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6 responses to “Hauser’s Law”

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   overgrownhobbit

   August 21, 2026

   Declare every professional teacher hostis humanis generis, salt the earth at the Education Schools, and rebuild from scratch.

   What, you think we don’t know who taught these kids? And their parents. And grandparents?

   It’s been a century of Fabians and Soviets and useful idiots and immigrant subversives termite-ing away, however, so rhetoric notwithstanding, we need to build up, over, and around, and try to see all but the most malicious actors with eyes of love.

   Repentance and forgiveness is the only way.

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      Clarissa

      August 21, 2026

      Elizabeth Warren was an Economics professor at a fancy university. There’s no chance she doesn’t know this. Yet she screeches incessantly about “making the rich pay their fair share.” She’s simply a dishonest, nasty person.

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         overgrownhobbit

         August 22, 2026

         “She’s simply a dishonest, nasty person.”

         Simply is doing yeoman’s work in that sentence Miss Clarissa.

         Did you know you were doing it? Or were you taught to write thus?

         So to expand and re-examine: Do the Modern academics function within an unholy trinity of universities-government-NGO to maintain and extend the Fabian termite project to create a utopian hell-on-earth? The small-m modern project traces back to the 1920s. If yes, they are by what they do, hostis humanis generis.

         “The long slow march through the institutions” worked. The Prussian project used mass migration and their tech-bro’s beliefs about Uplift, Vision, and Breadth of Mind pointing to the inevitable triumphs of Victorian engineering to gut the American one-room and church schools.

         Thus as in the memetic description of HR: A taught B taught C taught D.

         The very power of Gaius and Titius [School standard English Literature Text Book writers-o.h.] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all. The authors themselves, I suspect, hardly know what they are doing to the boy, and he cannot know what is being done to him.

         From The Abolition of Man, here: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.88346/page/n11/mode/2up

         That, dated to the 40s is our “B” team.

         So to take your case, which you know best from the inside, and in the case of Elizabeth Warren which we can both only guess at did you participate in the neo-liberal Sovietized institution, and only slowly, come to perceive its evils because you didn’t perceive the water you swam in (Cs and Ds) or because you knew and were not only sinful, but unrepentent and glorying in the entropic decay of your moral nature? I’m voting the former myself. How long did it take you?

         I read the bright insights you post here, such as the one today about the stories women listen to, tell themselves in their head, and repeat to an appreciative audience of other women, including those who do not know, do not perceive (yet?), and those who do and for who the destruction of the good makes their own self-destruction more palatable.

         Reform is possible. Even as I type, bright men and women are rebuilding the American project. The old Academy, however… IDK. Mark them all outlaw and try to save their libraries and labs?

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   Anonymous

   August 21, 2026

   the point is to punish success not raise more money. They know what they are doing

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      Clarissa

      August 21, 2026

      Yes. Absolutely. But do the facile dupes who vote for them understand this? Or is the envy towards rich people robbing them of their capacity to think? Like in the parable of a man who was told he can ask for anything and get it, but his neighbor would get twice what he gets. The man thought and asked for one of his eyes to be poked out.

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   Anonymous

   August 21, 2026

   Some of the differences in your chart are huge. From 2000-2010 receipts dropped by more than 25%, measured as a share of GDP. This was a period of massive tax cuts. Over the same period, the federal budget went from a 2.3% surplus to a 9.8% deficit (also measured as a share of GDP).

   Last year the deficit was 5.8%. It would be reasonable to try to close some of the gap with taxes, especially given the massive wealth that has accumulated at the top.

   But it is true that people who want to solve the whole problem by taxation are dreaming. Government waste is massive and massively growing, and cutting this must also be part of any serious approach to deficit reduction.

   The difficulty is that we are in an era of great waste generally. It is no accident that DOGE was a bust. Corporate waste is also massive and massively growing. No one seems to have any idea how to tackle this waste. Republicans used to fight it, but those days are in the rear-view mirror. Now the arguments are just over which pet causes get the money.

   -P

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