13 July

The US began this rot, the idea that the population somehow magically runs the country. There is no such thing as ‘the people’. Every person is attached to a variety of status hierarchies, groups of any kind don’t think or act collectively. ‘The people’ isn’t being taken over by ‘authoritarianism’ or by ‘oligarchs’ or ‘autocrats’. The only time a PUBLIC exists (entirely different to ‘the people’) is as a constructed, analytical assessment of collective good, by government officials. It’s populists who use the term ‘the people’. Hitler’s ‘Volk’. Really they just form another status hierarchy, opposed to ‘the system’, and then attribute it to the population. It’s a con.