A couple of points that all the pundits analyzing seem to ignore.
1 - The self-described “elites” are largely comprised of MIDDLE INCOME urbanites who have a great deal of anger towards the high school graduates who built businesses and have more success than they do (along with intelligence I would argue). Most in journalism and those i…
A couple of points that all the pundits analyzing seem to ignore.
1 - The self-described “elites” are largely comprised of MIDDLE INCOME urbanites who have a great deal of anger towards the high school graduates who built businesses and have more success than they do (along with intelligence I would argue). Most in journalism and those in academia are, at best, middle class. They also tend to be nauseatingly entitled.
2 - Don’t under estimate the fear of child vaccine mandates as putting parents and grandparents over the edge. Just as economic jobs analyst ignored the millions of children now being homeschooled likely with adult supervision, many previously employed adults, many are overlooking the fear the a still experimental shot will be mandated by Democrats on their masked 5 year old that faces zero statistical risk of dying from Covid.
3 - The Lincoln project is in a competition with Biden and Bloomberg to see who can waste the most money trying to tell people what to do. Combined success rate of funds spent is 0%.
4 - The main thing people are pushing back on is authoritarianism and insanity. Both are beyond annoying and have consumed the Democrat party.
Sincerely,
A mom in the 1% with a masters degree, two young kids, and zero trust funds, who proudly supported Trump and now votes all Republican (for now anyway) after being a registered Democrat from the age of 18-36. I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016, but I did in 2020.
With #2, while I have no problem with a parent’s choice to not vaccinate their child, or leaving their child unmasked, and agree likelihood of a child dying from COVID is remote (not impossible, nor is severe illness, just highly unlikely), not sure other parents would want that child sitting next to theirs in school. An unvaccinated person including a child can contract COVID and potentially pass it along to others who would not be as fortunate to not get severely ill or die. So, being a good Christian, and loving your neighbors as yourself, homeschooling your unvaccinated child seems like a good idea to me.
You’re right. But I don’t think you fully nailed point #1. And doing so, I don’t think you fully elucidated the entire scope and shape of the problem.
You framed it in educational/“class” structures. It’s 90% there, but it needs more. It’s something more specific and more niche. It’s entirely a distinct culture or maybe more accurately, a religion. There are the consistencies like you mentioned (I.e. higher education). But they’re not constants. It’s more of an “initiated into the set of beliefs” feeling that is more prevalent. Or a cult “us” vs “them” feeling.
And I think that is where the animosity you describe comes from. What more accurately describes the “mostly middle-class, educated people hating those who made it big” feeling. That superior “they don’t deserve it” sentiment. It’s a religious “I acted right, I followed the right path, i did the right things, I am a good person, I believe the right things, they didn’t. They don’t deserve what they have”.
I don’t mean religious to bash “religion”. I mean religious as in it is a faith they have. It is unassailable. It isn’t based on any strong rationale that could be picked apart. It is completely and utterly not self aware. And cannot reference the errors in itself and dissect any mistakes. It is a belief in the truest sense of the word. A belief that when pointed towards something they desire but don’t have can only be described with religious words such as Envy. In the most sinful interpretation of the word.
And when directed at themselves. In a blind faith in their perfect intentions and irreproachable goals. Can only be described as pride. Once again in the most sinful sense.
I do not mean to invoke “religion” too much because I am out of my depth. Never been in a church. But that is how I would more accurately describe the dynamic. It is a faith the other side is wrong. The unshakeable moral belief they are right.
I think that is what defines the group more completely. Based on my experience, how I grew up, who I grew up with, and my age (graduated when so many of the big witch hunts on professors started). That is what I think shapes the group more than class or education. The axioms of postmodernism, that sculpt the faith based belief that they’re good/right. And the other side is bad/wrong.
Yes mostly correlated with education. To get the primers. But also correlated with the failing of failure or not living up to potential (I.e. oppressor vs oppressed). Correlated to the moralizing, good vs bad people. Correlated to the judgment of history, right-side of history. A meaningless phrase when intended objectively, as it is entirely based on what each individual believes. But is taken as a reality.
I am beyond rambling. But I think that is the best descriptor. It’s a faith, it’s is a set of beliefs taken axiomatically as a religion. Anyone can adopt these beliefs although they’re kept mostly for those who are “capable” of understanding “reality”. Those who can “understand” the gospel. Any heretic needs to be expelled. And can be ostracized from the group along any dimension of their character you find fault in.
You should try religion; many psychological studies show people are happier and are healthier. One identity is your self-identity; it is a belief or imagination n of who you are. Religion adds a dimension to this belief in who you are. You realize that you can't sense everything, be everywhere, know everything, or do everything because of mortality. You give up your moral weaknesses in prayer and hope to accomplish your goals. You will either be more tenacious in your vision or eventually give up and do something else. Either way, your fears or frustrations are lessened, making you think clearly and have lower cortisol levels.
Seeing God is tricky; many look for a synchronicity of events and things that have a collective consciousness. A synchronicity of events is when two unrelated things happen around the same time. Example of synchronicity in time: Ex 9/11, the twin towers blew up, and so did the computers at the Pentagon that stored proof of trillions of dollars disappearing.
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Collective consciousness, see the elephants in the video below (1) Collective consciousness Durkheim wrote: " society exists because unique individuals feel a sense of solidarity with each other. This is why we can form collectives and work together to achieve community and functional societies. The collective consciousness, or conscience collective as he wrote it in French, is the source of this solidarity.
I disagree with Durkheim; I believe this is trust. Collective consciousness "According to Jung, we carry the memories of our ancestors in our subconscious. We use this collective unconscious to assign structure and meaning to the world." Collective consciousness is spiritual.
Jung had observed similar patterns in images, characters, and events recurring in myths, religions, and cultural beliefs. These communities and societies were unlikely to have been in contact with each other, but their central stories featured the same elements with the same roles.
