Leland Aftermath: Where do we Go from Here?

Buckle Up Voters

Leland council has now flipped off the people, and the bill for recall has been stuck in committee for over 12 days. There is a lot of behind the scenes dealing going on, and not in the favor of the people of Leland. Stay tuned.

Update: This morning I spoke with a member of the local government committee…none of the bills are moving right now, and in fact, the Committee has not even met this short session. Take that for what you will. This person said, “we are not ignoring [the Leland] bill.” Further, if there is any movement, it will not be until June.

These are not fortuitous portents.

Leland is going into closed session AGAIN on May 20. Not good folks. A government that constantly acts in secret is no friend of the people. Leland goes into secret session a lot, and more than any local council I have ever known.

We know from all of history, and even the great thinkers—Locke and Blackstone—that a government that conducts its business in secret is a tyranny.

Now, the council COULD speak about what happens in a secret session. They don’t. They could also invite select citizens a party to the secrecy of the session. They Don’t. That should tell you everything you need to know about this council.

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I have been emailing a very smart Leland resident lately who sees clearly the trouble we are in, and that, in our moments of black pilling, fear all is hopeless. The one great thing about this substack os meeting people like him. Smart guy. My faith forbids me to swallow the black pill, but I cannot say I am always successful in fending off the temptation. I have good days and bad days.

But in order to resist the black pill, we must first be red pilled, and then swallow the clear pill. Let’s do both here.

If you will permit me, I would like to explicate a little academic explanation of how we got here, and where we are going. I know, I know. Most academics are wholly out of touch and have nothing to teach. This goes for conservative academics too. There are literally too many words in the atmosphere, and few really worth reading. However, there are a few, and a few institutions, worthy of our attention. But the large majority of people who write books, etc., are not worth your time. I am not saying mine is. I do not claim any special knowledge or superior wisdom.

It is the modern university system that killed wisdom, and so, I, like many, have had to jettison everything and start over.

Most of the books that are in print now, no one will be reading in 100 years. My friend BAP is famous for saying this, and he’s right. THAT prediction (which I believe to be true) is how few so called elites really have a sense of what is going on, and have no clue how we got here. In reality, our elites planned for and support what is happening. The Leland council is but one manifestation of a decades long remaking of America.

So, yes, the decline of govt in this country is….everywhere. You cannot escape (no not even Florida is a sanctuary in case you were wondering).

I blame myself in many ways for the boomer mindset I had for decades. I too thought there were concerns, but that things would right themselves if only we had a great president, and a majority in Congress, and of course, a supportive Supreme Court. Yes, I was part of the problem by going along and thinking everything was great, and whatever troubled us could be fixed. We were enamored with our own pitiful lifestyle—much like we see in the “it’s so sexy to be living in America” by DOM (a GREAT catchy tune btw):

It’s seductive in a way—a plentiful country with lots of time for leisure, and fun…lots of fun! I bet you wish the good old days were back. I do too, but we have to make that happen….again.

In the meantime, we have to realize that we hardly recognized what the Ancients taught us—A rich and easy nation becomes a city of pigs, so wrote Plato.

Then, something along the way made us feel like something was not right. And by the time we noticed, it was (probably) too late. Perot might have been the first clue and wakeup call, but really, it may have been Pat Buchanan and his 1996 challenge to CIA master, George Bush.

All that intro to say this: There were a few people who knew, early on, what was coming—these are people we never read in graduate school. They were not read because they would have exposed the trend that was not just coming, but that was already here. Boomers: you own ALL OF THIS. Nice legacy. This is the reason the Millenials, and the Gen Z’ers hate you. You earned it Boomer.

Similarly, the managers will exploit the rest of society as a corporate body, their rights belonging to them not as individuals but through the position of actual directing responsibility which they occupy. They, too, through the possession of privilege, power, and command of educational facilities, will be able to control, within limits, the personnel of the managerial recruits; and the ruling class of managers will thus achieve a certain continuity from generation to generation.

~Burnham, p. 126

So, who might have noticed that things were bound for catastrophe? James Burnham. I have been reading his Managerial Revolution. I am half way through it. It is a fire!

What is completely amazing is this prescient tome was published in…..1941.

His main thrust is this: Everyone has it all wrong; free markets are not winning the day. Capitalism is being supplanted by a ruling class of technocrats/managers, and experts who are slowly exerting their control over the economy. With the control of the economy, there will be a new class of interests created to run the government through expert planning. How are they doing this? Well, through regulations and political pressure. Businesses in America got scared to try to thwart the government because the government would in fact control the means of production though threats, lawsuit, regulation, and federal requirements, like DEI or DEQ.

