Every society is ruled by a consensus. The consensus rarely comes from the bottom up. Usually it's imposed from the top down.
The consensus is what the people running things believe. It's their equivalent of common sense.
The United States is not run by the voters. It's not run by the people. It's run by a consensus. That consensus is what the elites think is true. That consensus is not exactly the same among Democrats and Republicans, but it does overlap in significant ways.
The first point of the consensus is that bigger institutions are better because they are smarter. This isn't limited just to government. It also encompasses the corporate world. And the merger of governments, corporations, academics and non-profits into one large conglomeration of consensus.
The movement of executives from the non-profit, to the political to the corporate spheres, in no particular order, is really how our society is run. Even when each group remains in its own sphere, they make interdependent decisions with companies and government institutions acting as executive leaders and treating non-profits and academics as the expert class.
Pull back and we're run by a single giant corporation whose leadership is very complicated and competitive, but whose leaders come from a common culture and who call on the consensus for their ideas.
Using elections to shift that consensus is very difficult because at the top the consensus extends across both parties and much of the governing of the consensus is not subject to voter review.
You can elect Congressman Y to represent your interests. But the system isn't run by Congressman Y. It is highly unlikely that Congressman Y will ever be president. Even if Congressman Y becomes a Senator, he will have to win over donors whose worldview is a product of the consensus. If he manages to make it to the Senate without accepting the consensus, his legislation, should any of it make it past the Consensus Senators, will then be dumped into a pile managed by Consensus regulators and Consensus Federal judges who will reject it if doesn't meet the Consensus.
That's the interdependency of the Consensus. It's a single massive system made up of individuals who are diverse in demographics, but share the viewpoints of the Consensus or shut up about it.
Making the Consensus bigger has made American government and business extremely inefficient. It's why we can't seem to get anything done anymore and our only products that matter come from the occasional young visionary who challenges the system with a new company. But it also makes it very hard to beat.
The Consensus is constantly increasing in size. The growth impoverishes America, puts it deeper into debt and makes it less competitive. But it also makes the Consensus unchallengeable. The parasite is killing the host.
The second point though is that the Consensus is a parasite that thinks it is the host and that Americans are the parasite.
Maintaining the Consensus requires unhealthy doses of contempt for the people. The central article of the Consensus is that it can make life better by controlling people. It's not an idea that can be sustained without believing that most people are basically inferior.
Considering that the Consensus does draw from an elite, Ivy League grads, aggressive businessmen and financial geniuses, it's not extraordinary that its members would think this way. And yet the country's Founders, who were also the elite, believed in crowdsourcing politics long before the existence of Wikipedia. Meanwhile today's elite, heavily spiced by the Dot Com crowd, dismisses the idea of allowing the people to run their own lives.
The shift from Power to the People to Technocracy took place after the Constitution, otherwise our founding documents would look a good deal more like those of some Latin American banana republic that promises everything from government day care to weight loss health clinics. But Technocracy has been in the driver's seat for most of the 20th Century.
The members of the Consensus extrapolate from their own leadership skills and success a chilling contempt for the ordinary person and a certainty that he can and should be manipulated. It never occurs to them to think otherwise. Their experiences with their voters and their employees only reinforces their certainty that the ordinary person is unfit.
The various layers of government bureaucracy, from the DMV clerk to the local cop, share this same certainty. The more regulations they have to learn, the more their jobs seem to be those of experts coping with the ignorant masses. They become natural members of the Consensus because they have to know ten thousand regulations to do their job and the irritating public doesn't know any of them.
The expert class of the Consensus expands with each regulation and freedom contracts with each regulation.
The voter isn't in charge of the expert class, because the expert class deems itself superior in knowledge and expertise. Voting becomes a ritual that the expert class finds irritating. And the number of expert classes are constantly growing. Unionized expert classes form powerful guilds immune to outside pressure. Academic expert classes control much of public life through ideas that are filtered down into public policy.