Jung had observed similar patterns in images, characters, and events recurring in myths, religions, and cultural beliefs. These communities and societies were unlikely to have been in contact with each other, but their central stories featured the same elements with the same roles. Jung refers to these central elements as archetypes. Also, he called the repeated occurrences of these archetypes in cultures isolated from each other synchronicities.
Synchronicities: The JFK assassination, David Ferrie, Barry Seal, Felix Rodriguez, Poppy Bush, Lee Harvey Oswald, Cuban Alpha 66, Operation 40, Zapata Oil, Caesar Diosdado, Kiki Camerena, Meyer Lansky, Myles Ambrose, Double Chek Corporation, Winston Scott, Santo Trafficante, Jack Rub=y, HL Hunt.
All are synchronicities, all were somehow related but you can't pin them together with any agreement to conspire. You suspect they all have connections but can't prove them. You are left with a feeling of cognitive dissonace that something more is at play.
The elites are trying to put postmodern, CRT into society, and many reject it because of trust. But the introduction of CRT is happening in a synchronicity of events. COVID 19 and BLM riots. The men that want to be Gods are also putting a great deal of money into these efforts. Next, it will be the elimination of money and a new Cyber identity living on the cloud.
“Newly educated classes have been especially likely to specialize in softer subjects and to be prominent among those fostering hostility toward more advanced groups, while promoting ethnic "identity" movements, whether such movements have been mobilized against other ethnic groups, the existing authorities, or other targets.”
IOW, this pattern of behavior among intellectuals is not new.
Also:
"Intertemporal abstractions are especially useful to those intellectuals who tend to conceive of social issues in terms which allow the intelligentsia to be on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. When intellectuals are unable to find enough contemporary grievances to suit their vision or agenda, they can mine the past for harm inflicted by some on others.”
And the piece de resistance:
“Because the vision of the anointed is a vision of themselves as well as a vision of the world, when they are defending that vision they are not simply defending a set of hypotheses about external events, they are in a sense defending their souls— and the zeal and even ruthlessness with which they may defend their vision are not surprising under these circumstances. But for people with opposite views, who may for example believe that most things work out better if left to such systemic processes as free markets, families, and traditional values, these are just a set of hypotheses about external events, rather than badges of moral superiority, so there is no such huge personal ego stake in whether or not those hypotheses are confirmed by empirical evidence.“
and: “This asymmetry between the two visions may help explain a striking pattern that goes back at least two centuries— the greater tendency of those with with the vision of the anointed to see those they disagree with as enemies who are morally lacking.”
and: “It has long been taken for granted by those with the vision of the anointed that their opponents are lacking in compassion. Moreover, there was no felt need to test that belief empirically.”
I agree. Wokeness is a religion. A cult like one that replaces faith in a higher power which offers a consistent moral compass with promoting politicians and activist to the status of God. Because of this followers have given up the moral steadiness of religious beliefs in exchange for the whims of narrative and the flaws of extremely flawed humans.
My issue is that this article is just as condescending, to me, as the woke narrative. Statistically the woke are more likely to be “educated.” A huge percentage of the “educated” is employed in median paying very secure employment academia.
The woke are not more successful. They have not personally earned more income than the average conservative. There is zero evidence of greater intelligence (though lots of evidence the woke are more gullible, and less capable of logical reasoning). The woke/ Democrats have not found more success financially (or otherwise), by their own making.
Obviously people are individuals and I am referencing statistical data, not absolutes. There are all kinds of exceptions. When I read this it reads to me like it says “Democrats have abandoned poor people who weren’t capable of going to university, they may be simple and inarticulate, but they still vote so they still matter.”
This writer is using the same condescending, and completely baseless, tone towards conservatives the woke do. It’s completely negated by actual statistical data. The author likely knows this, which is why “education” is conflated with financial success.
Break the income thing down by county maps and you see something entirely different than the author implies. The more densely populated areas of cities, which are also poorer, vote for Democrats. The “wealthy” suburbs are swing districts with more conservatives, the low income areas in cities a few miles away are solidily Democrat.
Take Loudon county versus Fairfax county right next door. Loudon county is wealthier. Loudon county had a higher percentage for Youngkin. Very wealthy horse country just beyond went overwhelmingly for Youngkin. Break down the precinct maps in either Fairfax or Loudon county and you see the same thing.
The author seems to me to be implying, falsely, that poor, uneducated, inarticulate people are conservative. The statistical reality is that education does not drive political affiliation so much as both current income and long term goals. Strivers are far more often conservative (business owners, tradespeople, commission paid white collar, partners at professional firms). Dependents (wether on welfare, a government job, salaried employees at big corporations, or mommy and daddy) are far more often Democrats. The biggest real shift has been in union employees - the unions have stopped representing them and they are forced into more of a tradesperson mentality as a result. Does this author not realize how much a skilled tradesperson like a welder or oil rig operator earns? A heck of a lot more than teachers and 90% of university professors!!!
To your earlier point we graduated from college this century. (High school too). Our concern over the religion of the woke is a major reason our kids have always gone to private Christian schools. Our local public schools are crap academically, so that was a huge motivation, but we also realized the value to their lives in instilling the consistent moral compass via Christianity. We don’t necessarily care if they are religious, or even Christian, as adults (it’s their choice then), but we do want to instill a moral compass far more steady than the whims of nonsense so many are succumbing to. There are other ways to accomplish this I’m sure, but this is the path we chose for our family.
You are right but do not grab the essence of the situation. God created all men in his image, so God created all men equal. They want the word equal abolished and want to treat all men with equity. Western Philosophy believes man seeks knowledge in God, Science, and Society. Epistemology, the study of knowledge, claims Morality and Ethics philosophy, Logic, and Metaphysics. are the source of knowledge. Post-modernism takes Science and Ethical principles and collapses them into social constructs of Religion, Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Culture. Age, Technology (science). Their justice is based on the lens of oppression of weighting race, gender, sexual identity higher than the other social constructs. Justice is meta-ethical relative morality. Equity is based on the color of skin, gender, and sexual identity. Kimberly Crenshaw, a black lesbian, made the black lesbian the most oppressed. How original.
