{"id":1445770,"date":"2023-12-25T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1445770"},"modified":"2023-12-25T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T03:15:00","slug":"its-all-one-big-status-acquisition-hustle-and-half-the-country-likes-it-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/its-all-one-big-status-acquisition-hustle-and-half-the-country-likes-it-that-way\/1445770\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s All One Big Status-Acquisition Hustle”… And Half The Country Likes It That Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It’s All One Big Status-Acquisition Hustle”… And Half The Country Likes It That Way<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The End Of An Era<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cThe old politics of right versus left, and Republican opposed to Democrat have now given way to a new existential struggle: Americans must choose between civilization\u2014or its destroyers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

– Victor Davis Hanson<\/em><\/p>\n

Now that you, the lucky ones, are beyond your steaming platters of pancakes and mighty rashers of bacon, and perhaps even a dram or two of grog in your coffee. . . and clawed your way through the bales of presents. . . a merry Christmas to all. . . and here\u2019s something else to think about this morning:<\/p>\n

You may have noticed that our country, formerly a republic of sovereign individuals, has become one great big racketeering operation run by a mafia-like cabal with Marxist characteristics<\/strong> \u2014 or, at least, Marxist pretenses. That is, it seeks to profit by every avenue of dishonesty and coercion, under the guise of rescuing the \u201coppressed and marginalized\u201d from their alleged tormenters. Apparently, half the country likes it that way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Much of the on-the-ground action in this degenerate enterprise is produced by various hustles<\/strong>. A hustle is a particularly low-grade, insultingly obvious racket, such as Black Lives Matter, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), and \u201ctrans women\u201d (i.e., men) in women\u2019s sports. Some of the profit in any hustle is plain moneygrubbing, of course. But there\u2019s also an emotional payoff. \u00a0Hustlers and racketeers are often sadists<\/strong>, so the gratification derived from snookering the credulous (feelings of power) gets amplified by the extra thrill of seeing the credulous suffer pain, humiliation, and personal ruin. (That\u2019s what actual \u201coppressors\u201d actually do.)<\/p>\n

Categorically, anyone who operates a racket or a hustle is some sort of psychopath, a person with no moral or ethical guard-rails. Hustles are based on the belief that it is possible to get something for nothing, a notion at odds with everything known about the unforgiving laws of physics and also the principles of human relations in this universe.<\/strong> Even the unconditional love of a mother for her child is based on something: the amazing, generative act of creating new life, achieved through the travail of birth. Have you noticed, by the way, that the birth of human children is lately among the most denigrated acts on the American social landscape?<\/p>\n

The flap over Harvard\u2019s president, Claudine Gay, is an instructive case in the governing psychopathies of the day.<\/strong> I wish I\u2019d been a roach on the tray of petit fours and biscotti brought into the Harvard Overseers\u2019 board-room when they met to consider the blowback from Ms. Gay\u2019s unfortunate remarks in Congress, followed by revelations of her career-long plagiarisms. The acrid odor of self-conscious corruption in the room<\/strong> must have overwhelmed even the bouquet of Tanzanian Peaberry coffee a\u2019brew, and not a few of the board members must have reached for the sherry decanter as their shame mounted, and the ancient radiators hissed, and their lame rationalizations started bouncing off the wainscoted walls.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Ms. Gay did not miss an opportunity to cut-and-paste somebody else\u2019s compositions into everything she published going back to her own student years in the 1990s. She even poached another writer\u2019s acknowledgment page. This is apart from the self-reinforcing substance of her published \u201cresearch\u201d justifying the necessity for DEI activism, for which she has become first an avatar and now a goat. The dirty secret of this perturbation \u2014 and the whole Harvard Board knows it \u2014 is that Claudine Gay\u2019s career has been about nothing\u00a0but<\/em>\u00a0careerism, and that this is also true of so many on the faculty and administration at Harvard<\/strong>, and surely at every other self-styled elite school from the Charles River to Palo Alto that had joined in the DEI mind-fuck.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all one big status-acquisition hustle, the seeking of hierarchical privilege by any means necessary, including especially deceit, the politics of middle-school girls. <\/strong>Thus, you see on display both the juvenility of elite higher ed and its use of the worst impulses that prevail in social media, stoking envy, hatred, avarice and vengeance as the currency for career advancement. Claudine Gay was notorious earlier, as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, for wrecking the careers of faculty members (Ronald Sullivan, Stephanie Robinson, and Roland G. Fryer, Jr.) who refused to play the game like middle-school girls. She had no mercy.<\/p>\n

The mental pain endured by the Harvard bigwigs must be excruciating, and of course they have themselves to blame because they walked right into the Woke hustle with their eyes wide shut. <\/strong>They bargained away their dignity, and the university\u2019s honor, for mere brownie points in a fool\u2019s game called\u00a0Win big prizes<\/em>\u00a0pretending to care about your fellow man<\/em>. The cognitive dissonance must be like little nuclear reactor meltdowns burning through the lobes of their brains. They\u2019ve run out of a safe space to play \u201cvictim\u201d in. The world sees them for the coddled, malicious fakes they are.<\/p>\n

Cutting Claudine Gay loose is the unavoidable play now or Harvard will be stung by so many lawsuits from students previously punished for academic mischief that all the alumni lawfare attorneys in the cosmos standing snout to tail will not be able to staunch the hemorrhaging of the school\u2019s endowment and then the fire sale of its chattels to satisfy the aggrieved plaintiffs\u2019 pain and suffering. The Harvard board is just trying to ride out the holidays. Their prized participation trophy is coming off the mantlepiece. There really is no other way.<\/strong> Now, stand by and watch the rats rat each other out. And so ends the era of pretending about everything.<\/p>\n

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Support his blog by visiting\u00a0Jim\u2019s Patreon Page<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Substack<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 12\/25\/2023 – 17:15<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/its-all-one-big-status-acquisition-hustle-and-half-country-likes-it-way<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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