[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]
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At the bottom of everything, if salvation will come at all, it will come, as someone (sorry, I can’t remember who) said in the comments “from a butterfly flapping its wings somewhere.”
What this means is, that our elites are in many ways very stodgy people. First, as I said, they most of them suffer from 3rd generation blight. They were eased through life. They never met real challenge. They’re not the most creative people around.
So… they’re carefully trying to close off every avenue of creativity and prosperity that individuals can create. But they’re not us. They don’t really “get” us. They’re like the aristocrats of the ancient regime, very good at the life of Versailles, but ignorant of how the real world works. I’d bet you dollars to doughnuts most of them never MET a working class person in their lives. Not to talk to. They’ve perhaps had short conversations with working class people in the service professions when handing in dry cleaning or ordering an espresso. That’s it.
And they’ve certainly never met people like us who are competent with our minds and our hands: and this is (I think) still most of America. We are or can be competent in both realms. And we don’t blush to use our hands.
So, they’ll miss stuff.
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Here’s the thing Harvey. Rarely in history do the elites survive. Usually they are the first to go because they never did develop any real skills, or maybe survival skills that one would need to survive. It is usually the middle tier of society, those with skills but also those who can learn and adapt to the new paradigm.
Also, those who can grow their own food, hunt and butcher their own game and do things like use a hammer or swing an axe are people you want to be friends with.
I enjoyed reading the whole article.
I think the aristocracy have ‘intention deficit disorder’ — other than being coddled and issuing mandates to others, they have no dreams / goals / purposes / callings / aspirations, other than more of that.
Michelle Obama Likens Her Upbringing to Senegalese Children’s
The Weekly Standard ^ | June 27, 2013 | Daniel Halper
In Dakar, Senegal, speaking at the Martin Luther King Middle School, First Lady Michelle Obama likened her upbringing to the upbringing of the Senegalese children at the school. Obama told the children of her “experience,” and how it was similar to theirs.
“I know that what you all are doing here isn’t always easy,” the first lady said to applause. “I know that some of you may be the first in your families to attend a school like Martin Luther King, so there might be people at home who don’t quite understand what you’re going through as you work to succeed here. And I know that for some of you, just sitting in these classrooms each day requires great sacrifices by your families.”
“I know a little bit about this from my own experience. See, like many of you, I didn’t grow up in a family with a lot of money. . . . ”
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See if you can find a sentence without the word “I” in it.
“See, like many of you, I didn’t grow up in a family with a lot of money. . . ” Which may be a major reason I have no clue how you make it.