JMSmith gives us a wonderful explanation of what the hell is going on in the world:
Why They Hate Us (and Why We Hate Them) by JMSmith
“The nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.” - Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History, vol. 4 (1939)*
Last evening an old friend asked me why our elites look down on us plebs with such loathing. The simple answer is because we plebs no longer look up to our elites with acclaim. We may envy their riches, their glamor, their power; but we do not envy or wish to adopt the shape of their loathsome souls. We may wish that we had what they have, but we do not wish to be what they are. The now popular notion that our elite is a coven of satanic pedophiles is, I suspect, one means to express our disgust.
Word I didn't know: mimesis - representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature.
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