Tech Industry Split

The baizuo at companies like PayPal might think their political opinions are shared by a significant population of people in the United States, so they might think it makes sense to team up with the SPLC. Maybe they're surprised when people like me close my account in response.

Probably around half the employees of tech companies, including engineering and other technical staff, would identify as "conservative" or at least aren't partisan democrats. (I don't really know the actual stats, this is a guess based on personal experience and an assumption that national polls are probably representative of the industry.) There are lots of managers at tech companies that aren't tech people and those people probably got a good dose of cultural marxist indoctrination if they are younger than 35 or so.

I think the industry is going to split up, like many institutions in the country, over dumb commie ideology. It's hard to believe it's become as pervasive as it has in just my lifetime.

The East Bloc Was a Keel for the West

During the cold war, reports from the East Bloc countries provided a contrast between the totalitarian communist countries and the West. In a lot of ways, the East Bloc kept the west mindful of the value of freedom, especially free speech. The hypocrisy and pettiness of its "leaders" were front and center in the news on a daily basis.

Free speech, free political speech is paramount to the western world. The contrast between "oriental despotism" and the west was exemplified by gulags and political dissidents who had to flee the land of their birth for criticizing corruption and the commies who ran their countries into the ground.

Today, US corporations and Eurozone countries are starting to look a lot like the Eastern Bloc corrupt authoritarians.

Fool Me 1000 Times

There's an old post on this blog: "Julius Caesar Still Has a PR Department" that's a good preface to what I'm going to write about today.

The default appraisal of any political figure should be "that's a grifting scumbag". The only appropriate attitude toward politics is embodied in the character of Cincinnatus. It's a necessary evil, and political institutions should be held severely in check and limited in power and scope.

Politicians shouldn't get any credence or following, but even a narcissistic retard like Cortez who has zero track record or experience doing anything of value has millions of devoted fans.

Bernie Sanders, though he proved himself to be a fraud in the 2016 election, still has many ardent fans. I've already seen a few "Bernie 2020" bumper stickers on cars around here in Northeast Ohio. People who are grinding it out every single day and working to take care of a family, pay for a house, etc... still probably sent him a check to support him and his grifter family.

As an "anti establishment" figure, Trump retains some credibility. There's even some validity to him casting himself as a Cincinnatus type figure since he was already established as a businessman.

Why "The Establishment" Freaked out over Trump's Election

There have been several occasions in US history when the loss and subsequent mulching of one political order involved a long period of wailing and gnashing of teeth by the losers. When Andrew Jackson was elected, for example, the previous establishment cried and moaned in much the same way the current establishment is.

I think the current establishment has lost its shit so spectacularly in the wake of Trump's election because its main religious belief is humans are blank slates and are clay for molding via propaganda and mass media. There was a huge propaganda and mass media effort to stick Hillary Clinton in the white house, but it just didn't work. Rather than abandon their belief, they've doubled down on it and while their propaganda gets more strident it also gets less effective.

The process of centralization via financialization is going to flip around, mainly driven by the Internet. A lot of it will just be a reshuffling of the retarded corporate landscape--like big media companies selling off asssets they recently acquired--but the larger changes in the way people organize and work are yet to be seen.

YouTube is like a weather vane for these changes. It's the home of the counterculture, but also wants to collect a bunch of establishment corporation money tokens. Similarly, the establishment corporate world wants to get ads in front of the audience that fled to YouTube, but doesn't want to undermine its own future by supporting its competition. This tug of war has been going on for the past couple of years, and seems to be intensifying as time goes on.

Jussie Smollet: Counterintelligence Operation?

The "Jussie Smollet MAGA Lynching Hoax" followed on the heels of the "Covington Catholic MAGA" media scandal. Both of those stories are too good to be true for MAGA country. It makes me wonder if they're anti-globalist propaganda psyops that are meant to discredit the mainstream media and the SJW and "left wing" propaganda apparatus.

The two unfolded the same way. The Jussie Smollet story was obviously a hoax from the start, and as more details emerged it was a dumber and dumber hoax. At the same time, the actor kept doubling down and had a larger and larger stage to discredit himself and everyone that climbed on his fake bandwagon via social media. The Covington story unfolded in much the same way. The circus around the story grew and grew via social media grandstanding and virtue signaling and then the punchline was revealed as a sort of electric fence shock for all the people who attacked the kids.

It wouldn't be very hard to orchestrate either drama. The left wing public and and the mainstream media are predictable. Their credulity for the initial premise of these stories was almost guaranteed. The only thing that wasn't guaranteed was if these stories would go viral.

It's entirely possible that these incidents were completely organic, but I think it's just about as likely that they were staged and setup. It will be interesting to see what happens to Smollet and to find out if he was goaded to stage the incident by a handler or manager.

The Fallen World as Fuel

The white liberals conceive of themselves as members of the elect who are apart from the greedy and racist society of their similarly skin toned peers. They conceive of minority groups as inherently good naive babies and in need of "their" protection. Protection takes the form of institutions like the government agencies, NGOs and legal action. Without the protection of those institutions, all the naive babies would die, or at least be really sad. The greed and racism, the impurity of the middle class is like fuel to propel the institutions on the road to the New Jerusalem.

The White Liberal as a Ghost God

Elizabeth Warren's desire to be a Native American isn't unusual, in fact the idea of rejecting one's roots to be made anew is a fairly common religious idea. Christianity's concept of baptism is an obvious example of that. It's a ceremony that's a washing away or symbolic death in the plane of the fallen corrupt world and rebirth in the church-world and its society.

The white liberal, the baizuo, conception of rebirth might be unique. The baizuo rejects the mainstream society on behalf of who they perceive as abject outcasts, not to join those outcasts or even meet with them in passing, but to rule over them as a Ghost God. They have empathy for the plight of some imaginary people to become their savior.