Thoughts On Elites

A famous line from the movie The Usual Suspects is “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Even after all these years, it turns up in comment sections and social media. It is a good line to bear in mind when thinking about who is actually ruling over us. In America, our elites have spent a long time convincing us that there are no elites. The fact is though, every society has an elite and it is usually a stable, semi-permanent one. The people in charge tend to stay in charge.

Here is an interesting bit of data that underscores the stability of a nation’s elites. In the 16th century, the Spanish conquered the area that is now Guatemala. The Spanish were not settlers like the English, so a local Spanish elite came into rule over the conquered people, who were often used as slaves in mining and agriculture. Since 1531, 22 families have controlled Guatemala’s economy, politics and culture. Another twenty-six families have served as a secondary elite, often marrying into the core elite.

The result is one percent of the population, descendants of the Conquistadors, has controlled the country for over four hundred years. This dominance has been locked in by a set of marriage rules, which created a self-perpetuating marriage strategy. For example, both the bride and groom had to bring a certain amount of wealth into the marriage. The result was both families would negotiate marriages much in the same way it was done in medieval Europe. These rules have their roots in the Siete Partidas, that dates to the 13th century.

Of course, elite families marrying one another is not a new idea, but it is more than just wealthy families using marriage to solidify alliances. There is a biological factor to it. The people in the elite got there originally by having elite cognitive skills. Modern elites like to throw around the term meritocracy, but they know biology counts for a lot. It is why you do not often see a member of the elite marrying one of the servants. Arnold learned that lesson. The one on the left is from the house cleaner, while those on the right are with a Kennedy.

 

Another thing about elites is they tend to get what they want. One of the benefits of being in charge is you get to shape the institutions you control. A great example is the Fabian Society. This was not some program hatched by mill workers in their free time. It was a hobby for British elites in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Fabians managed to get most of what they wanted pushed through over time. The reason for that is they convinced their fellow elites it was a good program.

An interesting bit from the Fabian program, which they called the “True Radical Programme” was intended to be far more radical than the other reform efforts. They wanted it to be seen as way-out on the fringe. Yet, things like women’s suffrage, paying MPs a salary and public education eventually became normal. It is something to keep in mind when thinking about the war on men or the waves of anti-white agitation we see in the media. Today’s crazy elite culture is tomorrow’s new normal.

Of course, the real reason elites tend to get what they want is they are better than the rest of us. They are smarter, better socialized and they have greater access to the stock of knowledge relevant to being in charge. Americans despise the idea of a ruling elite, so the people in charge spend a lot of time pretending they do not exist. It is why our form of democracy works so well. The people keep voting for different candidates, but the people in charge never change. That is what we are seeing with Donald Trump right now.

That is probably why the global elite is so worried about the rising tide of nationalism through the West. The constant moaning about “threats to our democracy” really do not mean the people in charge care about actual democracy. The game of bad cop/worse cop we see in our politics is not a bug. It is a feature. The process of voting has been rigged by the ruling class such that the results are fixed. No matter which candidate you choose, you get the same results, because the same people own all of the candidates.

What nationalism does is tie the candidate to a group of people. The politicians of Germany care only for the interests of Germans, not migrants and refugees. Once “them” is no longer as important as “us”, the definitions get more granular. Each pol them looks at his district or province as “us” and the rest of the country as “them.” This makes it exceedingly hard for a national elite, much less a global elite, to corrupt the political system with cash, favors and access to elite society. That is bad for global elites.

This is another reminder that civic nationalism is a sucker’s play. The rules we have in place today are designed to lock in the status quo. No challenge to the status quo, therefore, can be based on assiduously adhering to the rules. In fact, the goal is to turn adherence to the rules into a destabilizing force. When the people in charge no longer trust the rules to protect their position, they change the rules. It’s why Progressives are campaigning to end freedom of speech. The truth is their enemy.

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Member
6 years ago

There was a New Yorker “Financial Page” article, early on in the 2016 election cycle, noting that Wall Street was perfectly fine with either Clinton or Bush. That’s how it’s supposed to work. After Trump was elected they all closed ranks against him and got busy. And here we are.

Andrew
Andrew
Reply to  Fabian_Forge
6 years ago

There was a recent audio of Steny Hoyer and how candidates are picked. That wasn’t a surprise for me, his activities have gone back to at least Fred Wineland. Let’s just say that I have been present when certain things were said, one of the unfortunate hazards of being near the Imperial Capitol.

Saml Adams
Saml Adams
Reply to  Fabian_Forge
6 years ago

Had an interesting seat at the 07-09 financial crisis table. One thing became very clear, no matter what the better course of action was, Goldman Sachs was going to be made whole. And it didn’t matter if a Republican or a Democrat held the Presidency.

Andrew
Andrew
6 years ago

It is not only truth but history that is their enemy. Just look at what the chattering classes are saying about the traitor from Arizona. He has so much dirt under his fingernails, going back well before the Keating Five. He has been bought and paid for since day one. It is said hind sight is 20/20. It is better than that. Anyone that honestly looks back at the election of 2008 can see that is was all for show. The elites spend money on “their” candidate, knowing that no matter who wins they will still make out. What truly… Read more »

Moi
Moi
Reply to  Andrew
6 years ago

When they ran McCain against Obama, that was my “A Ha” moment. I realized then that it was all fixed, a big set up.

