Amerika

Most people do not know of the importance of this rule: all things — genes, ideas, objects, animals, groups — act only in their own self-interest alone.

Consider how this liberates you. The poor are working to overthrow the middle classes; of course they do, because they must. Power is zero-sum because choices must be made about the future, and any one displaces any others. The same is true of economics.

You can also debunk the diversity question. Of course any foreign ethnic group, even within your own race, is working to destroy you: they have a binary choice between being conquered or conquering, and you are a threat to them so they will eliminate you.

We can even apply this to ideas. Leftism, the ideology, piggybacks on the sad and resentful, who are then manipulated by oversocialized sociopaths, but the sad and resentful depend on it for good feelings so they are trapped as Useful Idiots until the sociopaths execute them.

Try another one: journalists must invent a vision of reality where they are important. This is why they are truth-optional; they simply want your attention so that their individual careers rise. They have to just say something plausible that inflames or excites you.

The same is true of politicians and bureaucrats. It is just a career! Your average RINO is not ideological at all, but wants to make all the right connections so he can make compromises and keep those who fund his re-election happy; he is basically an interface to lobbyists.

Consider the scientist. His career is how he feeds his family and affords a house in a nice neighborhood. Therefore, he is also truth-optional; he just has to come up with research that supports some idea that lots of people want to read about. Then he gets promoted.

Or consider the endless medical advice coming out of the doctors. They are just doing what makes them important by attracting attention. This is an attention economy after all, and they use this indirect power to make their careers thrive.

In the end, everything is a market, and markets are zero-sum. Buying one thing means you cannot buy another. Therefore, in the market of ideas, some must win by becoming more popular than others, a sort of type of natural monopoly that is also a tragedy of the commons.

That means that someone will get more popular than everyone else and rule the media empire. Someone will get all the lobbying bucks. Some idea will beat out all the others. Whoever gets to most popular first rules the world!

Normie conservatives — “Christian libertarians” — focus on their “liberty” to do what they want, at their own expense and loss of time, despite everyone else doing something different. But in the end they conform like the rest.

Once you see the Iron Rule in action, you are no longer surprised that people are acting to increase their importance and power at your expense. You expect it and preemptively defend against it by smashing down people of lower intellectual quality and gut instinct.

Tags: economics, iron rule, markets, selfish gene, tragedy of the commons