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Frantic's avatar

I was reading yesterday something from a guy who totally flew below my radar, Petr Hampl.

It's not about ideology, but about signalling you belong - or at least long to belong - to the Beautiful People. The Beautiful People are international, and owe allegiance more to each other than the country they were born into. This trickles down to the aspirationals who are about anyone middle and lower-middle class:

"First, the power elite is large in number. If we are talking about the richest half a percent, that means more than five million people in Europe and the US. That’s a group big enough to have its own culture, its own taste in music, its own way of dressing, its own diet, and its own lifestyle. This is a huge difference from the situation back in the 1980s, when the elites were national and local, and naturally much smaller. A smaller elite, even if it cultivates its separateness, nevertheless adopts values and basic ideas about life from the subordinate classes. This has disappeared. Today’s New York corporate board members are no closer to Montana construction workers than they are to Somali herders."

https://counter-currents.com/2021/09/who-actually-governs-us/

Obviously without internet this would have never taken place.

I have got to get this guy's book, a lot of that article resonates with my experience.

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Cattexas's avatar

My ideology is, now, Believe Nothing. First response. Next response is everything out of a liberal is exactly the opposite in truth. Easy!

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