Crusty, treasonous McCain was the best the GOP could find? I knew right then that the election was being thrown. It is all window dressing for the masses. Maintaining the illusion that there is choice.

James LePore
Member
Reply to  Moi
6 years ago

Obama is giving McCain’s eulogy, Trump is not invited. This will not be lost on the Dirt People.

Drake
Drake
Reply to  James LePore
6 years ago

Trump making fun of reverse-ace John McCain’s inability to keep a plane in the air was a great moment for me.

Anonymous Reactionary
Reply to  James LePore
6 years ago

The dirt people keep electing McCain just like they kept electing Ted Kennedy. We reactionaries need to accept that we are the Outer Cloud.

David Wright
Member
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

Like the Oort version? Seems about right.

Member
Reply to  Moi
6 years ago

The NYT loved McCain. Is there more to say than that, along the lines of your point? I would say not.

Drake
Drake
Reply to  Andrew
6 years ago

Yes. I watched the first debate and realized that McCain disagreed with Obama… on nothing really. And, McCain seemed to be trying his best to lose with class. He was criticized most harshly in that campaign for choosing a running mate who was not from the elite.

Chiron
Chiron
Reply to  Drake
6 years ago

Palin was chosen by Bill Kristol, McCain too probably.

Kristol late remarked that Obama had become a “Born again Neocon”.

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Andrew
6 years ago

I have thought McCain was a low class piece of shit for a long time. His last gasp antics this week mark him as an incredibly petty and unhinged man.

Epaminondas
Member
6 years ago

“No matter which candidate you choose, you get the same results, because the candidates are owned by the same people.”

If voting were really all that important, they wouldn’t let us do it. Trump has exposed their game. What now?

Alzaebo
Reply to  Epaminondas
6 years ago

Well, what kind of Saxon vikings are we?
They own this, they stole that, eight families own the Federal Reserve?

TAKE IT!

It was ours, we built it, we paid for every brick, every scrap of carpet, every oversized desk and limousine, they sold our house to strangers and want us to pay rent?
We owe them- nothing!

Dirtnapninja
Dirtnapninja
6 years ago

That is why we cannot be conservatives. Conservatives defend the institutions. But the institutions are controlled by our enemy. In conserving the institutions, you help your opponents. Thus conservatives are the Vichy Right..controlled opposition.

Only in radicalism can we oppose the left. We must transgress their norms, deconstruct their narratives and oppose the institutions.

Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

The elites are not well socialized at all. They’re badly socialized such that they have a relative advantage in living vicariously through power. This is why sexual perversion is so common with them. They’re unbelievably awkward if you’ve ever met one in person, even when it isn’t a personal private conversation. Meritocracy is the rule of cheaters, while elitism is the rule of damaged goods who have burned so many bridges to a happy, ordinary life that they turn to politics instead. Representative democracy doesn’t work because it’s so much stupidly easier for a leftist to impersonate a conservative than… Read more »

Issac
Issac
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

Monarchy is no more real than Democracy. The iron law is that of Oligarchy. The pressure release valve isn’t a mass riot and it isn’t a lone man on a white horse. It is a dissident faction of the oligarchy itself or an outside oligarchy with more power or aptitude. None but these two has ever laid low an unworthy elite.

Anonymous Reactionary
Reply to  Issac
6 years ago

Oligarchy being a royal family is close enough to monarchy. Any other government form has an oligarchy utterly unrelated, literally, to nominal power.

Issac
Issac
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

No, oligarchy is not one family. As in Zman’s example: An oligarchy is many families, usually a dozen or more, and no single one of them has the kind of dominance theorized by absolutism. Monarchy as a memetic enterprise might be of use, but it is no more true in the natural sense than Democracy. Neither should be literally sought for as they are both veils behind which an oligarchy lurks. A good oligarchy is one which is visible, not hidden, and as-such bearing more directly the burden of their responsibilities.

fondatorey
Member
Reply to  Issac
6 years ago

The genius of monarchy is that you have a central figure, the king, who has the moral authority to protect the people (the many) from exploitation by the aristocrats (the few).

Our system is set up like an elected monarchy, but when this goes wrong and the “monarch” becomes a representative of the few (like the Bushes, Clintons and Obamas) the system breaks down into exploitation.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  fondatorey
6 years ago

What do you do if your monarch is someone like Prince Charles of Wales? I see him as the living refutation of monarchism.

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  LineInTheSand
6 years ago

Mock him and laugh at him every chance you get. Encourage others to do so as well. He would really hate that (as would Barack, Hillary, Kerry, McStain, Mueller, and so on).

The thought of a rodeo clown with an Obama mask makes me smile, every time I think of it.

Anonymous Reactionary
Reply to  LineInTheSand
6 years ago

Constitutional monarchs are hereditary jesters. Their job is to make a mockery of monarchy. The “meta” lesson of this, however, is that they paradoxically fail at this because they are so good at their job. One wonders how good they would be if they had to take it seriously. Just wrap your mind around that.

