They were NEVER smarter. At most at one time they had more leisure time and access to books and tutors when reading and books were rare. That made them more educated, and they want to go back to that desperately.
they don’t want to be more educated than they already are, they want to be more educated than us. they’re doing it by destroying the public school system, keeping tertiary education prohibitively expensive, eroding trust in experts through anti-intellectualism, and promoting the spread of misinformation
Exactly. They want to be perceived as smarter (basically look down on the unwashed masses.) They don’t want to do the work to be more educated. Hence the hurdles they can put in front of the poors while they get to pay for fastpass to skip the line directly into the ivy leagues.
Have you read the “analysis” on the 2024 election?
I think that “analyst” is just fancy talk for their relatives who dont have another job when its not an actual scientific field cause I have worked with real analysts.
Sure they are more literate but also the way they balk at expanding their knowledge makes me think they aren’t reading much worth it.
They have access to money and trial and error with more room to make more errors than the average person.
Yeah, at least like their grandparents had interesting and clever schemes about money that made you feel like they thought it through even if they were largely incapable of anything else.
Currently it feels difficult to assume they think about anything.
You’ve bought the image they’re selling. If you think they’re idiots, it just gives them another mechanism to manipulate you.
I’m no fan of Bush Jr, but go watch some of his speeches.
Sometimes he says “nuclear”, sometimes he says “nuke-u-lar”.
That’s someone putting on an act. No one says it both ways.
Go watch any politician’s speeches, look for the subtle variations in their behaviours.
They’re not morons, they’re Machiavellian. Appearing to be a moron is just another tool in the box.
(That said, some genuinely are morons, but I’m not dismissing any one of them so lightly - even morons can be Machiavellian).
And in the end, all politics is about manipulation (or said more positively, inducing groups of people toward a shared goal). And politics exists in every single group of humans, no matter how small.
I mean…
You know…
Like for a bit…
They were NEVER smarter. At most at one time they had more leisure time and access to books and tutors when reading and books were rare. That made them more educated, and they want to go back to that desperately.
I dont think much of our ruling class wants to go back to reading, looking at the way they… are.
they don’t want to be more educated than they already are, they want to be more educated than us. they’re doing it by destroying the public school system, keeping tertiary education prohibitively expensive, eroding trust in experts through anti-intellectualism, and promoting the spread of misinformation
Exactly. They want to be perceived as smarter (basically look down on the unwashed masses.) They don’t want to do the work to be more educated. Hence the hurdles they can put in front of the poors while they get to pay for fastpass to skip the line directly into the ivy leagues.
They read, a lot more than you probably realize, and probably a lot more than the average person.
They also have access to teams of analysts.
Have you read the “analysis” on the 2024 election?
I think that “analyst” is just fancy talk for their relatives who dont have another job when its not an actual scientific field cause I have worked with real analysts.
Sure they are more literate but also the way they balk at expanding their knowledge makes me think they aren’t reading much worth it.
They have access to money and trial and error with more room to make more errors than the average person.
We occasionally get lucid leadership. As a whole group though, our leadership class has always had some glaring idiocy going on.
They’ve always been morons about something. Just seems now that they are morons about damn near everything.
Yeah, at least like their grandparents had interesting and clever schemes about money that made you feel like they thought it through even if they were largely incapable of anything else.
Currently it feels difficult to assume they think about anything.
You’ve bought the image they’re selling. If you think they’re idiots, it just gives them another mechanism to manipulate you.
I’m no fan of Bush Jr, but go watch some of his speeches.
Sometimes he says “nuclear”, sometimes he says “nuke-u-lar”.
That’s someone putting on an act. No one says it both ways.
Go watch any politician’s speeches, look for the subtle variations in their behaviours.
They’re not morons, they’re Machiavellian. Appearing to be a moron is just another tool in the box.
(That said, some genuinely are morons, but I’m not dismissing any one of them so lightly - even morons can be Machiavellian).
And in the end, all politics is about manipulation (or said more positively, inducing groups of people toward a shared goal). And politics exists in every single group of humans, no matter how small.