Another day, another looking on in helplessness at modern societies, who approach existential threats with…
Another day, another looking on in helplessness at modern societies, who approach existential threats with the maturity of adolescents. No adult sense of responsibility or sacrifice. The Korean War actually helps explain why, I think. Short thread. /1 https://t.co/lXkTksTzg0
One of the remarkable things about Korean POW camps in the Korean War apparently was that nobody escaped. Nobody even tried to escape. This was due to deliberate Korean planning, and that planning sheds key light on our modern libertarian societies. /2
Upon entry to the camp, new prisoners were assessed by the Koreans for leadership qualities (about 5% of prisoners exhibited those). Those prisoners were immediately killed. Another 10% or prisoners became reliable informants to the Koreans, to weed out any leaders missed. /3
The remaining prisoners then gave up, mounted little or no resistance. 40% of them died. The key insight into human and group behaviour here is, a very few people tend to drive the thinking and direction of everybody else. Despite our ideas about 'democracy' as.../4
...some form of collective sovereign will, it's never functioned like that. No society has. How does this link to modern libertarianism? Well, they know this. They deliberately engineer continuous assaults on 'authority', because they want to strip society of all of its.../5
...existing hierarchies. All of its many forms of expertise and leadership. Leaving the public, like the US POWs, with no source of guidance. That then leaves the ground open for them to provide a single source of direction to the public: the libertarians themselves. /6
We've all been living this for years, the constant assault on expertise and traditional leadership. 24/7 weaponised propaganda from shock jocks and think tanks about 'bureaucracy' and 'politicians', and 'unions. Most people today are kinder to venomous spiders than they are.../7
...to their local Council. Mission accomplished. And what rushes in to fill this great anti-authoritarian void? Populist libertarian leaders, banging that anti-authority drum. Down with the elites etc. They're the new prison guards. Don't listen to scientists, or elected.../8
...representatives, or officials. Listen to me, the great libertarian saviour, and my leaderless 'Economy', my 'market'. Have Tweeted before the main way they get away with this: our societies are really large high schools. There's no adult resistance to obvious corruption.../9
...and stupidity, because there are no adults. We severed the 'circle of life' by separating schools off from adult life, while adults pursued eternal 'lifestyle lives, decoupled from history and custom and tradition. Schools then became the seed beds of our socieities,.../10
...the only social model we knew. So we re-made all of society as a high school, packed full of adolescents. And here we are, refusing to fight a lethal virus and rampant climate change, because nobody tells us what to do, nobody can ground us. We're adolescents. /end