[ May 16, 2024 ]
“The identity-based vitriol of the country’s political, academic and media elites is not shared by most normal Americans — who actually have to live with each other on a daily basis. Which in turn suggests that the national obsession with race and group identity is a tool being employed from the top down, to fracture the possibility of democratic opposition to large concentrations of wealth and the rule of the bureaucrats.
“You can blame Barack Obama. Or you can blame America’s feckless race-and-identity-obsessed elites. Or you can blame the internet and the fortunes it gave rise to. The larger picture that one gets from America’s multiple and interrelated failures is of a country suffering from terminal brain-rot — and wildly unequal to the task of running the planet.”
Related: Survey: Two-Thirds Of Elites Say There’s Too Much Freedom In America
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The American Crack-Up
The nation remains blinded by a veil of madness
By: David Samuels, The UnHerd, January 20, 2024:
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function”. His formula is justifiably famous, but it’s worth noting that it comes from an autobiographical essay titled “The Crack-Up”, which painfully detailed Fitzgerald’s inability to pass his own test, and resulting descent into alcoholic dysfunction.
Today’s American crack-up springs from similar sources. Imagine a time-traveller from any decade in recent memory arriving in America in January 2024: they would encounter a country that would appear to have gone nuts. Millions of migrants stream illegally into the US at the highest rates in history, while the government in Washington prohibits border states from enforcing Federal law. Meanwhile, major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are routinely paralysed by angry demonstrators whose causes change from month to month (this month’s cause is “intifada”). Questions like “should doctors perform surgery on children to change their gender?” and “is it ok for the President of Harvard to routinely plagiarise the work of other authors?” are now seriously debated by reputable media outlets.
It all depends on where the time-traveller happens to land, though. By many objective criteria, today’s America could not be in better shape — a global hyper-power that continues to lead the world in innovation, with flagship companies such as Google, Apple and Meta continuing their reign as the most valuable human creations on Earth. America’s billionaires are its new millionaires. Someday soon, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, both of whom are among the richest men in history, will establish the first human colonies on the moon and on Mars.
The idea that two such different Americas exist at once is hard to take in, because of the country’s polarising political warfare — even if both visions are solidly grounded in fact. How have two diametrically opposing Americas come to inhabit the same space at the same time?
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19 Comments
3 months ago
The Election of 2008 — “There goes the country.”
3 months ago
Beijing Biden is the epitome of the hollow man. He will say and do anything. He believes in nothing but money. He is obsessed with status, money and power. He is Faust incarnate.
For a few million dollars, the Chinese have bought themselves a traitor that they installed in the White House with the help of the infiltrated perfidious intelligence agencies.
Once installed, the country has been under unrelenting attack from the White House on numerous fronts. These traitors despise America and have nothing but contempt for its people.
They look at Americans as ignorant scum.
Boy, are they wrong. You can’t stop what’s coming. The Reckoning, 2025.
We must eradicate the DemoNazi Party and everyone associated with. The pendulum is swinging back and I hope they don’t duck when it does.
D
3 months ago
Reply to
Sir Peter
the apparatchiks have no loyalty beyond self-interest—when they see which way the wind is blowing…they will turn into whistle blowers & negotiate the best deals they can…they all keep dossiers in anticipation of this…
3 months ago
Reply to
Sir Peter
Separation would be preferable, easier and clearly with less bloodshed. People could then move to a state which they feel comfortable. Would be interesting to see how the two entities do.
3 months ago
Reply to
HUSSAR
The commie traitors have no business staying in the country they are trying to destroy. They need to be deported with the criminal invaders.
3 months ago
All roads lead back to the imposter from Kenya
3 months ago
Reply to
Slysammy
Yes, America was transcending race issues before he came along and stirred it up. Evil bastard.
3 months ago
I give the titular POTUS the same finger.
3 months ago
General Pervasive Schizophrenia
D
3 months ago
Our former PUNK-in-chief…….or should I say our present Puppetmaster-in-chief
3 months ago
Read Christopher Rufos new book Americas Cultural Revolution –
3 months ago
Bath house barry – whos family did he stay with while in college? Bill ayers the 60’s anarchist – Where do you think his allegiances lye?
D
3 months ago
Reply to
fir1
It was never explained how in “qualified” to attend Harvard and where did the money come from?
3 months ago
Same to you Half Breed and the horse you rode in on (mochelle).
3 months ago
“… flagship companies such as Google, Apple and Meta continuing their reign as the most valuable human creations on Earth.”
ROFL. Commandeering the internet search space to limit freedom of thought by filtering content. Building handheld computers that spy on you. Social media that spies on you and censors you.
America is innovative, but those companies don’t represent the most valuable human creations on earth — unless value is only measured monetarily.