The ordinary American is no longer in charge of anything, including his own life. He is an employee and client of the Consensus. The two terms are largely interchangeable in this context. He works for a vast paternalistic force which gives him money and takes his money, but manipulates the entire system around him so that he lives within a company store that encompasses everything from his grocery shopping to his health care.
This is Unamerican, some might say, but the Consensus is Unamerican.
The members of the Consensus are not nationalists. They are not patriots. They are too "smart" for that. To the extent that they celebrate America, it is not for its history or its people, but for its "ideals". These ideals are, like regulations, existing apart from culture and capable of applying to anyone anywhere.
America can be "transplanted" anywhere was the firm belief of 20th century progressives. The Iraq War was only the latest reminder that it really cannot. But we're still fighting nation building wars on the premise that any people anywhere can be turned into good citizens with a dose of the right ideals.
The Consensus isn't for America. It's for the world. It cares as much about Americans as it does about Guatemalans or Pakistanis. Its members vacation and live around the world and see themselves as human beings first and members of a people or a nation second. They have a "higher citizenship" in humanity. They will take what is good about America and apply it elsewhere.
What do they believe in? What are their ideals? They believe in efficiency. They believe in justice. They believe that everything can be constantly improved until it is perfected in a perpetual process of social evolution. They are not religious. Their religion is that of the factory floor. Their faith is in their own godhood as experts. They believe that man came from apes and that someone has to see to it that he behaves like a good ape, rather than a bad ape.
Their faith in their own efficiency is vastly misguided. Like their 20th century forebears, they love the taste of efficiency, the design and sensibility of it, but they pay little attention to how well it works. They will inefficiently spend vast amounts of time and effort to improve something by a fraction of a tick.
A kinder word for their obsessiveness would be control freaks.
Green Energy's obsession with efficiency is largely this sort of madness in which vast amounts of effort are expended to save a fraction of the total of that effort. But the Consensus dislikes mess. It thought that landfills were messy and wasteful so it championed recycling and it made money from recycling without there being any actual need for it.
If the Consensus were a person, it would be the sort of man who would spent ten times as much on a device because of the pointless ad copy beneath it that appears to give it status and polish. Except that it's really our money that the Consensus is spending.
The Consensus is liberal. The Republican and Democratic wings of the Consensus don't differ on whether they are liberal, but how far to the left they are willing to go. They all agree on being socially liberal on gay rights, the right kind of drug use and abortion, while cracking down on obesity, smoking and the wrong kind of drug use.
The distinctions there are class signifiers and the Consensus is all about class.
Despite some of the anti-corporate talk, the Consensus is very much corporate. Its anti-corporate talk is invariably either empty populist rhetoric or a power play among members of the Consensus. The Consensus likes bright and shiny things. Its favorite companies are government subsidized or investor subsidized and make no actual money, but promise to make money someday.
The members of the Consensus look down on actual money as vulgar. They believe that money should be used for higher purposes. Even their successful businessmen are often dealers in intangibles. They rarely engage in anything as vulgar as making things. Instead they manipulate data, financial or personal, they provide services to companies you have heard of, even though you have never heard of their companies, they manipulate the economy and markets, and make fortunes. And they feel, often rightly, that their money is unearned and that everyone else should feel the same way.
They don't think of themselves as Socialists. They think of the word as outmoded. An "Othering" label that is most likely to be used by Tea Party members or a Bircher. They may be Socialists, but they wouldn't use the word. No more than a doctor would call himself a Bonesetter or a gay man would call himself a Sodomite.
They see themselves as modern, sleek and efficient people who rely on expert knowledge to advance society. They don't leaf through dusty copies of Marx and have never heard of Fourier. They accept the premises and most of the conclusions of Socialism without ever being aware of the origins of the theories they embrace. This is typical of the Consensus. It is unknowingly and unthinkingly left-wing.