Sounds like socialism no? He says it is not. This is wholly new. It is a form of tyranny not really thought of before, except maybe by Hegel, who was the first to coin the term “rational state.”

Now how in the hell did we miss this? Well, we had a war on our hands, and the greatest generation before that fought the depression, and we, as a people, by the end of the war, were tired. What greeted us out of all that misery, was plenty. It was nice to have things—home, house, car, and kids…a life well lived. But this is when the managerial class was already rooted in the institutions of government. Joe McCarthy saw it, and was (likely) murdered because of it. The entire American press piled on McCarthy to portray him as a loon. Oh, you do not believe? Tell me ONE, only ONE, good thing you ever read about Joe McCarthy in school.

I rest my case.

Yet, we were enamored with our victory, and happy to have one. The side note is, we have never won a war since.

But the people were distracted of course by winning WW2. We had big swinging balls then and felt strong. America was a beacon to the world; a beacon of freedom—also by the economic plenty of the late 40s-50s, by a myriad of other justifications that experts now knew more than any of us.

Mencius Moldbug decades later would call this development, the Cathedral. Burham beat him to it decades earlier.

A class of people educated by elite institution of higher learning, were taught that experts knew more than the people. These same people staffed our government, and got hired at the EPA, Dept of the Interior, got elected to office, joined the academic world, started think tanks, directed movies, etc., etc. These are what Burham calls the ruling class, and Moldbug called the Cathedral. Everyone is more/less on the same page.

No matter how scientific the administration of managerial society were made, difficulties would still remain. Managerial society is a class society, a society in which there are the powerful and the weak, the privileged and the oppressed, the rulers and the ruled. If we base ourselves upon what we know from the past and not on dreams of other worlds, there is no reason to think that the law which decrees that all social groups of any size try to increase their relative power and privilege will be suspended in managerial society. Even if the attempt is in fact hopeless, it will still be made, directly or indirectly, openly or covertly. Put in the crudest way, there will continue to be, as there has always been in human history, fighting over the spoils.

Burnham, p. 138

But this took time to bring to full fruition. Many of the older generation would only accept so much. So, things had to be quiet, if not covert until the greatest generation died off. In Hollywood, it took a while, but then when the right wing was run out of the moving making business, that institution was inevitably claimed. See my friend Razorfist on this:

You can probably tell, that the language I use is the same as all my frands on the Anon Right. Be that as it may, this is just ONE example of how long it took, but also that it did in fact happen.

What will be new will be its possession of sovereignty, not its existence. This tends to be the case because social institutions in actuality change slowly, cannot be built up artificially overnight

Burnham, p. 141

Now hit play and repeat for the rest of our governing institutions. Same playbook.

Burnham noticed this was happening in 1941, which means, it was going on MUCH SOONER.

So when Democrats and Republicans today (the uniparty) speak of “our Democracy” they really mean “their democracy,” the one they created.

If you listen closely, the Leland town council speaks in these terms—they know more than you; they constantly appeal to experts to smack down public argument, they are arrogant like a staffer in the town manager’s office…you get it I am sure.

So, yes, the Leland council is only a localized version of what has been happening under our noses for decades. They have the same mannerisms of the ruling class, they speak like them, think like them, and of course, pass policies that the ruling class loves. They praise their own decisions, not your reasonable objections to those same decisions.

This is why you, people, have no voice.

The reason the council did not listen to the people is because they are a part of a class that despises the people. Burnham predicted ALL of this. And it really was not a prediction other than a noticing of what was already going on. What is predictive, is where all this would end. Burham knew it.

A Prophet is not needed because the radical change is already taking place, at mounting speed since the beginning of the second world war.

Burnham, p. 172.

Let me tie Burnham up with Leland in practice. If you read the Leland town plan it is unmistakable they are planning not just how the town will look, but what businesses will be here, what homes coffins will be built, how we will live our lives, and the means with which we will engage in social interaction. The expansion of the town staff is an expansion of managerial control over the residents. Do you see it now?

This all has been in the works for decades in this country as a whole.

So what is to be done? I have NO plan of action. I can only tell you, this is going to be HARD. Decades of rootedness by the ruling class, will take a LONG TIME to undo. None of this can be unwound overnight.

What must be done? In part it ends with us having to deal with the present Leland town council.

Do not get discouraged. The only way out is to fight. Rooted interests will not relinquish their grip on society—they have much to lose, and we have nothing to lose. That makes us have the advantage of course. But it also means the deck is stacked in their favor.

The clear pill is realizing this very fact. Plan accordingly, and buckle up. We need you.