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It’s Not Hypocrisy, You’re Just Powerless (theupheaval.substack.com)
6 points by andrenth on Aug 15, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Pointing out the hypocrisy is a useful tool -- it helps demonstrate that the balance of power is so unequal.

One of the primary reasons that the power balance is as uneven as it is is because Class B members are mostly unaware that they are in a war that they are losing through lack of notice.

Class B is sufficiently populous and sufficiently capable that it could fight back the overreach of Class A to reclaim some access to the levers of power were it willing to do so. But so long as most members of Class B don't see that they are Class B, they will not unify sufficiently to win.


Hypocrisy is merely the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Class B hasn't read Rochfoucauld.




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