The Consensus' executives like to believe that they accept the "correct" conclusions. They are big on science and even bigger on pie charts. The policies that they like convince people to change their behavior for the better. Socialism to them sounds like radicals with awkward glasses screaming at people about agriculture. They don't see themselves having anything in common with that nonsense.
Its executives dabble in politics without understanding the ideas behind their policies. They have nothing but blind spots and their greatest blind spot is believing that their superiority will prevent them from making mistakes and makes them better able to make decisions about people's lives. It is this very certainty that has made them such excellent puppets of the left's Consensus expert class.
The Consensus can only be beaten in a war of organizations and ideas. Like every other ruling class, it has to be challenged and exposed as an oppressive failure, membership in it has to be reduced to an abusive joke. An elite only falls to revolution or to national contempt. Most Americans already hold government in contempt, but they do not understand that what they hate about Washington D.C. is really the Consensus. What they find ridiculous about national waste and petty tyranny is really the policies of the Consensus.
What is wrong with America is the Consensus. The only way to fix it is to shatter the Consensus.
The consensus is what the people running things believe. It's their equivalent of common sense.The United States is not run by the voters. It's not run by the people. It's run by a consensus. That consensus is what the elites think is true. That consensus is not exactly the same among Democrats and Republicans, but it does overlap in significant ways.
The first point of the consensus is that bigger institutions are better because they are smarter. This isn't limited just to government. It also encompasses the corporate world. And the merger of governments, corporations, academics and non-profits into one large conglomeration of consensus.
The movement of executives from the non-profit, to the political to the corporate spheres, in no particular order, is really how our society is run. Even when each group remains in its own sphere, they make interdependent decisions with companies and government institutions acting as executive leaders and treating non-profits and academics as the expert class.
Pull back and we're run by a single giant corporation whose leadership is very complicated and competitive, but whose leaders come from a common culture and who call on the consensus for their ideas.
Using elections to shift that consensus is very difficult because at the top the consensus extends across both parties and much of the governing of the consensus is not subject to voter review.
You can elect Congressman Y to represent your interests. But the system isn't run by Congressman Y. It is highly unlikely that Congressman Y will ever be president. Even if Congressman Y becomes a Senator, he will have to win over donors whose worldview is a product of the consensus. If he manages to make it to the Senate without accepting the consensus, his legislation, should any of it make it past the Consensus Senators, will then be dumped into a pile managed by Consensus regulators and Consensus Federal judges who will reject it if doesn't meet the Consensus.
That's the interdependency of the Consensus. It's a single massive system made up of individuals who are diverse in demographics, but share the viewpoints of the Consensus or shut up about it.
Making the Consensus bigger has made American government and business extremely inefficient. It's why we can't seem to get anything done anymore and our only products that matter come from the occasional young visionary who challenges the system with a new company. But it also makes it very hard to beat.
The Consensus is constantly increasing in size. The growth impoverishes America, puts it deeper into debt and makes it less competitive. But it also makes the Consensus unchallengeable. The parasite is killing the host.
The second point though is that the Consensus is a parasite that thinks it is the host and that Americans are the parasite.
Maintaining the Consensus requires unhealthy doses of contempt for the people. The central article of the Consensus is that it can make life better by controlling people. It's not an idea that can be sustained without believing that most people are basically inferior.
Considering that the Consensus does draw from an elite, Ivy League grads, aggressive businessmen and financial geniuses, it's not extraordinary that its members would think this way. And yet the country's Founders, who were also the elite, believed in crowdsourcing politics long before the existence of Wikipedia. Meanwhile today's elite, heavily spiced by the Dot Com crowd, dismisses the idea of allowing the people to run their own lives.
The shift from Power to the People to Technocracy took place after the Constitution, otherwise our founding documents would look a good deal more like those of some Latin American banana republic that promises everything from government day care to weight loss health clinics. But Technocracy has been in the driver's seat for most of the 20th Century.