FellowDissident
FellowDissident
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

Switzerland, a polity near and dear to my heart, is well governed. I cannot think of a comparable polity which is better at representing the interests and taking care of the welfare of its citizens. I will never support a monarchy. A loose confederation, with some American nuances, is the superior model as basis.

Epaminondas
Member
Reply to  FellowDissident
6 years ago

We had that. Lincoln & Co. blew it up.

Rev.Hoagie
Rev.Hoagie
Reply to  FellowDissident
6 years ago

FellowDissident the nation of Switzerland has the population of New York (just the city, not the whole state) and are 99% white. How difficult can it be to govern about 8 million Caucasians predisposed to obey the law, are of Christian heritage and respect property rights? We have about 320 million “residents”. The elites lie to us and tell us whites compose 76% or 243 million with 77 million “other” and more arriving daily. The way things seem to be timed America should be a dictatorship simultaneously with whites becoming a minority. The elites have doomed us to save themselves.

james wilson
james wilson
Reply to  Rev.Hoagie
6 years ago

You might be missing the point. Switzerland is mot even governed at the state level, but county and borough. Rather than the US being too large to be governed that way, it is too large to be governed any other way. No Civil War, no Great War, no New Deal, no open illegal immigration, no 1-12 indoctrination centers, no glut of narcissist politicians gaming a system which has been freed from limitation. America is what Carlyle said, all chains, no anchor. The anchor is the distinctive place in which your life was formed. The chains are pledged each morning by… Read more »

Teapartydoc
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Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

Looking at this and the replies I sit here wondering why, when I post about having a system like that of the Republic of Venice I don’t get a million upvotes every time. The executive serves for life under good behavior, but the position is barred to inheritance. He is chosen in a complicated system of voting by his own peers, but when he becomes doge he is no longer one of them because he leads the entire people. Most of them threw away their money to the crowds after being elected because it no longer meant anything to them.… Read more »

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Teapartydoc
6 years ago

Perhaps we aren’t supposed to know about it or learn about it…

Joe Fahy
Joe Fahy
Reply to  Teapartydoc
6 years ago

Very interesting. Dovetails with Talib’s Skin in the game.
Do you have any recommendations for learning more about this system of governance?

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

Indeed..As Lord Acton observed, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely…At least half the British Elites are pedophiles, and the other half winks at their activities.I doubt that it is different in the US…

Anonymous Reactionary
Reply to  pyrrhus
6 years ago

That’s one of the stupidest and most subversive quotes in history. People seeking power are most obviously different from people born into power in the first place. Power itself doesn’t change the nature of a man at all, which is shown most hilariously/tragically in the case of blue collar lottery winners. And based on our public schools these days, I would guess that most ordinary Americans don’t really care much about pedophilia either. It’s just a small minority of religious people who have kept it illegal for now, but the trend is clearly in favor of the left. It always… Read more »

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

I am just guessing, but ordinary Americans passionately despise pedophilia. This attitude comes naturally to anyone who is a parent, or wants to be one someday. It is is also widely considered to still be beyond the pale of casual discussion as well (one of the few things that still is), so the subject doesn’t come up. To bring up the subject in polite company is to be branded as a pervert and a weirdo. But what do I know…

Max
Max
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

You’re spot on. I’ve noticed the vast majority of people are unable to discuss children and sex rationally. Admittedly, many people can’t discuss anything rationally but child sex takes the prize.

Anonymous Reactionary
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

You don’t know how bad things are. Ordinary Americans, especially the youngest generations, have no problem with homosexuals adopting children or children being taught LGBTWTF in Kindergarten. In Europe, sex with children is already a part of the culture of the “New Europeans.”

It truly is a fanatical minority, mostly Catholic Christians, who are why sex with children is still illegal. It won’t always be this way because the left always wins in the rigged system of democracy.

Alzaebo
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

We forget that a married 12 year old was common 2 generations ago, and that 15 year olds were common in the 60s, that 16 year olds were marrying in the late 80s.

Now people gasp and moan at 24 year olds as “children having children.”

De Ferrers
De Ferrers
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

It has nothing to do with power instincts in people. Lord Acton was talking about how our retrospective evaluations of peoples character and morals (especially leaders, Popes, etc) are perverted by their proximity to power. So horrible crimes that no citizen could ever be forgiven suddenly become ok if the person was a “great man” with political power. His example was napeleon. It’s the central theme essentially of crime and punishment.

The rest of the post, rather than just being factually wrong, is borderline insane.

Frip
Member
Reply to  Anonymous Reactionary
6 years ago

“The elites are not well socialized at all…They’re unbelievably awkward if you’ve ever met one in person, even when it isn’t a personal private conversation.”

That’s pretty silly. Sounds like you tried to talk to a rich guy once who simply didn’t feel like talking.

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Frip
6 years ago

The rich tend to treat conversations with others, that they don’t know well, as strictly transactional relationships.

Frip
Member
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

Generally speaking, when people from any class level are approached by someone from a lower level there will be a degree of discomfort or even suspicion.

