“That’s the trouble with everybody – you’re all so bored,” rants Johnny, the protagonist of Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked. “You’ve had nature explained to you and you’re bored with it, you’ve had the living body explained to you and you’re bored with it, you’ve had the universe explained to you and you’re bored with it. So now you want cheap thrills and like plenty of them, and it don’t matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it’s new, as long as it flashes and fuckin’ bleeps in forty fuckin’ different colors.”
Twenty-five years on, he would surely feel even greater despair over today’s hyper-speed world of digital distraction, hedonism, and increasingly short-lived fads. We are drowning in escapism—in engineered fun and novelty—and we’ve completely lost touch with how we got here. To borrow from Peep Show’s Mark Corrigan, another fictional character who gets the absurdity of our modern condition, we’re crushing candy, quoting Shakespeare, and hiding in the toilets of our own homes. It’s the confused high point of Western civilization.
Over thousands of years, great men—thinkers, engineers and scientists—gradually figured out what makes a mass-scale society function smoothly. At some point we reached such a level of mastery that millions could all but escape from reality, their basic needs met through little to no toil of their own. We now live among hordes of zombified consumers who—diverted by fidget spinners and Facebook feeds—seemingly give no thought to the blood, sweat and tears that went into building this bizarre utopia.
Are you one of them? Well, if you’re not sure, consider this. Every day, whenever you want, you turn a tap for water to begin rushing out at the exact temperature and speed you desire. Have you ever given this a second thought? Have you ever wondered for more than a few seconds where all that technology came from, or how people managed before it existed?
We’ve come to think of state-of-the-art plumbing and freely running water as luxuries we are owed simply for the virtue of being born. We pay taxes for water infrastructure, sure, so when something goes wrong with the pipes we get angry about it. But when all is well, as it basically always is, we lose all regard for the headaches of the huge invisible industry that exists to serve us with our most fundamentally-required element in the cheapest and most convenient way possible.
And that does plumbers, the unsung heroes of modern society, a great disservice. We must remember that civilizations that had the best plumbing also tended to be the most prosperous, be it the stone rainwater channels of Mesopotamia, the wells of Ancient Egypt, the lead pipes of Ancient Rome, the sewers of Victorian London or the spectacularly complex plumbing networks of today’s techno-cities.
A society cannot squabble and bullshit its way out of a plumbing predicament. It must roll up its sleeves, think, lay out its plans and act as one rational unit if it is to succeed. That’s what the Babylonians did when they made the first clay sewer pipes in 4000 BC, and it’s what the Minoans did in 2600 BC when they figured out flushing toilets and pressurized showers.
And it’s what the Romans did when they built Cloaca Maxima—the Greatest Sewer, constructed around 600 BC—which carried waste to the River Tiber. “The extraordinary greatness of the Roman Empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains,” wrote Dionysius of Halicarnassus. When Rome fell, much of the progress it made in plumbing went with it, and the disastrous effects played out for centuries to come.
The Black Plague killed hundreds of millions poisoned by their own filth, and it wasn’t until the Renaissance that signs of a plumbing revival surfaced. In 1596, Sir John Harrington, Queen Elizabeth’s godson, designed the forerunner to the modern flushing toilet, later improved upon by Scottish inventor Alexander Cummings in 1775. Meanwhile in 1664 France, a 15-mile cast iron pipe main—still in operation today—ran 15 miles between a pumping station in Marly-on-Seine and the town of Versailles.
The massive growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution put great pressure on the plumbing systems of the time, with streets becoming disease-ridden cesspits. London was the first to take decisive action after the Great Stink of 1858 when civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette led the construction of a vast intercepting sewer system that diverted waste downstream to the Thames Estuary.
With that foundation set, the US steamed forward in the 19th and 20th centuries to become the unrivaled innovator in plumbing as the modern kitchen and bathroom went from luxuries once reserved for the well-off to something enjoyed by virtually everyone living in developed society.
Plumbing has come a long, long way, but now that everything is so easy, we overlook its magnificence and its significance. In our ‘smart cities’ and our ‘connected homes’, we consider it something rudimentary, and have turned our attention elsewhere. In the US, Vox reported last May, federal funding for water infrastructure has dropped from more than 60 percent in the late 1970s to just 9 percent today. It’s symbolic: America’s pipes are disintegrating alongside its moral values and sense of identity, and the solution will be to replace them with untested, potentially toxic plastics, just like a once-great culture is being replaced with something equally second-rate and superficial.
A prophetic 2000 article, The History of Plumbing and its Meaning Today, warned of America’s crumbling water infrastructure, now revealing itself in the Flint crisis and beyond. “We assume clean drinking water and safe, sight-unseen waste disposal in every private and public building,” wrote the anonymous author.
“We take for granted the sanitation, hygiene and convenience provided by indoor bathrooms. What the American plumbing industry has accomplished in the last couple of centuries will cause historians of the future to marvel, just as we do over the ruins and artifacts of the Roman Empire.”
But if we continue to ignore that which makes our lives so comfortable and instead let our collective consciousness wander further toward triviality, hysteria and decadence, ruins and artifacts are what our glorious plumbing systems might—along with everything else we’ve built—become sooner than we’d hoped.
As American activist John W. Gardner noted: “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
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Which ethnic group invented this?
Wakandans. The white man stole EVERYTHING from them.
Nigerians
Selling scam plumbing services in your email spam box doesn’t count as “Nigerians invented plumbing”.
Well, going from the author, it appears that several ethnic groups did so, including the Black Egyptians. So I’d say Romans, Egyptians of African-descent, & the Mesopotamians, etc.
When European explorers made their way to sub-Saharan Africa, they found the natives had not even invented the wheel or had a written language. No clothes, no progress, mud huts at best for dwellings (while by this time white Europe had castles, ornate churches, cities, and was building and navigating the large sailing ships with which they explored pretty much the entire world.
If you think African blacks had anything to do with any sort of water infrastructure in ancient Egypt, then you have a very active imagination.
