Me, under investigation by the SEC for the largest financial fraud in human history: “Fuck regulators”
New EA Cause Area: Assassinate SBF to shut his fucking mouth.
“Woke Westerners” bro you RAN A PONZI SCHEME this isn’t because you didn’t hit your DEI targets. Vladimir Putin-level of bitter ideological overreach.
Well obviously as far as millennials who leveraged themselves up from merely UUMC families into positions of world-striding, financially staggering prominence off of performances of personality they dramatically proclaim were never natural but purely artifice, I prefer Taylor Swift.
But I don’t think you should read him as blaming the collapse on wokeness – it’s just that you’re looking for him to take and assign moral responsibility and so if that’s what he talks about you get the sense he’s assigning it to, it’s an amoral account of
W H A T H A P P E N E D
, maybe demonstratively so to illustrate that he’s working – you know, having spent the last however long as head of an 11-figure court/harem in royal gardens in island paradise – from an aristocratic morality, not a bourgeois one. And, implicitly, that he is herald of the transition from a long 20th century postwar bourgeois order to an aristocratic one.
I’m not sure this’ll net help, awake this awareness in other Masters of the Universe to come together and claim their domain. I think he might’ve been oversampling cultural sense from the crypto crowd that’re largely in crypto for the goal of reaching this potential and then this state, rather than independently having the potential. (And the fallout from this shit sure won’t get them there)
Like, to return to the top there is a reason my money’s on Taylor Swift as the American empress. Her shit’s just as much artifice but there’s enough authenticity – and authenticity about artifice – mixed in to establish a royal bond with the people at scale and bring them onside.
Can she reach normies as the middle layers of society can she ever. Can she reach the white working class, you realize she was a country star? Can she reach the UMC have you seen the strange new respect for her in their writing lately? Can she reach the would-be aristocrats literally Caroline and me have talked about orienting ourselves with respect to Taylor Swift.
(Can she reach the Black community? No, Reputation was terrible.)
Whereas SBF just generates conflicts, with institutional capital, with the crypto base that you’d want to co-opt at scale, with attempts to congeal a left-populist base that’ll splinter if they can’t find targets to rally against
But like, yeah, that is the shift we’re headed towards, kontextmaschine sees it – remember how I talk about the boarding school as basis for an estate and domain? – Taylor Swift sees it, SBF sees it