God and religion guided Western Philosophy, creating a Universal Morality, which our racist system of justice is based. It is based on equality as per the 14th amendment. Everyone is treated equally in a grievance, and both sides are presented equally to an impartial jury. When the grievance is concluded, both sides have had the opportunity to present their sides of the argument and leave knowing there was a presentation of their side of the argument—perhaps giving a reasonable person some dignity the justice had been done.
Example Meta Ethical Morality in Culture:
1 Gov Cuomo gets taken out of office because of being mean to 11 women and being a bully vs. Nursing home deaths killing 1000s of elderly. No attempt is made to go after him for murder and the death of thousands. Gender and 11 women harassment were what took the bully down. Where is the justice 1000s vs. 11, death vs. groping a woman?
2. Chappelle thought he could use his color to make transgender jokes. The trans-gender people canceled him, and he wanted a forum to talk, and no, he was canceled. So much for skin color.
Relative justice has no laws, and you have to watch what you do.
God guided us to have moral and ethical values. These build trust, and they are standards. God is the ultimate standard that sets the direction we must go. Moral and ethical values and their behaviors build trust. Trust is the fabric of society. Without values of trust being applied with consistency, caring, and competency, society can't exist. SIX PILLARS OF CHARACTER are ethical values that build trust that need to be the standard of society. Listed here:
1. Trustworthy; (don't cheat, don't steal, reliable, dependable, be faithful to your family and your character, do what you say, honest),
2. Respect; (tolerance, listening to others, using good manners, not bad language, being considerate of the feelings of others, don't threaten, hitting or hurting anyone , dealing peacefully with anger, insults),
3. Responsibility; (self-control, be self-disciplined, think before you act, consider the consequences, be accountable for your words, actions, and attitudes)
4. Fairness; (play by the rules, take turns and share, be open-minded; temperate, analytical, sincere, truthful, don't blame others carelessly. treat all people fairly or equally, objectivity)
5. Caring; ( Be compassionate and show empathy, express gratitude, forgive others, Help people in need)
6. Citizenship; (Volunteerism, the environment, don't pollute. paying your taxes no loopholes or hiding money, honoring ideals country was founded on, getting involved in community affairs, stay informed; vote, be a good neighbor, obey laws and rules, respect authority)
Religious, moral values like empathy, humility (don't brag, live within your means and be happy, pray to ask for guidance), charity (tide your wealth, help those in need, pray for those in need) All reinforce the ethical values above. Belief in God creates a strong mind and a happier person.
Trust is the commodity that holds things together; the truth of God makes it righteous. When things are beyond control in a social contract, or relationship, giving it to God removes our stresses. God helps create our imagines self-identity and the Goals we want to achieve.
Postmodernists do not believe in values, and therefore there is no belief in God. You must follow their philosophy without question. Isn't it funny that the men that want to be Gods fund Social Justice through philanthropies run by black people they have empowered? They want no trust; they want to destroy the country that is the truth. Pray for the country and justice against these sociopaths.
NCmom... i do agree with your post, this is not a contradiction, just a slant.
No application here is 100% and i might be off topic, but i know school teachers that make over $100,000/yr and do that while having lots of time off, 4 months off .
I do not teach, retired, with a total of paid vacation being 2 weeks and i am fine.
I think this is why i get frank, those running our Universities, ivy league etc. are pulling in $4,$5,$6 million per year, not bad for part time work.
Let me add that California Universities, they have 5 or 6 of them, put $11,000,000 into the 2020 election, all for one party, tax supported. They have ways to avoid attention.
Money will allow these schools to function impromptu .
Very astute observation. From what I can tell, the author is one of the progressive left over educated journalists she seems to be excoriating. I doubt she has much of any direct experience outside of the beltway corridor. She is trying to warn her fellow big government commissars that their schtick isn't working. My guess is that she doesn't have any more of a sense of what you or I are about as those she is criticizing.
Great thoughts… the left’s religion is power and money.. whatever it takes.. including dismantling the Republic to create a communist state where they don’t have to answer to anyone.. “insanity” consequently the educrats and media elite will be the first to go to the gulag..
I'm splitting hairs here, but I attribute that resentment among bureaucrats towards entrepreneurs as being jealous of their balls rather than their brains.
Starting a business requires risk tolerance and taking chances, whereas being a desk jockey urbanite is playing it extremely safe career-wise. I agree the anger is there, but I think it's largely driven by displaced shame; these entitled pencil-pushers weren't brave enough to strike out on their own, so they settled for being a cog in the machine, and they hate anyone whose bravery reminds them of their own cowardice.
Great reply and probably all true. They call anyone in between New York and Los Angeles flyover state voters. Which is intended to denigrate anyone not progressive enough to understand their self-serving gibberish. BTW we do that’s our little secret.
Many of us run successful businesses, own homes and raise families. We define success way differently than those that live in the beltway bubble. Which is probably why they don’t understand us.
Most in DC have never owned or ran a business. Been responsible for employees livelihood and by extension their families success. They will never get it or us.
Agree. They don’t build housing, so why not give it away. They don’t grow food, produce energy, build cars, run cable, install electricity, or anything else they insist should be given away to others for free. Statistically, Dems they don’t earn more money either. If you adjust for regional income, Dems make even less than Republicans. Remember, according to the NYTs Trump won the majority of households making over 100K. Biden got the majority under 24K. If Biden also win the majority of college graduates, it doesn’t say much for what most with a college degree have been able to accomplish of value with all that “education.” My husband and I both have master’s degrees. We both voted for Trump. Feelings of superiority for our degrees weren’t the motivating factor. What actually works was…..
