8mo ago

Our whole organized socioeconomic apparatus expanded into the twenty-first century on this basis

American elites conditioned the American people not to foresee the problems that have led to our decline on the world stage.

Our whole organized socioeconomic apparatus expanded into the twenty-first century on this basis: financially, militarily, in entertainment, commerce, culture

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-bad-hand/

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"Increasingly, incompetents occupy the upper reaches—perhaps the product of malign designs, but, if the cries of the elite are taken seriously, more often out of a sincerely held belief that justice in some way demands it."
What in the neo-reactionary am I reading here?
- It's a weirdly racist take on manifest destiny, with a lot of rambling.
  
  The whiplash when I realized it wasn't a critique of those ideas but endorsing them.
  It literally read like they were outlining those positions as straw men to be torn down, and then was like, "Yep! That scarecrow has the right idea!"