by It looks like Kurt Eichenwald, intellectual giant and our moral better at The NY Times, got himself into some trouble on Twitter over the holiday. He was apparently having a rough one on Christmas Eve, judging by this Tweet below.
A reporter at The NY Times humiliating themselves and engaging in self-parody in a #ClownWorld attempt at doing journalism isn’t really news per se, but this quick plot-line touches on a number of recurring themes worth pointing out.
Background: Firstly, Kurt Eichenwald himself is sorta famous in some circles due the “tentacle porn” debacle of 2017. The what’s this now? Well, he posted a screen shot of his computer in a Tweet, which revealed an open tab in his browser where he had been apparently searching for a strange niche Japanese porn genre. People were quick to see it. So, rather than simply delete the Tweet and act like nothing happened, his excuse was that he was doing research and showing his wife and kids what it was. (insert clown world emoji here)
Theme: meritocracy is dead in many circles in Clown World America. There is, in theory, some sort of system in place at The NY Times, and that system selects for certain traits. I’d imagine at The Times, the school you went to may have something to do with getting hired, previous work experience, ability to write, possessing some sort of credibility, and many other things, I’m sure. We see this over and over again where people come no where close to being able to do their job, yet for some reason they get to hang around — or even promoted. What is so special about Kurt Eichenwald that, after the tentacle porn debacle, he wasn’t summarily dismissed? The primary financial asset of something like the New York Times is accumulated social and intellectual capital which, when aggregated, produces credibility. And, despite having a population of over 300 million people in the USA, and having (I believe) the best human capital on the planet here, this is the best The NY Times can do. Why? What is so special about him that they need to keep this buffoon on the staff? Clearly, there’s a selection process going on that keeps him employed, but I don’t know what it is. They just NEEEEED him. Tentacle porn guy.
Theme: the exposition of strength and weakness, simultaneously. We live in an era of an aligned, uniform intellectual mono-culture in academia, HR, and corporate marketing. This alignment even extends out to mainstream Protestant churches, where most congregations look and feel like left-wing self-help groups. Despite having the ability to communicate like never before, the level of intra-elite agreement within Blue Church (neoliberal capital, academia, and the Permanent Government) is fairly unprecedented. So, in some sense, this looks like strength to me. On the other hand, does the man in the above Tweet sound secure to you? People that are in a position of power don’t publicly threaten to murder people. I mean, there’s no metaphors here. He wants to beat people to death. A person speaking from a position of strength doesn’t communicate like this, because they don’t have to. Real power is soft power — power that is self-enforcing and isn’t accompanied by threats. And, I mean, look at his face. This man is most likely incapable of changing a car tire, let alone winning and honest and fair fist-fight. He threatens no one. So it all so ridiculous.
But it doesn’t end there. There’s more. Context always matters, so where was Kurt Eichenwald’s head earlier on in the pandemic? Oh, right. He was one of those people. Yes. I remember. For a good six weeks we were told by The Experts™ that a) masks didn’t work and b) if nurses didn’t have masks, they’d die. And Kurt was one of those people.
Theme: No one is every held responsible for being wildly wrong. It took a full six weeks for the intellectual giants who make up our cultural, intellectual, and governing elite to realize that these two ideas were mutually exclusive. So what did they do? They want from begging people to not wear masks, to threatening to beat people to death for neglecting to wear them. This was done without an apology, or even an acknowledgment, that the pivot happened. Do they think we are stupid? Or do they simply not care as to just how intellectually dishonest they are? I really have no idea, which is why I ask.
I had been thinking about this whole episode with this guy, when a friend sent me an article about it, along with a brief comment implying we were headed towards some sort of conflict in this country, given the shrill nature of his threats in the Tweet. And after all, I mean, this is coming form The NY Times. On some level, if the priests and bootlickers for the people who actually run the country are this hysterical, then maybe my friend has a point. I actually don’t believe that is the case though. But why?
Because the Red Pilled mind engages in what I call Judgement Day Thinking, which is an intuition that wrongs will be righted through some conflict — some great leveling — that is always around the corner. I really wish it were that simple. His view is the optimistic view, which I don’t hold. If the best our betters can come up with is Kurt Eichenwald, I do like our chances. But I think it more likely that whatever system that is in place will continue to produce thought leaders [sic] like Kurt Eichenwald for the foreseeable future. Our sense making apparatus is a mile wide, and a mile deep, with people just like Kurt Eichenwald, and I don’t see it changing any time soon. It is just a slow grind down, folks. Sometimes slow, sometimes fast, but always down. And you won’t vote your way out of this.
