{"id":57227,"date":"2014-09-07T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57227"},"modified":"2014-09-07T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T16:55:42","slug":"conspiracy-theories-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57227","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was asked in shul on Shabbos if I believe in conspiracy theories, such as the Illumanati, Free Masons, etc, control the world? Do I believe in lizard people who live far beneath the earth? I don’t believe in those conspiracy theories but I do believe in the concept of a deep state<\/a>. <\/p>\n

For a tiny people, Jews are incredibly influential. There is a conspiracy theory worthy of investigation. How do they do it? What can we learn from Jewish success? Here are some smart conspiracy theories for 2013.<\/a> Is Love Colorblind?<\/a> Blacks and Arabs tend to believe<\/a> in more conspiracy theories than do whites.<\/p>\n

Imagine what life is like for those with IQs under 100? They walk around knowing that many, if not most people, they interact with are smarter than them. They world might seem as if it is conspiring against you and that might make you surly and suspicious. <\/p>\n

Steve Sailer wrote about Tom Wolfe’s latest novel, Back to Blood<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wolfe is the master of portraying embarrassment; in particular, he can intuit what people with 95 IQs find humiliating, a subject most writers are oblivious to.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Back To Blood<\/em><\/a> <\/em> never turns into a Nestor-John Smith buddy tale, as is traditional for stories about cops and reporters teaming up. For example, when they drive west into Broward County with its ho-hum nationally franchised stores, Nestor begins to feel uncomfortable in the generic exurb. An unusually animated John Smith reflects: \u201cWe\u2019ve just entered a strange land \u2026 called America! We\u2019re not in Miami anymore. Can\u2019t you feel it?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNestor analyzed this concept for traces of anti-Cuban insult, even though he had experienced the same alien feeling just a moment before \u2026 Well, John Smith was an alien himself. He was apparently a living embodiment of a creature everybody had heard of, but nobody ever met in Miami, the WASP \u2026 Emotionally, he still resented it, harmless or not. \u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As John Smith begins to riff like a proto-Tom Wolfe on the names of the commercial outlets:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnimated like this, John Smith annoyed him. \u2026 John Smith could draw \u2026 concepts \u2026 out of something as ordinary as this second-rate road \u2026 That kind of thinking was a facility Nestor didn\u2019t have. Irony came always at somebody else\u2019s expense \u2026 his own, probably \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thus, it\u2019s hardly surprising that the usual trajectory for immigrant groups, even anti-black ones like the Cubans, is toward the Democrats\u2014the Party of Resentment.<\/p>\n

Topping reflects upon the fictional John Smith, and journalists in general:<\/p>\n

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If you ask me, newspaper reporters are created at age six when they first go to school. In the schoolyard boys immediately divide into two types. Immediately! There are those who have the will to be daring and dominate, and those who don\u2019t have it. \u2026 But there are boys from the weaker side of the divide who grow up with the same dreams as the stronger \u2026 The boy standing before me, John Smith, is one of them. They, too, dream of power, money, fame, and beautiful lovers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wolfe, who is a lavish spender in the tradition of Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald, has seldom made any pretense that he doesn\u2019t want success in its cash forms. (Here\u2019s Wolfe\u2019s tribute<\/a> to Twain as the rare writer who struck it rich as a \u201cBig Spender from the East.\u201d)<\/p>\n

He just wants it on his own terms.<\/p>\n

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Boys like this kid grow up instinctively realizing that language is like \u2026 a sword or a gun. Used skillfully, it has the power to \u2026 well, not so much achieve<\/em> things as to tear things down\u2014including people \u2026 including the boys who came out on the strong side of the sheerly dividing line.<\/p>\n

Hey, that\u2019s what liberals<\/em> are! Ideology? Economics? Social justice? Those are nothing but their prom outfits. Their politics were set for life in the schoolyard at age six. They were the weak, and forever after they resented the strong. That\u2019s why so many journalists are liberals! The very same schoolyard events that pushed them toward the written word \u2026 pushed them toward \u201cliberalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I suspect, however, that Tom Wolfe, much as he resembles John Smith, was never a liberal. I\u2019d like to see him write a memoir. Wolfe\u2019s first three decades\u2014his upbringing in Virginia, his Ph.D. at Yale, and his reporting in Cuba<\/a> during the Revolution\u2014remain obscure, probably both for personal and political reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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