By Andrew Mackinnon
BMW exemplifies the pervasive culture of avarice in white countries around the world, such as Australia.
While BMW undeniably produces technically outstanding motor vehicles, it is so aggressively focussed on increasing the perceived opulence of the motor vehicles it produces that it has inculcated cultures dedicated to making money in white countries around the world, such as Australia, for decades.
(In Australia, this goes as far back as the 1980s, during which time BMW motor vehicles were offered as prizes with great fanfare on the Nine Network’s television quiz program by the name of “Sale of the Century”.)
Whereas good taste would restrict the number of badges displayed on a BMW motor vehicle to three (i.e. the bonnet, the boot (or the “trunk”) and the steering wheel), BMW motor vehicles display at least seven badges, including one in each of the centers of their four wheels, thereby betraying the enthusiastic commitment of BMW to ensure that their motor vehicles look as pretentious as possible, so as to deter genuine motoring enthusiasts from purchasing them.
With the exception of Playboy, I would argue that no business in the world has had as strong an influence on the cultures of white countries around the world, such as Australia, as BMW and not for the better but for the worse.
Whizzing around in a BMW motor vehicle with its logos in the centers of its wheels presumably turning into blissful blurs of light blue, is not an inexpensive pastime. It takes serious money to obtain a new BMW motor vehicle, not to mention the significant cost of maintaining it.
History has shown that people will literally do and say anything, in order to acquire the kind of wealth required to obtain and run a BMW motor vehicle.
Various examples include buying a residential investment property that makes an operating loss, in order to ultimately make a capital gain (irrationality is not a superpower), braving the cold climate of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, in order to engage in ‘change management’ of Australian federal government services ad nauseum on behalf of one of the ‘Big Fraud’ consulting firms and repeatedly claiming that the profits that banks in Australia earn as a result of charging interest on the money they create out of nothing when they lend is a sign of the strength of the banking system in Australia or that non-white immigration into Australia is important for Australia’s ‘economic growth’ (of Australian federal, state and territorial government debt), until sufficient money has been credited to one’s bank account to fund one’s BMW motoring obsession in perpetuity.
However, BMW owners are not known for their emotional intelligence, clouded as their judgement is as a result of salivating over the intoxicating curves of the latest BMW models. One prominent BMW aficionado, former Australian Prime Mover and Shaker Scott Morrison (your BMW was white, Scott, but you are not), famously physically assaulted a bushfire victim (of bushfires that the Australian federal government deliberately lit) by forcing her to shake hands with him against her will and now the BMW backlash is here.
It has been a long and winding road but the reckoning has finally arrived.
Like any good counsellor, I refuse to provide the answers but only clues. My role is to help BMW and the owners of its motor vehicles help themselves.
I am very confident that a business that is capable of producing twin-turbocharged V8 engines and presumably earning the largest revenues out of all high-end motor vehicle manufacturers in the world, as well as motorists who are capable of figuring out how to finance the acquisition and operation of high-end motor vehicles in viable though ethically questionable manners, are more than capable of the kind of sober introspection required to plot a better course.
Having said that, I have always been genetically optimistic. Whether that kind of capability translates into more sensible BMW motor vehicles that serve the best interests of white citizens of white countries around the world (rather than a small minority of residential property investors prancing around looking at prospective residential properties to add to their burgeoning residential investment property portfolios), remains to be seen.
I suspect that unless BMW wants its business to morph into a caricature of high-end motoring, which is already happening, then it will have no choice but to change course.