1. Elite Overproduction Theory going mainstream, and a slowing economy worsens entitlement to the point of class warfare. Seems like this problem is unsolvable as "infinite economic growth". https://peterturchin.com/age-of-discord/
Twenty years ago my husband taught biology in Swampscott, Ma, an UMC suburb on the north shore of Boston. During a plea for food for a Thanksgiving food drive one of his students said, “ I don’t get it. If people are hungry why don’t they cash in their trust fund?”
Some weird observations and side thoughts:
1. Elite Overproduction Theory going mainstream, and a slowing economy worsens entitlement to the point of class warfare. Seems like this problem is unsolvable as "infinite economic growth". https://peterturchin.com/age-of-discord/
2. The questioning of "middle underproduction", or in modern terns, the lack of cottage artistic "Etsification". It also explains why Substack is doing so well. https://archive.ph/ZEksV https://graymirror.substack.com/p/5-the-land-its-people-and-their-dogs
3. Anticipating Elite Fratricide as the UMC-eats-UMC world, mimicking the French Revolution. Is this why there is a "culture war" for everything? https://archive.ph/PQWGE http://www.zzzptm.com/lss-002.html http://www.zzzptm.com/lss-003.html
4. The depressing state of no inspiration for excessively disciplined conformist Neo-Antoinettes... The blame is on parents and culture too. https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-so-many-elites-feel-like-losers https://danco.substack.com/p/michael-dwight-and-andy-the-three https://archive.ph/GX6Gg https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-anxious-style-of-american-parenting
5. Caste Realism, and that certain people just "don't deserve it"... if UMCs of the past are emotionally stable, wise, and conscientious, what has changed? https://pratyushbuddiga.substack.com/p/churchs-theory-of-social-class-in https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/tag/s-general-socioeconomic-factor/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-4446.12834
Twenty years ago my husband taught biology in Swampscott, Ma, an UMC suburb on the north shore of Boston. During a plea for food for a Thanksgiving food drive one of his students said, “ I don’t get it. If people are hungry why don’t they cash in their trust fund?”