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11 Jan, 10 tweets, 4 min read
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

#rightprivilege
2/ You know:

- 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

#rightprivilege
3/ You know:

- 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

#rightprivilege
4/ You know:

- 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

#rightprivilege
5/ You know:

- 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

#rightprivilege
6/ You know:

- 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

#rightprivilege
7/ You know:

- 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.

#rightprivilege
8/ You know:

- 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.

#rightprivilege
8/ You know:

- 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

#rightprivilege
...We could go on, but I'll let others add more from here.

P.S. Don't have #rightprivilege

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11 Jan
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.

But they have a limited life.
Read 4 tweets
18 Dec 20
1/ Quick thread on why integral people often suffer to clarify how to contribute economically, probably 1 of 2 top topics I coach friends about.

TLDR: Integral people live in a gap between evolutionary dilemmas & economic problems.

@IntegralLife
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.
Read 8 tweets
21 Sep 20
The Integral corollary to this, a thread:

1/ An argument with the Red/Opportunist mind is over when one of us is knocked unconscious.
2/ It’s impossible to win an argument with the Amber/Conforming mind because cults have beliefs, not arguments.
3/ It’s hard to win an argument with the Orange/Self-Determining mind, but it’s doable with enough data and rationale.
Read 8 tweets
18 Sep 20
I believe that the US faces an existential threat to our democracy in the next 4 months. It is real and emergent.

Do not be surprised if you are asked in the coming months the following questions:

Should we temporarily suspend due process and posse comitatus?
Should the military be called in to maintain domestic order?
Should the President be allowed to refuse to vacate office due to electoral ambiguities?
Read 5 tweets
22 Jul 20
1) Brian, here’s the story of today’s inequality in 4 acts. Gotta see the whole picture. Hope this helps.
2) Act 1: 1945-1970: Contain the USSR

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.
Read 6 tweets
5 Jul 20
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.
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