Mukbang Migration - how progressives end up on the wrong side of history

I now walk funny, so the immigrants gotta go

Early June was a bit of a weird time for me

I wrote a few posts on Substack around that time, all of them getting a decent amount of traction, which I am grateful for. You guys really seemed to enjoy my slop.

Truly philosophical content

In real life, however, I spent the majority of that time in a hospital, confined to a bed, in perhaps the most excruciating pain I’ve ever been in my life. I won't go into the details here, but I’ll tell you that it's similar to a certain white boy who did a little bit of defending and deposing.

He’s literally me

Perhaps when more time has passed, and I’ve processed a few things, I’ll go over the whole experience in detail. But suffice to say that the juxtaposition between online Ghostwind and real life Ghostwind was quite jarring.

One instance stuck out to me while I was in the hospital

I was in the waiting room, about to get an x-ray, so I had to sit in a cramped and uncomfortable chair while the nurse called each of us to the next room. Even sitting in the chair was a feat of strength; I was pumped up with so many painkillers and muscle relaxants my entire body just felt like a jenga tower, ready to collapse at any given moment.

As such, you can imagine I was more than a little bit annoyed when one of the patients began arguing with the nurse about her procedure, holding up the rest of the line. This patient, in her mid 50s, didn’t speak a word of English. As such, she was getting upset with the nurse because she had specifically requested a “bone scan” and not an x-ray.

The nurse was trying to explain that they were one in the same thing, but the language barrier was so vast that even this basic information didn’t get through. Moreover, the woman herself was becoming quite frustrated because she herself mentioned that she had only just arrived at the country, and didn't know how things worked.

In an interaction that should’ve lasted seconds, it was probably about 10 minutes by the time the woman finally got the gist. It was one of several similar interactions I saw while I was in the hospital, and it was…

A perfect microcosm of the complete failures of our modern immigration system

The nurse’s life was made worse because she was wasting her time attempting to communicate something that should be obvious; my life was made worse because I was stuck in the waiting room for longer than I should have been.

And, in some abstract sense, the woman who didn't speak a word of English was also a victim of the system, because it's clear that whoever let her into the country wasn't doing their job.

Obviously I'm speaking about one specific anecdote, but this is a problem that's happening at scale, throughout the Western world. More importantly, this is something that's largely being…

Facilitated by the left

One of the problems that I have with the policy wonks is the fact that they attempt to defend open borders and globalization on “economic grounds.” But when you strip away the abstracted language, what exactly does that mean? It means that you want to take advantage of people who come from less fortunate parts of the world, and use their labor without giving them the same compensation and benefits.

Many prominent economic bloggers use this line of argumentation, knowing that they live in a bubble where they can enjoy the benefits of such policies without having to recognize the consequences.

The most egregious example comes from guys like Scott Galloway. In several of his podcasts, he actually just goes ahead and says that deporting illegal immigrants is wrong because they work for lower wages and you don’t have to pay them pensions.

This point of view is some boomer Reaganite bullshit — but what is more egregious is the idea that calling out this bullshit is tantamount to racism. As if pointing out the potential cultural and social problems with mass migration is somehow a sign of bigotry.

By Analogy…

It’s one thing to have sex, it’s another thing to participate in a thousand person gangbang.

It’s one thing to eat food, and it’s another thing to shovel down ten meals at once.

It’s one thing to have migration, and it’s another thing entirely to have…

Mukbang migration

The comparison to eating is apt. The human body is designed to ingest nutrients at a certain rate; mass migration is taxing to the digestive system of a culture and society.

Many people on this website have written think pieces on the immigration issue, so I won’t rehash them here. Very likely you already agree with what I'm saying, or otherwise you've branded me as a racist.

Rather, I simply wish to point out the hypocrisy coming from the left when it comes to any argumentations against these sorts of policies.

These same people have no problem extending land to the Native American tribes, where they can be effectively walled off from the greater society. Nobody cares that these people attempt to preserve their culture from the “colonizers”.

