{"id":65072,"date":"2023-02-20T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65072"},"modified":"2023-02-20T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:00:15","slug":"four-hypotheses-about-the-secular-corporatist-global-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65072","title":{"rendered":"Four Hypotheses About the Secular-Corporatist Global Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four Hypotheses About the Secular-Corporatist Global Elite<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Everyone has a theory about what is going on. But many are partial, or fragmentary, or too simple in explanation \u2013 attributing too much significance to \u2018capitalism\u2019 or \u2018globalism\u2019 or \u2018opportunism\u2019 or \u2018unintended consequences\u2019. We have to keep trying to make sense of the whole scenario. And I mean that while the exact and quantitative writers have to keep writing \u2013 as the Daily Sceptic<\/em>\u00a0regulars do \u2013 so do those of us who write about things less exact.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Let us begin with a few grand hypotheses about what is going on. Rene Guenon\u2019s hypothesis, first sketched around 1930, was that all civilisations possess spiritual and temporal powers and so somehow incorporate a tension between the two: but that, for the first time in history, our modernity from any time after 1500 placed the temporal above the eternal, the material above the spiritual: in short, \u2018state\u2019 above \u2018church\u2019. There were a few related hypotheses offered at the same time: such as Julien Benda\u2019s hypothesis that the\u00a0clercs<\/em>, or intellectuals, had shifted their concern: so the immense value they had always attributed to unworldly matters was now attributed to worldly matters. That was to say, the intellectuals were now corrupt, coming after filthy lucre.<\/p>\n

An American friend of mine recently drew my attention to some of the recent writings of a novelist and essayist,\u00a0Paul Kingsnorth<\/a>. Originally an anti-capitalist, he thought he was on the Left, and now finds himself more or less on the Right. His hypothesis is that the decline of Christianity in our civilization \u2013 the decline of the eternal and spiritual \u2013 coincides and was probably ultimately caused by the rise of what he calls \u2018the myth of progress\u2019. Progress is the conviction that the world,\u00a0this<\/em> world, is getting better…<\/p>\n

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Four Hypotheses About the Secular-Corporatist Global Elite Everyone has a theory about what is going on. But many are partial, or fragmentary, or too simple in explanation \u2013 attributing too much significance to \u2018capitalism\u2019 or \u2018globalism\u2019 or \u2018opportunism\u2019 or \u2018unintended consequences\u2019. We have to keep trying to make sense of the whole scenario. And I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11439,33709,2384,33710,33552],"class_list":["post-65072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-elite","tag-dr-james-alexander","tag-elite","tag-secular-corporatist-global-elite","tag-the-daily-skeptic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65073,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65072\/revisions\/65073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}