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On top of that, the implicit assumptions about how to identify a bureaucrat, and the historical claims about what they've accomplish, get a wee bit expansive at
by nxobject 3y ago
On top of that, the implicit assumptions about how to identify a bureaucrat, and the historical claims about what they've accomplish, get a wee bit expansive at the end:
> There are widespread popular revolts against the evil bureaucratic pyramids: Milei, yellow vests, the recent Dutch elections, the Trucker revolt in Canada, the Bukele revolution in El Salvador; even Elon buying X and firing 75% of the head count. This will continue to spread as long as the bureaucrat remains unaccountable. Bureaucratic reform is the defining problem of our time. Bureaucrats and their NPC enablers have ruined much of what made Western Civilization worthwhile. They’ve corrupted the scientific process, technological development, subverted governments, ruined health, created conditions of anarcho-tyranny in the cities and have generally wrecked most of what they’ve touched. Their proliferation is slowly strangling everything, just as a proliferation of intestinal parasites will weaken and ultimately kill if unchecked. Parasites have no natural predators. You need some kind of medicine to get rid of them. We can study the work of successful bureaucratic reformers; Lee Kuan Yew, St. Peter Damian, Napoleon, Park Chung Hee, Deng Xiaoping, Putin, Marius, St. Ignatius of Loyola: also the unsuccessful would-be reformers such as Nixon. The most important first step, though, is recognizing the bureaucrat.
That being said, it's probably because I don't know what an NPC means in this context. Maybe it's because I'm one myself.
- woodruffw 3y agoI hadn't made it that far. That veers firmly from "stupid chest-puffing about real engineering" to "reactionary dogwhistling." When I search for the author, one of the only other sources I can find for him is bylines in a neo-Nazi-affiliated magazine[1][2]. [1]: https://www.takimag.com/contributor/ScottLocklin/161/ https://www.takimag.com/contributor/ScottLocklin/161/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taki%27s_Magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taki%27s_Magazine
- tough 3y agoNPC's come from gaming/internet meme culture. Non-playable character
- plorkyeran 3y agoThe relevant context is that there's a right-wing meme of calling people who disagree with you NPCs with the implication that they're just regurgitating talking points that they've heard, similar to how video game NPCs tend to have a small fixed set of lines that they say.