The members of the Consensus extrapolate from their own leadership skills and success a chilling contempt for the ordinary person and a certainty that he can and should be manipulated. It never occurs to them to think otherwise. Their experiences with their voters and their employees only reinforces their certainty that the ordinary person is unfit.
The various layers of government bureaucracy, from the DMV clerk to the local cop, share this same certainty. The more regulations they have to learn, the more their jobs seem to be those of experts coping with the ignorant masses. They become natural members of the Consensus because they have to know ten thousand regulations to do their job and the irritating public doesn't know any of them.
The expert class of the Consensus expands with each regulation and freedom contracts with each regulation.
The voter isn't in charge of the expert class, because the expert class deems itself superior in knowledge and expertise. Voting becomes a ritual that the expert class finds irritating. And the number of expert classes are constantly growing. Unionized expert classes form powerful guilds immune to outside pressure. Academic expert classes control much of public life through ideas that are filtered down into public policy.The ordinary American is no longer in charge of anything, including his own life. He is an employee and client of the Consensus. The two terms are largely interchangeable in this context. He works for a vast paternalistic force which gives him money and takes his money, but manipulates the entire system around him so that he lives within a company store that encompasses everything from his grocery shopping to his health care.
This is Unamerican, some might say, but the Consensus is Unamerican.
The members of the Consensus are not nationalists. They are not patriots. They are too "smart" for that. To the extent that they celebrate America, it is not for its history or its people, but for its "ideals". These ideals are, like regulations, existing apart from culture and capable of applying to anyone anywhere.
America can be "transplanted" anywhere was the firm belief of 20th century progressives. The Iraq War was only the latest reminder that it really cannot. But we're still fighting nation building wars on the premise that any people anywhere can be turned into good citizens with a dose of the right ideals.
The Consensus isn't for America. It's for the world. It cares as much about Americans as it does about Guatemalans or Pakistanis. Its members vacation and live around the world and see themselves as human beings first and members of a people or a nation second. They have a "higher citizenship" in humanity. They will take what is good about America and apply it elsewhere.
What do they believe in? What are their ideals? They believe in efficiency. They believe in justice. They believe that everything can be constantly improved until it is perfected in a perpetual process of social evolution. They are not religious. Their religion is that of the factory floor. Their faith is in their own godhood as experts. They believe that man came from apes and that someone has to see to it that he behaves like a good ape, rather than a bad ape.
Their faith in their own efficiency is vastly misguided. Like their 20th century forebears, they love the taste of efficiency, the design and sensibility of it, but they pay little attention to how well it works. They will inefficiently spend vast amounts of time and effort to improve something by a fraction of a tick.
A kinder word for their obsessiveness would be control freaks.
Green Energy's obsession with efficiency is largely this sort of madness in which vast amounts of effort are expended to save a fraction of the total of that effort. But the Consensus dislikes mess. It thought that landfills were messy and wasteful so it championed recycling and it made money from recycling without there being any actual need for it.
If the Consensus were a person, it would be the sort of man who would spent ten times as much on a device because of the pointless ad copy beneath it that appears to give it status and polish. Except that it's really our money that the Consensus is spending.
The Consensus is liberal. The Republican and Democratic wings of the Consensus don't differ on whether they are liberal, but how far to the left they are willing to go. They all agree on being socially liberal on gay rights, the right kind of drug use and abortion, while cracking down on obesity, smoking and the wrong kind of drug use.
The distinctions there are class signifiers and the Consensus is all about class.
Despite some of the anti-corporate talk, the Consensus is very much corporate. Its anti-corporate talk is invariably either empty populist rhetoric or a power play among members of the Consensus. The Consensus likes bright and shiny things. Its favorite companies are government subsidized or investor subsidized and make no actual money, but promise to make money someday.
The members of the Consensus look down on actual money as vulgar. They believe that money should be used for higher purposes. Even their successful businessmen are often dealers in intangibles. They rarely engage in anything as vulgar as making things. Instead they manipulate data, financial or personal, they provide services to companies you have heard of, even though you have never heard of their companies, they manipulate the economy and markets, and make fortunes. And they feel, often rightly, that their money is unearned and that everyone else should feel the same way.
