I couple of pertinent comments from the Z-man in his "Theatrocracy" post:
"Religion in a liberal democracy is a funny thing, in that most everyone is sure they understand what it is, but few people recognize it all around them. The people who think of themselves as religious in the conventional sense think they live in a fallen world where most have abandoned their faith. On the other hand, those who are sure they have advanced beyond the primitive need for religion are sure society is full of religious fanatics, except in their social circles of course.
"The reality is religion in liberal democracy is nothing like this. The people in charge of society are closer to fanatics on the belief scale, while the people embracing traditional religion are somewhere in the middle of the scale. Christianity no longer draws the fanatic like it used to. Instead, the fanatics are drawn to the secular faiths like the various forms of environmentalism or biological denialism. As a result, the managerial class functions more like a theocracy than a bureaucracy.
"You see this in the Megan Markle – Prince Harry drama that has been foisted on us by the media -entertainment complex this week. There is no reason for Americans to care much about this story. Markle is an American, so the tabloids have a reason to cover her, as the Cinderella story still sells to women, especially feminist women. On the other hand, she is boring, and her prince is the booby prize of the family. There was never a lot to sell here on the fairytale front with Megan Merkle.
"That was until she played the religion card. Megan Markle is an octoroon, apparently, so she gets to carry on as an oppressed woman of color, despite coming from a rich family and marrying into the British royal family. In the new American religion, all blacks, no matter how fortunate, are noble oppressed people. The big interview that set this drama in motion was conducted by Oprah Winfrey, a woman worth over a billion dollars, who regularly claims to be the victim of racism.
"The absurdity of the premise should be enough to get the story laughed off the stage, but in our modern theatrocracy, facts are not important. What matter is how much the story stimulates the moral outrage of the true believers in the audience. Because the heroine ticks the right boxes and her nemesis ticks all of the right boxes, this story is To Kill A Mockingbird for our true believers. The audience is divided into those who support Markle, the good people, and those who doubt her."
In my experience, which is just anecdotal, obviously, but at the same time fairly extensive—and data does back this experience up and suggest that it is the pattern that we normally see—you can rarely find examples of actual racism, even if you're looking for it full time. Oh, sure—you hear accusations of racism routinely, but what almost always happens when you dig into the details, is that you find out that the white people in question actually went out of their way bending over backwards to not be racist. Racism is blamed as the culprit for all kinds of failings, most of which have to do with something in the behavior, character, or sometimes just bad luck, of the non-white person. Unable or unwilling to properly face the real cause of this failure, racism is trotted out as a convenient "get of responsibility free" card; something that even Monopoly managed to avoid.
Anyone who examines the concept of systemic racism with an unbiased eye for what the data actually says will usually find that it backs up their own experiences as well: racism is a hoax. It's a profitable hoax for many, so it's unlikely to go away anytime soon, until people start rejecting it. And even for those who don't make financial profit off of it, many find emotional gratificiation in perpetuating the con, making it an important part of their identity. Both black and white.
Anyway, I'll let the Z-man's summary stand on it's own without further comment from me other than to ask; in your actual personal experience, what is a more pressing problem facing America and the rest of Christendom on earth right now; systemic racism, or systemic envy, greed and covetousness?:
"The English speaking world has now descended to the point where the managerial class is animated by the worship of nonwhites, in the same way primitives would deify a shaman. The mere presence of well-behaved blacks is enough to cause orgiastic paroxysms among the beautiful people and those who emulate them in the lower classes.
"American blacks, of course, are an ideal god for these people. No matter how wonderful the life of a black person, they are always complaining. American blacks are the most bitter and ungrateful people to ever walk the planet. Megan Markle is the full expression of that ungratefulness. She has lived the very definition of the charmed life, but she is a vinegar drinking shrew, living to make those around her miserable. She is the ideal black goddess for a people riddled with self-loathing."
Vox Day has some other interesting commentary on the Markle debacle, which is making all of Western Civilization look ridiculous, to be honest.
"It's rather amusing how the British press is having such a hard time figuring out why she hates the British Royal Family so much.
"Meghan hates Princess Kate for the same reason every moderately attractive girl with ambitions of being the popular hot girl hates the beautiful head cheerleader. It's nothing more than raw, unmitigated envy. Meghan can't compete with Kate's position, class, style, or popularity, and her genetics prevent her from ever being considered 'an English Rose', so naturally she hates the other woman with the passion of ten thousand burning hells."