Guest
Guest
6 years ago

In fairness to Arnold, his son Joseph from the maid has matured into an 18 year old stud who looks like he got more genetic material from the old man than the soy boy Kennedy sons.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3595640/I-ll-quarter-Arnold-Schwarzenegger-s-son-Joseph-flexes-muscles-plays-American-football-beach.html

Kentucky Headhunter
Reply to  Guest
6 years ago

Maria’s kids look pretty, but dim-witted. Arnold’s boy, Joe, looks like a young man with some of his father’s lust for life.

Damn it though, Arnie has been saying and doing some dumb shit lately. I used to get a big kick out of his larger-than life persona.

Shane
Shane
Reply to  Kentucky Headhunter
6 years ago

Could be that the virtue signalling about oil and global warming is his way of getting back into politics in swpl California. Ironically taking into account long term trends banging the spic housemaid may be the better play.

Zeroth Tollrants
Zeroth Tollrants
Reply to  Kentucky Headhunter
6 years ago

That one kid of Arnie & Maria’s, Patrick, is a closet homo. Good looking kid, too.

Shane
Shane
Reply to  Guest
6 years ago

He could be an update for our lesser age. TO INVADE THEIR SAFE SPACE’S, TO SEE THEM TRIGGERED BEFORE YOU, AND TO HEAR THEIR LAMENTATION ON THEIR TWITTER!!

Alzaebo
Reply to  Shane
6 years ago

Ha ha! “Conan, The Opera” on youtube- 2 minutes

Shane
Shane
Reply to  Alzaebo
6 years ago

Thanks a million for a glorious video. Here’s payback.
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgPwXlTRuHs

Guest
Guest
Reply to  Guest
6 years ago

As an addendum, I neglected to mention that I have a friend who met Maria on numerous occasions in the capacity of providing a (very) high end service to her. My friend characterized her as insufferable–an absolute raging bitch who treated everyone around her like a steaming pile of dog doo.

In the end it looks like maybe Arnold made a good play by banging the maid. He got what appears to be a pretty awesome son and got rid of what appears to be a pretty awful wife. Well played, Arnold!

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Guest
6 years ago

If I accidentally had a kid with a squatemalan — like Arnold did — it wouldn’t be “awesome”.

Zeroth Tollrants
Zeroth Tollrants
Reply to  Karl McHungus
6 years ago

This is why Karl is in my top 3 fave commenters-we both used the word “Squatemalan,” independently in the comment section and he usually agrees w/me.

Shane
Shane
Reply to  Guest
6 years ago

For me the photo of Ahnold and Joseph at Oktoberfest together was a bit of a clincher, and the one with Heather Milligan. Vino Veritas. You get the impression informally which is the natural family, and which involved a degree of politicking. With Oktoberfest from personnal experience you want to be celebrate with the people whose company you enjoy. You never know. If Alex Jones is correct, and collapse is immient, who knows. Maybe Joseph Baena will rise to the challenge, take up his fathers sword, slay the usurper Patrick the false, reclaim the title of House Schwarzenegger and rule… Read more »

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Shane
6 years ago

The gossip site I read, have Patrick as being closeted gay.

De Ferrers
De Ferrers
Reply to  Guest
6 years ago

Too bad he’s the biggest cuck rino in the universe. Manly making his living whining about trump and pushing global warming indulgences. He’s got the politics of Gavin newsom but with muscles.

Zeroth Tollrants
Zeroth Tollrants
Reply to  Guest
6 years ago

Are you kidding me? That 56%er bastard
child Arnie sired w/the Squatemalan maid looks like what you’d get if you bred a Neanderthal cave dweller w/an Aztec witch doctor.
Nooooooo.

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
6 years ago

Yeah, but … names, man! Names! If these guys exist, who are they? Say what you want about Trump – he’s talking about issues the rest of them don’t even want to acknowledge. If you were awake during the last election, you could tell that the Usual Suspects were in the bag for Hillary and that Trump was not supposed to win. To me, the growing waves of national resentment are the writing on the wall. The wheels are coming off the progressive bus, and the elites in charge of it better have a viable exit plan. I despise the… Read more »

Anonymous White Male
Anonymous White Male
Reply to  Glenfilthie
6 years ago

“Yeah, but … names, man!” That’s the problem, isn’t it? If we knew their names they could be targeted. The elite have descended from elites that descended from elites….for centuries. They learned a long time ago that fronts are necessary to protect their anonymity. I constantly try to point out that if you know a major player’s name…..well, you don’t. You know minor players, bagmen, and “celebrities”. The major players realize that holding the reigns of power requires not being associated with the power. Stooges, like soon to be cadaver Juan McCain or the gay mulatto, get a sinecure, a… Read more »

Sim1776
Sim1776
Reply to  Anonymous White Male
6 years ago

Perhaps if I framed this as a religious issue it may make more sense. The true elites, the Hidden Hand so to speak, are generational Luciferians. Occult doesn’t even begin to cover it. They truly believe in “Do as thou wilt.” They despise Christianity for declaring Man as more than merely a beast with intellect. On a side note, the Israelites were initially compromised by Ba’al and Astarte worship but the Babylonian Talmud gave their apostasy a particularly Jewish character and validates them as gods amongst chattel that are to be used as needed by the Chosen. Various sects such… Read more »

