Funny thing is, the same people whose success is largely, if not exclusively based on random chance always think they got there by dint of some innate virtue, talent or quality that others fail to possess. Truth is, as you sagely noted, there are a million other people who could do what they do, and in a lot of cases, do it better but chance has not favored them. They will go to their graves believing they are the cream of the crop, unique and indispensable. But as DeGaulle (perhaps) noted, graveyards are full of indispensable men. The Great Leveler is the fate of all. Memento mori.
His essay here, in the specific case of the USA, is truly demonstrably false. And I mean 100% verifiably false. I can prove completely events, where even just one of them disproves this. America until 1939 remained a politically, economically, governmentally, and scientifically decentralized system where most political, economic, governmental, and scientific decision making happened at the sub-federal level and at the federal level happened within the Congress; and the USA's governance strictures were dominated by decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member parties. And while it this began to be nefariously dismantled after WW2, it was, less and less over time, still mostly that system until the mid 1960s, and then transformed away from it during the 20 year advent of the so called Neoliberal Era, but a in a few areas, like banking and finance, a couple of not-nothing elements lasted until the latter 1990s.
In the specific case of the USA, this is truly demonstrably false. And I mean 100% verifiably false. I can prove completely events, where even just one of them disproves this. America until 1939 remained a politically, economically, governmentally, and scientifically decentralized system where most political, economic, governmental, and scientific decision making happened at the sub-federal level and at the federal level happened within the Congress; and the USA's governance strictures were dominated by decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member parties. And while it this began to be nefariously dismantled after WW2, it was, less and less over time, still mostly that system until the mid 1960s, and then transformed away from it during the 20 year advent of the so called Neoliberal Era, but a in a few areas, like banking and finance, a couple of not-nothing elements lasted until the latter 1990s.
I think a good heuristic for understanding the behavior of elites is: many of them are Jews, and they act according to their perception of what will "avoid the next genocide of Jews" (because their religion and popular culture both make them obsessed with this). And the rest, having no overriding goal in their lives, are easily swayed.
This is downright silly. It's fairly obvious that the people most eager to perpetrate genocide are imported by the busloads into the USA as well as into EU and Canada. It's also fairly obvious that universities very much support this importation - look at Harvard, look at Columbia. Yet lots of rich Jews still donate to those very same institutions. It's not a one time historic aberration. One could see still a lot of donations from Jews to German universities after 1933.
It is simply that lots of people can't make a clean break from their convictions even if these are not working. This is why science usually progresses not through convincing everyone but by old people dying out.
The people *openly* most eager to perpetrate genocide, yes. But the people who have been pushing the intellectual foundations for it behind the scenes are largely Jews. And the people opening the gates to let those openly-white-hating immigrants in, are also Jews.
In the elites. I believe they have been recently assuming that they could just plunder the U.S. and then just pull stakes n head off somewhere like the South of France or Australia. They certainly aren’t going to China. I think they are seeing their options being less attractive and may actually worry about the rest of us.
All the world today's a carny, complete with many bearded and balled ladies.
Geeks and griffs on all the shifts, Hey Rube shouts on every corner, bands and gangs of illustrated men, time to drop the tent and then, sounds of silence?
The end or a new begetting?
Me? Far old enough to have very little skin in the game. None the less wishing all you youngsters under eighty well.
Funny thing is, the same people whose success is largely, if not exclusively based on random chance always think they got there by dint of some innate virtue, talent or quality that others fail to possess. Truth is, as you sagely noted, there are a million other people who could do what they do, and in a lot of cases, do it better but chance has not favored them. They will go to their graves believing they are the cream of the crop, unique and indispensable. But as DeGaulle (perhaps) noted, graveyards are full of indispensable men. The Great Leveler is the fate of all. Memento mori.
His essay here, in the specific case of the USA, is truly demonstrably false. And I mean 100% verifiably false. I can prove completely events, where even just one of them disproves this. America until 1939 remained a politically, economically, governmentally, and scientifically decentralized system where most political, economic, governmental, and scientific decision making happened at the sub-federal level and at the federal level happened within the Congress; and the USA's governance strictures were dominated by decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member parties. And while it this began to be nefariously dismantled after WW2, it was, less and less over time, still mostly that system until the mid 1960s, and then transformed away from it during the 20 year advent of the so called Neoliberal Era, but a in a few areas, like banking and finance, a couple of not-nothing elements lasted until the latter 1990s.
Yep - exactly. Burn down Harvard!
The idea of elites is beyond silly. In death, all these bums are equal with the lowest of the lowest.
But not in life, which is where we live.
In the specific case of the USA, this is truly demonstrably false. And I mean 100% verifiably false. I can prove completely events, where even just one of them disproves this. America until 1939 remained a politically, economically, governmentally, and scientifically decentralized system where most political, economic, governmental, and scientific decision making happened at the sub-federal level and at the federal level happened within the Congress; and the USA's governance strictures were dominated by decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member parties. And while it this began to be nefariously dismantled after WW2, it was, less and less over time, still mostly that system until the mid 1960s, and then transformed away from it during the 20 year advent of the so called Neoliberal Era, but a in a few areas, like banking and finance, a couple of not-nothing elements lasted until the latter 1990s.
I think a good heuristic for understanding the behavior of elites is: many of them are Jews, and they act according to their perception of what will "avoid the next genocide of Jews" (because their religion and popular culture both make them obsessed with this). And the rest, having no overriding goal in their lives, are easily swayed.
This is downright silly. It's fairly obvious that the people most eager to perpetrate genocide are imported by the busloads into the USA as well as into EU and Canada. It's also fairly obvious that universities very much support this importation - look at Harvard, look at Columbia. Yet lots of rich Jews still donate to those very same institutions. It's not a one time historic aberration. One could see still a lot of donations from Jews to German universities after 1933.
It is simply that lots of people can't make a clean break from their convictions even if these are not working. This is why science usually progresses not through convincing everyone but by old people dying out.
The people *openly* most eager to perpetrate genocide, yes. But the people who have been pushing the intellectual foundations for it behind the scenes are largely Jews. And the people opening the gates to let those openly-white-hating immigrants in, are also Jews.
Yes, there has been a chang
In the elites. I believe they have been recently assuming that they could just plunder the U.S. and then just pull stakes n head off somewhere like the South of France or Australia. They certainly aren’t going to China. I think they are seeing their options being less attractive and may actually worry about the rest of us.
All the world today's a carny, complete with many bearded and balled ladies.
Geeks and griffs on all the shifts, Hey Rube shouts on every corner, bands and gangs of illustrated men, time to drop the tent and then, sounds of silence?
The end or a new begetting?
Me? Far old enough to have very little skin in the game. None the less wishing all you youngsters under eighty well.
If you do it well, if not, oh well.