Our chattering classes aren't eating the cultural seed corn - they're throwing it in a septic tank and laughing bc it makes their enemies mad. Famine is coming.
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That's a bit different from what seemed to be meant from that article you briefly linked to. And the army analogy makes no sense. If you are saying "the elites" are no longer adhering to previous forms of your laundry list above, you might sort of have a point. /1
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> briefly linked to it's almost as if there's a reason I deleted the link! > And the army analogy makes no sense. it makes perfect sense, but I guess I haven't conveyed the information well enough for you to see it. > If you are saying that's not what I'm saying
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Elites exchanging credibility for raw power at a rapid rate seems to appear near the fall of every empire. Is there some sociopolitical term for this phenomenon?
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That's an interesting idea. But what are you basing that on?
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Behavioural and social norms. Eg in Britain we dont marry children or shit in the street.
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