The System Isn't Broken ｜ 11⧸2⧸23
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Summary
What is the real purpose of our major institutions? What are their real goals? And why do they fail so badly at it? Is it because our elites have a disastrous vision for the future of the world? Or is it because they don t understand the real goals of their own elites?
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One of the key faults of conservative political analysis has been its focus on stated goals
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instead of true purpose revealed through actions.
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Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, recently declared on Twitter,
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Kirk is correct that mass migration has been a disaster for citizens of the countries that
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Real wages have fallen or stagnated, housing prices have skyrocketed, and social cohesion
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The promise that these populations would assimilate while increasing economic prosperity and solving
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But this was never the real purpose of mass migration, and attempting to judge success
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or failure by the stated goal of the policy is a mistake.
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The interests of the ruling class in the West have radically diverged from the people of those nations,
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and this means it's far more useful to understand the real goals of our elites
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Americans have been taught that we live in an enlightened age of reason.
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Conservatives believe that everyone in America has the general well-being of the nation in mind,
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so facts, statistics, and logical argumentation in the marketplace of ideas will produce the best result
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It should be obvious at this point that that's not the case.
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While conservatives make arguments hoping to sway popular opinion,
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the left takes control of the institutions that actually manufacture that opinion
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and implement policies that will permanently transform the nation
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in a way that generates an electoral advantage in perpetuity.
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As long as conservatives debate instead of act,
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the borders stay open and mass migration continues.
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The stated goal of mass migration was always asinine,
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as long as the right is arguing with the stated goal instead of stopping the real purpose of the policy,
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This disconnect between stated purpose and actual goal
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can be observed in almost every institution in the United States.
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Public education claims to be about helping students learn to read, write, do math, and think critically,
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but our schools are objectively terrible at this.
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is inundating children with radical leftist ideology on topics like gender, race, and sexuality.
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Our elites care far more about someone doing a racism
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than an entire generation failing to learn to read,
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and those preferences are reflected in the focus of our education system.
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The same can be seen in institutions like the United States military.
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is first and foremost the defense of its nation's borders.
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but the most basic reason to organize a military in the first place
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is to defend the nation from the people who are not supposed to cross into it.
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always seem to have a reason to keep the American military deployed,
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but the one place the armed forces can never, ever protect
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Congress will funnel untold billions of dollars to defend the borders of Ukraine.
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The president will deploy carrier groups to defend Israel,
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but the invasion of the southern border continues.
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Our ruling class could use the military to end the invasion of the country tomorrow,
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but despite the stated purpose of the armed forces,
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Instead, money and personnel are directed to the real priorities.
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If the stated goal and the true purpose of our major institutions have radically diverged,
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then it's vital to learn what caused this split.
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Institutions are central to the maintenance of any civilization
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the more it relies on institutions that can care for the needs of the people
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because they were founded explicitly with the purpose of protecting the populace
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What we're observing is a problem of scaling civilization beyond its natural limits.
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The global village is a disastrous vision for social organization.
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So is importing the world into the United States
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and expecting that public schools and television will transform everyone into a cohesive polity.
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People who don't feel the weight of their decisions will become out of touch,
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They're also very likely to take actions that benefit themselves
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at the cost of the institutions they operate or the people they serve.
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If you see the faces of the people you're supposed to work for every day,
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if your family lives in the neighborhood you're supposed to protect,
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If instead the mission of your institution is something abstract,
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serving a class of people you never interact with or neighborhoods you never see,
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it's much easier to turn the power you wield inside that organization to your own benefit.
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The disconnect between the actor and the person or group who actually bears the cost of the action
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Anyone who has ever worked in a large bureaucratic organization
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The stated goal of a company may be serving the customer and making money,
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but the different managers and functionaries in that organization
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are far more interested in their own power and prestige.
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This often leads them to make decisions on behalf of the company
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that have nothing to do with customers or profit,
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but only serve their personal needs or their faction inside that organization.
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This can only occur because the company has become so large and complex
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that a portion of its resources can be redirected to the abstract squabbles of managers
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and implemented federalism to mitigate some of the problems that scaling civilization represents.
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By locating as many political decisions as close to the people that they impact as possible,
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you reduce the chance that the agents will be completely unimpacted by the choices they make.
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Politicians are less likely to bulldoze a community for profit
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or let illegal aliens sleep in the streets if their kids play in that neighborhood.
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But the war against federalism has been relentless.
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The 10th Amendment has been dead for a long time,
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and the phrase states' rights has become a punchline.
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and justified centralization at every opportunity.
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Local governments and private institutions are held hostage
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by centralized funding and bureaucratic regulation,
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ensuring that real decisions are made in Washington, D.C., not in the heartland.
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People often ask me how our elites became so unhinged
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that they would risk killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
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It's easy to see why bureaucrats would act in their own interests,
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but why would they enact policies that are actively malicious?
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Don't they realize that if they destroy the country as it is now,
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they can no longer benefit from the resources that they're currently siphoning to themselves?
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You see, people, especially intelligent people who think all important knowledge
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are terrible at understanding second- or third-order effects.
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Bureaucrats sitting at the top of a system always think they understand how a system works,
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even though they're very far away from crucial parts of the infrastructure
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For someone designing woke educational policy or lax immigration law in Washington, D.C.,
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So you've always been picky about your produce.
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But now you find yourself checking every label to make sure it's Canadian.
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At Sobeys, we always pick guaranteed fresh Canadian produce first.
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The ruling class is free to pursue policies that serve only their ends
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because the plebs have always kept the country running and they always will.
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So what if they can't buy a home or have kids or dying deaths of despair?
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Many would like to imagine a large cabal working to destroy the United States.
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There are those who conspire against the nation.
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But much of what is now happening can be attributed to the forces
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that have mortally wounded most great empires throughout history.
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We are ruled by increasingly inept, decadent, and out-of-touch elites
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who have shielded themselves from the consequences of their decision-making
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Our institutions have grown bloated and sclerotic,
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far more interested in internal political struggles
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Until decisions are placed back in the hands of those who feel the sting of failure
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our institutions will continue to pursue their own perverse power
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