Pimpkin's Nephew
Pimpkin's Nephew
Reply to  Sim1776
6 years ago

Identifying birds and seasonal wildflowers is the opiate of the masses. – Kayla Marx, great-great-grandxirl of Karl Marx (2019), in xir ‘Against Beauty – Social Justice, Patriarchal Hegemony, and the Myth of ‘Natural Variety’. Abstract – In this essay we expose the variety of disguises that ‘cis-normative’ gender-based elements of contemporary society use, to mask those racial-imperial ‘elocutions’ of power [see K Rabanisi, iv. 29] in “passive pursuits”, such as bird-watching, “identifying” wild flowers, “planting” vegetables [Obumba G, v., 148]. Using a non-quantitative, self-interviewing hermeneutic ((see M. Chapchunk, in (iii; 1971), A. Pimpkin et al, in (2-s, abstract ii, 2012))… Read more »

Primi Pilus
Primi Pilus
Reply to  Glenfilthie
6 years ago

Agree — They do seem to be as prone to human weakness and folly as the rest of us. But that is the danger. More refined intellect; access to real power; occupation of our key leadership, cultural, social and political positions; control of our economy. They can and do exercise real and immediate power in our lives. Marry that with the baseness and self-interest inherent in every human, and there’s a real problem. I almost feel that we should have some means of licensing them so as to control and at least be able to track what they are doing,… Read more »

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Glenfilthie
6 years ago

Hillary is not part of the elite. She serves the elite, and is awarded all the perks and exceptions to accountability as reward. While the elite still remain nameless and faceless, their servants, the political class, have really deteriorated lately. The Ivy League vetting process seems to have produced a group of brittle and not-very-smart people. Blind allegiance to the inane trendy movements of the day, rather than the timeless pursuit of knowledge and the nurturing of the intellect, will do that to you.

Alzaebo
Reply to  Glenfilthie
6 years ago

Bill Clinton, President, ‘the most powerful man in the world’, was at some global conference, chatting away.
He saw some unpreposessing gnome across the room, cut off in midsentence, and made a hasty beeline to him.

Saml Adams
Saml Adams
6 years ago

Ambrose Bierce quaintly characterized my business as “an ingenious modern game of chance, where the player is permitted the comfortable notion that he is beating the man who keeps the table”. So it goes with the notion of free speech. The communications singularity of the internet suddenly gave infinite potential reach to the individual. People are figuring out they ain’t beating the house. Witness the shitshow in Washington as the deep state gets peeled open for public view. Thus free speech and other civil liberties, are simply becoming what Erdogan characterized as “a streetcar you ride until you reach your… Read more »

joey junger
joey junger
6 years ago

My knowledge of genetics is limited, but elite interbreeding can sometimes border on in-breeding, can’t it? Jewish rates of Tay-Sachs are off the charts, and would be even worse except that Jews with a likelihood of this disease take pre-screening seriously (whereas blacks with sickle cell don’t seem to care). I think we’ve reached the Ferdinand the First level of elite nepotism turned on itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_Austria) We don’t have an emperor literally masturbating in his royal court and shouting “I want noodles!” but Weinstein (and hell, Bill Cllnton and Anthony Weiner) seem close.

Saml Adams
Saml Adams
Reply to  joey junger
6 years ago

Maybe. I married a polack, since the a dozen generations of Anglo-Scot interbreeding, while still producing high IQ, also had a tendency towards depression and alcoholism….

Dirtnapninja
Dirtnapninja
Reply to  joey junger
6 years ago

Look at the fate of poor Charles II of spain. He was so inbred that his level of Homozygosity exceeded that of a child of two siblings.

dad29
6 years ago

Once “them” is no longer as important as “us”, the definitions get more granular. Each pol them looks at his district or province as “us” and the rest of the country as “them.”

Yes. That’s why the 14th and 16th Amendments were jammed through; the intent of the 14th was to neuter the 9th, and the 16th was to neuter State governors.

Damned successful, too!

Teapartydoc
Member
6 years ago

Depending on the situation, local or regional groupings can be gamed by elites as well. If you watch the school situation in the Harry Potter movies (I’ve only seen one and assume the kept it the same) the school is divided into houses where the loyalty of the kids is directed and their general animus is kept amongst themselves and used in constructive ways, mostly. In my school in Rhodesia the same British system was used and we were divided into two houses. However, in this case the only time I was aware of what house anyone was in was… Read more »

PawPaw
PawPaw
Reply to  Teapartydoc
6 years ago

Every time I see the name Harry Potter now, I’m reduced to the giggles, having read a few weeks back what must be simultaineously the best and worst book review in the history of literature;
Karl Mchungus-“I tried to read that woman’s first book, but I just couldn’t finish it. But I’d do her. ”
The world needs more Karl. 😂😂😂

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  PawPaw
6 years ago

Mock them all and everything they hold dear, every chance you get. They hate that.

