tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post5650079133085548003..comments2024-03-28T16:31:54.494-04:00Comments on Borepatch: The Managerial Elite's funeral pyreBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-17648858489260965022022-01-15T22:20:56.399-05:002022-01-15T22:20:56.399-05:00Excellent.Excellent.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-14890422441939517262022-01-13T19:45:01.608-05:002022-01-13T19:45:01.608-05:00You may find this article of interest; TLDR, the i...You may find this article of interest; TLDR, the issue may be an excess number of "elites", or at least people who think of themselves as "elites", relative to the number of "elites" needed in society:<br /><br />https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/12/book-review-secular-cycles/<br /><br />I've also seen the argument, although I cannot recall exactly where, that the issue is that modern elites don't want to be elite, because then they'd be responsible for things; so the next general of managerial elite spend all their time complaining about things, and none of them want to step up and do anything, since then everybody would be complaining about them.Orphanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676965414376632002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-734585520251799322022-01-12T15:04:43.611-05:002022-01-12T15:04:43.611-05:00On the funeral pyre were piled all his gold and va...<i>On the funeral pyre were piled all his gold and valuables. He also ordered that his eunuchs and concubines be added to the fire, to burn them and himself to death.</i><br /><br />This is the Left's plan for us. If they can't rule, let the world end.McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192934741632433007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-48121707525947777262022-01-11T07:58:58.639-05:002022-01-11T07:58:58.639-05:00I'm chiming in on the middle class revolutiona...I'm chiming in on the middle class revolutionaries. Castro was a lawyer. Guevara and Habash were doctors. Arafat was an engineer. Ho Chi Mihn was a teacher and Giap was a school administrator. Stalin was in training to be a priest. Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13416410052064018322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-56120979992614742242022-01-11T07:37:35.574-05:002022-01-11T07:37:35.574-05:00Our problem is we don’t have a ruling class. We ha...Our problem is we don’t have a ruling class. We have absolute cretins in the role. Morons. Justin Trudeau, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, their endless entourages of fart catchers… these people are truly clowns. They have to go.<br /><br />Fortunately most Americans are armed and this may actually make for a more reasonable transition back to sanity. We’ll see I suppose.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-36855533575692475512022-01-10T21:47:42.956-05:002022-01-10T21:47:42.956-05:00They think they have enough money and power to con...They think they have enough money and power to convince, coerce, enslave, imprison or kill EVERYBODY they want to. 90% kill, die-off preferred. You guys are in the wrong rabbit hole.Tree Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03709980541510747886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-17618053076381717232022-01-10T21:19:43.004-05:002022-01-10T21:19:43.004-05:00Good points all. And they 'want' to rewrit...Good points all. And they 'want' to rewrite history so they can point to how right they were and are... Problem is we're not buying it.Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-7935968478105963072022-01-10T20:53:29.170-05:002022-01-10T20:53:29.170-05:00Barbarus pretty much nails it, although the conten...Barbarus pretty much nails it, although the contention that basically every revolution in history was started by a starving underclass is probably wrong.<br /><br />Look deeper and you find a fed-up middle class (boy, have we got that now). The stolen election was a last gasp (and a clumsy one, at that) to stem the tide.<br /><br />Look for a lot of restiveness come the warm weather.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-36676616490835001592022-01-10T19:13:38.464-05:002022-01-10T19:13:38.464-05:00Basically every revolution in history was started ...<i>Basically every revolution in history was started by a starving underclass</i><br /><br />Yes and no. There was usually an educated, more or less middle class leader or several, who picked up on the anger of the underclass and organised it. Oliver Cromwell was a related to Henry VIII's First Minister. Robespierre was a lawyer; so were Lenin and Gandhi. Hitler was the son of a civil servant. Mao came from a peasant family, true; nominally so did Trotsky, but his was the sort of peasant family that could afford to send him away to boarding school. Nelson Mandela's great grandfather was King of the Thembu people.<br /><br />Look out for a motivated, young to middle aged, demagogue, perhaps a lawyer with a reputation for fiery summings-up to the jury and probably with a troubled past of politically related activities.Barbarushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368904819103394609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-80744871313039966922022-01-10T18:49:50.000-05:002022-01-10T18:49:50.000-05:00Borepatch - My name for the Managerial Class is &q...Borepatch - My name for the Managerial Class is "Our Political And Social Betters (OPASB), but the concept is the same: a group that believes itself by dint of education at all the right places and employment at all the offices, that they are "qualified" to lead us poor schleps. <br /><br />Some good thinking there. I think that the author is right: things are moving to a head and the longer this goes on, the more obvious it gets that this is about nothing but a raw power grab.Toirdhealbheach Beucailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872794169534403463noreply@blogger.com