In American slang we often refer to money as “benjamins” this is a subtle reference to Benjamin Netanyahu, an American folk figure who takes all of our money
All abstractions get revealed for what they are when first order impositions of reality are imposed upon them. Hyper-modernity is accelerating this great ‘giving way’, as simulacra buckles under the weight of the bare life bearing down upon it.
Some one smarter than me could probably explain what it means that the infinite subspace beneath reality has transitioned over the last century from a library to an empty, decrepit, office
@LaughingCav1 Pro wealth taxers totally miss the nuance when they see 'the rich' as a monolith. An old money intergenerational land owner who is key to a local economy is completely different from a nouveau riche 'citizen of the world' with multiple offshore bank accounts.
Regime minions will look for an off-ramp from the Nowak story by foregrounding:
Knife crime.
Overstretched police.
Are police sufficiently trained?
Story hijacked by the far right.
Anything but the institutional and structural anti-white ideology baked into the system
There is certain train of thought that sees gentrification of the cities as a form of rewilding for white people. But I find gentrified hipster culture to be another flavour of deracination. There’s something very hollow about it despite it being more pleasant on a surface level.
I feel like all life has been doused in an acid bath of irony since the 1990s or so. Only now are we draining the bath and seeing what wasn't corroded by it. That which emerged resilient is probably what we should hold sacred.
Only in extremes are certain fundamental essences of life and identity revealed. If all life tends toward moderation, it loses an essential understanding of who it is and what it is for.
If money is your highest power, and managing decline happens to be more profitable than aiding flourishing, then you will create a class of people for whom their best interest is to perpetuate the decline. Chasing profit as an end unto itself is ultimately civilisational entropy.
Societal decorum requires harmony between inner and outer expression. When you hollow out the interior and replace it with something different, all the great outward flourishes will eventually wither or be replaced.
More than any reality TV show, it's far more horrifying that there exists a constituency of people in Britain that find merit in watching these gaga old regime jesters soiling themselves for the court's approval