In every human organization there are things that are true but for one reason or another, everyone agrees to ignore them. It may be that these things are just annoying, like the personal ticks of the boss. In other cases, they are things that would put the organization at risk if people tried to address them. Human systems often must ignore things that contradict the logic of the system.
The American political order as established by the Constitution has holes that the Framers chose to ignore because they had no choice. The final results were a compromise between thirteen states that often had serious conflicts on things, conflicts that could not be reconciled, so they were ignored. The most obvious one is the issue of slavery that was resolved at a later date.
The managerial system that is under assault by Trump was made possible by ignoring things that were essential to its existence. The creation of executive agencies and who controls them is a good example. For fifty years everyone in Washington pretended that these agencies were a fourth branch of government. Trump has stopped pretending and is challenging a core assumption of managerialism.
That is the show this week. It is yet another way of looking at how we got to this place and why Trump can do what so-called conservatives had promised for decades but were never able to do. At the heart of managerialism was mokita, things everyone knew were true but agreed not to discuss. Like a body, the truth can only be hidden for long until it bobs to the surface.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- Mokita
- The Political Mokita
- The Constitutional Order
- The Managerial Mokita
- The Trump Challenge
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Ha, caught the new show you’re doing with Paul. Man, you’re looking pretty good and mich better than we talked IRL at Amren so long back. 57? 58 now? I got 20+ years on you but man, I started looking liked hammered crap around 60. You’re good to go, just keep doing what you’re doing (and it better include bicycles). Good show, I hope you and Paul keep it going for awhile.
On Twitter, I suggested to Paul that he call the show, The Ram-Z Show.
But thinking about it, I realized that the name had another meaning that might not be so great.
OT Non-Mokita:
Z, you’re the best political essayist on this here internets. But you have some real competition from #48:
JD Vance on X: “This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say. For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn’t have started if President Trump was in office;” / X
PS – the new show with Ramz worked. Maybe next time lead with the cat…
The funny thing is I had a back and forth with a bigfoot account the day before and I used the exact same language.
Yeah, I saw that Vance post and thought those ideas sound pretty familiar. Vance people must be reading Z. Apparently, they’re doing more than reading Z.
I have to say that I did love the target of Vance’s attack. Ferguson is such a pompous D-bag. He’s the globalist’s court historian.
Can you imagine Mike Pence going on the attack like this? I mean, that man couldn’t give you a straight answer if you asked him what color the sky is. He’d start rambling on about our founding fathers and waxing romantic about the Constitution. 3 minutes later, you want to shoot yourself in the head.
JD doesn’t have to do that because he is speaking truth and he doesn’t have to tap dance to whitewash over unpopular positions.
Z! I FOUND IT (EUREKA!). Kivala language of Papau New Guinea. You are welcome, sir!
Ah, Mokita! I recall reading your post on this subject many moons ago and, following a futile ramble, typed it into the search bar at the top of the page and, bingo! So I look forward to listening to this podcast.
It was a good show, Z. I and I’m sure pretty much everyone else has seen a lot of it for ourselves… but sometimes it’s a great way to clarify and simplify so that you can articulate it. Simplified further, it’s a power struggle.
Could this current power struggle trigger a civil war?
A new fascinating, but not surprising, twist to the DOGE drama is the Republican counterattack against it. DOGE is showing that the Federal government is primarily a money laundering scheme so what do the Republicans do? They vote to increase the budget. That is just who we are as a people! What we don’t do is return any money to the people in a rebate, whether 5k or 1 dollar, because our brand is built on fiscal responsibility. Think if all those poor. bureaucrats, lobbyists, families of politicians who need high paying jobs, etc! Protecting them is the true meaning… Read more »
“For fifty years everyone in Washington pretended that these agencies were a fourth branch of government. Trump has stopped pretending …” ….. Those administrative agencies were unaccountable to elected officials. By being unaccountable, that meant that our votes had no meaning and couldn’t change the course of our government. It was impossible for this situation to go on and the entire impeachment spectacle, where Colonel (((Vindmann))) essentially proclaimed that the president was subordinate to the “interagency consensus,” hammered that home. Imagine that. Your vote means nothing. The people you vote for are subordinate to civil servants and that’s how they… Read more »
Is “ignoring the elephant in the room” the same as Mokita?
I agree that it is not one word.