I grew up with Physical friends and family. I was one of the only one of my high school friends to get a degree, which I paid for myself after 4 years active duty Army.
I’ve always felt a distance between myself and my laptop class colleagues who have tenuous to non-existent contact with Physicals outside of requesting/demanding services.
I’m still friends with my high school buddies. After years of living abroad and in other states, I chose to raise my family near my hometown so I could keep this support network of friends who I know will be there for me.
Also, having buddies who have real world skills comes in handy. You can’t really call your laptop class colleagues when you need help with anything non-digital.
The financially successful (except for a couple of rich youngsters) in my neighborhood are chief mechanics, plumbers, electricians, and firemen and delivery drivers who moonlight. "College" has been oversold and is overpriced. As N. Dynamite stated: "girls want guys with skills, Pedro".
Very true and under-recognized by many. Within a decade or two AI will easily lead to massive unemployment of knowledge workers and AI can easily displace everyone from accountants to lawyers to computer programmers. Easily. Not so much with people who make and fix physical things. We shall see an interesting shift in political attitudes as this plays out.
Yes, and the poor white boys, made worse off than ever before because their mamas made certain they got every vaccine imaginable, waste their time listening to Joe Rogan and Q annon... oblivious to the world around them.
It would be good if we could move away from the idea that four years at “college” ending in a degree in English or History or whatever is the ticket to an easy life.
College lets you graduate with zero actual job skills and five or six figures in debt to pay off with the money from your dead end job.
My gal wanted a job that didn’t involve a brass pole, so she did the smart thing - went to RI Community College, took an aptitude test, aced it (clever girl!) and thus qualified for a free three year program that gave her an associates degree and a certification in Diagnostic Medical Sonography.
Graduated and had a job the next day, because the world is short of diagnostic medical sonographers and hospitals will eagerly hire new graduates with the right certification.
“College” isn’t worth shit. An education in a field that is in demand is the golden ticket. You might get that in college, but you have to seek it out and not just follow the default path.
This is superb. I have to assume you are Canadian based on what you write. I am personally a member of that Laurentian Elite (Raised Montreal West Island, sailed all summer, McGill grad, white collar professional) and I am with you 100%. How can I get in touch?
They also think, 'any fool can farm. There is a giant base of knowledge in the physical world they are totally unaware of. This makes them think the peons are easily replaced.
Anecdotally, this certainly appears to be their mindset in my experience. Perhaps the shortfalls in military recruitment will help correct this particularly problematic misconception among our self declared betters.
Recently I was in an online discussion where someone said, "Can't we solve the shortage of tradies by reducing apprenticeships from 4 years to 2? After all we can make a doctor in 4 years."
Of course, the "4 year doctor" is actually someone who did another 3-5 year degree first; if they go straight to medicine it's a 6 year degree. And then there's 1-2 years of placement, 1-2 years of residency, 4+ years for a speciality (including General Practice). He kept insisting, "No, it's 4 years to make a doctor." Well, you go to that one, mate, I'll go to the one with 10+ years behind them...
So the Laptop Class simply has no idea the depth of knowledge required to perform a job properly - even another professional job.
Tiexiera is a voice in the wilderness. It’s fascinating to see him warning the left that they are driving away the very “working class and people of color” constituency they rely on, because they consider them deplorable and beneath contempt.
And of course the left ignores him because they still think that Republicans are the class of country club idle rich people, and that the multiracial working class are mostly concerned with pronouns and “Latin-X” and banning gas powered cars.
Keep talking to yourselves, lefties. Nobody else wants to hear your bullshit anymore.
Note that it’s the Laptop Class who is most wound up about AI — they thought the robots would replace the Physicals first, but they ended up threatening Laptop Class jobs instead, since those center around manipulating information of some kind. And computers have *always* been great at manipulating information.
What a well written and compelling analysis. Including the successes of the trucker convoy and farm protests is definitely a bright spot in our current darkness. Hopefully the laptop class has taken notice. The entertainment world certainly seems to be taking notice, which is good news for those of us who like quality entertainment.
And bonus points to you for the references to Rome’s defeat and the hands of a barbarian turncoat” and the French Revolution. I consider it possible that the quickest and most effective way to reign in the laptops class arrogance and growing totalitarian impulses would be to compel them to pass an advanced class on the histories of the French and Bolshevik revolutions and the Spanish civil war. Perhaps that would pry the scales off of their eyes. The alternative, I fear, would be a reenactment of those events. And that is something no person of good will should want to see happen.
