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Jorj Bush's avatar

Ridiculous and poorly written.

"Bugman" isn't about office workers or technical people or any of that. It's basically just a synonym for soyjak or consoomer or whatever. You're mixing up the concept of the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) with just general competence, and they're not the same thing at all.

What you're trying to say is that you wish our side had better optics, but like Academic Agent you turn it into this silly armchair psychology exercise where you bloviate about how dumb and low class and white trash people are. You're basically Richard Hanania and you're a step away from telling everyone to vote for Gavin Newsom, if you haven't already.

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I had to look up the definition of what's a chud while reading 🤣

Perhaps the prominence of chuds emerged because of or through the prominence of memes?

Listening to a podcast on music recently, a discussion ensued on high & low culture. The point made by the podcast was that classical music, and culture more broadly, upto the years in-between the world wars, prized high culture. So for instance, the point was made that back in the day, everyone attending classical music concerts knew how to play at least 1 musical instrument, because the mould of what it meant to be an accomplished adult back then included being able to play an instrument. The podcast then went into a deep dive rabbit hole of the origins of rock and roll and the effects of frequency. But I was reminded of this while reading your essay, especially the section of why creatives aren't comfortable among chuds, which I interpreted to mean low IQ people

Unfortunately our current Western culture doesn't promote high level aesthetics, traditions, knowledge, etc. And this is the result.

For the record, personally I think it's a shame the Librarian and Parvini got into a tiff. I follow both and have listened to AA for years.

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