Last month, conservative media was buzzing about a British pick up artist being banned from the internet. On the same day, all of his social media accounts were shutdown and his payment processors dropped him. Conservatives noticed this incident because the victim did not look white. It turns out that he is half-black, so for American conservatives he is an ideal victim. It is the DR3 exception to the “they are private companies” principle of conservatism.
Amusingly, the regime media felt the need to address the issue, probably for the same reason so-called conservatives noticed the story. An iron law of the new religion states that any time a nonwhite cries out, it must be noticed. The New York Times helpfully stepped in and solved the problem. They noticed his banning but spent the bulk of the article explaining how his white half caused his black half to violate all of the important rules of the one true faith.
The racial part has another angle. Andrew Tate made the fatal error of turning up on banned shows like Alex Jones. Tariq Nasheed is every bit as “misogynistic” as Andrew Tate and he adds in wacky conspiracy theories. He makes Alex Jones look like a piker when it comes to the conspiracy stuff. On the other hand, he is viewed as left-wing, mostly because of his over-the-top hatred of white people. He gets to hate women as much as he likes on social media as a result.
Putting aside the racial angle, the stunning part of the coverage was that no one dared ask how these allegedly independent private companies came to the same conclusion within minutes of one another. It is quite a coincidence. If this had rolled out over a period of weeks and one platform held the line, then you could argue that it was mostly a case of monkey see, monkey do. In this case, it looked like a coordinated effort, yet no one asked who was coordinating it.
Of course, it is possible there is no coordination at all. The people running these tech firms are all alpha clones from the Central Hatchery and Conditioning Centre of the managerial state. They all believe the same things about themselves and the world they see themselves destined to manage. No one has to tell the prison guards what to do when they see an inmate scaling the wire. Like a school of fish, these people could be naturally reacting to what they see.
They could also have set up a clearinghouse for dealing with this stuff. That has happened in the past. They created an ad hoc committee to coordinate hiring in order to suppress wages. They also like to outsource this work to the same two companies, the SPLC and the ADL, which can do the coordination for them. It would be interesting to hear what they have to say about his, but to date no one in the media has raised the issue with them or to a politician.
It is not just the Silicon Valley companies illegally and immorally colluding to violate the civil rights of Americans. It appears the banking cartel is colluding to undermine the Second Amendment rights of Americans. They may also be pressuring others to follow on with their own measures. UPS is getting into the act. As we see with tech censorship, there is a whole lot of coincidental timing to this. It is almost as if there is someone working behind the scenes coordinating it.
One possible hand in this is the regime itself. We now know that the Biden administration works with Twitter to ban opponents. We also know they send the FBI to social media companies to threaten them if necessary. They sent a group of goons over to Facebook to tell them to censure the Hunter Biden laptop story. Given the grotesque authoritarianism of the regime, it should not shock anyone if we learn that they have created an unofficial Ministry of Truth.
This brings us back to that key question. Why is it that no one in the mass media, even so-called conservative media, ever asks about the coordination? Why is it no one noticed that the streaming platforms appeared to be ready with a public relations campaign right after the George Floyd incident? The next day they all had reworked their interface to promote pro-black content. You would think at least one person would wonder out loud about who is organizing this stuff.
One reason is fear. Every day that Haitian halfwit is sent out by the Biden regime to do a song and dance routine in the pressroom. She is an angry simpleton reading from a script so this should be easy money for a snarky reporter. Ask a question that makes her look more foolish than normal and you get fifteen minutes of fame. The only one who dares utter a discouraging word is Peter Doocy from Fox News and his questions are a great example of pulling your punches.
The reason the rest of them nod along pretending that the moron reading answers from a book is perfectly normal is they do not want to lose their job. Jean-Pierre could literally be flinging her poo at them and they will treat her like a queen. They say there is no dignity in show business. It is even more true in political show business. In tyrannical politics, groveling is the coin of court. No one in the media dares look up from their groveling for fear of losing their access.