We don't need more people heading to college. If anything, we should make it easier for people who didn't, by making more use of standardized tests for hiring, and overturning anti-freedom credentialocratic laws and rulings like Griggs v. Duke, or anything that even mentions the wprds "disparate impact".
We also need to rally more around property rights and freedom of association. Freedom of speech alone will not suffice to dig us out of our hole.
Direct agitation would be a good start. Set up some company that hires based on IQ in clear violation of Griggs v. Duke, then take it all the way to the Supreme Court if need be.
There's gotta be lots of good civil disobedience options available. We just need to think more creatively.
You still need people who are educated. Yeah, sure, a lot of degrees arent necessary, but you still need to go to school for basically any STEM job, and that includes the most lucrative and important fields right now. You still need money. You need networks of people. Even if a company did something like your example,(unless they got someone like Peter Thiel to back them it would fail, btw) it doesnt affect the endless legions of bureaucrats that are ideologically motivated holding positions that require credentialed people.
Thats assuming the regime *lets* you operate within their framework and win, which they wont. Even if they do in some circumstances, it doesnt produce radical change. You've got to subvert the subversion. Populist revolutionary tactics wont cut it.
This is deep stuff and I agree. Front-line learned by doing here, zero world status, working class roots and glad for it. Living in big cities and urban areas for almost 40 years ( Seattle. San Francisco), I saw the stark divide from my Barbarian level. I often wondered, as the people of modest means were shoved out due to high rents, who would run the basic infrastructure of a city, like transport, retail, etc. I still have no answer as I was one of those shoved out. I live in the sticks and prefer returning to my rural roots. Noble Barbarian here, woman of God, happy to remain grounded in " horse sense " and not just book learning . Thank you again for such an erudite and detailed take on this complex subject!
I worked in an academic role for a prestigious west coast University. It was the worst job I've ever had, mainly due to the people. They were some of the most neurotic, self-righteous, humorless, conformist clowns I've ever had the misfortune of knowing.
Representative democracy has failed the people, the Citizens, the sapient human beings from whom the authority for Government actually springs.
And because there is nothing more important to us and our sacred posterity than our national sovereignty, We, The Citizens, must now stand up and inform our representatives that they, having broken their Oaths and failed in their Duty to the office in which they were entrusted, are in Breach of the contract and must now Vacate the building.
This is easier said than done and we must also put into place a Fourth Branch of Government that will empower the Citizens to directly participate in “promoting the general welfare, and providing for the common defense.”
We, The Citizens, are sapient human beings made by God and in the image of God, and we realize that with God all good things are possible.
Because Citizenship, true citizenship, is not about writing letters to government officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
With this new and improved understanding of government of the people, by the people and for the people we will also be able to accommodate citizen proposals for program and infrastructure maintenance and improvements.
Nothing short of this is going to ameliorate the situation for the body politic.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable.”
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs.
He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
“It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government”, he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100
new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for The Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. The arithmetic demonstrates that the elected representative does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
f. Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
g. Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
h. Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
We, The People, could actually direct the priorities and review the progress of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries, school boards and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
A concerned Citizen could have AI parse a recent law or Supreme Court ruling into its actionable elements, apply the Ratify or Annul Questionnaire, then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Of course, you can. Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law to deliver the results of the poll to the government officials and watch the evolution in real time.
The Electronic Townhall becomes the means by which the Authority of the Citizens is used to Ratify or Annul the Propositions of Government.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we can all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency, he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living … until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
Wow. Way to hit it out of the park. This is a blow-out of a piece. Great aggregation of viewpoints and thinkers, too. Also appreciate the hopeful valence at the end. Thanks, and keep it up!
Clearest account I have read of the dominance of the managerial class and their blood sucking off the backs of working people. I was a laptop class manager albeit managing construction and maintenance staff. But to my ‘betters’ I was already somewhat of an outsider and was found ‘troublesome’ by my employers despite being objectively good at what I did. The Covid nonsense made me sick to my stomach. Luckily enough I could afford to leave but my career is over. I do think my experience was common to others and a ‘waking up’ to the tyranny of the laptops was partly behind the ‘great resignation’ in the U.K. I recommend to my friends to dissuade their kids from going to Uni and to do a ‘proper’ job. I will offer them this article and see if it might help. Thanks.
I grew up with Physical friends and family. I was one of the only one of my high school friends to get a degree, which I paid for myself after 4 years active duty Army.
I’ve always felt a distance between myself and my laptop class colleagues who have tenuous to non-existent contact with Physicals outside of requesting/demanding services.
I’m still friends with my high school buddies. After years of living abroad and in other states, I chose to raise my family near my hometown so I could keep this support network of friends who I know will be there for me.