That’s obviously not true, you are the one with an active imagination &/or large supply of LSD. In Nigeria, for example, the Igbo tribe was already clothed, participated in a representative democracy, & had at least basic housing, consisting of clay, along w/wood, stone & other elements. And this is based off the English colonizers own notes. This is all verifiable via Google, unlike your nonsense you posted. However, I don’t expect you to do any research. You’ll just continue posting idiotic comments online about a culture you know nothing about. If you are ignorant about a topic, simply don’t speak to avoid looking like an idiot. That’s why I have been on ROK for over a year but barely post on issues regarding Europe, for example, because I am aware that my expertise is laughable at best & I’d rather learn from others. In regards to Black Egyptians, that argument is too long & complex to get into here. The only thing I shall remark is why are there ancient depictions of obviously African faces in Egypt. Devil, is that normal for 1 culture to build numerous monuments & drawings of people supposedly from another culture? In the ruins of ancient Rome have archeologists found numerous art pieces glorifying & dedicated to figures of obvious African descent?
” Black Egyptians”
LMAO XD
Egyptians are Egyptians not Black, not Arab and not White
Hamites.
Sorry to crush your daydreaming, but ancient Egyptians were NOT black.
The ancient Greek and Roman travellers – just like the English colonisers in Nigeria that you have mentioned – also took notes.
Those notes contain descriptions of ancient Egyptians.
Guess what color they were according to those contemporary notes?
A hint: WHITE.
Why do you (along w/all the other individuals who argue that Egyptians were white) blatantly refuse to acknowledge the point I brought up: ancient depictions of obviously African faces in Egypt. As I asked the blue-eyed devil, I will ask you Hun: is it normal for 1 culture to build numerous monuments & drawings of people supposedly from another culture? In the ruins of ancient Rome have archeologists found numerous art pieces glorifying & dedicated to figures of obvious African descent? This argument of mine is not original; it has been used multiple times yet not once have I heard a solid rebuttal; you all conveniently ignore that so your little bubble isn’t crushed.
The ‘Egyptians’ obviously were not white, but they definitely were not black. There have been many different monarchies throughout its history, such as the Greek/Ancient Macedonian Cleopatra and Ptolemy, but the original stock has been washed away like the Etruscans in Italy and the Huns of the Steppe. The conspiracy theory you are peddling is a black American coping-mechanism. You guys claim mythical descent from Egypt, Numidia and Sudan to juxtapose historical ‘accomplishment’ with that of your archenemies (Northwest Europeans) because your antecedents are the darkest of the dark (West African), while Northwestern Europeans are the whitest of the white. I’m sorry, but you are the descendants of an unaccomplished region. Your ancestors were sold into slavery by West Africans. They defeated you in a bush war and sold off the excess chattel to Portuguese-Jewish sea merchants at ports, who then ferried them to the New World, where they lived better lives than in Africa to this day.
You’re a big fucking joke dude. Give me references where the ancient people state that the Egyptians were white in appearance? The ‘white’ people in Egypt came from outside (mostly Persians, Greeks and Romans), but the original Egyptians were definitely not white.
Here you have a reference from Arrian, who was a Greek military commander in the army of Alexander the Great. He wrote this about the people of the Indian subcontinent:
“The southern Indians resemble the Ethiopians a good deal, and, are black of countenance, and their hair black also, only they are not as snub-nosed or so woolly-haired as the Ethiopians; but the northern Indians are most like the Egyptians in appearance.”
so you’re saying you’re using google for research?
The fact that you even chose to write in “black-Egyptians” makes obvious the ridiculousness of the notion.
Not true. I only did so because I knew what the original poster I was replying to, Arcticcommando2012, was trying to get at.
The dumb F*ckers dont know that DNA for King Tut and Cleopatra both tested as Caucasian/White.
This Huey SJW tool is super funny. Can we give him the Soy-Phag troll of the day award?
Nothing SJW about me, I’m a proud black heterosexual black man & there’s a high probability I’d beat the fck out of you, so lay that Soy-Fag label to rest. & it’s Fag you imbecile, mispelling words does not make you any cooler you pitiful beta.
Huey, out of all the toilets you’ve had your head dunked in, which one was your favorite? Do you have a favorite model?
Chimps need not insert themselves in civil debate
@Huey, although I am not well aware of the actual topic, I can say one thing for sure; there is no point in getting into a debate here!
“Few” people here simply take it granted and vent out with all their gibberish !!
To the extent that they include India/Bharat among the “third world” Countries (maybe out of GRUDGE) !!
These morons need to go through this link !!:
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm
P.S: All said & done, I don’t have any problem in acknowledging the Risks, Efforts & Craftsmanship of white MEN, along with the other MEN.
Hey Huey can we have a civilized discourse? The “truth” is closer to what your critics say but you make some points. There were several semi advanced African empires including the Songhai, Wagadu, Mali, Kanem Bornu and Jolof. All had centralized government, currency and maritime trade. However they all went into decay and were no more. For instance the Songhai, the biggest and most powerful of the west African empires was brought down by the superior musketry of the Moroccans. The Kanem Bornu were conquered by the Europeans. In both cases the Africans did not have the technology to match an opponent that did. The description another poster gave of backward tribal people living in mud huts and unaware of even the wheel is regrettably true. Even to this day large segments of Africa are impoverished, corrupt and incredibly violent. Huey no black peoples on the planet have achieved more than black Americans. Yet you allow your masters in the Democratic Party to infect you with the disease of embracing victimhood, and with it the hope of some day achieving revenge. All left wing politics has ever done is kill and enslave. So continue to try to rewrite history to match your fantasies but history is history. Also try to pick a better hero. The real Huey Newton was an unapologetic leftist and a stone cold killer. He left no positive legacy for his people. I bear no malice to any race or peoples but refuse to see the world for anything but what it really is.
“Try to pick a better hero.” Like who, the ultra-low T, soy-voiced Ben Carson, with his wife Grimace? While I agree that following the militant path leads to nowhere, the path to soy-ville is probably an even worse prospect, especially since it often detours onto the Hershey highway.
Ben Carson is somebody you SHOULD take pride in. A juvenile brain surgeon is impressive.