Pimpkin's Nephew
Pimpkin's Nephew
Reply to  PawPaw
6 years ago

And less Harry Potter.

‘Harry Potter in the S&M Dungeon’ is a post-copyright story board I’d like to see. Hell, the Boy Scouts are gone, so why not Harry?

Sim1776
Sim1776
Reply to  Teapartydoc
6 years ago

Damn, Rhodesia. Now there’s a country that got beat with the globalist “bad whites” stick. If only the RSA had listened when warned that the Boers were next. Another case of shame, divide, conquer, and pillage. Oh the elites definitely play as many groups off of one another as possible. Look at sportsball fans: people will literally despise and even attack someone for being a fan of a rival team. Whites are another example where we’re shamed, doxxed, deplatformed, etc. for defending anything related to our culture, advocating solidarity, or just observing reality. Its all accomplished through the fact that… Read more »

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Sim1776
6 years ago

We should be flattered. The elites only attack the biggest threats, and it appears that an assertive white western style culture continues to be the biggest threat to them. They do not seem to fear the rest of it, and actually seem to encourage the introduction of other racial and cultural elements into the mix, to the detriment of all.

Sim1776
Sim1776
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

Theyll just recite the Shahadah and continue on their merry way as the elites have done for centuries. Destroy and interbreed the local populace while maintaining their power. Mohammedanism is just as effective for controlling the dirt as Communism. Different faces, same underlying agenda of control.

Primi Pilus
Primi Pilus
6 years ago

An iinteresting aspect of the American Elites is just how they differ from that type you highlight in the Guatemala example. There, it is connected to birth and class. Here, we seem to have a large component that falls outside of that system of inherited membership. We have in place now our own sort of Cursus Honorum, that old education and career template that held in the Roman Republic and into Imperial times. Following early education, those destined to position, leadership and power tracked a certain path up through public postings, military offices and civilian magistracies. It seems to me… Read more »

Rod1963
Rod1963
Reply to  Primi Pilus
6 years ago

“One thing that strikes me is just how little we really know about those we face across the ideological spectrum. Has there been any recent, in-depth analysis of this class and its constituents? ” Because the ruling class went out of it’s way to isolate itself from the general population starting in the mid 19th century. They worked hard to cover their tracks for a variety of reasons. Heck most people don’t even know about the exclusive private schools they send their children like Groton or the role they played in setting up public schooling. A starting point for investigation… Read more »

Alzaebo
Reply to  Rod1963
6 years ago

Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about!

Primi Pilus
Primi Pilus
Reply to  Rod1963
6 years ago

Sometimes I worry that even talking about this stuff in the clear can put one on their radar, and that’s a bad thing. Because they are powerful — whoever they really are (no tinfoil hat here; I do think there is a “they”; I’ve seen the edges of it, and looked over into their private yard). They are also at once dismissive of us, yet jealous of their position and prerogative, and they get peeved when we question their actions and right to rule. Of course, I’m not of any real interest to them, as I have no power and… Read more »

Rod1963
Rod1963
Reply to  Primi Pilus
6 years ago

Don’t worry about being put on some hit list. They aren’t that fastidious or competent. Now if you’re like that NYC madame who provided escorts to a who’s who of D.C. and NYC you will end up dead, she was found hanging in a garden shed. “But we have to know who these people are. ” Identifying them is not difficult if you start looking for them. First off the elites are totalitarians albeit impeccably educated and groomed people who believe by virtue of their wealth and standing they see themselves as the natural rulers of mankind. Are they smarter… Read more »

Perceptor
Perceptor
6 years ago

Interesting. Pointedly, zman omits to speculate about the precise identity of the United States elite, but gives tantalizing allusions to iq and genetics. Perhaps I am being obtuse as to the point here, but whom would the author consider to be this “elite.”

Perceptor
Perceptor
Reply to  Perceptor
6 years ago

Republics are historically just as vulnerable to control by families and money. The medicis dominated the republic of Florence with an iron grip until they finally just declared them nobility.

Preceptor
Preceptor
Reply to  Perceptor
6 years ago

I don’t mean name specific names, but to characterize. I would hypothesize it as a vague Anglo/Jewish amalgam elite, as typified by the mixed marriages in elite families, with a definite ideological soul forged mainly of specifically Jewish interests and values. Perhaps a few sops to Anglo and Christian interests of a purely symbolic and transitory nature, to let them think that they are playing the game too.

Member
6 years ago

It’s also why, for the first time in quite a long time (perhaps ever) in my life, the Progs are out there telling everybody what great institutions the courts, DOJ, FBI, etc. are. Suddenly, Democrats l.o.v.e. love the “Intelligence Community”. One of the things I wrote here maybe a year or more ago, is that Trump and those in the GOP loyal to the country not the Government Party should take away one of the primary weapons of the Elites: security classifications. This is how they hide their various lies. For example, there was great gnashing and wailing of teeth… Read more »

Alzaebo
Reply to  hokkoda
6 years ago

Absolutely. The Manhatten Project has been over for a while. There is nothing, NOTHING, they should be allowed to hide except weapons specs.
If the people decide we need to go kill someone, that someone needs to know it.

