As you noted in your essay, this discretization process is underway.

What kind of graduates do we get from universities who cannot train their students to support their positions, whose minds are so weak that they need 57 genders, coloring books and crying rooms for election results, crusades against “whiteness” and “heterosexism,” and are triggered by the mere thought that someone may disagree with them. Reality is just too much for these college’s students, and by extension, their alumni.

The reality is that Democrat Elizabeth Warren is as white as Andrew Jackson, the first Democratic Party president and instigator of the Trail of Tears, but the fantasy is that she has “high cheekbones” and therefore must be Indian, or at least Indian enough that she gets Affirmative Action priority over those who are as white as Jackson.

The system works for those who reject reality and embrace fantasy.

But it may not be the end of the world, and it may not be the beginning of the next dark age. When Rome fell, its rivals were tyrannies and monarchies (not necessarily exclusive concepts). Today, people know another way. Today we know about freedom, liberty, and free market capitalism, three concepts that turned a backwoods colony that couldn’t feed itself under socialism into a nation that, after a mere three centuries of living under these three concepts, was able to save the world from tyranny. Twice. A world that had many millenniums of governance that failed to prepare itself to prevent tyranny from taking over. A world that had lived for almost all that time under tyrannies and monarchies.

Much of America may fall to tyranny and tyrants, but there will be regions of holdouts that will live more free, free enough to rise once again to save the world from tyranny.

“Just like the European nobility who was generally incompetent but guaranteed power, America will have its own incompetent royalty.”

This reminds me of some movie or television mini-series that I watched a couple of decades ago. European noblemen were the policymakers of the day, and they were attempting to avoid a second great worldwide war. These noblemen believed themselves to be the smart ones, the ones capable of thinking and reasoning well enough to keep the peace. As history tells us, they were not as smart as they thought they were. The European nobility and royalty has been starting wars for centuries, if not millenniums.

We commoners, we civilians, have proved ourselves to be pretty smart. Smarter than the bloodline policymakers. Rather than smarter-than-thou royalty setting American policy, it has been we civilians, without titles or noble upbringing — elected into policy-making positions after explaining why our policies would be better than our opponents’ policies –who have generally kept ourselves from starting wars. We are smart enough to elect the better policy. Or we were, but now that the elections are corrupted, we have lost our say in the governmental policies.

Monarchies lost a lot of their reputations after The Great War, World War I, and after World War II, national socialism lost what little reputation it had. The United Nations continues to ask the United States to come to the rescue of nations that have been attacked by their neighbors. I don’t know what it is, but somehow we civilians are smart enough to make the world a better place than those noblemen have been able to do. I suspect that the American civilians will still be able to outsmart the American royalty. The royalty will be too busy, trying to figure out what gender to be today, to figure out how to run a country, or a state, or a county, or a town. We see plenty of evidence of this inability all around the country. By 1960, Detroit had been turned into a boomtown by the Republicans, then the Democrats took over, declared the city to be their model city (see how good we are? Detroit is booming) but turned it into a disaster with fleeing companies and a half-sized population during a time when the nation’s population doubled and business increased. In the past two decades, San Francisco went from a beautiful tourist city to one that tourists avoid (has anyone seen Fisherman’s Wharf lately? Seriously, what happened to it?). California went from a state that attracted residents to losing 800 residents a day. American royalty knows less about ruling populations than Europe’s royalty knew, and they knew less than We the People know and knew. American royalty cannot even define a woman, yet will confirm such a stupid fellow American royal on the U.S. Supreme Court.

If we stick to reality and reject their fantasies, America’s royalty will run to their coloring books to keep from having a crying meltdown in an isolation room, and they won’t be able to fight back. When we accept their fantasies, we fear naturally changing climates and let them lockdown, knockdown, and smackdown their subjected peons over some silly flu.
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Jester Naybor wrote: “We forgot that, while these Pedestaled know a lot … they CAN’T know us as individuals well enough to assure that their ideas will work to benefit YOU.” [ellipis in original]

This does not only apply to the national level or to every level of government, it also applies to the schoolroom, where the modern schoolteacher seems to think that he knows whether your child should have a secret gender or even a sex-change operation. The teacher has two dozen or so other students, so why does he think that his distracted time with your child gives him better insight than your quality time? And yet, these teachers think exactly that. They have been corrupted by the power they have in the classroom. Absolutely.

They will never call them royal, but watch the modern new media. They are treated that way, and if you question them, you get smacked down.

Rush Limbaugh called them that openly. Codevilla wrote an article and later a book about it.
https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class/

As soon as the government made those promises the banks giving them made huge profits and the universities made even bigger profits and just keep raising prices to the limit the government will pay.

We need to break that cycle.
We need to take back more control over it by making each state pay instead of the federal government. If the people even want the government to help at all.

But this is just one example of the same problem that has been turning our Best and Brightest into the Peter Principle royalty I call the Pedestaled Elite.

We have been conditioned to let those deemed to be the Smart People™️ do out thinking and solve our problems for us, instead of looking to them as advisers while retaining the individual authority AND responsibility to evaluate the problems and decide for ourselves the best ways to resolve them.

The move away from “a degree” as the One and Only True Way to prosperity is a sign that people are beginning to realize this, for they are rejecting that conventional wisdom brought to them by the “experts” known as guidance counselors and HR departments and deciding for themselves. People are doing the math for themselves and realizing the value of a Whatever Studies degree from Designer Label University does not justify the cost.

