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Category Archives: Alliance Theory
Why do educated people use “distasteful” to condemn?
It seems weak and prissy and the opposite of compelling and logical and forceful. ChatGPT says: Because “distasteful” is doing alliance work, not moral work. Among educated elites, open condemnation is risky. Strong moral language signals passion, anger, or certainty. … Continue reading
When Status Games Collapse
David Pinsof writes: When a status game collapses, the players experience something like an inversion of the social hierarchy. The higher one’s rank, the more people one must have stepped on to acquire it. The more time and energy one … Continue reading
Life Under A Clicktatorship
Gemini says: A “clicktatorship” is a term coined to describe a form of government that merges a social media-first worldview with authoritarian tendencies. It represents a governing style where decisions, policy, and official actions are driven by, and responsive to, … Continue reading
Rupert Murdoch vs The Establishment
I’m reading the new Gabriel Sherman book, Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family –– and the World, and it seems like a case study in Alliance Theory, elite … Continue reading
Charisma Requires Managing Social Paradox
David Pinsof writes Feb. 2, 2026: Being charismatic means being good at social paradoxes. Think about a charismatic person—Elizabeth Holmes, Robert Downey Jr., Bob Dylan, whoever does it for you. What powers do they have? What can they do that … Continue reading
What Is Charisma?
David Pinsof writes: Being charismatic means being good at social paradoxes. Think about a charismatic person—Elizabeth Holmes, Robert Downey Jr., Bob Dylan, whoever does it for you. What powers do they have? What can they do that we can’t? Well, … Continue reading
How goes the elite crusade to extend the HRification of society?
ChatGPT says: Poorly, and in ways Alliance Theory would predict. The “HRification of society” was an attempt to scale workplace compliance norms into culture wide governance. It worked briefly when elite legitimacy was high and dissent was marginal. That window … Continue reading
The Trump-Tucker Relationship
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory sees Tucker and Trump as two high-status actors with overlapping but nonidentical coalitions, locked in a recurring coordination problem rather than a stable alliance. Trump is a coalition leader. Tucker is a coalition amplifier. They need … Continue reading
The Vetting Of Josh Shapiro
Since it was revealed in 1985 that American Jew Jonathan Pollard had stolen American national security secrets and given them to Israel which may have then traded them to the Soviet Union, Jews in national security have undergone more intense … Continue reading
Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia
ChatGPT says: Through an Alliance Theory lens, Rony Guldmann’s Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression is not mainly about whether conservatives are “objectively” oppressed. It is about how alliance psychology generates and stabilizes claims of victimhood when a group loses control … Continue reading