Well said NCmom. The bloated public sector are the ones who vote for Democrats unreservedly. Because they have no anxiety about their jobs, even though they produce only 1/2 to 1/3 per employee compared to the private sector.
When your salary is secure and comes from the taxpayer, why not vote for people who will grow the government and then you can move up and get a higher salary and benefits?
And the lack of real world experience by these poorly educated federal, state and city workers, and their illiteracy in economics, results in them believing that all businesses are exploiters of workers and consumers.
Me too! 18 until 36 - three years after I started a contracting business in CA and came to realize that the democrats were not only NOT helping my company in any way shape or form (and by extension the people working for me) but that everything I'd ever been told about republicans was a lie. For the most part, they were just hard-working, self-reliant, responsible folks with conservative values. And they didn't trust the government any more than I did!
Why does the author call the purveyors of CRT a "highly educated class"? This is mythology perpetuated by the Left akin to calling themselves "Liberal" or pro-freedom.
What is so educated about a degree in gender studies, colonial studies, or cultural anthropology?
These supposedly "highly educated" class have no education in the sciences, in philosophy, in economics, or history or math. That is the definition of a person lacking an education. Stop calling the elitists with ersatz college degrees as "educated". How educated is it to believe that humans don't have a nature and are blank slates? Or that all is socially constructed? Or that collectivization improves general happiness?
Agree 100%. It’s why I put “educated” in quotations. They aren’t very knowledgeable about the world, replicated science, history, nature, or much else. They also lack intelligence as they view the entirety of life as though it’s a 2nd grade bubble test with pre-determined answer choices dictated to them.
And they have very little real life experience. Having worked for government where they can never be fired, where the workday is not merit-oriented, where they get all those benefits, and where in some places they work only 33 hours a week. Where their income comes from taxes and not consumers willingly buying their product.
90% of Leftists I have met are quite uneducated. They cover that up with judicious use of language, which fools a lot of people. But they have little substance and few facts.
BTW, by "author" in my previous comment,I meant the authorof the article. :)
I have to offer a different perspective, 15 year government employee here, (Mountain West) most of my coworkers were at 50-55 hour work weeks consistently, but never less than 40. OK, once a year for the holiday party, 39. So I genuinely would like to know what govt jobs are 33 hours/week. Most folks had college degrees, some not, and those who needed it got fired. Understand your experience may have been different but I have to push back on the government worker stereotype.
I don't think that most people understand that when you run a business, be it a corporation (as mine was) or not, every mortgage and rent payment, car and insurance payment, and dollar your employees depend on hinges on you and your decisions. That weighed on me a lot. What drives me nuts is this knee-jerk reaction to the word "corporations" and how republicans cater to these "evil organizations". Millions upon millions of people work for corporations - of all different sizes. When you put into place policies that hurt business, you are ultimately hurting the individuals they employ. I know that this is a general statement and that there are greedy corporate officers out that who could care less about those just looking to make a living, but for the most part, I think policies that help businesses to thrive, for corporations to grow their stock, ultimately help those that work for or have invested in them.
Corporations are evil unless they are owned by the state, where productivity is 1/2 of the private sector, and where they are propped up by taxpayer subsidies and where the public unions run the corporation, and where they have a monopoly on their sector with high costs and high prices for consumers. That is the mentality of the average supposedly "educated" left-liberal elite, who have worked for government or through government grants all their career.
The fact that mega corporations and tiny, small businesses are made accountable to the same "rules" when they are completely different animals is really an issue for me. A billion dollar corporation can afford armies of financial, PR, lobbyists, other professionals to help them skirt the "rules" in every sense of the word, while tiny, small business with few resources must live or die by endlessly multiplying, conflicting and often nonsensical bureaucratic edicts. But lots and lots of money make all those headaches go away.
I've seen this first hand, on a smaller scale, when a start up I worked for reached multi-millions in revenue. Once we could afford our own army of professional handlers, all of the various bureaucratic harpies that had been harassing us just kind of disappeared. But before that happened, it had gotten to the point that everyday felt like we were only there to justify some or another bureaucrat's job everyday.
A mega-corporation benefits from economy of scale. A monopoly-corporation benefits from a lock on the market. Small businesses and consumers suffer as a consequence and get exploited. But government has no intention in enforcing anti-trust laws.
And government regulations and red-tape uniquely benefits such a mega-corporation vis a vis their smaller competitors, as they can hire an army of lawyers and accountants and government liaison people and PR people that others can't.
There should be a law that a corporation may not have assets greater than lets say $1 billion (depends on the sector). This will allow competitors to rise up and challenge the mega-corporation and keep it honest.
Yes, and keep their investment in both the physical assets that they build but the human investment in their employees here. Most of my career was in a very large corporation at a senior mgr / director level. The plants employ up to a thousand permanent employees, nearly every one funding a family and the local towns, merchants, etc.
When the business environment drives those enterprises away, all of that support goes away, including overseas. I’ve seen small towns dry up with the accompanying losses of income and opportunity.
If we get beaten in the marketplace, well that’s fault of ours. But when we get chased out because of clueless government policies, the terrible impacts of those lost jobs are unforgivable. The ignorant rubes in “flyover country” are good for nothing but making all the elites’ food and energy.
A couple of points that all the pundits analyzing seem to ignore.
1 - The self-described “elites” are largely comprised of MIDDLE INCOME urbanites who have a great deal of anger towards the high school graduates who built businesses and have more success than they do (along with intelligence I would argue). Most in journalism and those in academia are, at best, middle class. They also tend to be nauseatingly entitled.
2 - Don’t under estimate the fear of child vaccine mandates as putting parents and grandparents over the edge. Just as economic jobs analyst ignored the millions of children now being homeschooled likely with adult supervision, many previously employed adults, many are overlooking the fear the a still experimental shot will be mandated by Democrats on their masked 5 year old that faces zero statistical risk of dying from Covid.