Revisionist Egyptology is a black American coping-mechanism. You are not descended from Ancient Egyptians or present-day Egyptians. Get over it. I’d have more respect for you Afrocentrists if you tried to make an argument that Africans are superior athletes or musicologists or something. At least you would have, ya know, evidence instead of this childish ‘muh hieroglyphics’ and ‘muh missing sphinx nose.’ I cannot believe there isn’t a single black person who counter-signals this nonsense. Even ‘Magic’ Ben Carson believes it. Even Thomas Sowell believes that whites from the North of England bestowed black Americans with degenerate culture. You guys cannot accept the truth.
Yes, Thomas Sowell’s 100% correct about that; anyone should be able to see the similarities between the degenerate black culture & redneck culture deriving from N. England. & I am not saying African Americans descended from Egyptians, I’m arguing that there were prominent black Egyptians vital to early Egypt’s rise. Why is my claim about the abundance of artwork depicting men & women with prominent African features childish? & if it is, is that bad? Sometimes to prove a point, one must point to the most basic, fundamental assumptions. In early Japan, have they found artwork displaying men with facial features common to sub-Saharan Africans? How about Russia? You tell me to accept the truth yet you nor any of the other posters can offer a solid rebuttal for a simple remark. I for one believe that ancient Egypt was a multicultural state/empire which drew from multiple ethnicities to exist, that is why I said Black-Egyptians.
‘I for one *believe* that ancient Egypt was a multicultural state/empire which drew from multiple ethnicities to exist, that is why I said Black-Egyptians.’
Thanks for proving my point. This revisionist Egyptology among Wakandan Americans is a coping-mechanism i.e. a RELIGION. You are trying to relate to this pretend empire by applying contemporary, anachronistic societies to Egypt. I’m sorry, but it just isn’t true. It was ‘multicultural’ insofar as one race were rulers and the other were in chains. ‘Wakandans’ had nothing to do with Egypt. The Sahara was more arduous buffer than the Mediterranean Sea.
Look at the ‘Nation of Islam,’ which was a phony prison religion invented by a guy who just wanted an extra meal each night (as per Ramadan) in addition to the ‘3 hots and a cot’ of the Christian penal system. So ‘the honorable Elijah Muhammed’ took this silly glossing of Islam and erased the names of all the Arab figures and replaced them with Wakandan ones…then superimposed it on the goofy fake theology of Scientology. All these sayings about ‘white neanderthals in caves’ derives from this goofy scrawl that you would find carved into a middle school bathroom stall.
Your entire Afrocentrism is historical and mythological. You WANT it to be true. The burden of proof that Egypt was ‘multicultural’ is on YOU because no evidence of it exists for me to disprove. Once again the lazy Wakandan expects the white man to do his homework for him.
If I were not a white male, I might sympathize with the Wakandan collective self-esteem dilemma, which is what this is about. I have spoken with the most illiterate, derelict thugs in the worst ghetto in America walking around with the pan-Wakandan flag spouting off, saying the exact same things as you. ‘Asians are Wakandan, Greeks are Wakandan, Romans are Wakandan, Welsh are Wakandan.’
You blame Northern Englishman/Scotsmen for degenerate Wakandan behavior. Laughable. How do you explain the Wakandan behavior in the Congo, where the British never ventured or the Current Year Wakandan ‘migrants?’ Huh? Huh? Huh?
You refuse to accept any responsibility for the bad things you do, while taking credit for all the good things everybody else does. That is why we do not take you seriously. I stopped caring long ago about hoping that would ever change, just like the behavior of women. In a way I admire that type of shamelessness of simply not caring, but white men could never get away with that without being shamed. Mostly I’m just baffled how the average Wakandan would not be embarrassed by the Wakandan collective. Must be nice to have such uniformity. But this is also why I see Wakandans as children and not my equal. I just cannot take you seriously.
You guys did invent something that Europeans appropriated: l’/nch!ng. Wakandans LOVE a good l’/nch mob that chases albinos, sorcerers and petty thieves. Necklacing is their favorite pastime.
I have tried many times to respond, but PC lives on this site too and I get my posts removed. So anti-white Wakandan supremacists are allowed to say what they want, while white men cannot even defend themselves. Wakandans will not even acknowledge that advantage society has given you, which is proof your nonsense will never stop, just like women and feminism.
I’m not going to continue the Egyptian argument because, as I said before, it’s too complex to continue online & you refuse to even acknowledge the tiny comment I’ve been repeating about the artwork. What I will say is that I am not excusing degeneracy of blacks in America, I was just acknowledging that I believe Sowell’s claim. It’s blatantly obvious especially if you used to live in the South & North like me; slang sounds virtually identical to redneck speech. Just because I agree with Sowell does not make me one who avoids responsibility. However, one other thing I must disagree with you is your (and the majority of people in general today) view of race in general. I am not a racial person. I am African & a tribalist. I will not take the burden of other people of African descent because we have the same skin color; that’s a European construct. I will take the burden of my tribe. So no, although blacks in Congo may be acting savagely, that is the Congolese issue. If a white kid shoots up a school somewhere in the US do I say, see how these white people react (even though other blacks may do so)? No. I don’t derive any glory if indeed I am correct about Egypt. I just stated a fact I believe. & what’s all this about Wakanda, a Jewish creation?
“If you tried to make an argument that Africans are superior athletes or musicologists or something.” Herein lies the problem. On one hand, you have this school of thought in which blacks are considered the court jesters of the universe, only fit to dance, sing, dribble a ball, and otherwise entertain the rest of society. It’s like the Julian Sands speech from “Blood and Bone” on a large scale. But on the other hand, you’ve got a lot of people who would argue that whites invented the sports, and whites invented the instruments and music forms (e.g. baroque, jazz, etc.) so blacks can’t take credit for anything good. So even if blacks conceded the point that they should just take pride in musical and athletic accomplishments, there is still a slew of people waiting in the wings to take even that from them. It’s a no-win scenario.
