And I think one cannot deny that, materially (if not culturally or ethically), the bottom Y%, especially Blacks and Mexicans (and immigrants in general), are doing much better than the Cathedral-suppressed counterfactual. The elite Blacks and Mexicans (actually elite-anything-except-white-hetero-males) are doing orders of magnitude better.

So, is the “outer-third” is just Moldbug’s OBV alliance, keeping the white middle class at war within itself over ridiculous distraction politics?

In other news, the proposition that Syria is really about Iran (not Russia or China) is that Russia and China sell arms and ‘consult’ (as they always do for anybody), but Iran actually send boots on the ground.

hmm, makes one wonder how we (america) are being played from outside.

The Cathedral had a devil of a time with that one. They were horrified when two regimes they liked – Soviet-client Iraq and post-Shah Iran – went to war, but they completely melted down when the US gubment started helping whichever one was behind, thus prolonging the war and probably making a buck to boot.

The Iran-Contra scandal (the Contras being another group loathed by the Cathedral, for committing the unspeakable heresy of being anti-communist) was therefore the political manifestation of the Cathedral’s animus at getting rolled. (Does anyone think that Iran-Contra would have been a story if the Contras had been communists?)

The Iran-Iraq war may very well qualify as one of the few comprehensive Cathedral losses I can think of. Too bad it didn’t directly involve the Cathedral, but we’ll take our wins where we can get them, I suppose.