The Mean Girls

Remember mean girls? Or really the “cool kids” of either sex? Remember how they used to make your life a misery? No matter what you did, either trying to pass unnoticed, or trying to fit in could save you from their scathing looks and their expressions of utter derision. And you could never even figure out why they were doing it or what had triggered this particular attack. Their rules seemed to change all the time. The only rule was you were wrong, they were right, you were a loser and they were super-cool.

As an aside, know how any of the main culprits are doing now decades later? We’ll table that for a moment.

I was talking to Bill (Reader) the other day (incidentally pray for any conservatives under cover in the ivies. No, seriously.) We were talking about the peculiar experience our kind had through the Covidiocy and he said part of the reason most of us held fast even though the entire world was vying to convince us this was a world-ending emergency is that we had experience from school. Elementary and middle school and yeah, even high school. As in, most of us had been bullied or ostracized or looked down upon by people the establishment (teachers, employees) and most other students treated as minor divinities. And most of us couldn’t fit in or escape attacks even if we tried. So eventually we gave up trying and the lesson public school taught us was to stand with our arms crossed and feet planted, glare back and tell the world, “No. You move.”

Or at least it did some of us. Others broke, badly. But those of us on the broadly defined right — “to the right of Lenin” being how I define it — obviously didn’t break. Even if we might have gone a little nuts.

In answer to the above question: most of the mean girls whom I loathed and who made me miserable (they couldn’t hit me. I was massive. But ridicule and subtle derision and pranks are no respecters of size and strength) and whom I chanced to hear of — mom was never able to understand ‘went to school together’ isn’t the same as ‘are besties’ — have… not done great in life, honestly. About the most successful has a decentish mid-level career, but is on husband number 5? 6? and looks like she was run over by a train.

Now the crash and burn of these people might be/is because they had their glory days too early. Or at least I always thought so. But in thinking about our current cultural situation, I have…. more nuanced opinions.

You see, mean girls — in my case, literal. It was an all-girl school, but mean girls, really, can be either sex — are products of a certain set of circumstances.

Schools aren’t natural environments. They are centers of centralized authority, administered from above by people who don’t much care, but do a great deal of picking of winners and losers. (Winners and losers for reasons that have bloody nothing to do with the ostensible reason for the existence of schools: education.) In fact by people who are social-engineering and picking the winners they think are “good” for their goals. (Mostly of making them look good.) Also you’re locked into it, not allowed to escape. You have to be there every week day for a set of years. With the same people, in a closed and artificial system.

People who become “winners” in this game are mostly experts at socially manipulating circumstances to make themselves seem superior and put together. They congregate in networks that do not admit challenge, and work mostly to keep them ontop.

Once they get to the real world, people respond differently to their manipulation tactics, but more importantly, their networks are disrupted and people can avoid them/don’t need to be around them every day. I suppose some of them — the brightest — will adapt and learn to avoid the situation. But most don’t, from what I can see (not that I have done a systematic study, or have any intention of.) Because their entire power/lifestyle was built on DERIDING OTHERS to make themselves seem important, and because they didn’t even have any firm principles behind that but just “tear down anyone and anything that might be a threat to our power” they have nothing to build from or towards.

So, let’s talk about the present situation of the left.

We used to believe — still see this in comments — that the left (and their distant patron the USSR) were ultimately good at one thing: propaganda. And for a long time, they seemed to be so. They could convince people of the most ridiculous things and more importantly, they’d made leftism into a positional good. If you wanted to show you were high class you’d be as leftist as possible in public, all the way to communist.

Turns out though that this wasn’t in any way shape or form a natural system, any more than the public schools are. It turns out they could act superior, sell leftism as a positional good, and act like we were the baddies because they controlled critical positions in the information/art/entertainment industrial complex. They could therefore keep out anyone who disagreed with them, and act like all smart people agreed with the most outrageous idiocies of the communist mind.

The fact that the pipe line of this system often started with the leftist teachers/professors in schools is not a coincidence.

There was no way to tell of course. Not while they controlled the information system we were forced to use every day. In fact, like with school, we assumed this was just the natural order of things. See how even people on the right argued that the right just wasn’t as creative as the left, since all great writers/artists were leftist. (Even Jordan Peterson. And the reason he adduced was mentally deficient. In his mind, it was because the right is more rule prone and doesn’t want to change the system. Missing that the system and the rules have been leftist my whole life. That to be on the right is to be a rebel. Sigh.)

The fact their entire eco-system of “creatives” was being supported by our tax money via several NGOs just made them seem more popular and like everyone liked them, which of course reinforced their idea and other’s perception of superiority.

… but this is not the case anymore. And it’s becoming glaringly obvious it was all fake.

In fact, the more distributed the information system gets the more the left is becoming like the mean girls once they leave high school: bitter, vociferous, and attracting only the mentally ill.

I know one looks at the “socialists” winning tickets in our big cities and the one certified fascist in Maine and is tempted to believe they have some kind of power still.

They do actually, it’s called FRAUD. Note mostly these people “win” in big cities, which are always hubs of fraud (because it’s way easier to fraud the vote where people are largely anonymous and there’s a lot of them.) Hence the opposition from lefties (and RINOS) to the SAVE America act.

However, they are a rump (appropriately) movement at this point. Their strength is MOSTLY fraud. They’re not really convincing anyone. Or at least not anyone who isn’t indoctrinated and/or still captive of the artificial educational establishment.

They are ultimately mean girls. They didn’t work for their cultural ascendance, it was handed to them. And their entire power was based on tearing down, destroying and debasing their native culture. They can not create, build or uplift…. well, anything.

The reign of the mean girls is coming to an end. First slowly (these last 20 years) then suddenly, you’ll see communists and leftists in general being derided as the sapskulls with nothing but evil and vain gloating on their side.

Their fall will be sudden and terrible.

And glorious.