Reality Honks Back
From a reader:
This is a gem. What the author below refers to as the "Virtual" class maps well onto what Mark Steyn calls our "depraved political class." They're as unworthy a few million (maybe few tens of million) knaves, Western-civilization-wide, as one can imagine.
... To simplify, let’s first identify and categorize two classes of people in society, who we could say tend to navigate and interact with the world in fundamentally different ways.
The first is a class that has been a part of human civilization for a really long time. These are the people who work primarily in the real, physical world. Maybe they work directly with their hands... Or maybe... they own or manage a business where they organize and direct employees who work with their hands, and buy or sell or move things around in the real world...
The second class is different. It is, relatively speaking, a new civilizational innovation (at least in numbering more than a handful of people). This group is the “thinking classes”... They don’t interact much with the physical world directly; they are handlers of knowledge....
For our purposes here, let’s call these two classes the Physicals and the Virtuals, respectively....
But the most relevant distinction between Virtuals and Physicals is that the Virtuals are now everywhere unambiguously the ruling class. In a world in which knowledge is the primary component of value-added production (or so we are told), and economic activity is increasingly defined by the digital and the abstract, they have been the overwhelming winners, accumulating financial, political, and cultural status and influence.
In part this is because the ruling class is also a global class, and so has access to global capital...
But the Virtual ruling class has a vulnerability that it has not yet solved.... Ultimately, they still remain reliant on the physical world.
... So when the Physicals of the Canadian host-body revolted against their control, the Virtual class suddenly faced a huge problem....
... the truckers effectively called their bluff on who ultimately has control over the world....
But once they grasped the situation, the Virtuals’ response was to turn immediately to their default means of dealing with any problem: narrative and informational control....
If all this seemed awfully synchronized, that’s the whole point. Systematic information control, or what the Chinese Communist Party refers to as “public opinion management,” is now the entire strategic response of the Virtual class to every political problem....
No matter how desperately Trudeau has scrambled to change the narrative, he hasn’t yet succeeded....
That Trudeau’s government would choose to jettison any remaining illusion of Canada still being a liberal democracy just to harm their political class enemies isn’t too surprising. It’s their method of doing so that is particularly striking: control over digital financial assets is pretty much the ultimate leverage now available to the Virtuals....