"panders to the imperatives of bureaucratic paternalism, with its social therapeutic aspirations, begging for the socially engineered remedies eternally on offer from, and so constantly legitimizing, the socially invasive reach of the relentless administrative state."
LOVE this! Accurate description of the hidden, perverse incentive structure that ratchets toward total control.
possible typo, please delete this comment after you decide whether it is:
>The managerial class enthusiastically promotes such identities and those adhering to such identities both welcome the support and are on board with the rest of the managerial liberalist agenda – including the bureaucratic paternalism of the administrative state
I'd like to see a sentence break, e.g.:
The managerial class enthusiastically promotes such identities and those adhering to such identities. Both welcome the support and are on board with the rest of the managerial liberalist agenda – including the bureaucratic paternalism of the administrative state
Informative read, thanks! Your assessment that Ukraine joining NATO would obviate Russia's capacity for national defense with conventional means aligns with other realist analysis I've read. If you're interested a fellow substacker elaborates on that topic a bit: https://americanexile.substack.com/p/russia-real-security-concerns-real?s=r
I haven't read your book (yet), so I don't know whether you make distinctions between those at the top of the managerial class (usually scions of old money who have bought the right credentials - see Yale/Harvard), and the credentialed midwits that comprise the vast majority of that class.
Having observed/studied/pondered the unravelling of our culture and the destruction of our public institutions for over half a century, and having been in very close contact with this class, I am of the belief that many or most of the credentialed midwits comprising the managerial class are NPCs - they are not even consciously aware of being in this class.
They are, however, thoroughly deracinated and atomized individuals whose very sense of self is dependent upon their place within the system - they are very aware, viscerally but subconsciously, that the system must be maintained at all costs, for the system and their place in it, is all that defines those who run it (i.e. the credentialed midwits).
It is the psychological needs of this cohort that gives the administrative state its self-perpetuating nature at this time in history.
There are not enough psychopaths at the top to enslave us all - we are being enslaved by those who, psychologically, cannot afford to lose their place in the 'system' as their entire identity is dependent upon maintaining that place and that system.
I have to say, these are the "midwits" one sees as truly damaging everyday freedoms. Yet, as you said so well, their own visceral awareness and hideous narcissism won't permit they ease up their constant narrative. Even with ur own mom/relative. It doesn't recognize it pays more for the fraudulent than the real and doesn't know the difference.
Have you investigated about Russian Cosmism (not comunism). Transhumanism is the breed of cosmism. And Dugin is a referent.
I have not. Given Dugin's spiritualism, it would seem odd for him to be into transhumanism, but I guess anything is possible.
"the corrosive cultural acid of managerial liberalism" A concept with great explanatory power!
In my own life experience, I've also witnessed the morally corrosive acid of managerial liberalism.
"panders to the imperatives of bureaucratic paternalism, with its social therapeutic aspirations, begging for the socially engineered remedies eternally on offer from, and so constantly legitimizing, the socially invasive reach of the relentless administrative state."
LOVE this! Accurate description of the hidden, perverse incentive structure that ratchets toward total control.
possible typo, please delete this comment after you decide whether it is:
>The managerial class enthusiastically promotes such identities and those adhering to such identities both welcome the support and are on board with the rest of the managerial liberalist agenda – including the bureaucratic paternalism of the administrative state
I'd like to see a sentence break, e.g.:
The managerial class enthusiastically promotes such identities and those adhering to such identities. Both welcome the support and are on board with the rest of the managerial liberalist agenda – including the bureaucratic paternalism of the administrative state
I undoubtedly have a weakness for the run-on sentence. Thanks.
Won't delete: your editorial contributions will remain acknowledged.
Informative read, thanks! Your assessment that Ukraine joining NATO would obviate Russia's capacity for national defense with conventional means aligns with other realist analysis I've read. If you're interested a fellow substacker elaborates on that topic a bit: https://americanexile.substack.com/p/russia-real-security-concerns-real?s=r
Italian political realism combined with "managerial class" labeling suggests James Burnham influence.
Have you seen my Twitter avatar? ;-)
In any case, as a fellow admirer of the Machiavellian tradition I am excited that I found your substack. H/t to Robert Barnes for linking to it.
I do not use Twitter
Just looked it up. lol
I haven't read your book (yet), so I don't know whether you make distinctions between those at the top of the managerial class (usually scions of old money who have bought the right credentials - see Yale/Harvard), and the credentialed midwits that comprise the vast majority of that class.
Having observed/studied/pondered the unravelling of our culture and the destruction of our public institutions for over half a century, and having been in very close contact with this class, I am of the belief that many or most of the credentialed midwits comprising the managerial class are NPCs - they are not even consciously aware of being in this class.
They are, however, thoroughly deracinated and atomized individuals whose very sense of self is dependent upon their place within the system - they are very aware, viscerally but subconsciously, that the system must be maintained at all costs, for the system and their place in it, is all that defines those who run it (i.e. the credentialed midwits).
It is the psychological needs of this cohort that gives the administrative state its self-perpetuating nature at this time in history.
There are not enough psychopaths at the top to enslave us all - we are being enslaved by those who, psychologically, cannot afford to lose their place in the 'system' as their entire identity is dependent upon maintaining that place and that system.
I have to say, these are the "midwits" one sees as truly damaging everyday freedoms. Yet, as you said so well, their own visceral awareness and hideous narcissism won't permit they ease up their constant narrative. Even with ur own mom/relative. It doesn't recognize it pays more for the fraudulent than the real and doesn't know the difference.