But Wakandans ARE court jesters. And I said *try* to make the argument of superior athletes and musicians because they aren’t that either. I said try because that would be the one area you could put up a fight, but ultimately you aren’t superior in that either. Rap, jazz and boogie woogie does not compare to Beethoven, Bach or Mozart in terms of talent. Wakandans can dribble a ball, box and sprint fairly well, but they are not biathletes or triathletes. I have yet to see a great Wakandan ice skater or swimmer. In fact, every state of H20 seems to be your downfall. It’s not my fault that Wakandans excel at certain things and fail so badly at everything else that they do not even attempt, let alone qualify. So when you guys throw the ahistorical Egyptology around, I’m going to ground your flying pyramids with truth gravity.
If some rhetorician is ‘laying-in-wait’ to pounce on how whites invented said sport that Wakandans dominate, and that makes you protest….it means you are weak and your opinions are indefensible. That would be a good example of something whites invented but was subsumed by Wakandans, which would indicate Wakandan superiority.
But it also works the other way with ‘rock ‘n roll,’ which I’m still skeptical Wakandans invented (an argument for another day)…but clearly whether Wakandans did invent rock or whether it was a brief intersection of white folk and Wakandan blues from osmosis, the same example of superiority applies in the reverse: whites immediately dominated rock ‘n roll entirely and expanded upon it in a way that Wakandans never could, just like Wakandans came to dominate basketball and expand upon it in ways that the early (((all stars))) never could.
This guy is insane
Haha butthurt Wakandan cannot accept the truth. His high-time preference from his primitive origins does not allow it. Keep the dream alive that you are descended from flying pyramid people. This is why you people are not innovators. I have heard enough of you guys absolutely baffled how white people are such ‘meddlers’ with nature when Wakandans sit back and just ‘enjoy’ nature. Well, this is why. We work hard, while you just lounge around peddling conspiracy theories. We bend physics, you bend the truth and then cry about it. Go dribble a ball.
1. We wuz kangs n sheeit.
2. Scientists broke many hearts with dna results of mummies showing ancient egyptians being a very different race of people than sub-saharan africans, hence the terms north african, and sub-saharan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_history_of_Egypt
The Black Plague was blamed (Probably rightly) on J EWs….
Their confessions are on record, caught in the act, or throwing rats- flea bitten, down the wells of Christian Land Owners. Land with that contaminated water, could then be bought pennies on the dollar. In interrogation, the names of their Rabbis were uttered, and his directive was given. Vatican archives and art from that period evidences this. Otherwise, great article.
Babylonians. But the Minoans perfected it.
Even then the West was the BEST.
KANGZ
various ethnic groups and without any contact between them, mesoamericans had a better plumbing infrastructure than the european powers of their times. In fact the spaniards back home shit in buckets and threw the dirty water to the streets while mayans have toilets.
I wonder if your own ethnic origins contributed to your ahistorical ‘research?’
From my experience living in some of the most racially diverse cities in the US and the world for that matter (LA & New York among others), Plumbing seem to be almost exclusively the forte for white men and MAYBE some go-getter Latino types who you can clearly notice have a significant percentage of European blood flowing through them anyway.
Western Asians just feel like they are “above” this line of work even though it pays quite well, and blacks well….. they just seem to expect they are entitled to a $50,000 job just because they managed to pick up a high school diploma while many of there peers couldn’t even do that.
A well-oiled, highly functioning, and sanitary civilization as we know it is the pride of white men. The high IQ northeast Asians can maintain these civilizations when the skills are more or less forced upon them, and in 99% Japanese Japan and 99% Korean Korea, there are bound to be at least a few Asian Plumbers here and there ya know.
From Central America to Africa to the Middle East and even to China, hydroelectricity still does not exist fully like it does in white countries. A simple hole in the floor with pigs at the bottom suffices for ‘plumbing’ in these worlds. Lol maybe they have something figured out?
Don’t forget the Indus Valley Civilization which also had a well developed sewage system for its time.
That’s where Wakanda is right? Just kidding…
Large part of Pakistan. Proud to live in the heart of Indus valley (Google Layyah, Pakistan).
So Return of Kings guys think I shouldn’t be proud of my land by downvoting . . . okay chill guys going to immigrate to Canadistan tomorrow, as you wish!
What year you all live on?
Plumbing is clearly a product of the evil white men patriarchy and must be ignored and destroyed! Let’s make it more and more common to simply crap on the streets! Just like in the streets of the enriched cities in Canada, France, Sweden and Germany!
It’s the current year, folks!
Plumbing is racist!
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*Sarcasm off*
Any society that ignores something as important as this is diseased. To the core.
24/7 electricity, potable water, wastewater disposal, and advanced economies are all example of white patriarchal oppression.
“neither its pipes or theories will hold water” – that’s a great one!
When Rome declined, I never say fell, it slowly rotted and was disrespected by vandals, the will to keep it in repair was lost when the women en masse became whores. A household can suffer the same fate when the woman turns whore. Actually she was a whore all along, but the tools to properly control and manage a shebeast are constantly being challenged and struck down. It is a hot war against patriarchy we see today. What so called beta maintenance man can muster the vision to repair a structure and move foreward when the shebitch turns into a whore and a vandal?
But patriarchy rumbles on the horizon. Once supreme patriarchy begins snowballing, whores will squeal like little pink piggies beneath the intelligent MIGHT OF MAN. Building and reclaiming and shoring up is encoded IN OUR BONES and the energy never dies. ALL HAIL the renaissance. HAIL the patriarchy!!
@MCGOO, your up-vote count should have crossed at least 50+ !! No Sarcasm, I am saying it for real & I mean it.
Toilets are racist and oppressive cause they are white
Why do blacks hate aspirin?
Because they’re white and they work.
I thought it was because they were too proud to pick the cotton out of the bottle.
hahaha i’ll keep this one !
Not in prison.
Toilets they are stainless steel, have no seat, and can’t be flushed except by remote control in the guard hut.
You can probably figure out the metadata in what I just wrote…
DAS RITE!!!!
Haha I knew this was going to turn into a sarcasm-heavy white pride article in the comment section when I just simply read the article title.
Does that mean humor is racist now?
