The online right, and left, also suffers from political celebrities that couldn’t become celebrities through the arts so go into politics for attention. This group often places itself in the middle of a hot button issue and uses up all the political capital for attention rather than a solution.
The average right winger thinks hawk tuah and TikTok are sources of political erudition. White democrats at least read books and tend to be better at deferring gratification than downscale trump supporters. People who work with ideas and their minds instead of their hands always dominate society.
Many of the Kamala voters may have a subconscious wish for annihilation through nuclear war with Russia. Not so strange when you consider US may have the most atomized large population in the history of mankind. And why do the liberal PMC elites have such a sans souci attitude towards the prospect of nuclear war with Russia when they and their parents were so anxious about nuclear apocalypse in 1980s? See The Day After (US) and Threads (UK) on you tube for prime examples of elite sentiment in the Reagan years. Of course the UK version is a lot better, as things were in those days. I think it was the John Birch Society that at one point came to the conclusion that the whole Cold War was a hoax. Or maybe it was some other group that Francis Parker Yockey was connected with,
At the same time we continue to produce an abundance of mediocre intellects who find no outlet, and this endangers our social position as much as does our increasing wealth.
I have a question on this topic for the mailbag tomorrow. Basically elites versus populism. Any regime will generally have elites, so is it possible to write that off? Change sadly is most of the time top down, and not bottom up. Gotta have lawyers, and congressional staffers. People with access to power to change things. Money you can donate for support to people with your values. Think tanks.
The online right, and left, also suffers from political celebrities that couldn’t become celebrities through the arts so go into politics for attention. This group often places itself in the middle of a hot button issue and uses up all the political capital for attention rather than a solution.
The average right winger thinks hawk tuah and TikTok are sources of political erudition. White democrats at least read books and tend to be better at deferring gratification than downscale trump supporters. People who work with ideas and their minds instead of their hands always dominate society.
Many of the Kamala voters may have a subconscious wish for annihilation through nuclear war with Russia. Not so strange when you consider US may have the most atomized large population in the history of mankind. And why do the liberal PMC elites have such a sans souci attitude towards the prospect of nuclear war with Russia when they and their parents were so anxious about nuclear apocalypse in 1980s? See The Day After (US) and Threads (UK) on you tube for prime examples of elite sentiment in the Reagan years. Of course the UK version is a lot better, as things were in those days. I think it was the John Birch Society that at one point came to the conclusion that the whole Cold War was a hoax. Or maybe it was some other group that Francis Parker Yockey was connected with,
"Peter Turchin, who coined “elite overproduction,” noted this in his otherwise-bad book End Times."
Reminiscent of what Herzl said in 1896:
https://israeled.org/resources/documents/herzl-the-jewish-question/
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At the same time we continue to produce an abundance of mediocre intellects who find no outlet, and this endangers our social position as much as does our increasing wealth.
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I have a question on this topic for the mailbag tomorrow. Basically elites versus populism. Any regime will generally have elites, so is it possible to write that off? Change sadly is most of the time top down, and not bottom up. Gotta have lawyers, and congressional staffers. People with access to power to change things. Money you can donate for support to people with your values. Think tanks.