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Ending of the Third Estate - The New Feudalism
25 November 2019, 16:49,
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Ending of the Third Estate - The New Feudalism
In feudal society, power was exercised by what the French referred to as the First Estate, the clergy, and the Second Estate, the warrior-aristocratic elite. Everyone else, even successful merchants, resided in the Third Estate, most being peasants living at subsistence levels. Society was composed of “those who prayed, those who fought, and those who labored.”

In the past, oligarchy tended to be associated with corporate executives. Today the most influential group consists of mega-technology firms. Six firms—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix—have achieved a combined net worth equal to one-quarter of the nasdaq, more than the next 282 firms combined and equal to the GDP of France. Rather than epitomizing ingenuity and competition, the tech oligarchy increasingly resembles the feudal lords of the Middle Ages. These firms reflect the worst of capitalism—squashing competitors, using indentured servants from abroad for upwards of 40 percent of their Valley workforce, fixing wages, and avoiding taxes while creating evermore social anomie and alienation.

Today’s oligarchs promote a largely childless college campus environment, where they even pay female workers to freeze their eggs. Traditionally companies liked employees with families. Not so much in the brave new tech world, which demands long hours and little time off for such things as raising children. As for the rest of the population, the prospects are even bleaker. In the tech hub of San Francisco, the middle-class family is almost extinct. The city has lost thirty-one thousand home-owning families over the past decade. It leads the state in economic inequality. The evidence of massive inequality, pervasive homelessness, and social dysfunction fills the streets.

Silicon Valley, located in the suburbs south of the city, has also become profoundly less egalitarian. It is increasingly divided between an entrenched ultra-wealthy class and a dependent poor class, work-ing largely in the service industries. By 2015, some seventy-six thou-sand millionaires and billionaires called Santa Clara and San Mateo coun¬ties home, while many in the area struggle to feed their families and pay their bills each month. Nearly 30 percent of Silicon Valley’s residents rely on public or private assistance.

The destruction of the middle class has made many dependent on the welfare safety net. We are going beyond the demise of the Third Esatet tribal barbarianism.

Take a look around a barbershop, pub, restaurant, or anywhere ordinary working folks gather. Tattoos, piercings, etc. those are symbols of rejecting convention. (You can safely discount the gang and prison tats. I’m talking about professional work that people pay for) And it’s not just the military service tattoo. Otherwise lovely young people are inked on face, neck, full sleeves. And their piercings are excessive. Absolutely pagan.

Those are the obvious visible indicators. Talk to a few of them. Especially the construction guys. The conversation winds around to tribe every time. It’s not at all complimentary toward the white middle class folks that employ people.

Sparta may be an analogy here. Not that the left are disciplined or trained in the same way as the Spartans. They’re not. However, they do view themselves as masters of the universe and superheroes. So they need to keep the Helots disarmed, demoralized, and enslaved to support their lifestyle of endless foreign conquest.

It’s not a perfect analogy, few are. But it does explain the growing obsession with gun control and their rhetoric about keeping weapons of war off the streets. That metaphor speaks volumes to the mindset of the masters of the universe as they seek to prevent a Helot revolt. Sometimes they give you a peek behind the curtain without knowing.

Last observation point. The young white men are getting wise to tribalism too.
Not alt-right stuff, yet. But clearly an undertone of stock with your own for business and pleasure.

None of this bodes well for the future.

The liberals currently run everything of consequence. I suspect most are oblivious to the tinderbox they have built. The heritage Britiains and Americans being driven to poverty by onerous taxes and regulation are unlikely to vigorously defend the elites against the barbarians being imported in the millions under refugee programs (Africa and mid-East). Look at Sweden for a current example.

Trump's Deplorables are likely to vigorously defend against barbarians in unexpected ways. End of empire is always rough. Read Glenn’s “Fate of Empires” for a summary. Available as a pdf on you favorite search engine.

Here we’re staying squarely in our own lane, along with kith and kin.

73 de KE4SKY
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"Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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Ending of the Third Estate - The New Feudalism - by CharlesHarris - 25 November 2019, 16:49

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