Not at all! I actually find the comment section funny in this regard. I was actually expecting a few “Wakanda!” references. lol
Black Panther OST-
Thanks for writing this. Plumbers, electricians, railroad builders, and garbagemen are people our society can’t do without (unlike Zuckerberg or Bezos or the entire staff of Huff Post). We need more people than just Mike Rowe paying tribute to them.
Is there ANY female dominated industry (fashion, “marketing”, “HR”, “social work”, left wing e-zine typists etc.) where society would even remotely fall apart if they just disappeared today?
medical.
from the appointment taker to the nurses. there’s a ton of them.
Pfft. Women in medicine are twice as useless. I know, I was **in** medicine.
Most nurses are barely useful. Many of these “nurses” were “taught” in the Philippines. I wouldn’t let them shove a thermometer up my ass.
Corinth, this is also true on the business and IT sides. Completely worthless. The company I worked for hired enough beta/omega males to do their jobs, for them.
Really !? Medical field runs 100% perfect without a single female.
They are being employed because our Society & Culture attributes “caring & loving” label to the females.
Ever heard about Father of (modern) GYNECOLOGY !!
“…there’s a ton of them.”
So that’s what? Two maybe three nurses tops.
Food preparation depends heavily on women.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong or demeaning about that, despite what feminists might argue. We all need to eat.
Most broads could fuck up a cup of coffee nowadays.
The famous chefs are men. Men do all the sanitary work, are plumbers and electricians and goddamm morticians.
But shit, if women ain’t in all the cubicles.
When firefighters go on strike they tend to bring in the army. This becomes more complicated when hookers go on strike. I mean who wants to come on a colonel?
Prostitution and all sex work in general.
But don’t get me wrong, I would drop these drawers if a fat bitch paid me $300 for the hour. I have to eat just like she does.
@Fitz, You nailed “them” !!
Great article. It’s simple to understand for an average reader and makes you look at the facts differently.
I work behind a bar. One quiet day a group of young girls popped their heads through the door and one of them said: “She needs to go to the toilet.” – pointing at her friend on the left who to be honest was absolutely stunning.
I don’t mind letting people use the facility but when it’s the way they ask about it that helps me make up my mind, so in this instance I said: “Sorry but it’s only for customers!”.
The girls could not believe their ears, they did not expect a man to not bow to the magic of the female sexual power, so they shouted back at me: “Look at you, where is your humanity gone?”
“- Down the toilet!” – I said.
Few hours later the pretty girl turned up again looking even sexier … but this time on her own. The rest is just history.
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Moral of the story, no matter how beautiful the woman she relies on men for her everyday needs to survive. Most men sell themselves cheap when they are bargaining for pussy! Bargain well, gentlemen and as you have a lot more to offer than society gives you credit for.
You would be a great role model and mentor for many young guys in modern society.
Hard to find her sexy when she just needed to poop.
“Most men sell themselves cheap…”
You are absolutely correct, Henri. The sad part is, majority of MEN just ignore their Worth for the sake of a pussy.
Let’s hope things change very soon.
It also takes a high level of agency, a future-orientation and a low time preference to maintain fresh water supplies. Cape Town, South Africa, and Perth, Australia, both lie at about the same latitude in the Southern Hemisphere, and both are facing prolonged droughts and challenges in securing fresh water. But Perth is successful at it because white men still run the place; while Cape Town faces a possible civilizational collapse in the next few months for reasons that we are not permitted to identify.
The DA, main conservative party and Apartheid remnants, still run the place. Federal inaction, not local planning, is to blame here.
If you want proof that even ‘lesbians’ have penis envy…look no further. LGBT is anti-white too. You want white genocide because you were denied a handsome man in your life. Why is a ‘lesbian’ trolling on a PUA site? More evidence that women love dick.
Nature will play its part in the end.
Nature does not care about the PC doctrine.
I remember an old communist joke.
A party leader visited someone but he was unable to enter the garden because of a large dog sitting behind the gate. The dog seemed to be very angry and barked a lot. His master said to the party leader:
“Sorry comrade, I can’t let you in. My dog does not understand the communist doctrine”.
Mental health and health care in general need men for the simple fact that people generally trust those who they can relate to more fully. The heroin epidemic will bring this to light.
Vocational public education, as an extension of the argument in this essay, requires more support. The manual trades are useful and under appreciated endeavors.
I sell stormwater and sanitary concrete drainage products for a living, me and 1 other guy are responsible for $4-6 million in sales every year. Even in the most dismal of economic droughts, the flow of new work is hardly delayed. look at the civic projects in inner city areas, how quickly things are covered in graffiti and hacked on for scrap metal. These are the groups that will start the fires when the world takes a break from the peace that the west has ‘enjoyed’ for so long.
How did you get into this line of work? This seems interesting
Google “precast concrete suppliers” in your area. the larger companies like Forterra, Oldcastle precast, Cemex. I would suggest finding a smaller private company that is able to compete very well against the larger ones not by being more effencient or working 7 days a week, but by forging relationships with general contractors (who you submit bids to), and by not having to pay affirmative action losers and HR clowns! That’s how we make it work.
Lots of low IQ working class white males who couldn’t break it at community college in the comment section. Should’ve studied harder in high school, which is why Jews, Asians, and Indians are at Ivy League colleges and making 6 figures in WS and SV while working class white males are in Missouri scrubbing toilets and posting on ROK.
Please, try harder.
LOL financier, you read like a gamma male cuck who barely makes enough fucking bread to pay your fucking rent. Dollars to doughnuts I make more money as a side hustle than you do in two years, and I’d knock your fucking teeth out if you talked like that in public, E-thug.
And you know it.
financier
True to an extent.
Some of this geography. A white guy born in New York or Los Angeles has a better chance than an Asian or Jew born in Missouri.
It is not so much race as proximity to power and wealth.
Why verbally assault them over social media? Have some compassion for the reason they might be low IQ’d…They don’t put dumbing down fluoride (hydrofluorosilicic acid or sodium fluoride) in Asian countries water or food or produce GMO food (loaded with glyphosate) on a grand scale, hence why they might have a higher IQ today then most lower-middle class whites born in the US Midwest, South, or Great Plains over the past 50 years.
