This is really superb, but I think overstates the solidarity of the managerial US elite in the 20th century. I am of course merely a Millennial who myself is trying to figure out what happened, but here are some pieces that I think I have a grip on.
Two elements that I am quite sure of:
(1) Anglo American virtue was not entirely fraudulent during the early to mid 20th century. Consider HW Bush, who was born into a wealthy family, enlisted in the Navy, and was eventually shot down and nearly killed in a raid in 1944. That's not bone spurs.
Consider Churchill (who I am not a fan of), who repeatedly exposed himself to danger during the war, including an experience where he was shelled by German artillery near the Rhine in 1945. I do not believe this story is apocryphal, although perhaps it is overstated how close it was.
Other examples are the enormous marginal taxes paid by the rich during the period, Hayes code in Hollywood, etc. As best as I can tell, as another example, John Wayne truly regretted not serving in the War.
(2) Post-war US is host to a vicious knife fight between Jews and WASPs, with Catholics playing both sides opportunistically. This is extremely well documented, so I will not belabor the point here, but I will note that once one is on the lookout for anti-WASP propaganda in 20th century film and other media, it can be difficult to stop seeing it.
Didn't realize that Ghostbusters is anti-WASP propaganda? Well: the ghostbusters are 1 Jew, 2 Catholics and a black guy. The other protagonist in the film is the mayor, who is also catholic. The villain is the EPA guy who is a WASP ("Peck"). The writers are Akroyd (Catholic) and Ramis (Jewish).
Or consider the Simpsons. The main villain is Monty Burns, a WASP, and the one prominent Jew is the beloved Herschel Krustofsky, aka Krusty the Clown. Animal House, Caddyshack, etc. are further entries in this genre.
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So all of that is to say, I do NOT see harmony among the American managerial class in the 20th century. The 1960s revolution may be astro-turfed and driven by elite actors, but at the elite level, it absolutely represents a bona fide Catholic and Jewish revolt against Protestant America, which had reached its Apex in the 1950s. The 1950s wasn't fake... Protestant America just lost and then became fake and degenerate after its defeat.
The real problem faced by the WASPs was that they overestimated their strength. They didn't realize that that they were a bunch of trumped up country bumpkins, and absolutely unprepared to become center of the world in 1946. Traditional America is a bit like if Unobtanium were discovered in Alabama. How quickly would Alabama elites get bulldozed by elites from New York and California, once they drew their attention?
That's what happens to the Americans. The US becomes the center of the world, and it draws in all sorts of opportunistic elites from the Old World (plus the Jews forced there at gunpoint), that steamroll the traditional American elites, who are too open, too trusting, and too underprepared for real top-shelf process and narrative manipulators from the Old World. The new elites replace traditional American culture with a lowest-common-denominator "liberalism" which is a thinly disguised excuse for the new diaspora elite to make as much money as possible while not having to conform to anyone else's culture or make any investments in the country. We call these systems "liberal" or "libertarian" but they are really just mechanisms to market the diaspora elite self interest to the public.
But all of that is to again say that 1950s America wasn't fraudulent - it just lost to the diaspora elite.
By the way, the 1990s to me and the "Gingrich revolution" in Republican (i.e. Traditional America) politics is the Traditional American elite realizing that the public just insists on voting for liars, so the Republican party will just lie about everything too. This is a not totally unjustified response to the election of Bill Clinton over HW Bush. Unfortunately, it has left us in a situation in which the ENTIRE US elite, including WASPs, act in an alienated way to the public, i.e. as diaspora.
"On a side note, because the British lost more than the Americans in the war, in the 1950s and beyond, there was a cadre of old ruling class types who would not play ball, including significant portions of the civil service, rogue Oxford and Cambridge dons, military men, and even major politicians – but this is a story for another post."
"Undoing Boomer Truth requires basically rewriting everyone’s subconscious instincts from a lifetime of brainwashing." Here here, you are doing a fine job
This bouncing back and forth between conformist and consumerist concept has a problem though. Populism. Which the elites temporarily nuked with the fortification and the fake plague. Its like the Architect in the Matrix talking about the anomaly. While it remains a problem unresolved despite their sincerest efforts, it is well known to them and so not beyond a measure of control.
If I could be allowed to defend my position, I do point out the following in my text:
"Once expressing in-group preference was made illegal for white people, it was only a matter of time before the culture became a barren wasteland where individual self-expression — sometimes known as disobeying orders – came to be seen as the highest good, and self-effacement for the good of the ethnically-defined collective as the ultimate evil. The Boomer Truth Regime can only exist downstream from the wellspring that is the Nuremberg Moral Paradigm."
I've seen enough Vietnam era films to know what an absolute fetish the boomers make of disobeying orders for the purpose of individual self-expression. I maintain that once the absolute moral evil was declined (Moustache Man), the absolute moral good (Frank 'n' Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show) flowed logically from it.
This is really superb, but I think overstates the solidarity of the managerial US elite in the 20th century. I am of course merely a Millennial who myself is trying to figure out what happened, but here are some pieces that I think I have a grip on.
