[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 [@shagbark_hick](/creator/twitter/shagbark_hick) on x 43.2K followers Created: 2025-07-27 14:47:29 UTC Upward social mobility might be a little like pissing in the pool. If one or two people do it, OK, no one notices. But if everyone does it, it's absolutely disgusting for everyone, and the pool is no longer usable. The dismal state of our elites may've produced in large part by the endless striving and elbowing upward that many lower-class American families did and continue to do. In a society where people "know their station" and remain in it, stability is the default, and there are real barriers against engaging in pitiful levels of effrontery for the sake of power or financial gain -- most notably: shame, and a certain hardheaded awareness about what is now and ever shall be. But once every ragged bum in the lot is primping himself and behaving like a little Sultan, and once the acts of such people become really quite convincing -- it can become rather confusing to know who's actually who. And once a handful of provincials manage to clamber up into the high halls of power, the real aristocrats begin to sense that something has gone horribly awry -- and may engage in all kinds of bizarre and ultimately anti-civilizational behavior. They will withdraw, retreat into their private world, and the former 'clarity of class' that once allowed them to engage in real noblesse oblige is finished. Better to have real "walls" between the social classes. But then again, if we did that, we wouldn't have quite so many feel-good stories and rags-to-riches Hallmark movies, etc; and people would have to learn to humbly content themselves with "enough" -- an impossibility in a Godless world. In this way, the industrial revolution seemed to confirm that the old Ancien Regime could never return, and that the West had entered some kind of weird, rabid, final stage -- a time of extreme confusion and leaderlessness. Once random inventors started striking it rich, and factories began cranking out cars and A/C machines, the end of the Old Order was secured, permanently (or at least until industrial civ collapses).  XXXXX engagements  [Post Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1949481777195602336)
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𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick on x 43.2K followers
Created: 2025-07-27 14:47:29 UTC
Upward social mobility might be a little like pissing in the pool.
If one or two people do it, OK, no one notices.
But if everyone does it, it's absolutely disgusting for everyone, and the pool is no longer usable.
The dismal state of our elites may've produced in large part by the endless striving and elbowing upward that many lower-class American families did and continue to do. In a society where people "know their station" and remain in it, stability is the default, and there are real barriers against engaging in pitiful levels of effrontery for the sake of power or financial gain -- most notably: shame, and a certain hardheaded awareness about what is now and ever shall be.
But once every ragged bum in the lot is primping himself and behaving like a little Sultan, and once the acts of such people become really quite convincing -- it can become rather confusing to know who's actually who. And once a handful of provincials manage to clamber up into the high halls of power, the real aristocrats begin to sense that something has gone horribly awry -- and may engage in all kinds of bizarre and ultimately anti-civilizational behavior. They will withdraw, retreat into their private world, and the former 'clarity of class' that once allowed them to engage in real noblesse oblige is finished.
Better to have real "walls" between the social classes. But then again, if we did that, we wouldn't have quite so many feel-good stories and rags-to-riches Hallmark movies, etc; and people would have to learn to humbly content themselves with "enough" -- an impossibility in a Godless world.
In this way, the industrial revolution seemed to confirm that the old Ancien Regime could never return, and that the West had entered some kind of weird, rabid, final stage -- a time of extreme confusion and leaderlessness. Once random inventors started striking it rich, and factories began cranking out cars and A/C machines, the end of the Old Order was secured, permanently (or at least until industrial civ collapses).
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