Let’s talk about the word “educated.” It’s a snotty little word, when you think about it. It’s a way we can both insist that we are all equal, and still be elitist. In the past, people were chosen for an elite based on who their parents were (which makes sense, given that most traits are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘class war’
Proles versus Elites: the battle rages on!
It is true that egalitarianism has given room to all opinions, which include the delusions of grandeur of those who would have it otherwise. We all imagine ourselves as heralds of Truth and kings in palaces if given the chance. In our lives we wish for a chance to assume a greater role – an [...]
Proles versus Elites: a review of the protests, part I
For some time on this website there has been a raging debate about the banking system, the protests, occupy movements, and who’s to blame for it all. In the discussion there’s basically two sides. Side one points out that the captains of industry got where they are by hard labour and a degree of talent. [...]
The Vicious Cycle
Today a woman told me: “America is, was and always will be the Greatest Nation On This Planet and once we get that idiot out of our White House and get a true born red blooded republican American Patriot voted in, we will be on the right track once again.” Both the faith in Obama [...]
Demographic collision
Since we’re doing topics about race, in anticipation of another presidential election where race is the crypto-topic on everyone’s mind, how about a quick analysis of demographic collision? America — with Europe slightly trailing it, not by so far anymore — is heading toward a crucial point: does it become a white nation with a [...]
Will to Power as cooperation
Life is mostly about solving problems using common sense; things don’t need to be very complicated as long they work. Most conservatives tend to simply “trust their guts” when evaluating problems; consequently, they focus on this freedom to choose, and they individually assume the consequences — to the conservative mind, each to his place. It is [...]
Social justice review
Staged spontaneous uprisings Ongoing unrest in the Middle East is only the latest in a weary epoch that mirrors the persistence of thermodynamic entropy. Should any inequity rise above the dormant vastness into higher states of complexity and brilliance, the frigid clutches of equalization always awaits in the end to subvert it, whatever form it [...]
Doublespeak
The world socialist movement provides us with an interesting narrative. They tell us the capitalist system enjoys free movement abroad to harness the cheapest available labor. Globalized capitalism is free to seek out choice locations with the most lax environmental regulations to keep its profit margins maximized by dropping the operating costs side. Endless growth [...]
Unemployed millions means overpopulated
When we have too little of something and there is demand for it, its value increases. The reverse is true as well. If there is way too much of something, even if demand remains, its value will plummet and the excess will languish, unutilized. For most of us, our ethical social manchimp brains shy away [...]
Who wins at equality?
The primary component in the equality game is ideology. Ideology is the default winner, similar to the house in a casino. Ideology manages all of the other components in the game, delegating authority through the bureaucracy. The secondary component is the bureaucracy. As ostensibly impartial arbiters accountable to an ideology which is by definition quite [...]
