Psychology of vaxxers. They are accepting the state into their bodies, becoming one with the government
2021 Oct 22, 3:04pm 238,914 views 1,476 comments
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Patrick
2021 Oct 22, 3:12pm
Patrick
2021 Oct 22, 3:12pm
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So I would reply that the "intellectual class" has actually analyzed this, consciously or not, and are siding with the bureaucracy because it is exactly that bureaucracy which gives them money, status, and power.
Their stated values are false. What they really care about is maintaining their own positions in society. Demanding submission to injections, however dangerous, helps to maintain their positions.
it has been very distressing to witness our society’s intellectual class fall in line with the bureaucracy and government. They have refused to analyze whether the dramatic suspensions of our civil liberties have been justified or proportionate, and they have failed to highlight the dangers of letting the bureaucracy encroach to such a degree on the private lives and choices of citizens. Cultural and educational institutions (universities, the media, pressure groups, religious institutions, etc.) have abdicated. Not only have they abdicated such a role, but in several cases they have also sided with the bureaucracy in promoting such invasions into private life and attacks on civil liberties. This they continue to do, without realizing the danger it poses to themselves. In addition, they are seemingly unaware that the very policies they defend go against the values they claim to defend: inclusivity, liberty, diversity, and equality and equity.
So I would reply that the "intellectual class" has actually analyzed this, consciously or not, and are siding with the bureaucracy because it is exactly that bureaucracy which gives them money, status, and power.
Their stated values are false. What they really care about is maintaining their own positions in society. Demanding submission to injections, however dangerous, helps to maintain their positions.
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HeadSet
2021 Oct 22, 4:41pm
HeadSet
2021 Oct 22, 4:41pm
Patrick says
Not the "expert class" but rather the "credentialed class." They are not necessarily experts.
So maybe their faith in the injection is faith in the "expert class" of which they are members, and they demand that the hoi polloi submit to it as an expression of the elite's power and prestige.
Not the "expert class" but rather the "credentialed class." They are not necessarily experts.
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Liberals defend their credentials which allow them to exploit those who don't have the same credentials. Credentials create monopolies, the ability to set high prices regardless of quality of service. It is a way to defeat free market competition.
The funding of universities depends entirely on the demand for their degrees, which they control. Their biggest horror would be a system where anyone could take tests to prove competence in a subject without paying for the years of classes and subjecting themselves to obedience to professors.
- Thomas Frank
Most of academia is less about learning than about paying for a paper proof of status and conformity. Non-conformists are expelled from schools, or failed out. Most teachers do not like their authority to be questioned. Bosses like the academic proof of conformity when they hire. The most "educated" are the most obedient.
Trump was a threat to their credentials and therefore a threat to their incomes and status.
The academic elite need a reason to hate those threatening themselves, therefore they use imaginary "racism", to which there is no defense. The accusation is the conviction.
Then they don't need to worry about the real class problem, which is independent of race. They would be uncomfortable looking at class, because they'd have to look at themselves and their unearned class privileges.
So their faith in the injection is faith in the "expert class" of which they are members, and they demand that the hoi polloi submit to it as an expression of the elite's power and prestige.