They don't think of themselves as Socialists. They think of the word as outmoded. An "Othering" label that is most likely to be used by Tea Party members or a Bircher. They may be Socialists, but they wouldn't use the word. No more than a doctor would call himself a Bonesetter or a gay man would call himself a Sodomite.
They see themselves as modern, sleek and efficient people who rely on expert knowledge to advance society. They don't leaf through dusty copies of Marx and have never heard of Fourier. They accept the premises and most of the conclusions of Socialism without ever being aware of the origins of the theories they embrace. This is typical of the Consensus. It is unknowingly and unthinkingly left-wing.The Consensus' executives like to believe that they accept the "correct" conclusions. They are big on science and even bigger on pie charts. The policies that they like convince people to change their behavior for the better. Socialism to them sounds like radicals with awkward glasses screaming at people about agriculture. They don't see themselves having anything in common with that nonsense.
Its executives dabble in politics without understanding the ideas behind their policies. They have nothing but blind spots and their greatest blind spot is believing that their superiority will prevent them from making mistakes and makes them better able to make decisions about people's lives. It is this very certainty that has made them such excellent puppets of the left's Consensus expert class.
The Consensus can only be beaten in a war of organizations and ideas. Like every other ruling class, it has to be challenged and exposed as an oppressive failure, membership in it has to be reduced to an abusive joke. An elite only falls to revolution or to national contempt. Most Americans already hold government in contempt, but they do not understand that what they hate about Washington D.C. is really the Consensus. What they find ridiculous about national waste and petty tyranny is really the policies of the Consensus.
What is wrong with America is the Consensus. The only way to fix it is to shatter the Consensus.
Comments
The Left Consensus is the cultural mindset of the ruling Oligarchy. It used to be one of mainly free enterprise capitalism and bootstrap individualism but the progressives have changed the old culture. We are probably past the point of no return and definitely will be after the next amnesty. Unfortunately the "Consensus" is wrong and wrong headed. Our rulers are eating the seed corn and burning through the wealth generated by the old constitutional consensus. Right now inflation is rampant and wealth is draining away from many people. The USSR consensus changed when the people became sufficiently poor. We are on the same track. I thought it would take another generation but now I believe the crash will be sooner. Survival strategies will be necessary.
ReplyDeleteAndy Texan
The Sultan does it again; an excellent analysis of the ruling elite-government. What will it take to shatter the Consensus? Something catastrophic I am sure will be necessary. The Consensus will not give up their hold on power without being shattered, fractured, and thoroughly defeated.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant article---again. I don't know how the Sultan does this every day.
ReplyDeleteThis makes it pretty clear. Much more effective than your rants about Hillary or others. Thanks for sharing, Daniel. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteFYI Jesus as a Palestinian meme casually being written in articles and mainstreamed, and by Christians as well as Muslims. An example - "....Jesus was a refugee from the oppression of his native Palestine, fleeing to Egypt with his mother and father, as Herod killed boy babies in hopes of snuffing out the one purported to be King of the Jews...." This from an article on LGBT rights in Africa. 'LGBT Asylum Seekers Need America More Than Ever' by Gene Robinson http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/29/lgbt-asylum-seekers-need-america-more-than-ever.html
ReplyDeleteWhat is the chant for an asteroid
ReplyDeleteThe Consensus says that man is secondary to nature and first must be conditioned and controlled to stop acting human. Then, since nothing matters more than technology, technology must advance to the point where man becomes the machine. This is the only way to progress beyond man's natural tendencies to destroy nature and men. The Consensus says a one world governing body of experts chosen by experts is the only way to progress. Without complete control of everyone and everything they do, the world will continue to be in chaos and technology to re-create man in the experts image cannot occur. That is why the old must be replaced by the new. The old must be completely destroyed to usher in the new world order of efficient, compliant man-machines who do the bidding of elitist/experts.
