Thread by @AuronMacintyre

To understand why your board game is now about climate change and social justice we need to talk about the German cat 🧵/1

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1663554756537913345

In the early 1930s there was a Jewish journalist living in Germany. The journalist loved cats so he had a subscription to a cat magazine. At first the magazine had articles about grooming your cat, toys for your cat, what you would expect in a magazine dedicated to cats. /2

But as the 30s went on the journalist started noticing articles appearing in the magazine about the German cat. How the nature of German cats were superior. How essential the loyalty of German cats were. Slowly some variant of this message made it into every article. /3

In the total state every aspect of life must relate back to the power of the regime. No academic discipline, piece of art, or hobby can simply exist for its own sake. It only exists to point back to the power of the regime. /4

In more formally totalitarian regimes we understand how this works. In the 3rd Reich or USSR there was an official official organ of the state in charge of coordinating propaganda. Forcing every piece of media to point back to the state. /5

That doesn’t exist in our society so we need to explain why we can still observe the same phenomenon. Our regime is governed by a decentralized network of consensus manufacturing institutions sometimes called the cathedral /6

Our ruling class don't have their orders handed down by one official propaganda office but they do all attend one essential institution during their formative years that shapes their morality, worldview, and personal networks: The university. /7

The people who operate our key institutions and shape our culture all share the same moral system. They read the same things, attend the same parties, watch the same programs, and need to signal the same types of virtues to succeed in personal and private life /8

This is why every bit of entertainment is now about progressive ideology. The elites who create it share the same interests values and culture as other cultural elites and will become preoccupied with the same causes placing them above the stated purpose of the institution. /9

When you notice that every company is woke, every show or video game is about social justice, every school is more interested teaching gender ideology than math or reading you’re noticing the German cat, the decentralized narrative of the cathedral. /10

This illustration and the concept of the cathedral was taken from Curtis Yarvin who you can read here: graymirror.substack.com 11/11