"Why have our discussions about class shifted away from money?", asks the genius, whose political party has become the party of the wealthy and whose propaganda media organ sets the national political narrative
Imagine believing that the car dealership owner in Wherever Ohio with a net worth of $4M has any real political power in comparison to the entire academic-media class whose ideology has also conquered Google Facebook etc
This is the precise position of a huge amount of them, which is why they are nonetheless "elites" despite not having much money, in that they have real political power that they wield to further advance the interests of the "true" elites they wish to join
It's almost like if we could engineer an ideology that promises half the middle class that it can *become* the elites if only they attend elite institutions and profess elite indoctrination that they'll be willing to work for middle-class pay in continued pursuit of that promise
Guy in Ohio: *sells cars*
University professor/journalist: *scrambles the basic understanding of reality of hundreds if not millions of normal people every year*
Journalist: "But why are we not talking about how that guy's home is nicer than mine???"
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The Cathedral looking as strong as it's ever been in some ways while also being on absolute fucking life support is just beyond all reckoning. No one can predict where this is going at this point
On the one hand: almost total institutional capture. On the other hand: it can't even answer the questions of its own pet media anymore
And this phenomenon isn't just about the presidency, it's about every realm of it
Science is increasingly shutting down all internal questions that might contradict it; higher education the same (while also panickedly treating its students like convicts until a broken Science finally solves the plague); even the military purging itself for purity over function
And by contrast to the vax, I have no objection to seatbelts, as far as I know there are no real tradeoffs (please tell me there isn't a seatbelt-pill)
But that only makes the insistence on seatbelt laws stranger: custom should have accomplished the same as laws, very fast.
Delegating these decisions to insta-law by the Law-Givers, instead of leaving it to the people to organically adopt as custom, which then becomes tradition, suggests to me an imposition of values from a Managerial Class onto a Managed Class.
The funniest part of this piece is when the profilee uses her knowledge of genetics to deboonk a couple of conservative interventions while failing to understand that her own ideology is nothing but a giant heap of interventions all based on the exact same wrong assumption
Since leftism can't accept that nearly all inequality is the result of natural (and thus unsolvable) processes, believing instead it's the result of social processes solvable through correct application of rational policy, it literally cannot believe in humans having genes
I just watched a Sargon video for the first time in like three years and actually thought it was... pretty decent
He's even lost a lot of weight. Happy for the lad. These are strange times. This is the first time I post this pic unironically
This is the vid, btw. Unless you're an old school fan of The Skeptics and owning SJWs on YouTube, I recommend just going to the last five minutes when he's reading superchats, and talking in a way I never would have expected just a few years ago
This is an account that respects people rejecting their former progressivism, even if they don't go as far as I'd like myself.
So congrats, Sargon. You look better, and your life seems better.
Nobody cares about ""conservative principles"" anymore, Quillette. Everyone understands that's just a weasel-phrase used by the absolute worst worms to get people to swallow the latest Propaganda Update
No wonder Australia is becoming such a complete sub-Canadian horror-show
"The necessity to submit to a host of lies we're too stupid to understand as we strip them of every liberty we can will make a few of our Enemy angry, of course.
But they will still have the 'freedom' to do that. To lose all their freedom to lies. Lol"
This is a deep, humiliating embarrassment, @clairlemon. It reveals that neither you or any of your staff understands any of the actual counter-positions here, which makes you nothing more than janitors for a hilariously authoritarian Australian government
lmao. Like this hasn't already happened? Why do you think leftist politics have become so shriveled and boring? Why the same is true of the entire culture? Why are the only interesting things happening outside it?
"We can't let this take over or else everything will become boring, predictable, and mediocre," says person who hasn't yet noticed that nothing their culture now creates is worth watching, reading, listening to, or thinking about
Even this piece itself
"By the way I strenuously repeat that most of what's causing this is wonderful and so I will offer no real criticism of the illiberalism that is completely destroying the culture I love" is about as condensed as liberal thought gets