Not a surprise in this fallen world. As Jesus says (in John 16:33) In this world you will have trouble. But be of good cheer! I have overcome the world.
The sort for whom the caviar must be Beluga, and served at just the exact correct temperature.
The real fun starts when they make common cause with revolutionaries to wreck the existing social order, which they object to because there’s a middle class that doesn’t have to take orders from them. (“How dare they!”)
They believe that once that middle class has been destroyed, and there are only the upper class (themselves) and a peasant class (everyone else) left, they can then reboot the “old order” and bring back feudalism with themselves as the hereditary nobility. (cf. Angelo Codevilla, Joel Kotkin.)
The revolutionaries, of course, are about evenly split between the Marxist/Lenininst/Stalinists who want to create the USSR all over again, and the Trotskyite nihilists who just want to Burn Down Everything.
Such an “alliance” consistently ends up like the Girondists vs the Jacobins. Sooner or later, the “patrician” side ends up being introduced to the National Razor or its equivalent.
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Bet they’re all Masons too.
Not a surprise in this fallen world. As Jesus says (in John 16:33) In this world you will have trouble. But be of good cheer! I have overcome the world.
(((White)))
VOM
Very Old Money.
The sort for whom the caviar must be Beluga, and served at just the exact correct temperature.
The real fun starts when they make common cause with revolutionaries to wreck the existing social order, which they object to because there’s a middle class that doesn’t have to take orders from them. (“How dare they!”)
They believe that once that middle class has been destroyed, and there are only the upper class (themselves) and a peasant class (everyone else) left, they can then reboot the “old order” and bring back feudalism with themselves as the hereditary nobility. (cf. Angelo Codevilla, Joel Kotkin.)
The revolutionaries, of course, are about evenly split between the Marxist/Lenininst/Stalinists who want to create the USSR all over again, and the Trotskyite nihilists who just want to Burn Down Everything.
Such an “alliance” consistently ends up like the Girondists vs the Jacobins. Sooner or later, the “patrician” side ends up being introduced to the National Razor or its equivalent.
clear ether
eon
That’s pretty much the cliff edge where we’re poised.