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Cthluthu is corporate

Cthulthu is such a useful symbol. He swims to the left, towards both anarchism and what the left consider is justice. Which is not justice: it is a tyranny of the Jacobins, where the populace is microregulated because of ideology, at significant cost to the society.

Historically, this has not ended well.

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At present Cthulthu includes many parts of the Borg. It definitely includes much of Apple (Let’s be fair: Microsoft is more tolerant. Open Source is WAY more tolerant of divergent barriers: most of the time people don’t know who you are, and it is one of the few places left where the only thing that matters is your coding).

Aligning with Cthulthu is seen as a good business decision. People forget that it is destructive — and as Stross points out, we should wait for the monster with a shotgun loaded with spent uranium. It was a good business decision, and that sponsorship is trumping politics.

Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats vie for the votes of the likes of the owners of Memories Pizza, with Republicans touting their support for family values and opposition to abortion, and Democrats insisting upon their commitment to equality and social justice. However, when the chips are down, the parties are only and ultimately successful when the corporate powers join their respective camps—forcing Christian commitments back into the catacombs and relentlessly widening the chasm of inequality that divides the “in-breds” (again, quoting from Yelp!) living in Walkerton, Indiana, from the Most Enlightened People who left violent and obscene reviews, aided by vocabularies picked up at the best universities in America.

When Democrats criticize the role of corporate money and influence in politics, they (rightly, in my view) point out the disfiguring effects of wealth and power on the political process. Typically the role of money ends up skewing the legislative process in favor of corporate interests, and results in legislation that favors especially wealthy elites over citizens who do not have the same access and influence in politics. We have come to expect that those corporate interests work almost always hand-in-glove with Republicans.

This past spring, we saw something quite different and revealing and worrying. With the imprimatur of American elites, which was clearly given in the furor over Indiana’s RFRA, religiously based opposition to gay marriage is now more than ever likely to be treated by our society as tantamount to a hate crime. This elite-sanctioned attack on “bigotry” will not stop at Memories Pizza. It will be extended first to religious nonprofit institutions that insist upon the view that marriage is between a man and a woman—the schools, the colleges, the adoption services—and then will reach inevitably into the sanctuaries of the churches ­themselves.

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But this… will not last. There are too many demands that all parts of society are “diverse” as if a head count of women or minorities is a proxy measure for success.

But in business, survival is success. If you do not code lean, if your hardware is not cheap and powerful, if you do not provide adequate service… you will lose. Most of us buy manufactured goods that are not made in the USA (or NZ, for that matter) or even designed locally: for the products from other countries are cheaper and good enough.

And other countries, correctly, see diversity as a delusion, and Cthulthu as a parasite.

The arrogant leftist notion that the arc of the universe bends towards justice (ie. what they want) is predicated on the belief that Western liberalism will remain hegemonic. However, I suspect that this dominant liberal narrative will erode as China and other Asian nations continue to rise. We already know that Asian countries have no use for the kind of bizarre identity politics running amok in the West.

In fact, given how pervasive intense nationalism is in Asia, I suspect that Asia’s ascendancy – combined with the West’s demise – will alter the way we view history. Such a paradigm shift will not be kind to the likes of John Oliver. Future Asian historians will be nonplussed upon learning that Americans placed a higher premium on transsexual rights than nationalism or a strong economy. They will also shake their heads and chuckle when reading about how historical white figureheads such as Joe Biden celebrated the impending minority status of their own people. They’ll wonder why the most dominant group in human history threw it all away in the name of quixotic ideals.

They will, with amusement and contempt, consign the Western left to the wrong side of history.

I will add but one thing: do not bet against the church. It is owned by someone with more power than any fevered dream of Lovecroft.

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