Not implicit
There's a big difference between a conspiracy and an implicit agreement.

We know without seeing any leaked emails that the demon media always favors and empowers the Dynasty. We are accustomed to thinking that this is simply an implicit agreement. All of these monsters go to the same colleges and live in the same bubble, with zero input from reality, so they all think alike.

When you see an email from DNC that CASUALLY INSTRUCTS Chuck Todd to "correct" some facts, and you see Chuck Todd casually agreeing, you know this is NOT an implicit agreement. It's an active conspiracy.

Same thing with the 2009 Climate leaks. I've been around academia all my life, and I've always seen that the tenure system pulls students and profs into conformity with current fashion. I've seen self-censorship by good academics when their actual research comes up with unfashionable results. Nothing more than natural social-mammal behavior. Status reinforces status.

The 2009 leak included several emails from Gang Leader Michael Mann, CASUALLY INSTRUCTING his subthug journal editors to "correct" and discredit the work of factual researchers. That's not natural status-seeking. That's an active conspiracy.

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Systems called "civilization" and "science" should attempt to counter both natural status-seeking AND conspiratorial truth-squashing.

Why?

(1) Status-reinforcing systems are wasteful because they're invariant and unresponsive. If your "science" machine always spits out "Global Warming" as the answer to every question, you don't need a trillion-dollar machine. You can just paint "Global Warming" on a billboard and point to it every time someone asks a scientific question. If your "journalism" machine always spits out "Kill heretics and worship the Empress" as the answer to every question, you don't need a trillion-dollar machine. You can just paint "Kill heretics and worship the Empress" and point to it every time someone asks "What's the news?"

(2) Status-reinforcing systems allow the worst bullies to have everything. Civilization is supposed to include negative feedback to DAMP the extremes of bully and victim. A functioning economy requires a wide variety of talents and skills. Many of those skills (eg raising kids and making things) belong to people who are not infinitely evil psychopaths. A system that allows only infinitely evil psychopaths to survive and prosper is not going to last long.

Labels: Carbon Cult, skill-estate

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