Just putting this out there.
We’ve come to the place where watching events unfold has become an absurd parody of bad theater both on stage and off.
And trust me, there is some bad theater out there.
What is becoming glaringly obvious in this war for control of the people mind, body and soul is that the Ruling Class people, as Professor Angelo Codevilla labels them, really don’t know We the People, their sworn enemies.
They seriously think American conservatives who they label extremist and violent are going to fall into the trap of shooting first. They do not realize that most of the American right, as it were, is much more savvy than that.
There’s a reason for this.
Today’s Ruling Class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgements about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters – speaking the “in” language – serves as a badge of identity. …
From Chapter 2 of The Ruling Class: How they corrupted America and what we can do about it, by Angelo Codevilla, 2010. Emphasis from DePat.
Coming from a part of my hometown that produces these people, the notion that the people who fancy themselves our betters do think alike, and have siloed themselves in grade grubbing competitions in order to have the privilege of putting specific institutions of higher learning on their resumes. After all, not many of these people end up in NCAA Division One sports. (Okay, some do.)
Dr. Codevilla hits the nail on the head with his description of the social canon. Any deviation from this mentality results in ostracization. (Seriously, my college diploma has one of the coveted names on it. I keep it for sentimental reasons. I can speak the language and socialize with these people for information gathering purposes.)
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Feb 22, 2018 9:39:44 PM EST
Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 0c9770 No. 466606
People kill people.
YOU ARE WATCHING A MOVIE.
They want you WEAK.
SLAVE.
SHEEP.
DISTRACTION.
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They want us to take the bait and shoot first to justify putting into place their final plans.
As for watching a movie, at this juncture, it may be true, but that horse is tired. The whole thing about there being two life sized sets of the White House exterior will be shelved for now.
What else is out there…
This makes, what, four in the last week? (Honestly, that death photo is not up to National Geographic standards.) Here’s a guide for the checklist:
Someone here claims that once those labels are exhausted, they’re going to start on the phonetic alphabet. Think Foxtrot and Tango will cause widespread dancing?
For once, I’m all out of memes.
Take heart. It’s almost Friday.
Oh, and before I forget:
Since we’re talking about the suburbs, and educational expectations. This is from a movie that said it all about my generation.
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