The other reason is that none of them think to ask about who may or may not be behind what looks like coordination. It is the Pauline Kael effect. She was the crackpot film critic in the 1970’s who is allegedly said that Nixon could not have won because she did not know anybody who voted for him. The quote used is not real, the real quote is actually worse, but the sentiment is very real. The Cloud People live insular lives in which everyone has the same attitudes.
From the point of view of the managerial class, it is perfectly sensible for the tech oligarchs to censure speech. It is the responsible thing to do. They are baffled as to why anyone is upset by this. Not only are they not offended by censorship, but they would also be shocked if these firms were not coordinating their efforts. It is why they mount pressure campaigns against holdouts. Teaming up to suppress speech is really just a good example of political unity when you think about it.
When you step back and look at what is happening, it is remarkable. Managerialism in the West has achieved something that the Bolsheviks and Nazis were never able to accomplish at their peak. The operation of the managerial class is entirely informal, a habit of mind, rather than a set of rules. The communists and fascists had to rely on physical compulsion to maintain control. That requires a set of rules that can be enforced quickly by the regime.
The managerial class has created a culture which maintains their power. The reason the Biden White House is sending goons out to rough people up is that from their point of view it is the moral thing to do. Those old rules against doing such things do not register for them, because they lie outside the managerial morality. For the same reason no one asks any Andrew Tate was targeted by the tech giants, no one wonders if roughing up political opponents is against the rules.
For those familiar with the intellectual history of radicalism, we have arrived at a rather ironic moment. The West is now controlled by a culture of compulsion. The reason the people in the institutions exist is to compel behavior. The point of the nutty fads and grotesque violations of liberal norms is to force people, at the very minimum, to tolerate that which should never be tolerated. Ours is a society evolving around hierarchical humiliation rituals that have no practical purpose.
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My question is how much of a burden does our managerial class take on by having so many dumb people like the Haitian news reader? I know the core controlling people are intelligent but they are obligated to have quite a few diverse dummies.
And it looks like the trend is for them to take on more. I may be optimistic but that should cripple them in the long run. I’d much rather have a Kamala Harris or this Haitian woman as an opponent, than the typical white liberal sellout.
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What is interesting about this culture of compulsion is how the American Right Left come together to maintain the order upon which American society is founded upon. The Left is clearly in the driving seat and barks the orders, whereas the Right exists primarily to gate keep any opposition to the Left, as well as to restrain the Left from making any fatal errors.
The Right and the Left agree on the fundamental principles, and they agree on the ends, they just differ one how to get there. America is already a de-facto one-party state, if not in de-jure. So much for democracy.
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Probably one of the most obnoxious aspects of managerial culture is the incessant need for fake positivity. In the last ten years, any sort of negativity in management sessions are utterly frowned upon, regardless of the situation they find themselves in. At first it just feels weird, then one realizes this is one of the most effective paths to create groupthink and passive acceptance with relatively little pushback. I could imagine with the Tate thing a lot of these orgs had a meeting that boiled down to “cool company banned Tate, you don’t want to be a party-pooper, do you?.” It gives an emotional high that makes one feel like a winner.
The scariest part is this is the same emotional manipulation they use in elementary school. Just look at the imbecility of the names of these groups. “Trust and Safety”? What is this, Kindergarten?
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The “ra-ra” meetings and all that other crap have always grinded my gears. I’ve worked for corporations and the gub, and both feature those disgusting motivational speeches and team building crap that I meet with scorn. At my last one (just about a month ago), in a meeting of hundred of people with a speaker, he ordered us to stand in place and dance. I remained seated (nothing against dancing – but I’m a F$#@$ adult) while hundreds of adults act like children. The infantilization is insane, and it is mixed with that disgusting positivity crap.
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Believe it or not, the corporate HR types actually have a term for this: Toxic Positivity.
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“The West is now controlled by a culture of compulsion.”