3 - The Lincoln project is in a competition with Biden and Bloomberg to see who can waste the most money trying to tell people what to do. Combined success rate of funds spent is 0%.
4 - The main thing people are pushing back on is authoritarianism and insanity. Both are beyond annoying and have consumed the Democrat party.
Sincerely,
A mom in the 1% with a masters degree, two young kids, and zero trust funds, who proudly supported Trump and now votes all Republican (for now anyway) after being a registered Democrat from the age of 18-36. I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016, but I did in 2020.
Please come vote in VA, NCmom.
😂. I have family in VA. They voted straight Republican.
You go girl!
With #2, while I have no problem with a parent’s choice to not vaccinate their child, or leaving their child unmasked, and agree likelihood of a child dying from COVID is remote (not impossible, nor is severe illness, just highly unlikely), not sure other parents would want that child sitting next to theirs in school. An unvaccinated person including a child can contract COVID and potentially pass it along to others who would not be as fortunate to not get severely ill or die. So, being a good Christian, and loving your neighbors as yourself, homeschooling your unvaccinated child seems like a good idea to me.
You’re right. But I don’t think you fully nailed point #1. And doing so, I don’t think you fully elucidated the entire scope and shape of the problem.
You framed it in educational/“class” structures. It’s 90% there, but it needs more. It’s something more specific and more niche. It’s entirely a distinct culture or maybe more accurately, a religion. There are the consistencies like you mentioned (I.e. higher education). But they’re not constants. It’s more of an “initiated into the set of beliefs” feeling that is more prevalent. Or a cult “us” vs “them” feeling.
And I think that is where the animosity you describe comes from. What more accurately describes the “mostly middle-class, educated people hating those who made it big” feeling. That superior “they don’t deserve it” sentiment. It’s a religious “I acted right, I followed the right path, i did the right things, I am a good person, I believe the right things, they didn’t. They don’t deserve what they have”.
I don’t mean religious to bash “religion”. I mean religious as in it is a faith they have. It is unassailable. It isn’t based on any strong rationale that could be picked apart. It is completely and utterly not self aware. And cannot reference the errors in itself and dissect any mistakes. It is a belief in the truest sense of the word. A belief that when pointed towards something they desire but don’t have can only be described with religious words such as Envy. In the most sinful interpretation of the word.
And when directed at themselves. In a blind faith in their perfect intentions and irreproachable goals. Can only be described as pride. Once again in the most sinful sense.
I do not mean to invoke “religion” too much because I am out of my depth. Never been in a church. But that is how I would more accurately describe the dynamic. It is a faith the other side is wrong. The unshakeable moral belief they are right.
I think that is what defines the group more completely. Based on my experience, how I grew up, who I grew up with, and my age (graduated when so many of the big witch hunts on professors started). That is what I think shapes the group more than class or education. The axioms of postmodernism, that sculpt the faith based belief that they’re good/right. And the other side is bad/wrong.
Yes mostly correlated with education. To get the primers. But also correlated with the failing of failure or not living up to potential (I.e. oppressor vs oppressed). Correlated to the moralizing, good vs bad people. Correlated to the judgment of history, right-side of history. A meaningless phrase when intended objectively, as it is entirely based on what each individual believes. But is taken as a reality.
I am beyond rambling. But I think that is the best descriptor. It’s a faith, it’s is a set of beliefs taken axiomatically as a religion. Anyone can adopt these beliefs although they’re kept mostly for those who are “capable” of understanding “reality”. Those who can “understand” the gospel. Any heretic needs to be expelled. And can be ostracized from the group along any dimension of their character you find fault in.
You should try religion; many psychological studies show people are happier and are healthier. One identity is your self-identity; it is a belief or imagination n of who you are. Religion adds a dimension to this belief in who you are. You realize that you can't sense everything, be everywhere, know everything, or do everything because of mortality. You give up your moral weaknesses in prayer and hope to accomplish your goals. You will either be more tenacious in your vision or eventually give up and do something else. Either way, your fears or frustrations are lessened, making you think clearly and have lower cortisol levels.
Seeing God is tricky; many look for a synchronicity of events and things that have a collective consciousness. A synchronicity of events is when two unrelated things happen around the same time. Example of synchronicity in time: Ex 9/11, the twin towers blew up, and so did the computers at the Pentagon that stored proof of trillions of dollars disappearing.
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Collective consciousness, see the elephants in the video below (1) Collective consciousness Durkheim wrote: " society exists because unique individuals feel a sense of solidarity with each other. This is why we can form collectives and work together to achieve community and functional societies. The collective consciousness, or conscience collective as he wrote it in French, is the source of this solidarity.
I disagree with Durkheim; I believe this is trust. Collective consciousness "According to Jung, we carry the memories of our ancestors in our subconscious. We use this collective unconscious to assign structure and meaning to the world." Collective consciousness is spiritual.
Jung had observed similar patterns in images, characters, and events recurring in myths, religions, and cultural beliefs. These communities and societies were unlikely to have been in contact with each other, but their central stories featured the same elements with the same roles.
Jung had observed similar patterns in images, characters, and events recurring in myths, religions, and cultural beliefs. These communities and societies were unlikely to have been in contact with each other, but their central stories featured the same elements with the same roles. Jung refers to these central elements as archetypes. Also, he called the repeated occurrences of these archetypes in cultures isolated from each other synchronicities.
Synchronicities: The JFK assassination, David Ferrie, Barry Seal, Felix Rodriguez, Poppy Bush, Lee Harvey Oswald, Cuban Alpha 66, Operation 40, Zapata Oil, Caesar Diosdado, Kiki Camerena, Meyer Lansky, Myles Ambrose, Double Chek Corporation, Winston Scott, Santo Trafficante, Jack Rub=y, HL Hunt.
