{"id":79513,"date":"2021-09-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79513"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:22:18","slug":"what-the-in-crowd-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79513","title":{"rendered":"What The In Crowd Knows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-masking-of-the-servant-class\">A tale as old as time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dominant liberal culture is, if nothing else, fiercely rule-abiding: they get very upset when they see anyone defying decrees from authorities, even if the rule-breaker is the official who promulgated the directives for everyone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While I appreciate the willingness of Glenn Greenwald, a man of the Left, to call out the hypocrisy of our Ruling Class, this observation isn&#8217;t quite right, actually. Dominant liberal culture is all about rule promulgation, not necessarily personally abiding by rules. As time goes on, the pretense fades, and why wouldn&#8217;t it? Nothing ever happens to the Ruling Class.<\/p>\n<p>Dobie Gray, a more perceptive social critic than our man Greenwald, was all over this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OOWO--z1S8A\"> way back in &#8217;65<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m in with the in crowd<br \/>I go where the in crowd goes<br \/>I&#8217;m in with the in crowd<br \/>And I know what the in crowd knows<br \/>Any time of the year, don&#8217;t you hear?<br \/>Dressin&#8217; fine, makin&#8217; time<br \/>We breeze up and down the street<br \/>We get respect from the people we meet<br \/>They make way day or night<br \/>They know the in crowd is out of sight<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in &#8217;65, the term &#8220;out of sight&#8221; roughly meant cool, fashionable, <em>au courant<\/em>, like that. Some 56 years later, out of sight has a more conventional meaning: in the shadows, behind the curtain, holed up in nondescript office buildings in and around the Beltway. Our in crowd is an industrious lot, and they keep coming up with more rules at all times, whether our Congresscritters weigh in or not.<\/p>\n<p><em>Any time of the year, don&#8217;t you hear? Mocking fools, making rules<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But many of our fellow citizens don&#8217;t hear, nor are they listening. Instead, we all hear our animatronic Leader of the Free World as he is sent out to joust with the Teleprompter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We make every minute count<br \/>Our share is always the biggest amount<br \/>Other guys imitate us<br \/>But the original&#8217;s still the greatest<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just ask them. If you can identify them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tale as old as time: Dominant liberal culture is, if nothing else, fiercely rule-abiding: they get very upset when they see anyone defying decrees from authorities, even if the rule-breaker is the official who promulgated the directives for everyone else.\u00a0 While I appreciate the willingness of Glenn Greenwald, a man of the Left, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,434,69,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-mr-d","category-socialism","category-the-matrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79517,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79513\/revisions\/79517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}