Imposter syndrome

 It's a short post, so I'll quote it in it's entirety. From Vox's blog:

"The secret of the elites is that they're not all that smart so they need the deck stacked to continue the illusion that they are elite at all."

- Rob Peffer

He's absolutely right. That's why the fake elite devotes 100 percent of their collective effort to trying to maintain the illusion and keep the deck stacked. It's also why nationalism and populism terrify them. They know their power and influence could be broken literally overnight by a sufficiently angry populace.

This is no longer about ideology. All the idearrhea about "liberal" and "conservative" and "communism" and "objectivism" is a veil to obscure the realities of the stacked deck. It's about lawless rule by a small, mostly foreign and self-appointed fake elite. They all have imposter syndrome because they are all imposters.

The Emperor has no clothes. The great and powerful wizard is just a frumpy man behind a curtain. Whatever culturally appropriate metaphor you prefer, it describes those who rule over us. Because our culture is high trust and we dislike rentier jobs, we pretty much just let them come in and remake our legal and political and even social framework right before our eyes, never suspecting that they were doing something so malicious and destructive. But, they were. And they did. And to paraphrase that Japanese general, the sleeping giant is waking up. The only real question is what will happen next?