All are synchronicities, all were somehow related but you can't pin them together with any agreement to conspire. You suspect they all have connections but can't prove them. You are left with a feeling of cognitive dissonace that something more is at play.
The elites are trying to put postmodern, CRT into society, and many reject it because of trust. But the introduction of CRT is happening in a synchronicity of events. COVID 19 and BLM riots. The men that want to be Gods are also putting a great deal of money into these efforts. Next, it will be the elimination of money and a new Cyber identity living on the cloud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY1hxwuD1rU
James Lindsay created a podcast that addresses this to some extent: https://newdiscourses.com/2021/05/bourgeois-overproduction-problem-fake-elite/ Behind a paywall unfortunately.
Thomas Sowell wrote an enlightening book about this topic: "Intellectuals and Society" https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/01/divine-right-intellectuals-david-hogberg/
Some choice excerpts:
“Newly educated classes have been especially likely to specialize in softer subjects and to be prominent among those fostering hostility toward more advanced groups, while promoting ethnic "identity" movements, whether such movements have been mobilized against other ethnic groups, the existing authorities, or other targets.”
IOW, this pattern of behavior among intellectuals is not new.
Also:
"Intertemporal abstractions are especially useful to those intellectuals who tend to conceive of social issues in terms which allow the intelligentsia to be on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. When intellectuals are unable to find enough contemporary grievances to suit their vision or agenda, they can mine the past for harm inflicted by some on others.”
And the piece de resistance:
“Because the vision of the anointed is a vision of themselves as well as a vision of the world, when they are defending that vision they are not simply defending a set of hypotheses about external events, they are in a sense defending their souls— and the zeal and even ruthlessness with which they may defend their vision are not surprising under these circumstances. But for people with opposite views, who may for example believe that most things work out better if left to such systemic processes as free markets, families, and traditional values, these are just a set of hypotheses about external events, rather than badges of moral superiority, so there is no such huge personal ego stake in whether or not those hypotheses are confirmed by empirical evidence.“
and: “This asymmetry between the two visions may help explain a striking pattern that goes back at least two centuries— the greater tendency of those with with the vision of the anointed to see those they disagree with as enemies who are morally lacking.”
and: “It has long been taken for granted by those with the vision of the anointed that their opponents are lacking in compassion. Moreover, there was no felt need to test that belief empirically.”
I agree. Wokeness is a religion. A cult like one that replaces faith in a higher power which offers a consistent moral compass with promoting politicians and activist to the status of God. Because of this followers have given up the moral steadiness of religious beliefs in exchange for the whims of narrative and the flaws of extremely flawed humans.
My issue is that this article is just as condescending, to me, as the woke narrative. Statistically the woke are more likely to be “educated.” A huge percentage of the “educated” is employed in median paying very secure employment academia.
The woke are not more successful. They have not personally earned more income than the average conservative. There is zero evidence of greater intelligence (though lots of evidence the woke are more gullible, and less capable of logical reasoning). The woke/ Democrats have not found more success financially (or otherwise), by their own making.
Obviously people are individuals and I am referencing statistical data, not absolutes. There are all kinds of exceptions. When I read this it reads to me like it says “Democrats have abandoned poor people who weren’t capable of going to university, they may be simple and inarticulate, but they still vote so they still matter.”
This writer is using the same condescending, and completely baseless, tone towards conservatives the woke do. It’s completely negated by actual statistical data. The author likely knows this, which is why “education” is conflated with financial success.
Break the income thing down by county maps and you see something entirely different than the author implies. The more densely populated areas of cities, which are also poorer, vote for Democrats. The “wealthy” suburbs are swing districts with more conservatives, the low income areas in cities a few miles away are solidily Democrat.
Take Loudon county versus Fairfax county right next door. Loudon county is wealthier. Loudon county had a higher percentage for Youngkin. Very wealthy horse country just beyond went overwhelmingly for Youngkin. Break down the precinct maps in either Fairfax or Loudon county and you see the same thing.
The author seems to me to be implying, falsely, that poor, uneducated, inarticulate people are conservative. The statistical reality is that education does not drive political affiliation so much as both current income and long term goals. Strivers are far more often conservative (business owners, tradespeople, commission paid white collar, partners at professional firms). Dependents (wether on welfare, a government job, salaried employees at big corporations, or mommy and daddy) are far more often Democrats. The biggest real shift has been in union employees - the unions have stopped representing them and they are forced into more of a tradesperson mentality as a result. Does this author not realize how much a skilled tradesperson like a welder or oil rig operator earns? A heck of a lot more than teachers and 90% of university professors!!!
To your earlier point we graduated from college this century. (High school too). Our concern over the religion of the woke is a major reason our kids have always gone to private Christian schools. Our local public schools are crap academically, so that was a huge motivation, but we also realized the value to their lives in instilling the consistent moral compass via Christianity. We don’t necessarily care if they are religious, or even Christian, as adults (it’s their choice then), but we do want to instill a moral compass far more steady than the whims of nonsense so many are succumbing to. There are other ways to accomplish this I’m sure, but this is the path we chose for our family.
You are right but do not grab the essence of the situation. God created all men in his image, so God created all men equal. They want the word equal abolished and want to treat all men with equity. Western Philosophy believes man seeks knowledge in God, Science, and Society. Epistemology, the study of knowledge, claims Morality and Ethics philosophy, Logic, and Metaphysics. are the source of knowledge. Post-modernism takes Science and Ethical principles and collapses them into social constructs of Religion, Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Culture. Age, Technology (science). Their justice is based on the lens of oppression of weighting race, gender, sexual identity higher than the other social constructs. Justice is meta-ethical relative morality. Equity is based on the color of skin, gender, and sexual identity. Kimberly Crenshaw, a black lesbian, made the black lesbian the most oppressed. How original.