Its highly doubtful you would ever have the balls to go up to a grown ‘260 lb white man’s pickup work truck’ and say this to his face. If it wasn’t for big hardworking meatheads like that, the next time your Prius breaks down on a highway when its -5 degrees windchill, you might not get a tow to the nearest 5 star hotel.
And yet you anti-white savages cannot wait to cash in your life savings of pocket change from your mud huts and rainforest tin shit-shacks, tossing your own children into the sea, to invade our lands and live off our prosperity and feast…well, siphon all PUA advice first, creeping everybody out in the process with your weird Third World habits, to try and feast on our women. I think I will take being white and living in Missouri regardless of my income over the genetic-envy you nonwhites so desperately have for even the most underclass of whites that no amount of Affirmative Action or charity can ever sate.
How do Americans deal with hypocrisy today?
You might live in a warm place and own a new car listening to good music with an excellent stereo after you ate a delicious dinner and feel pretty good about living in a free country, but how does being tracked and wiretapped 24/7 feel?
Americans may feel like they are good people even when they commit three felonies a day just by existing.
How do Americans justify paying taxes when their taxes fund rising debt, Obamacare, food stamps, regulations, US wars, illegal immigrants, nanny state laws, security cameras, license plate readers, checkpoints, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, curfews, gun bans, NSA wiretapping, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, searches without warrants, private prisons, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes laws, CISPA, SOPA, IMBRA, private prison quotas, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, 3 strikes laws, kill switches, National Security Letters, DNA databases, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, Operation Chokepoint, TSA groping, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, police militarization, chain gangs, boot camps, and Jade Helm?
Americans might feel like they live in a moral country, but how can a nation that tortures and launches endless wars take the moral high ground on anything?
How could Americans not feel responsible for US wars, debt, and tyranny?
How would the founding fathers think about the collapse of the USA?
The American default reaction to hard facts seems to be to not think and to silence those who speak the truth, but facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored.
Future generations will ask why Americans didn’t resist when the US became a police state.
One thing worse than learning that you live in a police state is finding out that no one cares.
The only realistic option left for a moral American seems to be to renounce your citizenship.
Someone is triggered. And jealous.
>How do Americans justify paying taxes
The government doesn’t need taxes to fund its projects because it’s the sovereign issuer of the U.S. dollar. It’s like how a bowling alley doesn’t need to collect strikes from outside its walls to give them to bowlers to stay in business.
Taxation is basically a mechanism to create a demand for the currency and give it value, not the source of the currency itself.
Real Americans need to justify nothing.
Keep that in mind.
I’m layin’ pipe
All night long,
I’m layin’ pipe,
I’m workin’ so hard
I’m layin’ pipe
To satisfy that woma… MYSELF!
I admit. I have overlooked plumbing. Shame on me.
But I have always said, “The trash man is the most important job in civilization. Without him, civilization would become uninhabitable in less than a month.”
Terrific article. I particularly like the tie in with bad plumbing and bad philosophy.
Edward, I agree with what you said. Seemingly low level jobs/profession (Society & Status wise, not Payment or Earning wise !!) but are essential.
Just think over. On the other side, let’s take a simple example. Wondering what does a Plumber do if He broke His hand or leg !? Injured severely or met with an accident !? Needs a kidney transplant !?
DOCTOR !
I call it as inter dependency. There should be People, Place, Technology, Necessity etc. Plumbers do the field work but somebody else has to Manufacture the Materials, Pipes, Nuts & Bolts.
Maybe out of context, I am just making a point that everything matters & everybody has a Role.
Office needs a Janitor but if required, the CEO can take up Janitor role but the reverse is impossible.
P.S: Do not worry, I am not planning to write an Article about how important is a Mason & Masonry !!
RAVI
No Indian wants their kid to be a plumber.
Show me a Brahmin who wants this. Or any Baniya class.
@madman, sometimes you seem to live up to your name !! Well, no offense, just being a bit sarcastically funny!
As I clearly mentioned, not just in India/Bharat but anywhere, normal middle-class will never prefer for these kind of Professions. Not because they will make less money, but because of Social status in their Society.
You will find this scenario more in Asian Countries.
RAVI
Brahmin do tend to have high IQ’s (I’ve lived in India). Though they are weak fairies and the women are whores.
RAVI
“Asian Countries”
You’re an Indian you do not speak for Asia, Macho. Calling an Aryan-descended North Indian an Asian is really stretching things.
I cannot make you for a Northie Punjabi (You do not really scream of Southie Dravidian autism) or a South black-ass Dravidian/Tamil IT Geek.
Usually, though a Gora, my years in India enable me to distinguish but you are rather amorphous.
In any event, you do not speak for “Asians” (Though you might be a Singaporean).
No doubt the vast majority of deadly infectious diseases we face are brought over by the filthy savages. Mrsa. Tb. Zika. Ebola. Aids etc. Filthy subhuman shits on sidewalk. Wipes his ass with his bare hand, than shakes hands with some baby boomer hiring manager as he takes your job.
GRUDGE !! saying anything more is akin to throwing stone on “pile of shit” !!
People of today don’t just take plumbing for granted. Electricity, telephones, automobiles, airplanes, PAVEMENT!, computers, supermarkets (that’s where food grows), mass produced clothing, dining utensils, washing machines, heating, a/c…visit any third world shithole aka 5/6 of the world to learn the valuenof these things.