Two elements that I am quite sure of:
(1) Anglo American virtue was not entirely fraudulent during the early to mid 20th century. Consider HW Bush, who was born into a wealthy family, enlisted in the Navy, and was eventually shot down and nearly killed in a raid in 1944. That's not bone spurs.
Consider Churchill (who I am not a fan of), who repeatedly exposed himself to danger during the war, including an experience where he was shelled by German artillery near the Rhine in 1945. I do not believe this story is apocryphal, although perhaps it is overstated how close it was.
Other examples are the enormous marginal taxes paid by the rich during the period, Hayes code in Hollywood, etc. As best as I can tell, as another example, John Wayne truly regretted not serving in the War.
(2) Post-war US is host to a vicious knife fight between Jews and WASPs, with Catholics playing both sides opportunistically. This is extremely well documented, so I will not belabor the point here, but I will note that once one is on the lookout for anti-WASP propaganda in 20th century film and other media, it can be difficult to stop seeing it.
Didn't realize that Ghostbusters is anti-WASP propaganda? Well: the ghostbusters are 1 Jew, 2 Catholics and a black guy. The other protagonist in the film is the mayor, who is also catholic. The villain is the EPA guy who is a WASP ("Peck"). The writers are Akroyd (Catholic) and Ramis (Jewish).
Or consider the Simpsons. The main villain is Monty Burns, a WASP, and the one prominent Jew is the beloved Herschel Krustofsky, aka Krusty the Clown. Animal House, Caddyshack, etc. are further entries in this genre.
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So all of that is to say, I do NOT see harmony among the American managerial class in the 20th century. The 1960s revolution may be astro-turfed and driven by elite actors, but at the elite level, it absolutely represents a bona fide Catholic and Jewish revolt against Protestant America, which had reached its Apex in the 1950s. The 1950s wasn't fake... Protestant America just lost and then became fake and degenerate after its defeat.
The real problem faced by the WASPs was that they overestimated their strength. They didn't realize that that they were a bunch of trumped up country bumpkins, and absolutely unprepared to become center of the world in 1946. Traditional America is a bit like if Unobtanium were discovered in Alabama. How quickly would Alabama elites get bulldozed by elites from New York and California, once they drew their attention?
That's what happens to the Americans. The US becomes the center of the world, and it draws in all sorts of opportunistic elites from the Old World (plus the Jews forced there at gunpoint), that steamroll the traditional American elites, who are too open, too trusting, and too underprepared for real top-shelf process and narrative manipulators from the Old World. The new elites replace traditional American culture with a lowest-common-denominator "liberalism" which is a thinly disguised excuse for the new diaspora elite to make as much money as possible while not having to conform to anyone else's culture or make any investments in the country. We call these systems "liberal" or "libertarian" but they are really just mechanisms to market the diaspora elite self interest to the public.
But all of that is to again say that 1950s America wasn't fraudulent - it just lost to the diaspora elite.
By the way, the 1990s to me and the "Gingrich revolution" in Republican (i.e. Traditional America) politics is the Traditional American elite realizing that the public just insists on voting for liars, so the Republican party will just lie about everything too. This is a not totally unjustified response to the election of Bill Clinton over HW Bush. Unfortunately, it has left us in a situation in which the ENTIRE US elite, including WASPs, act in an alienated way to the public, i.e. as diaspora.
"On a side note, because the British lost more than the Americans in the war, in the 1950s and beyond, there was a cadre of old ruling class types who would not play ball, including significant portions of the civil service, rogue Oxford and Cambridge dons, military men, and even major politicians – but this is a story for another post."
Very much looking forward to this.
"Undoing Boomer Truth requires basically rewriting everyone’s subconscious instincts from a lifetime of brainwashing." Here here, you are doing a fine job
This bouncing back and forth between conformist and consumerist concept has a problem though. Populism. Which the elites temporarily nuked with the fortification and the fake plague. Its like the Architect in the Matrix talking about the anomaly. While it remains a problem unresolved despite their sincerest efforts, it is well known to them and so not beyond a measure of control.
"Its happening exactly as before."
"Well, not exactly."
While reading this I kept hearing in my head "The Sound Of Muzak":
The music of rebellion
Makes you want to rage
But it's made by millionaires
Who are nearly twice your age
On the topic of marketing I've been thinking that the recent shift should be characterised as a shift from Bernays style lies to Marcuse style.
I have to say, reading AA is like being slapped around the face with a large cold wet haddock. Very bracing and altogether unsettling.
If I could be allowed to defend my position, I do point out the following in my text:
"Once expressing in-group preference was made illegal for white people, it was only a matter of time before the culture became a barren wasteland where individual self-expression — sometimes known as disobeying orders – came to be seen as the highest good, and self-effacement for the good of the ethnically-defined collective as the ultimate evil. The Boomer Truth Regime can only exist downstream from the wellspring that is the Nuremberg Moral Paradigm."
I've seen enough Vietnam era films to know what an absolute fetish the boomers make of disobeying orders for the purpose of individual self-expression. I maintain that once the absolute moral evil was declined (Moustache Man), the absolute moral good (Frank 'n' Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show) flowed logically from it.