meritocracy hierarchy

MERITOCRACY HIERARCHY

Green Mountain Dude ( here ) had a great article on his dogs, the evolution of man with dogs and dog hierarchy being like human social order.  I’m glad GMD doesn’t write more often or he would be a threat to my paycheck J It didn’t get me thinking about dogs, but about humans need for hierarchy and our satisfaction with life in the pack order.  GMD was talking about how dogs actually relax and enjoy life once they know that the pack hierarchy is in no danger of disruption.  Their place in the pack is irrelevant to them.  They just need to BE.

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If you think about it without Libertarian distortions ( and yes, as much as I admire and identify with anarchy-even enjoying punk rock-I know it isn’t a viable construct.  And Libertarianism is a pathetic version of anarchy ), as a tribal creature, man is just as needy of a hierarchy as dogs are.  Not all of us want to be the leader.  He might eat better and get laid more, but he is also paying for that privilege.  He earns the perks.  Most of us are content in the middle layers we strove for and attained. 

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Leader of the pack isn’t even what we want, just promotion above base level.  We want to work hard and be rewarded for it, but that doesn’t mean you shoot for top dog position.  You just want to excel and be recognized.  That is skill and innovation, which is totally different than using THAT to springboard to leadership.  That is one of the issues I have with military leadership-it rewards Mandarins who only advance through loyalty rather than merit.  I understand WHY.  The Union and Empire needed loyalty to start and succeed.  Loyal cannon fodder could be replaced as talent was searched for.

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But that has gotten a lot of folks killed, hasn’t it?  And if you think about it, the professional full time army was ALWAYS full of Mandarins.  At the tip of the spear, fighting Indigs for your state as part of the militia, you needed to know what you were doing.  But that politically appointed asswhore officer from the “real” army didn’t require much skill.  Nothing has changed in 250 years.  The offshoots of the English aristocracy have always been snooty dinguses willing to kill the poor for another shilling in the kings coffers. 

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See?  I PREFERRED being an enlisted man, even with that target painted on my back by incompetent jerks.  I wasn’t jealous they had leadership position.  I would have just preferred to have an officer who knew what he was doing and wasn’t going to get me killed.  Goodness knows the guys in training and logistics did everything they could to endanger me, so it would have been nice if the guy in charge of tactics at least had a clue.  I was content in my hierarchical position.  I WANTED someone else in charge.  I just wanted to shoot people and then drink beer.

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I had no problem with being a peon.  I DID have a problem with a lack of a meritocracy.  I would love it if all I had to do was write.  I don’t like being an editor or a business owner or a PR guy or whatever.  I’d prefer to have a boss that gave me creative control but ran the business, even after taking most of the profits.  But you cannot find quality publications anymore, can you?  You have to do it yourself because everyone else sucks.  And I think preparing sees the same issue.

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Everyone wants to be the General, but they want to run the organization in the nation state manner.  Loyalty rather than merit.  They have ZERO idea what it takes to be the alpha dog.  They just want to put on a pretty uniform which gives them the right to be respected and revered.  Preppers want to be in charge of everyone in their group, but they don’t know what it takes to stay in charge by doing the hard work.  Just as members of that group usually fail to realize the need for pack loyalty and instead substitute consumption.

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The preppers that recognize this system in place obviously lean towards hermitage and going it alone.  Because just like a dog realizes instinctively, a true hierarchy with a real alpha dog protects all members but one without a true leader endangers all.  A dog will challenge for alpha status not because it wants to be in charge but because SOMEBODY needs to be, anybody, and he isn’t seeing that.  If it is put back in its place, back down in the hierarchy, it is happy because he knows a competent leader is in charge and all is well.

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The pack is once again secure.  I want a qualified leader in charge.   I didn’t stress about Shrub being President, but I sure did with Obammy and I am with Forrest Trump.  Why?  It isn’t a Republican or a Democrat thing, it is a merit thing.  Shrub was a worthless puke, but he had Cheney in charge of the operation.  And Cheney was a true Alpha.  He got stuff done.  He didn’t make ANY threats, let alone worthless ones.  He just took care of the business of empire.  Obammy and Trump?  Nothing BUT worthless talk.  They are little old ladies sitting on the porch sipping lemonade while the real leaders are working the field.  I DESPISE Israel and its control over our government.  If you got close enough to Trump you would smell Israeli dingus on his breath.  But I respect Israel for its ability to make our President bark.  I respect the ability.  I’m not happy I’m affected by it, but I do wish we could do the same to other countries.  I don’t have to like Russia or Putin to respect its achievement recovering after we screwed them.  That is the issue with our feminine leadership.  They think a façade is sturdy.

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They actually believe that bejeweled General has ability.  After all, he was strong enough to rise to the top.  But a masculine view ONLY respects that rise through merit.  Alpha dogs have to be the strongest and most able.  They weren’t appointed through their ability to ass kiss or backstab.  Just because an assassin can kill the king while he sleeps doesn’t mean he knows how to be king ( if that analogy helps ).  Without honor you can’t prove loyalty either.  An assassin isn’t going to fight to the death to protect others.

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I suppose it shouldn’t surprise any of us that in a feminized culture there are never any kings anymore but only assassins.  No one of honor but only of power by any means.  An honorable businessman would have profited off his merits and conceded defeat and closed the shop doors if bested.  Now we only have scammers and cheaters.  Some asshat pretends we can go to Mars or cut pollution while building cars that blow up even if not in use, while he smokes pot and dreams up the next government bail-out.  It should surprise no one the best strategy is to drop out.

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Ayn Rand probably became more popular for Going Galt than for being a study in anti-communism.  Of course, there was the meritocracy and the proper gender roles that also made it classic, but it probably was also helped by timing, becoming popular as our culture was assaulted by Beta Dogs taking over from Alpha’s ( in this respect, Cheney really was an outlier as his kind were endangered long before ).  It was a tale of an Alpha, and the lack of them in reality made the fictional one so appealing.  The same could be said of the vigilante genre in fiction.

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The pulp series The Executioner, Charles Bronson’s “Death Wish”, Clint Eastwood.  They certainly did celebrate the ideal, but they also reflected the death thereof ( not that you could see that except in retrospect ).  In an age where bitches and ho’s chop suey their way through legions of White Deplorables, it is tragic that some of the worst cinema from the 80’s is now reborn as much better viewing fare.  Oh, well.  It is easy to get confused, with FemNarrative blasting from Big Brothers speakers non-stop.  Just remember, we are no smarter than dogs.

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