Similarly, there are protests in Mexico happening right now, where many of the natives want to kick out the Gringos because of gentrification.

On the international front, these same leftists have no problem with the fact that places like Korea or Japan or China or much of the Gulf Coast restrict immigration on cultural grounds.

Further, it's straight up wrong to believe that the idea of border control is somehow a right-wing talking point.

For the longest time the acceptance of waves of mass migration were considered a right wing “Koch brothers” conspiracy, a way for the supposedly filthy capitalist to suppress the wages of the working class. But now it’s been rebranded into social justice, as if flooding the country with people who share none of your values is the only way to…

Love thy neighbor

Aside from the ordeal in the hospital, one of the things that inspired me to write this post was this post by Natasha Burge.

Her post touches on the subject from a theological perspective. As far as I’m concerned, there is a God, and his name is trade-off — and so many of these blogger intellectuals don’t know how to acknowledge them.

A few years ago, I saw firsthand how a company can deteriorate within a matter of weeks. Several really high performing executives ended up leaving the company, and this created a cascade effect — a phenomenon known as brain drain.

Within a localized corporate environment, it’s fine for these things to happen — but when we’re talking about interactions between completely different cultures and nation states, this brain drain creates a self reinforcing feedback loop.

This is one of the things that I simply cannot understand about the majority of Econ bloggers. Beyond the immediate economic shocks, and the psychological impacts they create, these bloggers seem to be blind to the idea that unfettered migration in this way creates an incentive structure where:

• The most talented individuals within any given country will effectively end up leaving instead of using their intellectual abilities to improve their home country, and

• The countries that receive these sorts of immigrants know that they can just poach talent from across the ocean instead of improving their own human capital.

More than this, these “compassionate liberals” refuse to acknowledge that the costs and benefits of these policies cannot just be measured in dollars. Rather, there is the growing cultural and political resentment that’s been building for many decades now, in the knowledge that the institutions will more than happily abandon you if it means exploiting the capabilities of somebody from another country.

Further, the biggest hypocrisy coming from the left is the…

Selective empathy

Returning to the X-Ray room, the compassionate liberal is more than ready to acknowledge how people like the nurse is get fucked over by the system, and how even the woman who doesn't speak English is being exploited for the benefit of the system as well.

And yet their empathy runs dry for the regular citizens who already live in the country, who also suffer from the effects of these policies. Sure, they might be able to recognize individual instances, but when you multiply experiences like mine by one million, that’s how you end up with a population that welcomes demagoguery.

These leftists will shed tears for people like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and demand that he have his due process. Indeed, they will go to bat for a man who's credibly accused for beating his wife, and potentially trafficking humans — and all the while call you a bigot for pointing out that mass migration could lead to cultural decay.

Yet, if someone points out that millions of people cross the border illegally without any of the same due process, the natural reaction is always the same: deflect, and simply call you a racist.

But ultimately the vibe is shifting, and people are getting fed up

Simon Laird makes an instructive point in one of his most recent articles.

The left reflexively views themselves as being on the correct side of history, that “progress” always means moving towards their beliefs. But as his article points out, this overlooks many key issues which they have lost in the past — such as their defense of pedophilia as a normal sexuality, their promotion of eugenics, and more recently, their beliefs around trans people in female sports.

Previous generations smoked on airplanes, drank while pregnant, and used lead paint. We can safely look back on this time and say “what the fuck were they thinking”? Future generations will look back on our treatment of animals in factory farms, the amount of sugar in our food supply, and our tolerance of morbid obesity and think much the same thing.

And ultimately I believe that the attitudes around Mukbang migration will also fall into this category; the people who are safely detached from the current cultural moment will have a clear headed intuition that allowing wave after wave of culturally distinct migrants without any means of assimilation is tantamount out to socially engineered failure.

But most importantly…

…none of this applies to big tiddy latinas – we welcome you with open arms.