Showing posts with label elites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elites. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The Pretenses Of The Self-Anointed

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     Now and then, it becomes easy to discern the arrogance of those who deem themselves entitled to rule the rest of us. Indeed, on occasio...
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Saturday, February 1, 2020

Memories

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     I can’t help myself about this one, Gentle Reader: Mem'ries, Light the corners of my mind... Misty water-colored memories Of th...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

Elitism, 21st Century Style

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     Somewhere in my vast humor files, I have an old New Yorker cartoon of two obvious Christian clerics walking down a city street. One is...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

From Merit To Certification

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     It becomes ever more important – nay, critical — that one who wants to grasp the reasons for the deterioration of American society and...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The Priority Schedule Of An Elite Part 2

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     Regard, if you will, this brief snippet from the recent Congressional interrogation of disgraced former FBI director James Comey:   ...
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Saturday, December 15, 2018

The Priority Schedule Of An Elite

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     Does anyone else remember the marvelous movie Fight Club? Surely you remember the first two rules of Fight Club:      Gentlemen, welc...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Josh Billings Was Right

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     What’s that you say? Who the BLEEP! was Josh Billings? Why, none other than the man who first said this:      “It’s better not to kno...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Mask Slippages Dept.

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     The defining characteristic of an aristocracy, a.k.a. “the elite” or “the Establishment,” is the arrogation of one or more privileges t...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

A Maslovian Upheaval

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     The patterns are beginning to coalesce in genuinely illuminating ways.      I’ve written about America’s elite – actually, twice now...
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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Elites In Crisis

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     Praxeology rests on the fundamental axiom that individual human beings act, that is, on the primordial fact that individuals engage in ...
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Friday, March 3, 2017

The Creation And Perpetuation Of An Elite

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     It would be like him to do that; that was the sort of thing he thought about. Martingales, Chiffney bits, boots; where you got the best...
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Friday, January 6, 2017

The Downside Of The Politicization Of Everything

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     The New Yorker, a journal with which I’ve had little acquaintance in recent years, recently printed this cartoon:      I can’t imag...
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