God and religion guided Western Philosophy, creating a Universal Morality, which our racist system of justice is based. It is based on equality as per the 14th amendment. Everyone is treated equally in a grievance, and both sides are presented equally to an impartial jury. When the grievance is concluded, both sides have had the opportunity to present their sides of the argument and leave knowing there was a presentation of their side of the argument—perhaps giving a reasonable person some dignity the justice had been done.
Example Meta Ethical Morality in Culture:
1 Gov Cuomo gets taken out of office because of being mean to 11 women and being a bully vs. Nursing home deaths killing 1000s of elderly. No attempt is made to go after him for murder and the death of thousands. Gender and 11 women harassment were what took the bully down. Where is the justice 1000s vs. 11, death vs. groping a woman?
2. Chappelle thought he could use his color to make transgender jokes. The trans-gender people canceled him, and he wanted a forum to talk, and no, he was canceled. So much for skin color.
Relative justice has no laws, and you have to watch what you do.
God guided us to have moral and ethical values. These build trust, and they are standards. God is the ultimate standard that sets the direction we must go. Moral and ethical values and their behaviors build trust. Trust is the fabric of society. Without values of trust being applied with consistency, caring, and competency, society can't exist. SIX PILLARS OF CHARACTER are ethical values that build trust that need to be the standard of society. Listed here:
1. Trustworthy; (don't cheat, don't steal, reliable, dependable, be faithful to your family and your character, do what you say, honest),
2. Respect; (tolerance, listening to others, using good manners, not bad language, being considerate of the feelings of others, don't threaten, hitting or hurting anyone , dealing peacefully with anger, insults),
3. Responsibility; (self-control, be self-disciplined, think before you act, consider the consequences, be accountable for your words, actions, and attitudes)
4. Fairness; (play by the rules, take turns and share, be open-minded; temperate, analytical, sincere, truthful, don't blame others carelessly. treat all people fairly or equally, objectivity)
5. Caring; ( Be compassionate and show empathy, express gratitude, forgive others, Help people in need)
6. Citizenship; (Volunteerism, the environment, don't pollute. paying your taxes no loopholes or hiding money, honoring ideals country was founded on, getting involved in community affairs, stay informed; vote, be a good neighbor, obey laws and rules, respect authority)
Religious, moral values like empathy, humility (don't brag, live within your means and be happy, pray to ask for guidance), charity (tide your wealth, help those in need, pray for those in need) All reinforce the ethical values above. Belief in God creates a strong mind and a happier person.
Trust is the commodity that holds things together; the truth of God makes it righteous. When things are beyond control in a social contract, or relationship, giving it to God removes our stresses. God helps create our imagines self-identity and the Goals we want to achieve.
Postmodernists do not believe in values, and therefore there is no belief in God. You must follow their philosophy without question. Isn't it funny that the men that want to be Gods fund Social Justice through philanthropies run by black people they have empowered? They want no trust; they want to destroy the country that is the truth. Pray for the country and justice against these sociopaths.
NCmom... i do agree with your post, this is not a contradiction, just a slant.
No application here is 100% and i might be off topic, but i know school teachers that make over $100,000/yr and do that while having lots of time off, 4 months off .
I do not teach, retired, with a total of paid vacation being 2 weeks and i am fine.
I think this is why i get frank, those running our Universities, ivy league etc. are pulling in $4,$5,$6 million per year, not bad for part time work.
Let me add that California Universities, they have 5 or 6 of them, put $11,000,000 into the 2020 election, all for one party, tax supported. They have ways to avoid attention.
Money will allow these schools to function impromptu .
Very astute observation. From what I can tell, the author is one of the progressive left over educated journalists she seems to be excoriating. I doubt she has much of any direct experience outside of the beltway corridor. She is trying to warn her fellow big government commissars that their schtick isn't working. My guess is that she doesn't have any more of a sense of what you or I are about as those she is criticizing.
Great thoughts… the left’s religion is power and money.. whatever it takes.. including dismantling the Republic to create a communist state where they don’t have to answer to anyone.. “insanity” consequently the educrats and media elite will be the first to go to the gulag..
The left's religion is ego and self-righteousness, which they leverage along with verbal virtuosity, to acquire power and money.
I'm splitting hairs here, but I attribute that resentment among bureaucrats towards entrepreneurs as being jealous of their balls rather than their brains.
Starting a business requires risk tolerance and taking chances, whereas being a desk jockey urbanite is playing it extremely safe career-wise. I agree the anger is there, but I think it's largely driven by displaced shame; these entitled pencil-pushers weren't brave enough to strike out on their own, so they settled for being a cog in the machine, and they hate anyone whose bravery reminds them of their own cowardice.
Great reply and probably all true. They call anyone in between New York and Los Angeles flyover state voters. Which is intended to denigrate anyone not progressive enough to understand their self-serving gibberish. BTW we do that’s our little secret.
Many of us run successful businesses, own homes and raise families. We define success way differently than those that live in the beltway bubble. Which is probably why they don’t understand us.
Most in DC have never owned or ran a business. Been responsible for employees livelihood and by extension their families success. They will never get it or us.
"Most in DC have never owned or ran a business." Notably Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
And so many more lifers like Schumer, pelosi, mcconnell…
Yes. And have not even had an executive position such as governor of a state.
Agree. They don’t build housing, so why not give it away. They don’t grow food, produce energy, build cars, run cable, install electricity, or anything else they insist should be given away to others for free. Statistically, Dems they don’t earn more money either. If you adjust for regional income, Dems make even less than Republicans. Remember, according to the NYTs Trump won the majority of households making over 100K. Biden got the majority under 24K. If Biden also win the majority of college graduates, it doesn’t say much for what most with a college degree have been able to accomplish of value with all that “education.” My husband and I both have master’s degrees. We both voted for Trump. Feelings of superiority for our degrees weren’t the motivating factor. What actually works was…..