You are absolutely right! And the anti-trade/anti-blue collar commentary and sentiment that pops up on this site is sad (i.e. scrubbing toilets in Missouri). In the early 1980s, as a man then in my early twenties, I drove my liberal PHD college professor uncle (my mom’s youngest brother), and his then even more liberal PHD college professor wife, to O’Hare airport to catch a flight out of the country to enjoy their leisurely summer break abroad. I was supposed to drive their car back to their home 400 miles away. The entire trip was spent listening to endless liberal diatribe (gun grabbing, give-away social welfare, hate of Christianity, hate of white males, hate of Reagan, hate of the military, hate of the police, hate of the working class, etc.). Then they got off on how blue collar workers were half-wits and knuckle walkers. My aunt got off on how my late father made a good living as a toolmaker (served an apprenticeship after WWII), and that was so unfair and wrong that they had PHDs, and my salt-of-the earth working class father made a good living busting his chops as a journeyman toolmaker. As we drove across a bridge on the interstate, I pointed out that skilled iron workers and cement masons built the bridge we just crossed. I then pointed out that the car we were riding in was built by skilled autoworkers. Parts were casted by skilled foundrymen, stamping dies were built by skilled toolmakers, and skilled steelworkers smelted the steel to make the car. I then told them skilled mechanics kept their car running. When we stopped for gas, I told them skilled refinery tradesmen made the fuel possible. I told them that the hotel I was taking them to had been built by skilled pipefitters, skilled boiler makers, skilled brick masons, skilled electricians, skilled plumbers, skilled carpenters, etc. I then told them that the following morning they’d be boarding a plane built by skilled aircraft workers, skilled welders, skilled machinists, etc. I told them skilled aircraft mechanics kept that plane in the air. I concluded my point to them, that skilled blue collar, mostly male craftsmen, made the entire process possible. I also pointed out that these many skilled blue collar craftsmen, risked life and limb daily, and with the sweat of their brows, sent their children to my aunt and uncle’s liberal university, to be indoctrinated, and to drop major $ for their nebulous phoney-baloney social science courses. Sadly, they looked at me like a deer in headlights. They could not, or would not, wrap their heads around the empirical truth I had shared with them.
I lived around that crap on a day to day basis for years as a college professor. The only one in my building, I think, who saw things in the way you just described. With a few exceptions I found most of my colleagues worse than useless. One colleague thought he was the man because he followed fantasy sports (isn’t it all a fantasy?) Another was almost salvageable but was a male “feminist” Feminists ran the entire department taking pride in being divorced, childless, and estranged the males in their family. What a sick fucking place the university has become.
This is why, ultimately, the whites in the US interior have the power. The Jews, blacks, Asians control the tech and finance sectors but the actual primary economy is controlled by whites-oil, ranching, hydroelectric power, agriculture…
Turn this off and the African and Jewish stockbrokers in Manhattan would cannibalize one another.
You have to be a troll. ‘Black’ tech and finance? You forgot to mention flying pyramids.
The future will entail more individual autonomy
including plumbing autonomy.
This article is damn right. A toilet would be a luxury for a lot of people in this world, and a true miracle for the millions of people who lived in the past. Plumbers save more lifes than doctors, and potable water is the most important item in your house, not your smart TV.
Be thankful.
If you ask some imbecile Indian immigrant, he will jump and say Indians invented everything from airplanes to toilets !! Though we are yet to seen any Indian “invention” apart from “0”.
And yet those hypocrites will come in hoards to the west using every crooked means known to man, leaving behind their “advanced” country.
Don’t know when your kind of shitheads get over the JEG&IIC Syndrome, apart from Autism !!
JEG&IIC: Jealousy, Enviousness, GRUDGE & Inherent Inferiority Complex !!
Be happy that I changed my response & tone, with due consideration to the fellow MEN who are honest and impartial.
RAVI
I’m not jealous of Indian immigrants and I have lived in India.
“Grudge”
Well you are still going on about the English and they quit India in 1947.
Goras might think Indians are a scourge but are not resentful exactly.
@madman, I could reply suitably, but no, I will not. There are two reasons. First: I can understand the typical GRUDGE of “few” people on India/Bharat.
Second: I have good opinion on you & just because you followed the “typical trend” of those “few” people; I don’t want to change my opinion.
RAVI
I’m not the usual Gora who spouts off shit about India without having been there in my life-I lived in Kochi, Goa, Andheri (Low-paid employment/consultant).
Mid-January, I spent a day and a night in the hospital. Thought I was having a heart attack. Got there 5:00 AM.
Countless tests, nothing to eat, no pain killers, my left arm hurt like it was crushed all day.
Finally, around 7:30, the umpteenth doctor came to see me.
He told the nurse to get me something to eat. And shoot me up with some kind of medicine I can’t remember. Pain went away.
He was Indian. Not white or black or hispanic like the rest of the bozos who had NO FUCKING IDEA what to do.
And that happened in the USA.
Turns out there’s cracked vertebrae in my neck.
7:30 PM.
At age 49 I was stricken with a life altering event which I will not go into detail here. I needed micro surgery at the base of the brain and I needed it 5 minutes ago. When the doctors finally figured out the problem I was placed into the hands of an Indian doctor who had been among the pioneers of the surgery he was about to perform. When I was wheeled into surgery I was seeing triple, could not stand and to say I was brain addled would be an understatement. The surgery was a complete success. Nearly two decades later I can still work out heavily in the gym alongside some young enough to be my grand kids. I owe that Indian doctor my life and never for a day do I forget it or him. We all know the country of India has many problems but it is about to be the most populous nation in the world and along with China will be the most powerful nation on the planet sooner than you think. I don’t have the link but Indian Americans as sub group have very high IQs, right up there with you know who. The great historian Will Durant (who you should all learn about and read) once said “India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in
Christianity… of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.” Our western society is dying and there is lots of anger as a result. Make sure those you hate are deserving of it across the board.
I would not want to be a low-caste Dravidian in North India, thanks
@Edward, OMG! Sorry to hear about what you have went through. And, like everybody else here, I am so Happy that you have fully recovered & joined us.
Wanted to say a lot but after knowing about the incident, all I can say is; Thank GOD.
The ‘medical establishment’ says they are the reason the average age in the ‘West’ went from about 47 in 1900 to 73 today. The real reason was the WW1 generation on up (if living in a city) was bathing in and drinking clean water…And using soap on a daily basis. That’s why cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever, yellow fever were virtually eliminated more then 120 years ago.
Those old water lines and sewers installed by those Irish and Italian immigrants are breaking down in the old rust belt cities in and around Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Newark, etc…Those cities easily have the oldest lines in the country…Flint was one of them as well and prospered from the turn of the 20th century to as far as the 1970’s.