If by “the West” is meant primarily the USA and Canada, it certainly appears so from afar. Rural Argentina, or at least my part of it, is most definitely not “a culture of compulsion”. Here’s hoping it remains that way!
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Of course, it is possible there is no coordination at all.
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Karl Denninger, in one of his more lucent moments, pointed out that so far as the law is concerned it matters not if there was actual coordination if the effect is the same. Collusion is collusion whether or not there was a meeting to formalize it. Where he drifts off is in thinking the law still matters.
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This is correct and there is case law to back it up. The most obvious is the many collusion cases brought against professional sports league. Of course, you also have the disparate impact. I keep pointing out that there is the makings of a class action lawsuit against these firms if you can find a lawyer capable and willing. That last part is the trouble.
They meet between themselves informally. The upper crust of society socialize and talk about political issues and what to do with them – for them, “work” issues – at pool parties.
Exactly as it was 150 years ago, when the monarchs of Europe all met at royal weddings, funerals and coronations, while, more at large, the international elite (including the royals) met at the world exposition fairs. At these events they – informally – talked and conceived ideas in the business of diplomacy, policy and alliances, that would be later ironed out and put to practice at the unison, like a school of fish.
Nowadays with global internet reach, the elites can one-up the Victorians and tune their thoughts with the thoughts of each other instantaneously.
But the same is true for internet racists. It’s difficult to see Andrew Anglin disagree with Jared Taylor or the Zman, in issues of day-to-day politics and culture.
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Is the managerial class really the best description we have for this thing? I mean, I’m not trying to knock all the Paleocons and Burnham and all the insightful people who wrote on the subject, but still… It leaves me kind of unsatisfied. I’m admittedly not that well read on the subject of managerialism. I mean I’m conversant with it, but have done no serious study of it, or properly read any full books on the subject.
The term itself just seems so sterile and modern. Like ok people, go home, nothing to see here, it’s just a kind of bureaucratic miasma. That’s what the term feels like, although I’ll happily read any responses from people who want to rip me apart for not reading up on the managerial class properly and spouting off about it.
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This is something I have been thinking about often. We lack a good name for the ideology that rules us, so we lack a good name for the people who hold the ideology. If you cannot name something, you can be sure it exists. Marxism was perfect, even if the Marxists did not accept most of what Marx had to say. There is no single person or concept, like communism, that we can use to create an effective label.
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Any attempt to label will be resisted through the usual steps by the usual suspects.
Define those terms.
Argue incessantly about minutiae.
Break for lunch.
Alternative? Show them the photos, build the montage, maybe even set to music. That could provide the emotional hook to grab a few more people.
This goes along with the main weakness of the Dissident Right. We don’t lack theory, we don’t lack ideas, we don’t lack memes, we lack art.
I think the people in the managerial class are sterile and modern, so the term just follows suit.
For them, this is very much a feature and not a bug because it petmits them to achieve their goals without arousing a passionate opposition.
“Given the grotesque authoritarianism of the regime, it should not shock anyone if we learn that they have created an unofficial Ministry of Truth.”
They tried that, didn’t they? They called it the Disinformation Board or something like that, it was supposed to be headed by the ditzy White lady who introduced herself with a Mary Poppins-style song.
She might have gotten away with it, had she been a sacred Black; but as a White person, some standards still apply, so they were forced to pull the plug on her.
But yeah: it’s very likely that some informal means exists for alerting Progs of all sorts what “disinformation” to oppose this week.
And however it’s being orchestrated, it’s clear that the conformity is already in place: numerous people by now have noticed how at some point, all the television commercials were featuring smiling multi-racial families, most often a blonde White wife with a Black husband.
Then there was the variation with the wise Black banker sagely advising the grateful clueless White couple. And of course when doctors appear, they’re inevitably portrayed by Black women wearing lab coats.
It seemed as if at some point, these harbingers of the wokeness-to-come just suddenly started appearing. Were they being coordinated? Or were these companies watching their peers and competitors so closely that all it took was the first one, and the rest quickly fell into line with similar offerings?
