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A Brief History of the Educated Kidz
Over at UnHerd, a student at Columbia University just published a pro-Graham Platner piece, quoting the Nazi tat guy thus:
We are going to take back what is ours. Because for decades, they have taken. Piece by piece, store by store, hospital by hospital, home by home, they have taken... They took so much they began to think that we didn’t exist at all.
This, writes Nikos Mohammadi, is just like MAGA, only from the left.
Oh please! That was my first reaction.
But then I thought. Yeah. For decades the administrative state has been hollowing out the ordinary middle class. Now the administrative state liberalism of the educated class is finally bearing down on the youth of the educated class. That’s who’s voting for DSA candidates from Mamdani to Katie Wilson. The twenty-somethings of the educated class who are finding out that their woke degrees aren’t worth the paper they were printed on.
And yes, the young educated class has been screwed by the system. The lords of the administrative state have been expanding and expensifying education for the last century and more. We racist-sexist-homophobes have been pointing out the problems for decades, but the lords of the administrative state just kept on keeping on. After all, who would have thought that a whole generation of girls with stupid woke degrees would be practically unemployable? Inconceivable!
Going back to Marx and Engels, the left has always been saying: just do what we say, and a better society will result.
And all along young people in the educated class have believed. And they back a revolution, or cosplay revolution in “peaceful protest” believing that’s the way to get there.
And that’s the belief system, that a rational political plan can make the world a better place. And if it’s not happening then we protest. Or we spy for the Commies.
In the 1930s that was the most fashionable thing to do. That’s what the Brit Cambridge Five was all about, and that’s what our American Alger Hisses and Harry Dexter Whites were all about.
In the 1960s we had the radical left and the Vietnam War protests with terrorist bombings to follow.
Now we have AntiFa, pro-Hamas protests, Black Lives Matter protests, anti-ICE protests, and assassination attempts against Republicans and corporate figures.
I was realizing that this was all fake as I have been reading Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. Now I happen to think that the idea of making humanity interplanetary with rockets to Mars is crazy cakes, and electric cars are silly, or at least temporary until we get nuke cars. But that fact is that Elon Musk has made electric cars happen with his Tesla that has completely changed how cars are made and sold. And he has created his Starlink satellite network to finance his interplanetary Starship system.
How did he do it? You really don’t want to know. Reading the story in Elon Musk is mindbending: the risks and setbacks, the whole culture of Musk’s approach to business. And yet he inspires: think of the cheering employees we saw on the recent Starship flight test.
Then I read a recent post of LHGrey on her Substack. She gives us “Chaos or the Last Man.” Yes, shé’s a Nietzsche adept and insists that the road to achievement and creation lies through chaos and suffering. Says she:
Post-traumatic growth research, dark-triad correlations with creative eminence, and flow-state studies all confirm the mechanism at the cellular level: optimal anxiety, controlled chaos, is the forge [of creation].
In other words, you need to be the impossible, one-of-a-kind Elon Musk. Otherwise
the sanitized self projects its chaos onto the Other, spawning purity spirals, cancel mobs, and ideological auto-immune disorders.
LHGrey is saying that notions that the educated class believes are all illusions. We cannot have a nice well-organized world where everything is tucked into bed by sundown.
Instead, Order follows Chaos, creation is a flicker of light in the dark night of the soul.
Nearly all of us just want to live a low-risk life and stay out of the underworld of the unconscious. I am one such.
But that means that you can’t complain if you don’t create wonders. the perfect life is not as Marx imagined it:
I can hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner,
Just ask Elon Musk.
| Tue, 26 May 2026 22:32:07 GMT |
Remember the Fallen
President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth were at Arlington National Cemetery today honoring the Fallen. As they should.
Politics is a dirty business, and all too often it sacrifices young men by the thousands in its wars. For nothing.
Was it worth it: the Civil War, World War I & II, the Cold War? As Zhou Enlai said about the French Revolution: “it is too soon to tell.” All we know is that young men gave their lives in the very peak of youth. It is chilling to think that the greatest thing a young man can do is sacrifice his life for his tribe, while the greatest thing a young woman can do is bring forth the miracle of new life.
And let us not forget that Memorial Day started out as Decoration Day, when the women of the South, defeated in the Civil War, determined in 1865 to decorate the graves of their sons that died in the war. Blacks organized to honor union troops that died in a Confederate prison camp, and a day of remembrance was officially established in 1868.
For me therefore, the center of Memorial Day is mothers mourning the sons that could never return home to father a new generation of beautiful bouncing babies.
For me, personally, I never cease to be grateful for the extraordinary good fortune experienced by my family in the 20th Century of Abattoirs. My father escaped as a teenager from Bolshevik Russia in 1918; my mother moved from Japan to India in 1940 where she met and married my father. My uncles both served in World War II but survived to father my cousins. In India during Independence, the Hindus and Muslims killed each other rather than the oppressor Brits, I have been spared military service. But I have four grandsons of military age.
Secretary Hegseth just announced that the armed forces had achieved their recruitment goals with four months to go. Truth is that young men volunteer to fight for their country: it’s in the jeans. It is our job to make sure that, whatever sacrifice is asked of them, they fight and/or die for a good reason.
Very often there is no good reason. Politicians like to fight wars: it’s in the jeans. And that goes for the leaders of sub-national guerrilla armies, much beloved of our lefty activist friends.
Activists like to fight too: it’s in the jeans. They too send out their warriors to die for the cause: think Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
I confess that I also remember the fallen of the enemy. If you look at Wikipedia’s World War II Casualties page you see that the Soviet Union lost about 20 million, military and civilian; Germany lost 7 million; Japan at least 2.5 million. The US lost 0.4 million; the Brits lost almost 0.5 million.
Then there is Poland: 6 million deaths.
Let us all hope and pray that we humans learned a lesson in the Century of World War, even as we honor the fallen that gave their lives that we should live.
| Mon, 25 May 2026 21:09:50 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
What’s the difference between an activist and a revolutionary? The activist is building his resume; the revolutionary is burning it.
When a political movement achieves its objectives it is time to crush its enemies.
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: The Question of Human Knowledge
