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Welcome to Weimerica Weekly Episode 39. The podcast airs every Wednesday.
This week’s podcast covers the growth of the wedding industry and experience.
Weimerica Weekly is a podcast hosted by Ryan Landry that touches on the cultural, political and sexual topics that fill the mindspace of our United States of Weimerica. The politicization of all cultural and social degeneracy is examined with a focus on how it fits together.
Weimerica Weekly is produced by the Hestia Society and distributed by Social Matter.
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The rundown of what the average wedding costs and where the money goes.
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Ryan, did you see the Jewish ceremony picture of two gay guys riding in on a horse?
Welcome to modernity. The sh_t show is here. Who’s ready for more?
I have noticed that this phenomenon has proliferated to even the more traditional segments of Weimerican society. In fact, the shared perceptions regarding what has become to known as “her big day” has arguably been adopted even more fervently by these more traditional segments of society than mainstream culture in some instances. It is yet another symptom of the spiritual malaise currently afflicting Western culture.
The switch to the bride’s big day is also due to how much crap they can sell a bride versus a groom. A groom rents a tuxedo and does not care about frilly things. Women are the easier to persuade consumers.
Ryan I’m very glad that you don’t bash capitalism all the time like some on the modern non-cucked right.
Nevertheless I should like to add a note of intensification. You mentioned cheap credit and in fact this is of tremendous importance.
Every aspect of the wedding is changed once it becomes a credit matter: what difference does another hundred bucks make if you’re about to borrow ten grand? This is an incredibly important shaper of behaviour, absolutely central to the whole phenomenon. Consider that interest rates have been falling for decades and flat at near-zero for almost a decade. I bet if you tracked the overall cost of a wedding pageant vs the interest rates, or alongside the national debt, the correlation would be almost perfect.
I’d further like to add that modern people aren’t concerned about the future cost of life events: their children’s education, and increasingly the cost of health care (especially in Europe), as well as issues surrounding income security and so on, are almost entirely mitigated by progressive governmental social programmes.
Whereas a British woman in 1920 would have been thinking about a large (30%+) deposit for a house (assuming they didn’t plan to live in an extended family) and, crucially, the long-term cost of child-raising and perhaps even the hopes of eventual retirement (all of which had to be paid for), a modern British woman knows that her future heart bypass operation will be free to her, she’ll have a state pension and her children will be subsidised and educated for free. Increasingly she’ll receive free (ie. subsidised) childcare, even free food and clothing, and if a family member requires care in the home, someone else will come in to do that for her and again it’ll be mostly free.
(Needless to say, none of these things are genuinely free: on the contrary they’re incredibly over-priced. It’s just the wealth is being transferred from other parts of the economy: perhaps the firms that might employ the couple are being hammered, or perhaps the returns on savings are being confiscated, or inheritance as a means of building family wealth is being curtailed. But to the person in the moment, these things feel free.)
So rather than a fault with capitalism, in fact it’s a distinct lack of capitalism that’s to blame. Under capitalism, the likely profit and loss of one’s decisions is paramount: if something could bankrupt you, it could also kill you.
Under the progressive welfare state, these consequences are entirely or partially disconnected, such that gaining enormous amounts of weight has no relation to the cost of a heart operation while spending all your money on lavish pageants has no relation to the affordability of retirement.
The misallocation of resources is a massive factor in the destruction of Christian society and it should come as no surprise to anyone therefore that the forces people round these parts recognise as crucial antagonists are highly supportive of social programmes, the redistribution of wealth, and ‘free’ stuff for the masses, as well as of course permanent cheap credit combined with savings-eroding inflation.
Capitalism means saving and frugality, not Las Vegas and chocolate fountains.