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Crisis in the Ruling Class: How a Ruling Class Not Fit to Rule is Falling and Dragging the Country Down With Them
This is the print companion to a series of video lectures I started in 2017. The theory has evolved as I discovered others thinking along the same lines. Basically the important points
- There is a ruling class because every complex society has a ruling class.
- The historical functions of a ruling class arms, land (production), and knowledge.
- A ruling class can be stable as long as it fulfills those functions, loves or at least identifies its self-interest with the country, and is open enough to admit the ambitious but not too open.
- We have a ruling class which is unfit to rule. They do not fight, they are increasingly invested in rent-seeking and influence peddling rather than wealth production, and the knowledge they peddle is crap. (Anything ending in "-Studies.)
- They not only do not love their country, and their civilization, they appear to hate it.
- They have fostered a generation which believes they are owed a place in the ruling class for the price of getting a college degree and holding all the correct opinions within a very narrow range of permissible disagreement.
- They are destroying this country in their desire to feel important.
- There is a ruling class because every complex society has a ruling class.
- The historical functions of a ruling class arms, land (production), and knowledge.
- A ruling class can be stable as long as it fulfills those functions, loves or at least identifies its self-interest with the country, and is open enough to admit the ambitious but not too open.
- We have a ruling class which is unfit to rule. They do not fight, they are increasingly invested in rent-seeking and influence peddling rather than wealth production, and the knowledge they peddle is crap. (Anything ending in "-Studies.)
- They not only do not love their country, and their civilization, they appear to hate it.
- They have fostered a generation which believes they are owed a place in the ruling class for the price of getting a college degree and holding all the correct opinions within a very narrow range of permissible disagreement.
- They are destroying this country in their desire to feel important.
99 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 6, 2022
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