Pop Quiz
What fabulist said: “The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”?
What author wrote: “An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life—becoming a better person.”?
What President said” “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”?
What economist observed: “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”?
What motivational speaker said: “The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.”?
Answers at the end of this post.
Our country is being controlled by a group of self-identified “elites”. These New Elite manage the news, sell political uniformity, stifle dissent and manage the message through a censorship that would be the envy of George Orwell. The slogan “Make Orwell Fiction Again” says it all.
The game plan the New Elite use is not original. Manufacturing Consent; The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that exposed how the U.S. media serve the interests of the powerful and distort the truth. The theme of this provocative tome centers on the selling of the Viet Nam war to the American people. The ruling class, victims of the Peter Principle, bought into the war without strong objection. Yet the war ultimately divided the country and disillusioned the people about our military. I have a friend who served in Viet Nam and he told me after taking an Honor Flight to Washington this year him and 75 other veterans, including four who served in World War II, were welcomed home by an overflow crowd cheering their service. His emotional reaction was: “I have finally been welcomed home”. A change in the elite attitude became obvious when the American participation in the war that was started by JFK and driven by LBJ became “Nixon’s War”. By the end of the 1970’s the people were on to the game plan and our reward was eight years of Ronald Reagan.
One positive result of the war was that it drove LBJ out of the White House. The joke was: LBJ told me that if I voted for Goldwater there would be 500,000 soldiers in Viet Nam. I did and he was right.
The New Elite are ignorant about all that has transpired prior to their arrival to save the world. The old game plan has been resurrected. Who are the New Elite that seek to control the world? To begin the search for the answer read the following books: The Ruling Class by Angelo Codevilla; The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell and The Uncivil War by David Lederoff.
The Lederoff book provides an excellent assessment of the New Elite membership checklist. Surprisingly “intelligence” does not get one a free pass the inner sanctum. Degrees from what were once elite universities are generally accepted as step one on the membership application. Hereditary gifts are more important than actual accomplishments. Donald Trump is a graduate of the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania but he does not qualify because he has actually accomplished something. In addition he does not have the correct “attitude” and fails the conformity requirement. It helps if you reject your family history and the basic values of the past, such as America being great.
The World Economic Forum in Davos is the club headquarters where the New Elite meet and work on their synchronized thinking. It is the application of the George Carlin joke about synchronized swimming…if one swimmer drowns do they all have to drown? If the truism of the day is Global Climate Crisis then the elite must join the climate crisis Gregorian chant or risk ostracism. Dissent is verboten! Goebbels made that clear. They do not say “Synchronize watches” but rather “Synchronize talking points”.
Intelligence is presumed even in its absence. If you are chanting with the New Elite choir you must be super smart…all evidence to the contrary. Michael Bechloss once observed that Obama must be smart because he is smarter than Bechloss who notes for the record that his IQ is 164. Point of reference: Einstein’s IQ was estimated to be 160. If you listen to Bechloss for more than 15 seconds you can see that he was a victim of as cruel practical joke…someone put a 1 in front of his actual IQ and he fell for it. Buttigieg is an example of someone educated far beyond their intelligence. Yet Bechloss and Buttigieg are both charter members of the new elite.
In order to ensure that there is lockstep thinking the New Elite resorts to a host of enforcement mechanisms. They want to impose a Disinformation Governance Board to stifle alternative thinking. Any deviation from the hymnal can be career suicide. When the LA Times chose not to endorse either presidential candidate this year a lead editor resigned in disgust apparently unable to deal with editorial neutrality. Social media are the Radio City Rockettes of censorship. See, e.g. Hunter Biden’s laptop, the truth about Russian collusion, shutting down any medical disagreement with Anthony Fauci and any suggestion the brain dead Joe Biden is brain dead. One, two, three kick! One, two, three kick!
Adjectives that will help identify a member of the New Elite glee club: Conceit, arrogance, conformity and ignorance.
Answers to Pop Quiz:
What fabulist said: “The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”? Aesop
What author wrote: “An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life—becoming a better person.”? Tolstoy
What President said” “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”? JFK
What economist observed: “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”? JK Galbraith
What motivational speaker said: “The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.”? Jim Rohn
Iosef Dros
“Our country is being controlled by a group of self-identified “elites”. These New Elite manage the news, sell political uniformity, stifle dissent and manage the message through a censorship that would be the envy of George Orwell.”
Glad you reached class consciousness.
Seymour Glockenspeil
Do ever speak in other than leftist cliches? Class concsiouness is a political construct. Capitalism is the antithesis (consult your dictionary) of class consciousness and socialism/communism is based entirely on class warfare. The New Elite is the backbone of our kakistocracy (yes it is a real word). They enforce conformity and do not tolerate independent thought. They are not burdened by intelligence so they simply believe that everyone who agrees with must be smart, all evidence to the contrary. Class is a divisive concept and the Elite believe in setting groups againt each other…men v. women, Black v. white, lbtq v. straight, etc. It distracts everyone from the Elite’s lack of accomplishment. My guess is that you fit right in with this Pavlovian mob. Read Das Kapital…if nothing else it will cure your interest in reading.
Ron
The New Elites do indeed seem hell bent to destroy the American experiment our Founding Fathers envisioned and which has served hundreds of millions of Americans (both natural born and naturalized) as well as the rest of the free world quite well for over 200 years. By gaining control of our education system and our media, they are oh so close to achieving the goal, as so elegantly expressed by Barack Hussein Obama, of a fundamental transformation of America. What isn’t clear, is a fundamental transformation to WHAT?
I fear that if Trump does not win next week, my children will find out what America is being transformed into. My bet is they won’t like it.
Linda Strawbridge
There is nothing I read of yours that I don’t love. Elite’s have taken over the news distorting the truth. Elite Democrats take the win of setting groups against each other, this is how they plan to destroy America. I am very happy that our service men and women, who serve our country was finally welcomed home with respect and appreciation, it’s about time!