The Endarkenment

[Dashinka 24,478]

I don't fully agree with this except as to how it applies to the extreme left "progressives", Democrats and establishment types.  It has been my experience that these people are truly unhappy people and will be in serious need of mental health therapy if Trump wins.

 

The Endarkenment

 

The Endarkenment is the pathological disorientation that convulses a society after it has extinguished all sources of meaning and lost sight of all paths to a happier future. It’s the triumph of wish over facts, the infantilization of top echelons of the social pyramid—of hyper-credentialed, globally mobile people, wielders of power and wealth and media, who, on a routine basis, confuse their self-important imaginings with the world itself. It’s the widespread descent of everyone else, now deprived of teachers, preachers, and role models, into a cognitive underclass, prone to the most bizarre theories about how things work.

 

The Endarkenment is experienced collectively as the disintegration of institutions, a traumatic fracturing of social life, and the seemingly ceaseless perpetuation of political conflict. But it is also experienced at the personal level in the form of heightened anxiety, depression, drug addiction, “deaths of despair,” and a loss of interest in family and procreation—even in sex.

 

The chaos has infected every level of contemporary society. For many, its perfect avatar is Trump—a man who selects his facts out of his fantasy life. Trump is a worthy representative, but I prefer outgoing president Biden because the light has literally gone out in his eyes and in much of his mind. Though the most powerful man on earth, decider between peace and war, he is unable to complete a coherent sentence. At the fateful June presidential debate, he made Trump sound like Pericles by comparison.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-endarkenment

[TBoneTX 45,244]

Agree with you.  In addition, while reading it, I was reminded of how Woodrow Wilson presaged 0bummer in decreeing that the deplorables (of then and now) should be ruled by their betters.