Come to think of it, that’s probably one effect of ‘cancel culture’: it makes both people and corporations all the more aware of what can happen when you fail to conform, and all the more eager to pay attention to, and slavishly repeat, the latest mandatory gestures.
I am the type who believes in the global cabal pulling strings. However, for lesser examples like this Tate guy (never heard of before this event), I think it is simply that these managerial pukes are all on social media, so as soon as something trends, they all jump aboard. I don’t know who made the initial act, but the piling on is probably explained by social media groupthink.
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This helps puts the Andrew Tate part in perspective. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have some sort of show on Apple TV and in this episode they paint with Megan Thee Stallion and discuss her “music.” Hillary talks about how Chelsea has been into hip hop since she was a little girl, which would have been while dear old dad was giving his “Sister Soldah” speech. Hillary assumes the critics of the song “WAP” talk about it because they secretly like it. These people have infantile minds and want all of society organized around women not getting their feelings hurt by men. Smartphones are contributing to the problem too. They are constantly connected to the internet so something that looks like coordination may not be, one made the decision to drop the hammer on Tate and the rest followed quickly because they found out so quickly.
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/megan-thee-stallion-talks-wap-thot-shit-hillary-chelsea-clinton-1235137415/
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It all comes out of NY and SF. This culture is toxic to the rest of America. The recent supreme court decision sent them in a tizzy over their illegal gun laws. Now, if you do business with corporate ventures based out of those two fascist, literally, hellholes, it’s your own fault. They will collude and unless your ready to sue and fight as rumble is doing to the fascist google, create and aid the hinterlands and develop a new culture or rebuild on the infrastructure abandoned in the 80s and 90s.
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Theodore Darlymple once remarked that their ideal is North Korea, where everything not forbidden is compulsory. I saw a lot of this in academia, which is the Central Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. People think that your typical academic is an egghead far removed from social reality. That’s wrong. Academics are desperate to fit in, but have something very close to autism — they know there’s *something* they have to say and do, so that the Cool Kids will like them, but they can never figure out what. So when they have power, they make sure that they can never again be laughed at by the Cool Kids, and the only way to do that is conformity uber alles. If you could somehow convince the Harvard faculty that walking around with a rake shoved up your ass is Socially Just, you’d never have to clean up leaves in the fall.
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That’s it: create a strong-enough urge towards conformity, and it’s no longer necessary to instruct or compel anyone: they instinctively scramble to mimic what they see the cool people doing.
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And I think by now, the basic outlines are well-known; such that it’s often no longer necessary to inform people how to react. They can look at who’s involved, and instinctively know how to spin it:
Blacks are sacred.
Gays are sacred.
Immigrants— oh, I’m sorry, I meant to say “asylum-seekers”— are sacred.
Women are sacred, as long as they’re pro-abortion.
On the other side of the coin:
Whites are bad
Males— unless they’re obviously gay or woke— bad.
Old people— unless they’re clearly scrambling to pander to the latest youthful fad— bad.
Conservatives and traditionalists of any sort— even those who fit other privileged categories, such as being Black or queer or female — are bad.
So putting this all together, one can usually see how a story must be spun, without needing any further direction, just by looking at who’s involved:
If you see an incident in which an old White male is in conflict with a young Black “and openly-gay” female, you already *know* who is the bad guy and who is the good guy.
All that remains is to flesh-out exactly what trandgressions the White guy is committing, and what grievances the Black woman can claim.
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The main challenge in fighting managerialism is rejecting its core culture and morality. Once enough people are disconnected from the Matrix, it should be easy to collapse that behemoth, using their own talent for kakistocracy. Since their mentality is hive-like, it’s much easier to predict their behavior.
Rejecting managerial compulsion lies in rejecting schoolmarmish attitudes of modern society. That means fighting the rising trend of infantilism and emasculation. Manosphere often produced cringe, but their energence signaled a great discomfort men are experiencing in contact with custodial society.