Also, having buddies who have real world skills comes in handy. You can’t really call your laptop class colleagues when you need help with anything non-digital.
Fantastic breakdown of the situation. The runaway credentialism and expert worship are especially harmful.
The financially successful (except for a couple of rich youngsters) in my neighborhood are chief mechanics, plumbers, electricians, and firemen and delivery drivers who moonlight. "College" has been oversold and is overpriced. As N. Dynamite stated: "girls want guys with skills, Pedro".
Very true and under-recognized by many. Within a decade or two AI will easily lead to massive unemployment of knowledge workers and AI can easily displace everyone from accountants to lawyers to computer programmers. Easily. Not so much with people who make and fix physical things. We shall see an interesting shift in political attitudes as this plays out.
And Pedro (and Jose, and Miguel) has those skills.
Yes, and the poor white boys, made worse off than ever before because their mamas made certain they got every vaccine imaginable, waste their time listening to Joe Rogan and Q annon... oblivious to the world around them.
Excellent essay Miles! We class traitors have to stick together…
It would be good if we could move away from the idea that four years at “college” ending in a degree in English or History or whatever is the ticket to an easy life.
College lets you graduate with zero actual job skills and five or six figures in debt to pay off with the money from your dead end job.
My gal wanted a job that didn’t involve a brass pole, so she did the smart thing - went to RI Community College, took an aptitude test, aced it (clever girl!) and thus qualified for a free three year program that gave her an associates degree and a certification in Diagnostic Medical Sonography.
Graduated and had a job the next day, because the world is short of diagnostic medical sonographers and hospitals will eagerly hire new graduates with the right certification.
“College” isn’t worth shit. An education in a field that is in demand is the golden ticket. You might get that in college, but you have to seek it out and not just follow the default path.
This is superb. I have to assume you are Canadian based on what you write. I am personally a member of that Laurentian Elite (Raised Montreal West Island, sailed all summer, McGill grad, white collar professional) and I am with you 100%. How can I get in touch?
I gather Substack has now added a DM feature - we can test that out
They also think, 'any fool can farm. There is a giant base of knowledge in the physical world they are totally unaware of. This makes them think the peons are easily replaced.
Anecdotally, this certainly appears to be their mindset in my experience. Perhaps the shortfalls in military recruitment will help correct this particularly problematic misconception among our self declared betters.
Recently I was in an online discussion where someone said, "Can't we solve the shortage of tradies by reducing apprenticeships from 4 years to 2? After all we can make a doctor in 4 years."
Of course, the "4 year doctor" is actually someone who did another 3-5 year degree first; if they go straight to medicine it's a 6 year degree. And then there's 1-2 years of placement, 1-2 years of residency, 4+ years for a speciality (including General Practice). He kept insisting, "No, it's 4 years to make a doctor." Well, you go to that one, mate, I'll go to the one with 10+ years behind them...
So the Laptop Class simply has no idea the depth of knowledge required to perform a job properly - even another professional job.
Tiexiera is a voice in the wilderness. It’s fascinating to see him warning the left that they are driving away the very “working class and people of color” constituency they rely on, because they consider them deplorable and beneath contempt.
And of course the left ignores him because they still think that Republicans are the class of country club idle rich people, and that the multiracial working class are mostly concerned with pronouns and “Latin-X” and banning gas powered cars.
Keep talking to yourselves, lefties. Nobody else wants to hear your bullshit anymore.
Note that it’s the Laptop Class who is most wound up about AI — they thought the robots would replace the Physicals first, but they ended up threatening Laptop Class jobs instead, since those center around manipulating information of some kind. And computers have *always* been great at manipulating information.
What a well written and compelling analysis. Including the successes of the trucker convoy and farm protests is definitely a bright spot in our current darkness. Hopefully the laptop class has taken notice. The entertainment world certainly seems to be taking notice, which is good news for those of us who like quality entertainment.
And bonus points to you for the references to Rome’s defeat and the hands of a barbarian turncoat” and the French Revolution. I consider it possible that the quickest and most effective way to reign in the laptops class arrogance and growing totalitarian impulses would be to compel them to pass an advanced class on the histories of the French and Bolshevik revolutions and the Spanish civil war. Perhaps that would pry the scales off of their eyes. The alternative, I fear, would be a reenactment of those events. And that is something no person of good will should want to see happen.
THIS is why we still need to be going to college.
We don't need more people heading to college. If anything, we should make it easier for people who didn't, by making more use of standardized tests for hiring, and overturning anti-freedom credentialocratic laws and rulings like Griggs v. Duke, or anything that even mentions the wprds "disparate impact".