And I wanted a detailed prospectus, with names!

Chiron
Chiron
6 years ago

By the end of the 19th century a significant part of the British aristocracy inter-married into German-Jewish banking families that became dominant in the City of London after Waterloo.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron came from this type of family: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_David_Cameron#Finance

The same happened to America, elite gentiles like Joe Biden, Trump, Clinton have married their progeny with wealthy Jews.

Haxo Angmark
6 years ago

both candidates for Prez in 2016 married their daughters to Wall Street banksters of the Jewish persuasion. Since Jews are 2% of the population, the odds against this being a random distribution are 2,500/1.

that tells you who rules ‘Murka today. And (((they))) will keep on ruling ‘Murka until the $100 trillion glob of debt (((they))) use to buy consent blows up.

then: we go to politics by other means. Cf. Spain, 1936-1939.

Karl
Karl
6 years ago

“The politicians of Germany care only for the interests of Germans, not migrants and refugees.”

What? Merkel caring about Germans? Have you lost your mind??

bad guest
bad guest
6 years ago

“The rules we have in place today are designed to lock in the status quo. No challenge to the status quo, therefore, can be based on assiduously adhering to the rules. In fact, the goal is to turn adherence to the rules into a destabilizing force”

That’s why we all need to vote Democrat from here on out until the system implodes. Use political judo to turn the force of the status quo back on itself.

bad guest
bad guest
6 years ago

“Of course the real reason elites tend to get what they want is they are better than the rest of us. They are smarter, better socialized and they have greater access to the stock of knowledge relevant to being in charge. ” OK, you’re just trolling us again, I’m convinced. But there’s a sense in which that passage is accurate. As a rule, they’re more sociopathic than the rest of us. Now is that nature or nurture, or a bit of both? Doesn’t matter. Most of the rest of us have had the pure unbridled self interest bred out of… Read more »

Din C. Nuffin
Din C. Nuffin
6 years ago

At the time, it seemed obvious to me that Dana Perino would make a better president than W. The only trait she lacked was hubris, the defining characteristic of the elites. Best example is the Pope, thinking he is God’s representative on earth.

Member
6 years ago

I have to call foul on you Z. You picked a picture of Mexican Conan from his awkward teen years to cast him in a bad light. This is a more recent photo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3528413/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-s-love-child-emerges-looking-just-like-muscle-man-hey-day.html

Genetics are powerful, but a belly full of hate, resentment, and desire is more powerful. I’m willing to bet that Mexican Conan will achieve more than his step siblings.

Cerulean
Cerulean
6 years ago

The info about the history of the (communist) Fabian Society is worth reading. Link is in the paragraph below Ahnuld’s kid’s photos. From that link: “… A small group of idealists, thinking strategically and acting with discipline, moved democratic socialism from the lunatic fringe to the halls of intellectual power. If aspiring generals study Alexander the Great and Napoleon, surely aspiring intellectual movements should study the neoliberals and the Fabians. … ” I did a few minutes research on the original founders of the Fabian Society. Most of them seem to have been from middle-class backgrounds — not elites. From… Read more »

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
6 years ago

OT: Zman, you have talked of the lack of wealth in your family, when you were growing up. Seems like your personal ascension into the ranks of technocratic America, gives you an interesting perspective on the topic of class in America. The contrast between the world you grew up in, is fairly strong with the world you now live in. Non-sequitor: white trash America has to be a rich vein of material, for your pod casts!

Frip
Member
6 years ago

I’ve never met an Alt-Righter. If we all met up for a giant picnic in the park would it be fun or lots of fighting? Should it be a non-alcohol event?

Sim1776
Sim1776
Reply to  Frip
6 years ago

Depends if.the astroturf shows up in regards to fighting.

As for alcohol, at most BYOB cans-only. Check the specific park regulations on alcohol. In the lovely PRMd, the local parks restrict alcohol to the pavilions and a radius around them. Frankly alcohol would be an unnecessary risk for an initial event. I’d suggest making it very family oriented. It’s actually a great idea.

Frip
Member
Reply to  Sim1776
6 years ago

I’d want it to include all farther Right groups, including White Nationalists. I’d like to see what our groups are like in person. The White Nationalists sound like mean absolutists in the comments. I just wonder if they’re normal/nice guys in real life. I’ve only met one in person. It was in a holding cell. The guards were being authoritarian a-holes. So I said out loud, “What are they, stormtroopers?” The word just popped into my head for no reason. And this big Neo Nazi looking guy at the end of the bench says, “you gotta problem with that?” I… Read more »

A b c d
A b c d
6 years ago

Dovetails with the alt right is dead post. “Alt right” as an IRL “political movement” that’s holds marches and rallies does not offer anything to anybody, especially not any part of the elite. Populist politics is fake news. You have to offer somebody who matters something he wants. Unfortunately, all the elites seem to want at this point is just lower labor costs. So, it’s hard to offer them anything. But there is always petty interpersonal crap. Find an elite who has beef with another elite, then demand his support of xyz policy that benefits your group, in exchange for… Read more »

Alzaebo
6 years ago

Related: it’s so bad, one guy said he calls up his sister, whispers “Trump” into the phone, and then hangs up before the phone explodes

Alzaebo
6 years ago

“In fact, the goal is to turn adherence to the rules into a destabilizing force. When the people in charge no longer trust the rules to protect their position, they seek to change the rules.”

