[FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

[Merle Lefkoff]

It's mostly about people who have money and power.  They go together.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:18 AM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I remain confused by the concept of "elites".  Each one of those listed in
> the article is "anti-establishment".  Is that what "elites" means?  And if
> so, then what does "establishment" mean?  To be clear, I'm not asking for
> any one person's opinion of who is or is not "elite" or what defines the
> class according to that one slice.  As I've already explained, I believe
> all of us are elite in some sense, even if by the simple historicity of
> evolution and ontogeny.  E.g. I'm much more me than you are me.  Or to wax
> philsophical, the only person I know is conscious is me.  Likewise, anyone
> who can, say, type is elite.  Anyone who can weld aluminum is elite.  Etc.
>
> I'm asking for the archetype these people (some of whom are here on this
> list) are referring to.  It must be a _complex_ of attributes... those not
> only with power, but with the Machiavellian ability and motivations to use
> that power... the smoky back room negotiators ... the 12 Freemasons who run
> the world... etc.  As Black Sabbath describes: "Treating people like pawns
> in chess."
>
> There's got to be some way to coherently define what they mean by "elites".
>
> On 01/27/2017 09:01 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> > I'm presuming this sort of globalism will not be easy to disrupt, even
> with the new culture of populism. But it is why I find populism, 10
> powerful versions of it (see original post and skim/read the article), a
> bit threatening. And not just Trump .. there are 9 more given the article.
>
> --
> ☣ glen
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