What’s your view on David Ike? ( Archived) (30)

Nice guy naive. Everywhere would be peace and love if not for the giant octopus controlling everything. He seems to replace any and all understanding of the way people tick with tentacles and sheeple, the idea being that if people can live already under the thought police then there's no reason they can't live under yours. The aim is to reject that people act on their own desires because A) you don't fit them, and B) you would have them forced to be some other way.

The truth is that the world is out of control nobody has the power to direct or even predict the way the world is going. There's never been a worse time for a secret council of elders could run the whole shop it's one of the reasons the soviet union collapsed. In the modern day human affairs are beyond complicated and our interests so diverse that nobody can tell what's right or wrong anymore. Trump isn't a front for the establishment but a symptom of how difficult is to plan in the modern world with all these changes and conflicting interests.

The secret council of elders is not a reality but a myth from those who do wish a return to a simpler time where you could effectively be ruled like a king. Life could really be as orchestrated as it was in the past.

And to be fair I can understand the counter-enlightenment and the rise of charismatic strongmen. Easy answers. The world is only going to get more complicated that is undeniable, but liberal capitalism is stretching the limits of man's neutrality towards man; the impartial actor people are actually going to be like before he decides this is all just too weird. This is particularly the case when he's acting for rubbish money like we have been here in recent years.

Every ship has a ballast and that's what Trump represents. You got the sense the country is drowning in chaos and here you are, it's completely usual for populists to scapegoat the wrong person but they will blame a person. Some target more real than extraterrestrials from another dimension. This human nature is not a conspiracy - you'll have to blame somebody more real than the lizards. You're not as nice as you think you are.

Something happens in lowering the cost of an iPad that distracts from the divisions in society until the money isn't good enough and then you elect a charismatic strongman from the far-right to restore order to the chaos. Capitalism makes the world smaller, so you build a wall. Proximity divides itself without conspiracy so it can own its space. People are not commerce and man is not a force of unbridled curiosity. City life isn't everything and nor is it a conspiracy against us.

The rootless cosmopolitan is an environment and a way of thinking where curiosity for new experiences replaces any desire to know your neighbours or form lasting relationships. Cue open borders and feminism. It's not literally the Jews or the lizards, but momentum. The city is curious, it wants to experiment, it hates the provinces and it might get you killed because that's just who it is.