That’s important. Supremely important.

How to exploit this?
The elites seem as far removed as the gods on Olympus.

PawPaw
PawPaw
Reply to  Alzaebo
6 years ago

Alzaebo, your post changed just now. Did you do that? I thought you had an excellent question.

Alzaebo
Reply to  PawPaw
6 years ago

Why, thanks. Trying to not be such a distraction, as I am already wildly out of the mainstream. Mindful of Z’s Jesuitical focus too- cut, then cut some more. If I may, the question was: Why are the elites so bent on revenge? What for? For giving the Cloud a life we Dirts can only dream of? Battle Beagle twitter has been showing bizarre, hideous architectecture added onto wonderful old buildings. Hideous sculptures and art while they’re tearing down statues. Even Nature’s original works of art, the most gorgeous creatures in the universe- young women- are being turned into hideous… Read more »

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  Alzaebo
6 years ago

“Why are the elites so bent on revenge?” There are two groups of elites that must be understood separately. One elite is seething with resentment for being kicked out of 100+ countries for subversion and perversion and the second elite is sociopathically selfish. Together, these elites use their control of the media to manipulate the pathological compassion that is unique to whites to steer the whites towards dispossession.

Issac
Issac
Reply to  Alzaebo
6 years ago

“Why are the elites so bent on revenge? What for? For giving the Cloud a life we Dirts can only dream of?” The oligarchy isn’t bent on revenge, save perhaps for a fee exceptions. They are gripped with a desire to expand their role and secure their positons. An oligarchy of the current sort is simply lashing out because it’s positon is insecure and, contra absolutist thinkers, this is not due to their being more than one “ruler,” as there are always more power centers than one family or one man. The oligarchy is insecure because they have reached beyond… Read more »

Alzaebo
Reply to  Issac
6 years ago

That writing! As beautiful and clear as cool water over stones.

Dutch
Dutch
Reply to  Issac
6 years ago

The elites seek the maintenance of their status quo, such as it is, above all else. That’s why they support policies that protect the status quo at the high end. Unfortunately, they have extended such an outlook by seeking to destabilize the middle class, which is what directly threatens them, not the lower classes. So we get a wealth tax (property tax) on real estate, which the middle class holds in disproportionate fashion relative to everyone else, a tax break for real estate mortgage debt, which encourages the middle class to go deeply into debt to buy real estate (the… Read more »

Karl McHungus
Karl McHungus
Reply to  Dutch
6 years ago

That’s why it’s time for a wealth tax.

james wilson
james wilson
Reply to  Karl McHungus
6 years ago

Not really. The wealth would undoubtedly be spent on things contrary to your interest.

Worldly Wiseman
Worldly Wiseman
Reply to  Alzaebo
6 years ago

Euro elites have different visions and one of them includes north Africa and Levant as European. Recreation of the Roman empire as it were

nazgul
nazgul
6 years ago

“The Spanish were not settlers like the English,”

Is settler another word for land-thief? The spanish at least integrated the locals into the future state, and didn’t push them into the ocean or desert of something. Say what you will about which system worked better but the “land”, she doesn’t forget and now we are seeing the consequences of those decisions.

james wilson
james wilson
Reply to  nazgul
6 years ago

Integrated? That’s what you call it? The Spanish and English could not have been more different. The North American Indians were also quite dissimilar to the South American natives. Got your message though. We Bad! Two million quarreling, warring, Injuns occupying five or six million square miles, what could go wrong?

Teapartydoc
Member
Reply to  nazgul
6 years ago

Sort of overlooks whose choice it was not to integrate into the new system of individual ownership with strict legal definitions, rather than communal, vague, ever shifting boundaries that were the source of constant conflict, either between other family tribes or the Anglo-Americans.

The term “Indian giver” doesn’t exactly come from nowhere.

The other commenter is right. Constant war and that involving ritual mutilation of enemies and even cannibalism, just like in Africa. Savages are savages, no matter where you meet them.

Tully
Tully
Reply to  nazgul
6 years ago

Quit whining, loser.

Pimpkin's Nephew
Pimpkin's Nephew
Reply to  nazgul
6 years ago

They were integrated into the future state all right; they were for example tossed en masse into the silver pits of Potosí to be worked to death. Does the Land – sorry, “She” – forget that? And no, “settler” is not another word for land-thief. Land isn’t stolen, the way a watch or a horse is stolen; land belongs to those who can take it, develop it, and work out a rule of law that pacifies the ‘transfer of property’ into a coherent system of titles, deeds, etc. Thus the Spanish you admire: They didn’t “steal” half the western hemisphere,… Read more »

bad guest
bad guest
Reply to  nazgul
6 years ago

The spanish at least integrated the locals into the future state

Dude they were essentially serfs. Now they’re just emancipated serfs without a pot to piss in. The (white) elites down there disdain them to the point of open contempt.