We also need to rally more around property rights and freedom of association. Freedom of speech alone will not suffice to dig us out of our hole.
We're going to do that... how exactly
Direct agitation would be a good start. Set up some company that hires based on IQ in clear violation of Griggs v. Duke, then take it all the way to the Supreme Court if need be.
There's gotta be lots of good civil disobedience options available. We just need to think more creatively.
Newly set up companies are already hovering on the edge of bankruptcy. They can't afford these kinds of stunts.
You still need people who are educated. Yeah, sure, a lot of degrees arent necessary, but you still need to go to school for basically any STEM job, and that includes the most lucrative and important fields right now. You still need money. You need networks of people. Even if a company did something like your example,(unless they got someone like Peter Thiel to back them it would fail, btw) it doesnt affect the endless legions of bureaucrats that are ideologically motivated holding positions that require credentialed people.
Thats assuming the regime *lets* you operate within their framework and win, which they wont. Even if they do in some circumstances, it doesnt produce radical change. You've got to subvert the subversion. Populist revolutionary tactics wont cut it.
This is deep stuff and I agree. Front-line learned by doing here, zero world status, working class roots and glad for it. Living in big cities and urban areas for almost 40 years ( Seattle. San Francisco), I saw the stark divide from my Barbarian level. I often wondered, as the people of modest means were shoved out due to high rents, who would run the basic infrastructure of a city, like transport, retail, etc. I still have no answer as I was one of those shoved out. I live in the sticks and prefer returning to my rural roots. Noble Barbarian here, woman of God, happy to remain grounded in " horse sense " and not just book learning . Thank you again for such an erudite and detailed take on this complex subject!
I worked in an academic role for a prestigious west coast University. It was the worst job I've ever had, mainly due to the people. They were some of the most neurotic, self-righteous, humorless, conformist clowns I've ever had the misfortune of knowing.
I work on a farm now.
--------------------
It is obvious to everyone....
Representative democracy has failed the people, the Citizens, the sapient human beings from whom the authority for Government actually springs.
And because there is nothing more important to us and our sacred posterity than our national sovereignty, We, The Citizens, must now stand up and inform our representatives that they, having broken their Oaths and failed in their Duty to the office in which they were entrusted, are in Breach of the contract and must now Vacate the building.
This is easier said than done and we must also put into place a Fourth Branch of Government that will empower the Citizens to directly participate in “promoting the general welfare, and providing for the common defense.”
We, The Citizens, are sapient human beings made by God and in the image of God, and we realize that with God all good things are possible.
Because Citizenship, true citizenship, is not about writing letters to government officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
With this new and improved understanding of government of the people, by the people and for the people we will also be able to accommodate citizen proposals for program and infrastructure maintenance and improvements.
Nothing short of this is going to ameliorate the situation for the body politic.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable.”
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs.
He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
“It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government”, he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100
new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for The Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. The arithmetic demonstrates that the elected representative does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
f. Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
g. Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
h. Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
We, The People, could actually direct the priorities and review the progress of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries, school boards and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
A concerned Citizen could have AI parse a recent law or Supreme Court ruling into its actionable elements, apply the Ratify or Annul Questionnaire, then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Of course, you can. Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law to deliver the results of the poll to the government officials and watch the evolution in real time.
The Electronic Townhall becomes the means by which the Authority of the Citizens is used to Ratify or Annul the Propositions of Government.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we can all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency, he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living … until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
The Electronic Townhall
https://teletownhall.com/products/text-to-online-surveys/
https://publicinput.com/wp/online-town-hall/
https://www.govtech.com/archive/introducing-the-21st-century-city-hall.html
https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/2015/06/06/the-electronic-townhall/
https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/
Wow. Way to hit it out of the park. This is a blow-out of a piece. Great aggregation of viewpoints and thinkers, too. Also appreciate the hopeful valence at the end. Thanks, and keep it up!
Clearest account I have read of the dominance of the managerial class and their blood sucking off the backs of working people. I was a laptop class manager albeit managing construction and maintenance staff. But to my ‘betters’ I was already somewhat of an outsider and was found ‘troublesome’ by my employers despite being objectively good at what I did. The Covid nonsense made me sick to my stomach. Luckily enough I could afford to leave but my career is over. I do think my experience was common to others and a ‘waking up’ to the tyranny of the laptops was partly behind the ‘great resignation’ in the U.K. I recommend to my friends to dissuade their kids from going to Uni and to do a ‘proper’ job. I will offer them this article and see if it might help. Thanks.