ReplyDeleteElaine
The Netherlands are always shown as an example in Europe of an ideal liberal, socially and politically stable country due to the consensus nature of the Dutch. No labor unrest, always muted out politics with even the more extreme parties joining the consensus in the end and sensitive problems always discussed in a reasonable atmosphere without brinkmanship.
ReplyDeleteTheir views are anything contrary to what America once was.
ReplyDeleteWhy even bibles are banned by the military while moslem holidays are forced to be observed.
Allies are spurned while enemies are embraced. I can't see that it is anything but a deliberate attempt to change the nation completely and bring it down to nothing.
Looking at gov't bureaucrats as part of the Consensus is most interesting to me.
ReplyDeleteIn the last six years, whenever they are interviewed, they come across as thugs. Is it possible the Consensus is just a more sophisticated and enlarged version of Organized Crime ?
sophie
' Consensus is a parasite that thinks it is the host.' Disturbingly true.
ReplyDeleteI fail to see a menace from "dot.com" sorts, who you say have contempt for the idea of people being allowed to run their own lives. Who specifically are you talking about? I'm not aware of any such positive correlation, to the contrary, many are libertarian.
ReplyDeleteThe ideal of people being allowed to run their own lives, is libertarian and does exist outside any particular culture. Even more so--liberty exists despite religious culture and thrives best in a humanistic culture.
Yet in the next breath, you criticize the ruling class for having the arrogance to believe in ideals that are "capable of applying to to anyone anywhere".
There are in fact, objective standards, based on natural law, which already apply to all natural persons, in all places.
We did indeed evolve from lower life forms, and our progress can be charted as a companion of our ever-closer approximation of knowledge of those natural laws.
But natural law does not lead us to the superficial kind of environmentalism you decry; to the contrary, it is the religious who criticize industrialism for it's instrumentality in meeting human ends.
LIberty, justice, and the good aspects of the American way of life, are not the exclusive property of any unique religious culture. These ideals are the highest law, over all natural persons and in all places. If America is at fault, that is because it had strayed from these universal ideals, which cannot be altered by patriotic or religious zealotry.
the idea of natural law is a noble concept, but it's the product of a culture
ReplyDeleteassuming that you can feed it into any culture and get the same results has already been shown not to work
Achieving a large consensus requires that sound ideas are compromised to satisfy members of the consensus who have different interests. The result is that every idea in implemented in a way that does not work efficiently, and often works destructively. Then new ideas must be implemented to correct the previously bad idea, but the new ideas and compromises that don't work either. Eventually so many bad consensus ideas are implemented that we are all much worse off.
ReplyDeleteWhy worry so much about the Why?
ReplyDeleteThe Why is not as important as the Then.
For now, the Now is now; the Why is why; and, the Then needs to become the Now.
:)
"They become natural members of the Consensus because they have to know ten thousand regulations to do their job and the irritating public doesn't know any of them."
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to say this in a concise way for a long time. Thanks for thinking it through.
The consensus in America is that lying, corruption, bribery, murder of one class of human, mediocrity, irresponsibility, vice, lack of common sense and decency, immorality, and using sex to sell products and make public policies is progress.
ReplyDeleteElaine
True, disturbing, frightening, and enlightening. Incredibly, you do this all the time. Thank you.
ReplyDeletehi Daniel..Tragic news today from Israel..please keep the faith for me and the rest of us...
ReplyDeleteTragic news today from Israel..please keep the faith for me and the rest of us...
ReplyDeleteExcellent analysis of just why this country - and so much of the world - is so FUBARed. And to the idiot above that sounds like they come from Sweden, "natural law" is what comes from God, NOT from man. So-called "humanism" is mans' way of saying that they are their own gods; and we can see just how well that has worked for us - NOT!