And if this trend persists, that value is going to erode even more, for Robert Pratt is right: Aristocracy needs a class of people who accept the idea of being of a lower order. . And we have been giving them just that for decades, to the point that these aristocrats build their entire lives around attaining that elite status for their personal gain, in money … and power to impose even their mere beliefs as the One True Way and demand our submission.

Every bit of advice we unthinkingly followed from them … every bit of “help” (with the Silly Strings always attached) we accepted from them, reinforced the above dysfunction.

We forgot that, while these Pedestaled know a lot … they CAN’T know us as individuals well enough to assure that their ideas will work to benefit YOU.

Until we return to making the effort, and taking the risk, to responsibly make our own decisions as individuals to better our lot and help our neighbors, the slide into decline will continue.

I must add that even if the reputation of these establishment universities falls into the toilet, as long as a degree from them results in powerful jobs with big salaries in corporations and government they will continue to be the gateway into that bankrupt fake royalty.

This fact describes the dark age we are now in. You no longer need a real quality education to gain power and wealth, only a fake degree that carries with it the name of the right institutions.

Robert Pratt: That this fake royalty exists is agreed, but that wasn’t my point. My point is how, now and in the future, that fake royalty wants to use the stamp of approval given by established big name universities to maintain its power.

What must happen is a complete discrediting of those universities, in every way possible. The impression Reynolds, his commenter, and myself have gained of the public’s opinion of those universities must become common knowledge and fully understood, throughout the culture.

It wasn’t that long ago that talk radio and William F. Buckley types called pro-border union men “knuckledraggers” and other names now used against Trump populists.

Blue Blood Republicans created the Rust Belt and ruin porn long before Biden and Sons joined up.

We need a third party.

Take the walking tour: https://youtu.be/fompqYwSCoY

And this is what the “progressives” today in America, particularly in the Democrat party are looking for whether they understand it or not.

Everyone is equal in Cuba, truly equal.

Be careful what you wish for.

MDN: A most excellent point. You describe the precise reasons I despise Twitter, which encourages emotional soundbite thinking lacking depth or rationality. It also explains my distaste for smart phones, which I think has elevated the power of shallow platforms like Twitter and taught an entire generation who grew up with them how not to think.

In the prior era writing was the tool for communicating which imposes strict discipline on stating a thesis, presenting a case to support it, and then basing your conclusion on evidence presented. And if you were not rigorous in presenting DATA to affirm your assertions you were not taken seriously.

The advent of Media Communications has perverted this by substituting Logic and Data for the Soundbite affirmed by the Perceived Stature of the presenter. This worked initially because we were evolving from the rigorous written world and our media sources were primarily people with some authority and proven credentials who we trusted to handle the rigors of analysis for us. But inevitably credentials faded in importance and were replaced by well spoken attractive people who Look and Sound Authoritative but can be dumb as a rock.

This book was published in the mid 80s, before the rise of email much less the internet and today’s smart phone centric Matrix. But the root cause is the same, society has been dumbed down from thinking for itself and instead conditioned to accept Innuendo and Soundbites as fact from a Pretender Class without question.

It’s a great book I highly recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X/ref=asc_df_014303653X?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80676783691793&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584276309582944&psc=1

That could never happen here in America.

Hey, wait a minute!

“The progressive movement came in 1900 to eliminate political parties. Technocrats and bureaucrats take over political power. Rural versus urban. Eliminate mayors, eliminate voting altogether, have appointed bureaucrats only. Nationalize public school system so costs could be socialized, like getting the public schools to teach Spanish. Children can all be part of a collective, without parental influence. Control shifted from ethnic working-class small communities to upper class WASPS…”

Interview: Dr. Robert Malone: https://youtu.be/vPCr6UJM-Js

They always tell you what they are about and especially exactly who they fear.

“Its non binding”………………………..for now.

And once it is agreed to THEN it will in short order become BINDING!

““Compulsory schooling originated as a tool of state indoctrination, inculcating children into Protestantism, then nationalism, and later progressivism and egalitarianism.”

Whether religion is used for indoctrination in order that people “think” properly, or it is used as a tool of societal control it is all the same.

Every government, corporation and religion entity bar none can be used to abuse power.

https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/god-spirituality-v-politics-law-and-justice-religion

And this truth is being used as an effective political weapon of control and usurpation of our system in particular at this time in history. It is an old story and what’s old is now new.

More to come on this particular subject soon.

“Compulsory Education in the United States, A History” Part 3
Excerpted from “Murray N. Rothbard; Education Free & Compulsory” (1999)
https://youtu.be/jxdl-rw-Y2o
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“Compulsory schooling originated as a tool of state indoctrination, inculcating children into Protestantism, then nationalism, and later progressivism and egalitarianism.
“Schooling in the United States began by copying the English model of voluntary private schools. But gradually through the 19th century, public schools were established and eventually attendance at them was made compulsory. They have served, and continue to serve, as a useful tool for state indoctrination into socialism, progressivism and egalitarianism.”

No longer should school boards be made up of anyone without a child in that system. No educators or prior educators should be on the board.

We used to have kindergarten to get children ready for school. Now we have pre schools to get them ready for kindergarten. One more layer of education for teachers to take over.

Now I have heard that they want to start an after high school pre collage course to get kids ready for collage. One more layer for the teachers to take over.

Once in collage they now have to take make up courses for what they missed in high school. More courses to keep professors working.

My son went to trade school, more or less. It was offered by our local union. After working and going to their classes for two years he is now fully paid off and making over 30 dollars and hour. Commercial roofer. He likes it.

Our royals seek power over the rest of us.

The rest of us have guns.

They have to rule from cities afar. Just like Britain.

How’d that work out for them?