When I say “The 9%” (90th through 98th percentile of wealthy households) are the ones we need to convince, I’m writing off “The 1%” as a lost cause. Why? Because as these graphs show, they FEEL they are winning the negative sum game (aka “war”) at a biological level. They see the current artificial selection regime (aka “culture”) as “natural” in the sense of Nature and Nature’s God.
In other words, if you understand that civilization is a con game in which you are to sit on ownership of a piece of “land” while guys like Trump and Musk develop positive network externalities around your “land” ownership, you are favored by GOD, by God!
“The 9%” are losing this biological culture war but are being made to believe that if only they, as Pournelle once said, “Play the rigged game,” they, too, can be among The Chosen.
The 9% who buy this con are on the upward slope of the TFR curves, so they can be made to feel that the “deplorables” really do need to be exterminated by importing ever more “hard working dry-wall Mexicans” or “hard working ag workers” or…
What they don’t get is that they’ll be targeted for extermination by what I call “the young men who place their flesh, blood and bone between chaos and civilization” – all those Mexican Cartel Boots On The Ground Protectors notwithstanding.