ReplyDeleteThe merger of government and corporate power is Fascism. Progressives LOVED it in the 1920s and 1930s as a way of blending Capitalism and Socialism. Despite the results of Fascism being on display at Auschwitz, Fascism is still fashionable to the progressives, only instead of hating on Jews, they are now hating on Christians and Tea Partiers.
ReplyDeleteKevin Bjornson: "I fail to see a menace from 'dot.com' sorts."
ReplyDeleteWould Bill Gates and his spouse, or Zuckerberg, the Facebook guy, fit into your category of "dot.com" sorts? They're all meddlers of the highest order. My guess is that you approve of their meddling.
Only a major catastrophe will break the consensus. A financial crisis and currency collapse brought on by mountains of debt would be the leading candidate. Japan has the highest Total Debt to GDP (more than double the US), but the consensus holds and will remain intact until inflation kicks in.
ReplyDeleteBill Gates is not very active politically. His employees tend to be more libertarian than he is and that reflects computer programmers generally. Because they tend to think logically, which leads to universalism. Jews also tend to think logically, and their monotheism is a type of universalism. Programming is a young man's profession, Gates hasn't programmed in many years.
ReplyDeleteNatural law is not something that is fed into a culture; rather, already applies to human society, including culture.
Natural law existed before there were any humans, so culture cannot have created natural law. Culture cannot destroy natural law, conversely, cultures that don't respect natural law tend to suffer.
Bill Gates is a Eugenicist.
ReplyDeleteNatural Law is just another philosophy. It cracks me up to hear libertarians blat on and on about it.
ReplyDeleteNatural Law vs. 10 Somalian youth high on khat with AK-47s having their way with whoever they find.
Natural Law fetishists remind me of Freudians. They believe their concepts like "ego" and "id" are actual things, like a bicycle wheel, and not just concepts.
As for busybody dot commers, they are legion. Bloomberg is spending billions to disarm Americans in far flung corners of the USA. He and Zucherberg are working for fundamental transformation via massive third world immigration, Microsoft alone has probably imported 100,000 Hindus into the USA. Jeff Bezos is a huge lib, so are the two Google boys.
Please don't make me laugh with the myth of the libertarian dot com guys. The big ones are all lefties.
The "Consensus" explaining what "hard work" is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAMRXqQXemU .
ReplyDelete[Douglas J. Bender]
Yikes, Bjorns0n, you need to hang your brain on a stick to air it out.
ReplyDelete"[The elite] see themselves as modern, sleek and efficient people who rely on expert knowledge to advance society. They don't leaf through dusty copies of Marx and have never heard of Fourier."
ReplyDelete"Fourier!!" is what the French yell when playing golf.
May I add, about the Dot.Coms: Bill Gates was behind Common Core and has arranged for it to be in all gov. schools. So we know he is spending big bucks to protect gov. schools against privatization, as well as filling the minds of the next generation with what he wants them filled. Google and Facebook are huge in data-mining and could be called arms of the democrat party. Also-you prob did not know this in 2015, but they are both (along with Twitter and other social media) affecting elections and all the rest by deciding what communication is allowed and what is not.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, wherever you are 3 years later, I'm sure you've seen by now that these MNC's are anything but libertarian, and that's not even bringing in foreign relations, such as censoring publically for various countries. I think, at the time, you were buying into what they wanted you to think about them; hence your "not that I'm aware of" bit (paraphrased.)
Excellent---from the piece itself as always--to the comments. I'm sure the "libertarian" has caught on by now to the keystroke records they keep of us, the GPS's in later model vehicles, that nothing is used in schools except for google, that conservative thought is censored as the owners blatantly lie about it to our faces...and hahah...the fact that people PAY to put things like Alexa in their house.
ReplyDeleteWhat I noticed right away was how the "consensus" is yet another idea the left/progs have borrowed from sharia. They use it in place of real science now, as in "climate change" and the ever varying number of "genders." They like that, as they can claim whatever they like as "truth" (consensus) that way.
Post a Comment