it may increase their wealth, after you have say, $10 million, you can’t really increase your quality of life with money anymore. You can buy more stock and real estate and run up the numbers, you can potentially increase notoriety (though notably, Elon Musk appears to be the only billionaire in the world interested in notoriety), but you can’t have better food, a more comfortable home, more free time, better vacations, a more decadent sex life, or anything else of any consequence to “quality of life.” And maybe the number is $25 million, who knows. But it’s certainly less than $100 million, and it’s much less than the billions that Silicon Valley people are dealing with.
However, if one were to accept the “sports game against China” view of the world, one would have to address the fact that the Elon Musk strategy is not the long game.
Chinese companies are a direct competitor to American tech companies, and as we’ve seen with TikTok, if Chinese companies have access to Western markets, they will dominate. Aside from recognizing that the “GDP scoreboard” metaphor is true, and insofar as America is in a GDP competition with China, replacing whites with Indians will lead to higher numbers, a real response to Elon is that the reason “American companies” fail in direct competition with Chinese companies is that Silicon Valley tech companies are not American companies, but rather Indian companies.
I can’t find where Laura got the 76% number specifically, but this is from the 2016 Silicon Valley Index, a report cited by the New York Times in 2017:
Silicon Valley has an extraordinarily large share of residents who are foreign born (37.4%, compared to California, 27.1%, or the United States, 13.3%). This population share increases to 50% for the employed, core working age population (ages 25-44), and even higher for certain occupational groups. For instance, nearly 74% of all Silicon Valley employed Computer and Mathematical workers ages 25-44 in 2014 were foreign-born. Correspondingly, the region also has an incredibly large share of foreign-language speakers, with 51% of Silicon Valley’s population over age five speaking a language other than exclusively English at home (compared to 43% in San Francisco, 44% in California, and 21% in the United States as a whole). This majority share in 2014 was up from 49% in 2011.
It’s certainly possible that Laura’s number of 76% of the total workforce being foreign is correct nearly a decade later.
While the GDP can be run up through these race-replacement schemes, and the general driving down of American quality of life as a sacrifice to the wealthy in order to boost numbers, if there were actually a meaningful competition between America and China, you would want America to be more white, not less white. All of the historic innovation in tech was done by white people, and the collective achievements of whites still outweigh those of the Chinese, even while we’ve largely been taken out of the game.
If you’re unfamiliar with the history of computer technology, you can do a search for “best computer programmers.” You’re not going to find any Chinese on that list, let alone any Indians. Some “top 10” lists could include Richard Stallman, who is Jewish, but all of the rest will be of white European dissent.
Here is the explanation for why Elon and his ilk are not interested in the long game: they don’t actually even believe in the America vs. China sports game at all, because they don’t believe that America is going to continue to exist indefinitely. They are not trying to run-up the GDP just for the sake of it, but because the future they envision is an internationalist and actually interplanetary future where their companies will continue on as players long after the borders between white nations and the third world have come down completely.
This is a big pump and dump.
The Chinese are the long-term competitor for these Western companies, because the Chinese do not want to be a part of this “international community” that Western tech companies are supported by. But the goal is not for America to “beat the score” of the Chinese. As outlined above, it doesn’t even make any sense why anyone would care about that. But the are setting the stage for what they view as the real goal, which is about global domination – and ultimately the domination of outer space – by these companies, and their only challenger is China.
Irreconcilable Differences
There is no way to square this circle, to make the agenda of the Silicon Valley billionaires line up with the wellbeing of the American people. This situation of Elon whining and saying he’ll fight to the death to replace the white race is just the first visible manifestation of the very deep differences between Americans and the tech oligarchs.
If there is an entity that best represents the future government structure these tech companies envision themselves operating under, it is the World Economic Forum. I’m aware that Musk has expressed criticism of this group, and I do not think that is staged. He disagrees with the way it is being managed, and I don’t think he wants this specific group of people to be in charge. However, the WEF is the organization that best represents the concept of a unified world system as a borderless global marketplace which allows corporations to dominate everything.
What is incredible, and what we should be very thankful for, is that Elon Musk has made his agenda so clear to the American people so early on. There was no reason at all for Elon to go public with this, other than the fact that he was mad at Laura Loomer. Trump had already agreed to the the mass H-1B agenda, and this could have been implemented rather quietly. There are already so many Indians in America that few would really notice an increase of a million per year. Elon has enough influence on right-wing media that he could have kept them mostly quiet about it. It was truly a ridiculous move, to make this so public, then to throw a fit, then to roll out the Indian guy to claim Indian culture is superior and Americans are stupid and lazy. A totally unforced error.
It’s hilarious that he bungled this so badly and in a matter of hours became totally reviled by all of these people he’d spent so much money and energy in courting for support. Buying Twitter was literally a 42 billion dollar play to control the right-wing thought-space, and he used it to announce to whites that he’s going to replace them with Indians because they’re stupid and lazy.
It also sets the stage for a total collapse of the faith of the American people in Donald Trump, which is a sad thing that must happen and it’s better that it happens sooner rather than later.