I doubt they will ever fix the problem…Number one is the cost, number two is the manpower involved, and number three is unions run virtually all labor in the US Midwest. I don’t mind why Unions were created but today, they are a hindrance to fine craftsmanship that those Moustache Petes in that old photograph showed in their work.
As the money dries up, much of the old USA will be left to rot. Starting from the bottom on up
Johannes, thank very much for this excellent article. It’s especially interesting for me because I just finished doing all kinds of plumbing on my house and I have the kind of mind that makes me wonder where things came from and how they developed. All the best to you, sir in 2018 and beyond.
One of the smartest things I ever read on RoK that has stayed with me: men built and continue to maintain, the infrastructure of the world. We should all be grateful for this. Interestingly that same world has become a world where women seem more comfortable, because they don’t have to work hard physically. This is the second smartest thing. Without water you die in 3 to 4 days. Without sanitation, horrible diseases kill people in horrible ways and in large quantities. This is how civilization will end. Extreme weather and other natural disasters will erode our public infrastructure until we have neither the money or the skills to fix it. Think about the last few years, hurricane after hurricaine, snowstorm after snowstorm, power and water supplies knocked out, fire after fire. Eventually there will be a tipping point. My son Wants to be a farmer and a metalsmith. He sees the futility of going to college. Why be a lawyer or a banker? Can’t eat money. Counsel your young sons and daughters: learn to do the practical things that we take for granted rd now. Soon enough you are going t have to feed your family the old fashioned way.
If all white men suddenly disappeared overnight there’d be no electricity, plumbing, or anyone to repair your vehicle almost immediately. Thank God for the amazing mechanical abilities of the white man.
Meh…East Asians can do a pretty good imitation of a Eurasian civilization.
They know how to change oil and produce rubber and all the rest of it now. Whites invented it but they have had hundreds of years of imitation.
Chinese etc would still make tech innovations and in point of research would do shit with stem-cell science and so on that whites and Jews won’t because of moral and ethical boundaries.
You sound like you’re trying to do your best Keith Olbermann impression. ‘White people are bad…believe me, for I am a New York (((German))).’
These white supremacy articles are fucking hilarious. It clearly shows how insecure most white males are.
First of all, the only Europeans who laid the foundations of civilization are the Greeks and Romans. They were indeed white, but 90% of the present-day whites do NOT descent from them, but are of Germanic, Celtic and Slavic origins. These tribes didn’t do shit and were definitely not kangz, creatorz or inventorz.
Also, the majority of the first civilizations were non-white and non-European. Or do you think the pre-Greek/Roman civilizations (like the Indians and Sumerians) could build buildings without knowing engineering and mathematics?
Those cultures are dead and gone. What was good and smart about them was absorbed into the West as we know it today and the rest was shitcanned. Codified laws, medicine, mathematics…and swift justice to those who defied reason.
We have reached our zenith, probably. Ours began its decline around 1966. It’s a decline from here into the brutality of the East (e.g. Chinese eat dogs and cats, stringing them up in their public marketplaces) and Jihadism (i.e. Europe).
The only thing different from the upcoming void opposed to so-called Dark Ages will be how protracted it is.
Rubbish, the US will become Red Indian again as the Mestizos take over.
Chinese will never conquer the US. Impossible. They are a trading nation over the Pacific.
Mexico is on the border of the US and it will take the place over.
Yep, you’re a servile moron with an ax to grind; yawners. Lack of reading comprehension — the article emphasizes “men” including those from Mesopotamia while any assertions toward whiteness were made by random commenters. As for the Germans, suck on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_inventions_and_discoveries
Germans and Celts invented the Industrial Revolution and this consolidated power that had already been amassed through Navies (Britain, Portugal, Spain, Italy).
I’ll run down the rest for Ravi and out Arab and Med readers-
1) India was stuck in the caste system and the Hindu religion does not inspire progress.
2) Arabs and Med were too hot.
Germans and Celts were responsible for the industrial revolution. Of course the Italians and Portuguese amassed naval powers and this was a driving force but the spark of modernity was the industrial revolution.
“Build buildings”
Yes, you can do this without mathematics.
In history books, I have read numerous times that the original Romans were descended from tribes in Central Europe (Germanic or Celtic peoples). The Gauls had invaded Italy during the Roman Republic and the Battle of the Allia in the 4th century BC.
Don’t think for a second that the Romans and Greeks during the Republic and early Empire days were some mixed looking, dark complected Mediterranean people. I’d say most of the Romans during the Republic days were white with brown hair (many times curly) and blue or green eyes and had a light or medium complection. The Etruscans (who were the Original Mediterranean looking types probably had black hair and olive complected features). Nevertheless, both the Etruscans and Romans were both white.
It wasn’t until the Romans brought in Arabs and Turkic types from Assyria and Armenia and Nubians from Upper Egypt and Sudan that many Romans in the aristocracy took on the look of a mixed raced.
“Run a society without white men”
East Asians can do fine and so can Jews without whites.
Chinese and Jews invented a fair number of things (I’m German-American) as reflected by their IQ-though it is mostly spatial with Chinese and verbal with Jews (Hence the former invented karate and the later invented therapists).
Israel is completely dependent on the white mans money, technology and the his blood spilled in their wars.
The j3w is predominantly a parasitic people. feeding and exploiting on the peoples and nations in which they dwell.
That makes the host really fucking stupid.
No surprise, for example, that the average J in NYC or Asian in LA has an IQ of 113 and the average Mississippian white has an IQ of 100.
…Americans of Old Colonial Stock (Dutch/English or Scottish) are actually much less intelligent that the average person from Holland or Britain today.
UA Plumbers Local 1 (NYC) member here and I approve this article
As an on again/ off again member of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers, I liked this article.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner, “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?” (1961).
I worked in water utilities for nearly 30 years.
One inside story I got was about outbreaks of cholera and typhus in Bolivia and Peru back in the 80s. Environuts convinced the authorities that water treatment causes cancer so they dialed way back on the chlorine. That allowed water contamination, killing masses of people till they changed back.
I suppose the leftist mass killers got away with it.
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These white supremacy articles are fucking hilarious. It clearly shows how insecure most white males are.