As I understand it, "Luxury Beliefs" are a false front that the elite spout to make life harder for the lower classes. If you look at it that way, it makes sense. This secret was well kept until now.
Public health officials and the NGOs that service the homeless drug addicts talk like that. It starts with Body Autonomy, Harm Reduction, meet them where they are at, no encampment sweeps, shelter spaces and housing must meet their individual needs, defund the police, shoplifting & theft are "survival crimes", no forced treatment for drug use or mental illness, safe injection sites, safe supply, 24/7 full supports, no shaming: they are not addicts, they are "your neighbours who are temporarily unhoused". I can't leave out: "we must respect and listen to people who have lived and are living the mentally ill and drug addiction experiences."
When I questioned this, a local Harm Reduction believer who directs the Downtown Business Improvement Association, said that the best minds in our city (Sudbury) support this and that I was uneducated.
Well you almost certainly are uneducated, you are uneducated in double-speak and in shutting off your damn brain. The key to survival for the elite class is that they don't think too much and they absolutely never, ever consider long term consequences or the contradictions of what they do.
I'm 100% with you. It's insanity. It's absurd and I don't think it can last forever.
sorry, i see my last sentence didn't make sentence (argh, there's no edit function!!)
correction: many people have made parallels between wokeness and religion, and this fantastic explanation of it's (additional) uselessness as a status marker to "separate the wheat from the chaff" is really, really important as well. it immediately reminded me of the hasidic schools example, i guess bc in that case its a mix of both.
I know what you mean. For sure it's basically the same thing. Education is secondary, teaching a person to be part of a certain class is the first priority. I wrote some more on this topic in my article on wokeness if you're interested. Point #4
What we need is a way to separate activism from education. You want to train people to be part of the elite class, fine... But you don't get to claim that they're getting a great education too.
A few months ago there was this big expose on the private religious schools in the hasidic communities in Brooklyn, NY. at the time i had read a great piece, not exactly defending their abyssmal English language and basic math test scores, but explaining that these schools are not meant to educate kids in the same way that more mainstream, non extremely religious people think is appropriate. that is, to prepare them for a job, a social life in modern American society, etc. instead, those schools are meant to socialize those little hasidic kids into... wait for it... Hasidic society. they don't care about learning English well. they don't *want* their kids interacting with non-yiddish speakers. they look down on non-Jews. (they value much more their kids learning Aramaic, a language totally useless outside of Talmud learning.).
i know many people (John McWhorter , and others) have made the parallels between wokeness and religion but this explanation of the usefulness of teaching kids completely idiot ideas (to the tune of $20-50k a year) was so fantastic. thank you!
As I understand it, "Luxury Beliefs" are a false front that the elite spout to make life harder for the lower classes. If you look at it that way, it makes sense. This secret was well kept until now.
Public health officials and the NGOs that service the homeless drug addicts talk like that. It starts with Body Autonomy, Harm Reduction, meet them where they are at, no encampment sweeps, shelter spaces and housing must meet their individual needs, defund the police, shoplifting & theft are "survival crimes", no forced treatment for drug use or mental illness, safe injection sites, safe supply, 24/7 full supports, no shaming: they are not addicts, they are "your neighbours who are temporarily unhoused". I can't leave out: "we must respect and listen to people who have lived and are living the mentally ill and drug addiction experiences."
When I questioned this, a local Harm Reduction believer who directs the Downtown Business Improvement Association, said that the best minds in our city (Sudbury) support this and that I was uneducated.
Well you almost certainly are uneducated, you are uneducated in double-speak and in shutting off your damn brain. The key to survival for the elite class is that they don't think too much and they absolutely never, ever consider long term consequences or the contradictions of what they do.
I'm 100% with you. It's insanity. It's absurd and I don't think it can last forever.
Great review, adding Rob’s book to my list now.
Epic, I think you'll enjoy it.
sorry, i see my last sentence didn't make sentence (argh, there's no edit function!!)
correction: many people have made parallels between wokeness and religion, and this fantastic explanation of it's (additional) uselessness as a status marker to "separate the wheat from the chaff" is really, really important as well. it immediately reminded me of the hasidic schools example, i guess bc in that case its a mix of both.
I know what you mean. For sure it's basically the same thing. Education is secondary, teaching a person to be part of a certain class is the first priority. I wrote some more on this topic in my article on wokeness if you're interested. Point #4
https://theunhedgedcapitalist.substack.com/p/welcome-to-wokeistan
What we need is a way to separate activism from education. You want to train people to be part of the elite class, fine... But you don't get to claim that they're getting a great education too.
A few months ago there was this big expose on the private religious schools in the hasidic communities in Brooklyn, NY. at the time i had read a great piece, not exactly defending their abyssmal English language and basic math test scores, but explaining that these schools are not meant to educate kids in the same way that more mainstream, non extremely religious people think is appropriate. that is, to prepare them for a job, a social life in modern American society, etc. instead, those schools are meant to socialize those little hasidic kids into... wait for it... Hasidic society. they don't care about learning English well. they don't *want* their kids interacting with non-yiddish speakers. they look down on non-Jews. (they value much more their kids learning Aramaic, a language totally useless outside of Talmud learning.).
i know many people (John McWhorter , and others) have made the parallels between wokeness and religion but this explanation of the usefulness of teaching kids completely idiot ideas (to the tune of $20-50k a year) was so fantastic. thank you!