1/ What is Right Privilege? Walking around so embedded in your own delusion that you know:
- If you shout "law & order" loud enough, the law is what you say it is
- Cops are on your side, before they're enemies
- The hotel bar is relaxing after the insurrection
- Society blowback for your terrorism is just more repression
- Socialism is hell, but tech platforms should be socialized
- Supporting others' needs is just socialism
- But California subsidizing Oklahoma is federalism
- You're ultra-conservative, so stoking civil war isn't radical
- Camo Chic is cool
- No-Fly Lists only apply to brown people who speak Arabic
- Violence will secure your cause by taking back what's yours
- Terrorists can't be white
- Too much about what you think are your rights from society
- Too little about your responsibilities to society
- A lot about a vague specter of socialism you're afraid of, but can't name any specific ways you've ever been truly oppressed
- A strongman can save you if everyone just give him enough power
- Weakness makes you look like a lib
- Kap dishonors the American flag, but a Trump and confederate flag in the Capitol doesn't
- The media is out to get you. Yes, YOU.
- Because the press is the enemy of the people. Which people? C'mon, YOU. (Do try to keep up.)
- The election was clearly stolen, because there's no way more people could have voted than 10 years ago
- You're the real conservative. But haven't read Reflections on the Revolution in... oh, never mind
- The Founders were patriots, had guns, and yelled a lot about tyranny... Against, um, a strongman. With lots of power.
- Now that the Demonrats(!) have power, deficits really matter.
- And a president's words.
- And comity.
- And unity.
- And not stoking division.
- And lives lost to Covid.
- But unending obstruction-at-any-cost is patriotic.
- You're being manipulated by the mainstream media and Big Tech
- But not QAnon, published on an obscure message board, by an anonymous dude in his basement (or dudette? circuits blown🤯), who has access to the real secret plan
1/ Integralists will always watch both the flows & margins of social dynamics. We're seeing the flow move back up towards Orange, and away from the Rights-only pole (towards Responsibilities). It will take time for these to re-cohere. Once they have, we'll watch for our shadow.
2/ What's happening now is the social body is building its immune system against the way Green can be abused to radicalize Red & Amber citizens into terrorists. This is necessary development. But it will become repressive & shadow if we don't create glide paths out for them.
3/ So anyone who sees my critical rants as unidimensional, they are not. They contribute to social recoherence around our shared beliefs around consequences, responsibilities, and the feedbacks necessary to re-establish societal resilience.
2/ Money follows problem-solution fit, which in turn requires an understanding of problems. Many problems exist but are not valued as such in a monetary way.
3/ Post-conventional minds often focus on a set of deep but non-monetary problems; by definition they live in a world-space that is beyond the conventional framing of social objectives and structures.
Do so by making USD GRC and building Germany & Japan postwar to act as bulwarks. In return they buy US goods & reinforce $ hegemony, establishing US core/periphery monetary empire.
Act 2: 1971-1990: Financialize the World
Take $ off gold standard so DC can run unlimited trade & budget deficits to suck profit from cheap global labor force back to fund DC & Wall St., both now deregulating $, labor, trade & retirement so US wealthy can win even bigger.
1/ To see why the Fed is the most racist organization in the world is not difficult. You first have to see what systemic racism is: systemic structures of oppression, or conversely, supremacy, that by their very action perpetuate massively unequal social power relations.
2/ The Fed is not, qua institution, subjectively racist. That would be absurd (in a way that it is not, for example, with an institution like the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan). The Fed mandate, strictly speaking, is not racist.
3/ But their sin, to my mind, is far worse. By being willfully ignorant (to the point of studied indifference) to the brute facts of how social structures oppress, most directly through rigidified economic castes, the Fed is the primary fuel for American systemic racism.