It’s wild that the most successful ‘burn it all down’ political movement in recent history is led by people who have become wealthy beyond their dreams within the system they want to destroy.
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Only tangentially within. The super-rich live and manage their wealth offshore: in that opaque, lawless, tax-free, world of (very largely UK) post -colonial making. That they should want to remake our world into theirs (“Tlön, Uqbar..) is a boomerang effect parallel to that described by Césaire.
They have all the money they can use. Now their goal is absolute power—which requires them to destroy anything that can stand in their way. Like the government.
Yes as I pointed out before - GOP talks about law and order, strong military etc. But in reality is just an anarchistic movement - it's really quite amazing - Poul Martin Møller writes in a paper I cannot find online - that some self-deception is a necessary condition for life, but totally?
With all their inherited wealth it never made any sense. What the hell do they have to be angry about ? They never dug ditches in the hot sun or went to bed hungry.
Which goes to show money can’t buy happiness. If it did, it would have. It buys access. If you don’t have a giant hole where your soul should be, you figure out when you have enough & you give back bc you recognize that you have been fortunate. “To whom much has been given, …”
I think that the emergence of the Ultra-Greedies in recent decades is probably best modelled by catastrophe theory - but it's not been fashionable in Economics for some time:
It’s wild when a toddler takes over driving - on the freeway, at speed.
I think it becomes wild if you survive. Looking at Marco Rubio, I have real doubts. Meaning a senator, a longtime congressman, once the new breed of GOP politician, now creating new levels of sellout.
I'm presuming they live in such a protected bubble of wealth and privilege, totally divorced from normal concerns, that they develop a cloud-cuckoo ideology in which little people don't matter. The system has worked for them, therefore it is a good system. Systems for others are bad systems.
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https://is.muni.cz/el/sci/jaro2018/M6201/um/48281991/RosserCatastrophe.pdf
It’s wild when a toddler takes over driving - on the freeway, at speed.
I think it becomes wild if you survive. Looking at Marco Rubio, I have real doubts. Meaning a senator, a longtime congressman, once the new breed of GOP politician, now creating new levels of sellout.