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The world’s elite: Tone-deaf, willfully ignorant, or malicious?
American Thinker ^ | 30 Jan, 2022 | Terry Paulding

Posted on 01/30/2022 4:00:49 AM PST by MtnClimber

Are the world’s elite tone-deaf, willfully ignorant, or truly malicious? I must contemplate this question because, on a very human level, it points to where we’ve gone wrong, and what we must do to fix it before it’s too late. I think, honestly, it’s all three. It just depends on the person whom we’re talking about and what set of circumstances we’re contemplating.

Let’s face it: There are a relative few who consider themselves “the chosen” in this world, the ones with the most money, the power-mad, the influencers. Nothing says that their ideas are any better than yours or mine, but they nevertheless believe they are invincible. In their own eyes, based on their demonstrable success at getting so rich or powerful, they are smarter, more knowledgeable, and a better judge of what is good for the rest of us.

They’ve arranged life so that they can shut us up easily because they control so many of the ways we communicate. Once they’ve silenced us, they must remain wedded to whatever pathway they chose. They can’t back down or we’d see them as fools.

The elites become tone-deaf because when people get very rich, they often—I think very often—lose touch with reality. Everyone who gets near a rich, powerful person reinforces this egotistical self-preening. The economic elite and the super-famous are surrounded by people who want in on the glam, want to reap the perks of rubbing elbows with the rich, famous ones. The latter are “yes men” magnets, so to speak.

It's hard to challenge someone whose worth has been so decisively proven by the very billions they have acquired. And so the brown-nose bunch of remora fish lucky enough to get close to them amplifies the tone-deaf nature of the rich elite’s understanding of the world.

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1 posted on 01/30/2022 4:00:49 AM PST by MtnClimber
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That the “elite” have sold their souls is proven by the actions they take to deceive and enslave the rest of mankind.


2 posted on 01/30/2022 4:01:00 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

All three


3 posted on 01/30/2022 4:02:05 AM PST by Fzob
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Willfully ignorant sums it up.


4 posted on 01/30/2022 4:06:39 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MtnClimber
Are the world's elite tone-deaf, willfully ignorant, or truly malicious?

All of the above.

5 posted on 01/30/2022 4:07:11 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: MtnClimber

” have sold their souls” in a very real way. Remember what times these are. Don’t forget or ignore the times we are in when you try to figure out what is going on.


6 posted on 01/30/2022 4:07:52 AM PST by jimfr
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I believe that the elite, meaning the billionaire class and anybody socializes in this small circle, has been involved in occultic activities and they are being told that if they do what they are doing that they will create a utopia on earth.

It is my belief that Satan is using them to get rid of man and, once the billionaire elitists complete their mission that Satan would kill them.

That’s the real of artificial intelligence, to replace man.

Of course, I also believe that God will intervene before this mission gets completed.


7 posted on 01/30/2022 4:12:21 AM PST by Jonty30 (I love giving directions, because it is like me tell people where to go and how to get there.)
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“All of the above.”

+ Insane...


8 posted on 01/30/2022 4:12:56 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: MtnClimber

It is all 3, in varying percentages.


9 posted on 01/30/2022 4:13:24 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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I would put the percentages at

20% tone deaf
20% willfully ignorant
60% malicious


10 posted on 01/30/2022 4:15:30 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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The Elites, the ones who makes the real decisions, view the rest of us humans as a plague on the Earth.
The glitterati, the famous fools we see on the screens, are merely clueless distractions.

11 posted on 01/30/2022 4:17:42 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Malicious....the “tone deafedness”, and willful ignorance follow. Above that, is evil.


12 posted on 01/30/2022 4:19:57 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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For some its self defense.

They know that populism will lead to their fall from power and fear what will happen when they are discovered and without power.


13 posted on 01/30/2022 4:25:27 AM PST by Bayard
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These are all elements of insanity. It is simpler, they are just insane.


14 posted on 01/30/2022 4:26:01 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BitWielder1

Yes, we are the cancerous cell growth on Mother Gaia: need to be cut out.


15 posted on 01/30/2022 4:27:36 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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These three are the guest; arrogance is the host.


16 posted on 01/30/2022 4:32:35 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: Fzob

Mark Twain referred to the self aggrandized as nickel plated angels. They look like silver, shining in the sun, but they are a cheap alloy of lesser base metals, made to appear to be of great value.
Polished coprolite they are. They shine in the noon day sun. Fossilized feces they are, hard, having lost all taste and smell, dried to stone, good to fill museums or sell as curios.
Cage the lot of them as sideshow freaks. They are odd and extravagant. Their flatterized beauty is thin, like gruel. Beneath is terrible corruption, rotten to the core of their worthless bones. They are a whited sepulchre, fit only for death and decay.
Why give homage to the rare whores of great wealth? They have lost their common humanity. Their lives are encapsulated. They are a brief flash that blinds us for a moment.
We wonder what or how or where their intrusion began and where did it go when natural light followed their nova.
If they left a morsel we can be thankful. More often we are made poorer for their having passed our way.
-Lou


17 posted on 01/30/2022 4:34:36 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Contempt is the essential tool of the tyrant.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I like that.


18 posted on 01/30/2022 4:37:16 AM PST by Jonty30 (I love giving directions, because it is like me tell people where to go and how to get there.)
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19 posted on 01/30/2022 4:41:49 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Bayard

“fear what will happen when they are discovered and without power.”

Power is a zero sum game.

If we get it, they lose it.


20 posted on 01/30/2022 4:43:49 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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