Posted on 08/25/2025 5:16:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Is there any peaceful way out of the current Woken Empire? Curtis Yarvin says not, because the soft power of the many old foundations founded on oil and steel money funding liberals will outperform the new money of the tech lords. When it comes to power, the true believers always win, so if you want to matter, you have to be a liberal. And if you are a billionaire, why make trouble? Anyway “the tech billionaires are not actually interested in power.” If they were, they would be liberals. Then Yarvin goes off into the weeds, as usual.
But Jeffrey A. Tucker writes a rather affecting piece about the emptiness of power. He learned the lesson in elementary school, playing marbles. He desperately wanted to be in with the cool kids who excelled at marbles, and, starting from incompetent outsider, learned to play the game and become a master and insider. But what’s the point, he now realizes, quoting C.S. Lewis:
Every sector of life has an inner ring of knowledge and control from which everyone but a few are excluded.
Yes, we all want into the Ring, but what's the point? On the inside, we find that power is an empty vessel.
If your fear of being the outsider drives your decisions, all your victories will be temporary. No circle has the charm from the inside that it seems to have from the outside.
But is the arc of history always bending towards more concentrated power? The record of Communism surely is that, at some point, political domination leads to brittleness and breakup.
Isn’t that the situation in the Democratic Party today? The Old Guard of Schumers and Pelosis seems to be frozen in place while young educated-class radicals tear the place up catering to the woke-educated twentysomethings frustrated
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Meanwhile, governors like Newsom in California and Polis in Colorado are using the administrative and regulatory state to dominate their states into breakup.”
Yes, Newsome and his ilk have no choice but to double down on their stupidity. They’re like crabs in a bucket.
Bkmk
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