Well said NCmom. The bloated public sector are the ones who vote for Democrats unreservedly. Because they have no anxiety about their jobs, even though they produce only 1/2 to 1/3 per employee compared to the private sector.
When your salary is secure and comes from the taxpayer, why not vote for people who will grow the government and then you can move up and get a higher salary and benefits?
And the lack of real world experience by these poorly educated federal, state and city workers, and their illiteracy in economics, results in them believing that all businesses are exploiters of workers and consumers.
NCmom...right to the point, "they don't build" so, why not give it away...a lot to like
Also the trickle down in the" give away" programs , hurts the one on the receiving end, they lose focus.
Me too! 18 until 36 - three years after I started a contracting business in CA and came to realize that the democrats were not only NOT helping my company in any way shape or form (and by extension the people working for me) but that everything I'd ever been told about republicans was a lie. For the most part, they were just hard-working, self-reliant, responsible folks with conservative values. And they didn't trust the government any more than I did!
Exactly what happened to me. Nothing like some real world experience to open one's eyes about how the deck is really stacked!
That, and for me, having little humans I’m responsible for. Suddenly pretty sounding rhetoric started taking a back seat to actual outcomes.
Why does the author call the purveyors of CRT a "highly educated class"? This is mythology perpetuated by the Left akin to calling themselves "Liberal" or pro-freedom.
What is so educated about a degree in gender studies, colonial studies, or cultural anthropology?
These supposedly "highly educated" class have no education in the sciences, in philosophy, in economics, or history or math. That is the definition of a person lacking an education. Stop calling the elitists with ersatz college degrees as "educated". How educated is it to believe that humans don't have a nature and are blank slates? Or that all is socially constructed? Or that collectivization improves general happiness?
Agree wholeheartedly. Put another, more crass way, just because you have a college degree doesn't mean you're not and idiot.
Agree 100%. It’s why I put “educated” in quotations. They aren’t very knowledgeable about the world, replicated science, history, nature, or much else. They also lack intelligence as they view the entirety of life as though it’s a 2nd grade bubble test with pre-determined answer choices dictated to them.
And they have very little real life experience. Having worked for government where they can never be fired, where the workday is not merit-oriented, where they get all those benefits, and where in some places they work only 33 hours a week. Where their income comes from taxes and not consumers willingly buying their product.
90% of Leftists I have met are quite uneducated. They cover that up with judicious use of language, which fools a lot of people. But they have little substance and few facts.
BTW, by "author" in my previous comment,I meant the authorof the article. :)
I have to offer a different perspective, 15 year government employee here, (Mountain West) most of my coworkers were at 50-55 hour work weeks consistently, but never less than 40. OK, once a year for the holiday party, 39. So I genuinely would like to know what govt jobs are 33 hours/week. Most folks had college degrees, some not, and those who needed it got fired. Understand your experience may have been different but I have to push back on the government worker stereotype.
I don't think that most people understand that when you run a business, be it a corporation (as mine was) or not, every mortgage and rent payment, car and insurance payment, and dollar your employees depend on hinges on you and your decisions. That weighed on me a lot. What drives me nuts is this knee-jerk reaction to the word "corporations" and how republicans cater to these "evil organizations". Millions upon millions of people work for corporations - of all different sizes. When you put into place policies that hurt business, you are ultimately hurting the individuals they employ. I know that this is a general statement and that there are greedy corporate officers out that who could care less about those just looking to make a living, but for the most part, I think policies that help businesses to thrive, for corporations to grow their stock, ultimately help those that work for or have invested in them.
Corporations are evil unless they are owned by the state, where productivity is 1/2 of the private sector, and where they are propped up by taxpayer subsidies and where the public unions run the corporation, and where they have a monopoly on their sector with high costs and high prices for consumers. That is the mentality of the average supposedly "educated" left-liberal elite, who have worked for government or through government grants all their career.
The fact that mega corporations and tiny, small businesses are made accountable to the same "rules" when they are completely different animals is really an issue for me. A billion dollar corporation can afford armies of financial, PR, lobbyists, other professionals to help them skirt the "rules" in every sense of the word, while tiny, small business with few resources must live or die by endlessly multiplying, conflicting and often nonsensical bureaucratic edicts. But lots and lots of money make all those headaches go away.
I've seen this first hand, on a smaller scale, when a start up I worked for reached multi-millions in revenue. Once we could afford our own army of professional handlers, all of the various bureaucratic harpies that had been harassing us just kind of disappeared. But before that happened, it had gotten to the point that everyday felt like we were only there to justify some or another bureaucrat's job everyday.
A mega-corporation benefits from economy of scale. A monopoly-corporation benefits from a lock on the market. Small businesses and consumers suffer as a consequence and get exploited. But government has no intention in enforcing anti-trust laws.
And government regulations and red-tape uniquely benefits such a mega-corporation vis a vis their smaller competitors, as they can hire an army of lawyers and accountants and government liaison people and PR people that others can't.
There should be a law that a corporation may not have assets greater than lets say $1 billion (depends on the sector). This will allow competitors to rise up and challenge the mega-corporation and keep it honest.
Rod...you make good solid points, in that many people view companies in a facet form, many do not see the Trickle...thanks
Yes, and keep their investment in both the physical assets that they build but the human investment in their employees here. Most of my career was in a very large corporation at a senior mgr / director level. The plants employ up to a thousand permanent employees, nearly every one funding a family and the local towns, merchants, etc.
When the business environment drives those enterprises away, all of that support goes away, including overseas. I’ve seen small towns dry up with the accompanying losses of income and opportunity.
If we get beaten in the marketplace, well that’s fault of ours. But when we get chased out because of clueless government policies, the terrible impacts of those lost jobs are unforgivable. The ignorant rubes in “flyover country” are good for nothing but making all the elites’ food and energy.
Great piece!!