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The article has ommitted the crucial part of the Mikka thesis: that all of the industries it mentions as being in decline; Law, Journalism, Education - are defined as mediating between information and subjects. https://twitter.com/raitogroyper/status/1200411357264433152
As level of actual knowledge transfer conducted by these groups declines, they have to inflate the value with signalling costs – hence you get all this neo-moralistic bullshit.
Education stops being about actual research and output, and starts being about producing a Confucian moral bureaucracy where everyone is an ‘expert’. Journalism stops reporting a semblance of facts and becomes something to be consumed as a moral duty.
Literally every culture war I saw this decade, from GamerGate to AI, was about a declining class trying to impose signalling costs on an energetic, progressive new replacement.
The ideological mirror image of these material changes is that without barriers to information exchange 'society' can no longer act as a surrogate Prime Mover, and with it the epistemological basis of the humanities since the 50s is gone.
SJWs and Integralists are alike; their real concern is a defense of the Foucauldian methodological status quo - which is somehow not capable of socially determining the Bad People Online who rather need to be quashed by a Priestly Caste saved from these economic anxieties
The Alt-Right failed imo because it had to rely on alien rhetorics to describe itself like Marxism or Religion and thereby internalised themselves as victims.
Real political compass is Content-Creators vs Signalling-as-Rent. Intelligence vs Intelligence Containment.
Real political compass is Content-Creators vs Signalling-as-Rent. Intelligence vs Intelligence Containment.
I used to bang on about the elites being stewpid not from vanity but because everything I see, which this article summarises neatly for those of you with numerical biases, screams the fact these people are the real downwardly-mobile reactionaries.
As I said, I'm not a vain man, but I can't help coping and seething about the fact my only non-LARPy idea on The Good Website will be cribbed by a ScrutonTweed in an Airport Book where it will be tied to Houellebecq and Traditional Catholicism.
