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There’s a common form of corruption in business and politics that I have been calling “the stage-two cancer problem” for a few years now. The general idea is simple: a corrupt oncologist stands to make a lot of money off a cancer patient if he can keep the cancer at stage two. Politicians do this all the time as well, though. They keep a societal problem or issue going rather than trying to solve it because it allows them to campaign and fundraise successfully so long as it sticks around and doesn’t get too bad (when people would demand an actual solution or something really bad would happen). There’s a real concern this will happen with Woke Marxism, of course, because it’s a big motivator and winner for a fake resistance that wants to take advantage of it. That’s a terrible plan because Marxist revolution is too insidious and too dangerous to maintain. In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I talk about this issue and why it can’t be tolerated when dealing with Woke Marxism. Come join me to learn about it.
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That is the reason we don’t do Constitutional Amendments anymore, when early in the last century they were a common feature of civil discourse and governance… these would actually permanently solve a/the problem. When was the last time someone talked to you about amending the Constitution? Instead one’s rights are now dependent on the composition of a 9 member court and the politicians that appoint the justices. So, suppose you are a passionate single issue voter, you will go to the polls for a lifetime to uphold a 5-4 SCOTUS decision, while the same party you voted for ships your job out of the country. In effect, the non-amendment strategy creates reliable and permanent voting silos that TPTB depend on to get elected.
Climate Change is probably the greatest example of such a voting silo. It is a problem so great it will never be solved in a single lifetime. Furthermore, it is a war against any enemy one can’t directly see or measure (a trace gas) dependent on a variable one can’t measure either (how do you measure the global temperature?). So, just as in the times of old, where a high priest would report back visions about the war against the invisible forces of good and evil in the heavens, the scientific class performs the same function.