Elite Clique Echo Chambers

Some of us collect little aphorisms. These are the sort of things you draw on a cave wall, write in your moleskine notebook, or text to yourself under the table at a meeting. You want to remember them because they resonated with what you know of the world like a bell hit by an errant round.

What is most interesting about these may be how they combine. These seem like different directions, but in overlay, the basis of a feral but elevated worldview reveals its silhouette. They only make sense when taken together. For today, here is the list as it stands right now:

1. “Be excellent to each other.” – Bill and Ted
2. “Sodomize the Weak.” – Blood
3. “You get what you give.” – Deicide
4. “Think of as all.” – Roky Erickson
5. “The sick must die.” – Nguy Lamont Hughs
6. “There are no truths, only interpretations.” – Freddie
7. “Culture is upstream of politics.” – Joe Sobran
8. “Become what you are.” – Richard Spencer
9. “I object to pretensions of natural equality.” – Francis Galton
10. “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” – Artie

Now that your mind has reset its context flags and is stimulating itself with a logical analysis process, you are the most receptive you will be all day to looking at a new idea. Briefly: I do not trust people who succeed in this system and are OK with that role.

This is different from saying that they are incompetent or that all of the “elites” are bad. No, most of the elites are merely people who wanted to avoid being poor, so they gritted their teeth and wasted three decades competing in education for the sinecures of their positions.

Do they do less than you at work? Perhaps… but they are making harder decisions, and they have suffered and sweated for where they are. They have even given up something they will never get back, namely their time especially their youths.

They are also cognitively above the norm — this is controversal, but the wealthier people tend to be the smarter ones — because that is a risk management policy for business: hire intelligent people and have them figure out how to fix any crisis that arises.

For known tasks, there is no real advantage to intelligence, because you just follow the recipe, checklist, or other sequence of methods and you achieve the result. When anomalies arise, ordinary intelligence checks out, and it requires some bloody-minded higher-IQ type to analyze the sitch.

To address this, society makes us go through years of school. I do not trust people who really dug this, either, since they tend to be disgusting tools of the system. I like people who have intellectual curiosity borne of enjoying life, but the system tends to squash those!

Note: the people doing the squashing are mostly those below them, and only some of their peers. Resentment of the higher is a thing in humanity, and it is why many of us also distrust the poor and people who affect the shucky-darn blue jeans and corn on the cob “blue collar” enthusiasm.

What we call the “elites” are really two things: (1) the people with bureaucratic jobs who get paid a quarter of a million dollars a year to administrate handing out free stuff, and (2) the people whose households earn a quarter of a million dollars because they were good at education.

You want to get a good job? Do well in high school, score well on your SATs, and go to a college that is not a state school and be in the top ten percent of your class. Go to your first job and be available whenever they want and at your desk whenever they watch.

Affirmative action has wrecked this process to some degree, but it is still in place because business depends on it to function. When you see people with money, this is most likely how they got there, including the affirmative action (DEI, PC) cases.

Others got there by starting their own businesses or farms. These tend to be the same people who got squashed by both the poor kids and the rich jocks at college and in high school. Weird how that turns out.

The elites subdivide further, in that some are there because they fully endorse the process (tools of the system) and others are there to acquire a paycheck and cash out; take the money and run, and never pay retail, in other words.

The people who are happy in their roles as tools of the system, think the system is doing great, and are looking to climb above merely comfortable are the dangerous ones. These are zombie brain stems who cannot consider the goals or consequences of their own actions.

These ZBs (zeebs?) are the ones who keep hammering on the ideals that their professors taught them because their professors taught it to them, like civil rights, equality, socialism, climate change, moral compassion, modern monetary theory, compassion, empathy, etc.

They are unable to change their thinking because they do not think; they search for ways to justify what they want. They will keep hammering round pegs in square holes until the sun implodes because that is what they are paid to do. They are the robots.

The people who rose in this system are products of the system and the stuff the voters demanded to make the system more “equitable.” Instead of five years of education, you have twenty, so that you can “prove” you are above the herd. It is a humiliation ritual that produces angry people.

If you wonder why these elites do not care if you live or die, it is because you through your votes wasted their youths. Think about how much that would make you hate someone. This is the hatred they feel for the average voter.

It was obvious starting in third grade who was going to go on to this level; a simple IQ test analogue (the Iowa tests for Gen Xers) told you this early in the school year. But for the pretense of equality, the great churning “education” process must go on…

…And the people who are good at it and like the process form like clique echo chambers where they repeat the same fictions (not lies per se) to each other that make it seem like the System is working and things will get better in the future.

Oh! Will you look at the time. That would be a cheesy way to end an essay but a good way to cut off the flow of words suddenly so the reader, with context shifted again, relies on the circular stimulus of analysis of memories while they scroll down the page looking for spicy comments.