Curtis Yarvin says that the Trump administration is fuffing up its historic chance by firing bureaucrats in cruel ways and shutting down scientific grants that mention things like “diverse cell cultures.”
A country needs both bureaucrats and scientists. There’s nowhere to find new ones if the existing ones are thrown out. Instead of antagonizing them, says Yarvin, the power that is here to stay instead of rage for a short spell and be swept away would make them loyal and loving. Things are bad on the job market for scholars, and gaining their loyalty by making things easier for them wouldn’t be hard. This opportunity is being pissed away because the inane goal of “saving money” is being pursued.
Yarvin wants a country, a nation-state. Trump kind of wants it but doesn’t really know how to get there. Musk doesn’t begin to understand the concept and most definitely doesn’t want it.
My own take is that country is not recoverable anyway because the way people feel in the world changed and doesn’t contain that concept anymore. Musk wins because his position is the most popular.
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You do not need allegiance of the bureaucrats if you are replacing them with AI.
With scientists it is more complicated. But perhaps Musk disagrees with Yarvin on their value as “human capital” / “state slaves”.
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I interact with bureaucrats at my university every day. There are definitely many positions that could be eliminated. And there are also people who make everything work. There’s no AI that can substitute them. These people should be treasured. The guy I’m talking about in my most recent video is such a person. A miracle worker who did so much for me, I’m bursting with gratitude. His story is at the very beginning of the show:
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I think Yarvin is right, Trump is not going about this the right way at all. He is alienating and antagonizing a lot of people for no real reason. All this firing of people only to then realize they are actually needed shows this.
I think Yarvin is also trying to make the point that if Trump is go have any lasting effect or chance at restructuring things he’s going to need the bureaucrats, otherwise he’s not going to be able to carry out the things he wants to carry out. He makes the point that we need the Department of Education, not to spouse woke BS but the opposite, to get rid of decades of indoctrination.
The Trump administration is just starting and there is a very real possibly of massive blow back at Trump if he’s not more careful.
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I also don’t see the point of removing the federal oversight over education. I’m in Illinois, and our only hope of beating back the tide of far-left indoctrination in schools is through federal authority. I’m sure Pritzker is very happy that the federal government is removing itself from the play and letting him run free. Dems are never afraid of using their power while Republicans easily give it away. I don’t get it.
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“I also don’t see the point of removing the federal oversight over education”
I assume a near term goal is to eliminate compulsory education and to privatize all education. Hard to do that with federal oversight.
And… private schools will probably end up as woke as public schools (education corporations take over everything and cram dei down everybody’s throat).
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Yarvin writes that the federal workers who were fired are on probationary status. Those who work in a state system know that probationary includes people who were promoted in the past 2 years, so the most experienced, efficient workers. But it’s easiest to fire them, so that’s the road that was taken.
The belief that people are interchangeable widgets dominates both the left and the right.
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Well I mean your not wrong. People aren’t interchangeable widgets. However here is the question. A lot of those people need to be removed, but Trump has a very limited time to do this. Right now the Republicans hold congress, but that won’t last. So he has a very short amount of time before anything he wants to done gets jammed up when the Republicans once more seize defeat from the jaws of victory. Not to mention this isn’t the only project he is trying to get done in this short period of time, and they are all under the same deadline.
So this puts him in a bit of a bind, with a fast approaching deadline looming in the backdrop. But it gets worse. You know a lot of the bureaucrats need to go, but how do you go about getting the names of those who need to go. Who will you trust to tell you whom the actual deadwood are, instead of lying to save their positions?
During the last round back in 2016-2020, a lot of people whom Trump was told could be counted on and trusted turned out to be swamp critters. Then there is the fact that even if he could find and put agents he can count on to be both honest and aboveboard, in charge of the dismantling of these departments, how will they get the names in time. After all, they will have the same issue he faces.
So yea. If there was time, then its likely a slow systematic purge could have been done. The sad fact is, that there isn’t really enough time for that approach. Which means President Trump has to fall back upon a slash and burn style cleanup. Its unfortunate some of the good ones are caught up in it, but it has to be done. The cleaning out or dismantling of these departments is long overdue. Heck some of them are practically like gangrene at this point and need to be treated in a similar fashion. Amputation to save the rest of the limb.
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“If all you have is a plan to “burn down the current system,” you do not actually have a plan at all. There are certain things, like making an apple pie, that will basically come out okay whether you have a plan or not. There are others, like launching a satellite, or swimming the Strait of San Juan de Fuca, or regime change, for which your plans can’t be either too detailed, or too complete.”
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It’s the same faulty thinking that is sinking my university.
“We need to save money!”
Every new round of money-saving measures costs us another 1,000 of students. Which wipes out all the savings and puts us in the red. Then we do more money-saving. Lose more students. Again we’re in the red. Truly, only complete dumbasses would keep doing the same thing and hoping for a different result. And we are those dumbasses.
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“And there are also people who make everything work.”
Yes, I well remember trying to find and sort records at the the Forestry Department on the North Island, there was one pleasant middle aged woman that seemed to handle everything, She would often be the only person there past afternoon coffee time on Fridays, and the only one that wasn’t at an important meeting for the rest of the week. Needless to say, she was the only one that we took out for lunch ;-D
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In every university service we have one person who is working and a bunch of hangers on who are useless. The trick is to identify that one person and only deal with them and not the layabouts. The problem is that effective people get snapped up pretty fast by the private sector and the university does exactly zilch to retain them. We’ve lost two of our best accountants this way. One good one is left but I don’t think she’ll stay for long with the crazy workload and pathetic pay.
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People who make everything work…
yeah.
Just had to deal with the local DMV and it was a total nightmare, with a compulsory electronic-from-your-phone queueing system that could not be used without a smartphone.
Missed our hometown DMV, where if anything went wrong… we knew which lady to talk to, to get it fixed.
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