Cranky

Mountains and politics ...

[Cranky @rushingdima]

Prophetic

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

In 1930, the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset published The Revolt of the Masses, a book that still feels uncomfortably prophetic. His central target was not the poor or the working class, but a new kind of human being he called the “mass man”.

The mass man, Ortega argued, is defined by attitude rather than income. He is the ordinary person who is perfectly satisfied with himself, demands nothing higher of his own character or intellect, and yet insists that his mediocrity be treated as a right. He does not defer to excellence, competence, or higher standards. He regards them with suspicion or resentment. What previous ages saw as the privilege of the few - political influence, cultural authority, the right to shape society - the mass man now claims as his due, without any corresponding effort to rise above the average.

Ortega believed this type of person had been produced by the very success of modern civilisation. Rising living standards, mass education, and liberal institutions had given ordinary people unprecedented power and comfort. But they had not produced a corresponding sense of responsibility or humility before higher achievements. The result was a revolt: the mass man refused to accept the authority of superior knowledge, culture, or character. He demanded that everything be brought down to his level.

The danger, Ortega warned, was that a civilisation cannot survive if its central actors no longer respect the standards that made it possible. When the average begins to dominate without aspiring to anything beyond itself, excellence is undermined, institutions decay, and politics becomes an expression of resentment rather than responsibility.

Ortega’s diagnosis remains unsettling because it is not a complaint about poverty or exclusion. It is a warning about self-satisfied mediocrity armed with power.

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[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

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[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Great advice guys:

“Korea Investment & Securities said on Wednesday that nearly half of its 880,000 clients who bought Samsung shares were now sitting on losses, while nearly 70 per cent of its 408,000 investors in SK Hynix were also in the red.”

Maybe if KIS didn’t get its “research” from
“Expert influencers” on X…

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@jimiuorio Nah, socialists are genuinely dumb. And if their ridiculous plan doesn't work then it someone else's fault. That's when repressions start.

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@FirstSquawk It’s like listening to a crazy man who talks to himself.

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@ConceptualJames Dude wanted everybody’s stuff. Everyone would be so trained and conditioned to let Marx do nothing but holistically possess everything.

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@WarMonitor3 You mean Al Andalus?

[Maama Uganda @MaamaUganda02]

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[Rabbi Shalom Landau @RabbiLandau]

The more information you have, the lower your IQ.

Gen Z knows more than Einstein, and understands less than a medieval peasant.

A brain fed every answer instantly never learns to wrestle with questions.

It's not enough to collect facts. You must acquire understanding.

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@RepRoKhanna Abolish Ro Khanna, or at least remove that idiot off my flow

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

This video wins the internet for today 🤣

Watch till the end

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@JeremyBenAmi @RahmEmanuel Here for the ratio. Obama boys crawl from under every rock.

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@amandalitman You pick a nazi, you get a nazi. It's no surprise.

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@CGasparino @Gladwell Dude is a fraud, but very popular. I had a long chat with AI about him yesterday. Checking my instincts.

[cartonero @flanchota]

los goles que mete haaland no tienen sentido

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Noruega elimino a brasil y el ejercito subió un video haciendo el festejo vikingo

[Dailymeow @Dailymeoww1]

The Brazil national team was cursed because of what they did to this cat during a press conference at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Until they find this cat and apologize to it, nothing will go well for the Brazil national team.

[Cranky @rushingdima]

@ConceptualJames You're way too charitable. There is no redistribution, there is only allocation based on proximity to the power center.