Our man John Michael Greer is back from his hiatus, but instead of climate change, his mercurial muse decided to muse (!) on status panic, social mobility and the former´s deep roots in the Paleozoic...
And yes, somewhere in there he mentions Trump´s tariff wars.
This seems to be one of the main take aways:
>>>This, I think, is the subtext behind much of the high strangeness of the last decade or two. Once the supremacy of the laptop class started to face sustained challenges, members of that class rallied reflexively around whatever banner of expert supremacy got trotted out for adulation.
>>>That’s why thousands of people, who’d long insisted that Big Pharma couldn’t be trusted and natural remedies were best, pivoted on a dime and began insisting that the inadequately tested experimental drugs churned out by Big Pharma and mislabeled “Covid vaccines” were the only option—and why many of them nodded in bland acquiescence when the media proclaimed that anybody who refused to take those drugs should be rounded up and thrown into camps.
>>>I watched that process in something like a state of shock, as many of us did. I also watched people who were alive and aware of the media during the great global cooling scare of the 1970s and 1980s angrily insist that nothing of the sort ever happened, only to turn red-faced and change the subject when I brought out the evidence.
>>>We’ve all seen plenty of other examples. What they all have in common is that they involved reflexive rejections of challenges to officially approved opinions, and thus to the supremacy of the laptop class, which prides itself on its power to define reality for everyone else.
The latest example of this phenomenon are leftists who opposed free trade all their lives, all of a sudden embracing it (the U-turn taking about 48 hours) when Trump called for ending it...
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