Someone wrote in [personal profile] ecosophia 2023-04-25 07:46 pm (UTC)

And finally someone has written the article nailing down the nebulous idea that has been floating around in my head since sometime in 2020:

"Clean vs. Dirty: A Way to Understand Everything", by Jeffrey Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.

https://brownstone.org/articles/clean-vs-dirty-a-way-to-understand-everything/

(Well, maybe not EVERYTHING - but an awful lot, in my opinion.)

"It suddenly dawned on me. It is possible to understand nearly everything going on today – the Covid response, the political tribalism, the censorship, the failure of the major media to talk about anything that matters, the cultural and class divides, even migration trends – as a grand effort by those people who perceive themselves to be clean to stay away from people they regard as dirty."

I've been saying as much for a long time now. At least, that has been my gut instinct about a big part of what has been going on with the PMC types for over three years now. It's rooted in a deep fear of social contagion and being sullied by contact with the "dirty" (underclass) people. Understand that, and you understand a great deal about why Cooties Theater was such a popular and long-running show with a certain segment of the populations.


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