“...a theory kicking around...”
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Sky is blue.
Grass is green.
Water is wet.
“Sky is blue.
Grass is green.
Water is wet.”
Not really. Not even close to everyone accepts the author’s analysis. There are many, and I am one of them, who believe that the phenomenon is far more controlled and far less organic that the author thinks.
Yes, there is Inner Party and Outer Party, Nomenklatura and Apparatchiki, and the latter parts of the pairs act in a hive-like way. To that extent, the analysis is useful. (And the author is one of the most under-rated thinkers on our side, IMO).
But too much of what works its way through the hive parts happens too quickly and bizarrely to be spontaneous. There is co-ordination, purpose and anticipation reflected in the hive behavior, and that is not coming from the hive itself.
A thousand people do not wake up at 4 in the morning and decide to use the word “gravitas” for the rest of the day.