A plumber asks if intellectuals conjuring increasing volumes of abstract categories in lieu of productive work is a collapse indicator, or just hilarious?
(1) Professor is from the Latin for “response,” so once personal responsibility is established as no longer a thing professors become bureaucrats with all the benefits thereunto appertaining.
(2) This is an example of the true rival (anti-)religion aka The Poz, which is Goldwaterism wrought absurdly large, and thus catnip for ConInc types. Woke itself is an abortive* (heh) attempt to restore the Civil Religion against it.
* - the cultural equivalent of putting the present-day Ford family in Henry’s original garage and asking them to build a car.
This is interesting to me. Are you saying woke is an attempt to re-establish personal responsibility? I'm assuming (2) refers to paragraph 2 of the tweet here.
One more try, I think you’re afraid I’m an integralist. They’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Civilisation (cue Kenneth Clarke) is what religion is *for*. If they want to be taken seriously they need to get their own house(s) of worship in order.
The question is woke to *what*? What was the original (public - both writer and reader) meaning of “whiteness”? My sense is that it was an effort to shove the ethnic particularism of those trying to use their de-racination to rationalize their own unearned/illegitimate wealth/power back in their faces. Woke to the game of deracinating themselves while re-racinating everyone else.
This is what “white - i.e. the deracinated - people have no culture” means. They’ve cut themselves off from their own culture to keep up this eminence front. The problem is not only is doing that massive bullshit but that everyone else (especially non-whites) were counting on that pretty great culture to keep the modern world at minimum functional.
There’s also the significant problem that those who’ve cut themselves off from it are no longer elite but still squatting in positions that require elite performance.
In a more prosaic sense the struggle sessions/apologies/pledges are garden variety protestant public (as opposed to Catholic private) confessions which function as statements of personal responsibility (among other things).
Think of a coach after a loss “taking responsibility” and pledging to improve his coaching. The purpose is to set an example for others to follow.
The problem is two-fold. A lot of these pledges are confessing the sins of others, and many of those sins don’t even happen to be real. Not only is this readily weaponized it also defeats the leadership purpose since the message sent is that the would-be leader is avoiding awareness of/responsibility for his own sins.
Yes, in a Fyre Festival way. That’s why its so focused on whites vs blacks. It’s Civil Rights Re-enactors. Hence NYT Emmitt Till LARPing. Retvrn to pre-Goldwater (extremism in the defense of - personal - liberty at expense of responsibility). If Civil Religion is in effect saecularized* Judeo-Xianity then the Poz is secularized LaVey Satanism (do what thou wilt).
This explains normie revulsion against libertarianism.
* - saecular is fruit of sacred so separation in fact artificial, but that’s different topic
The way I arrived at a curiosity about this topic is seeing how many ‘Antiwoke’ Jewish intellectuals were so virulently against ‘identity poliltics’ (Bari Weiss comes to mind, although Eric Weinstein and others as well)...
And yet would engage in the exact same name-calling identitarian tactics as a BLM supporter upon conversations related to Judaism.
As you are so thoroughly elucidating, there is more to the Jewish identity than the intellectual class admits, and your work is excellently investigating this, thank you
A plumber asks if intellectuals conjuring increasing volumes of abstract categories in lieu of productive work is a collapse indicator, or just hilarious?
I've heard the average age of electricians is 55. This is far less important than the question of whether a fantasy city is Jewish.
https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1593237369976721408?s=20&t=f_hzrSePRzHKkeVcgDB2pw
(1) Professor is from the Latin for “response,” so once personal responsibility is established as no longer a thing professors become bureaucrats with all the benefits thereunto appertaining.
(2) This is an example of the true rival (anti-)religion aka The Poz, which is Goldwaterism wrought absurdly large, and thus catnip for ConInc types. Woke itself is an abortive* (heh) attempt to restore the Civil Religion against it.
* - the cultural equivalent of putting the present-day Ford family in Henry’s original garage and asking them to build a car.
This is interesting to me. Are you saying woke is an attempt to re-establish personal responsibility? I'm assuming (2) refers to paragraph 2 of the tweet here.
One more try, I think you’re afraid I’m an integralist. They’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Civilisation (cue Kenneth Clarke) is what religion is *for*. If they want to be taken seriously they need to get their own house(s) of worship in order.
The question is woke to *what*? What was the original (public - both writer and reader) meaning of “whiteness”? My sense is that it was an effort to shove the ethnic particularism of those trying to use their de-racination to rationalize their own unearned/illegitimate wealth/power back in their faces. Woke to the game of deracinating themselves while re-racinating everyone else.
This is what “white - i.e. the deracinated - people have no culture” means. They’ve cut themselves off from their own culture to keep up this eminence front. The problem is not only is doing that massive bullshit but that everyone else (especially non-whites) were counting on that pretty great culture to keep the modern world at minimum functional.
There’s also the significant problem that those who’ve cut themselves off from it are no longer elite but still squatting in positions that require elite performance.
In a more prosaic sense the struggle sessions/apologies/pledges are garden variety protestant public (as opposed to Catholic private) confessions which function as statements of personal responsibility (among other things).
Think of a coach after a loss “taking responsibility” and pledging to improve his coaching. The purpose is to set an example for others to follow.
The problem is two-fold. A lot of these pledges are confessing the sins of others, and many of those sins don’t even happen to be real. Not only is this readily weaponized it also defeats the leadership purpose since the message sent is that the would-be leader is avoiding awareness of/responsibility for his own sins.
Yes, in a Fyre Festival way. That’s why its so focused on whites vs blacks. It’s Civil Rights Re-enactors. Hence NYT Emmitt Till LARPing. Retvrn to pre-Goldwater (extremism in the defense of - personal - liberty at expense of responsibility). If Civil Religion is in effect saecularized* Judeo-Xianity then the Poz is secularized LaVey Satanism (do what thou wilt).
This explains normie revulsion against libertarianism.
* - saecular is fruit of sacred so separation in fact artificial, but that’s different topic
If there were Jews in Wakanda, it follows that there would have been redlining too.
Can Blacks redline themselves?
Have I just walked into a Lawgic Trap?
An excellent “addendum”.
The way I arrived at a curiosity about this topic is seeing how many ‘Antiwoke’ Jewish intellectuals were so virulently against ‘identity poliltics’ (Bari Weiss comes to mind, although Eric Weinstein and others as well)...
And yet would engage in the exact same name-calling identitarian tactics as a BLM supporter upon conversations related to Judaism.
As you are so thoroughly elucidating, there is more to the Jewish identity than the intellectual class admits, and your work is excellently investigating this, thank you
"First as tragedy, then as farce" --> "First as Altneuland, then as Wakanda."