The Brahmandarins

Declination - Blogging in the Decline of Western Civilization ^ | Dec 16, 2016 | Dystopic

[Noumenon]

A friend of mine has posted a penetrating analysis of the clerisy and the political class of America on Facebook. In it, he coins the portmanteau “Brahmandarin” to describe these cretins, and their sort of hybrid Mandarin and Brahmin nature. They have the permanent bureaucratic nature of the Mandarins, with a large infusion of Brahmin nepotism and in-class favoritism.

Observe:

Consider America’s “New Class”: academia, journalism, “helping” professions, nonprofits, community organizers, trustafarian artists,… Talent for something immediately verifiable (be it playing the piano, designing an airplane, or buying-and-selling,… ) or a track record of tangible achievements are much less important than credentials — degrees from the right places, praise from the right press organs,…

In principle, the New Class is more like the Mandarins rather than the Brahmin caste, as in theory (and to some degree in practice) 1st-generation membership is open to people of all backgrounds. Heck, that includes even an electrician’s son with three advanced degrees (this blogger, a professor by day).

In practice, however, this class is highly endogamous, and its children have an inside track on similar career paths. Thus one finds 2nd and 3rd generation New Class members, whose outlooks on life tend to be more insular and collectively self-centered than that of their 1st-generation peers. (It is important not to over-generalize about one’s fellow human beings: some of the greatest fellow ‘renegades’ I know were to the manor born.) In that manner, the New Class resembles the Brahmins. Hence my portmanteau “Brahmandarins”.

The takeaway from this is that the hostility to Donald Trump doesn’t really come from his status as a Republican, for as a Republican he is generally accounted relatively moderate, and not even a “true” conservative. Only on matters of immigration is he seen as anything heavily right-wing. On most other issues, he is either ambivalent or sometimes outright liberal. So why the hostility? It’s driven by caste. Donald Trump is a Vaishya, not a Brahmin. As a real estate guy, he could act as slumlord to the Brahmandarin elite. As an entertainer on TV, he could conceivably entertain the Shudras and the Dalits. All of these things were fine, and so long as Trump “stayed in his lane” (a favorite phrase of the political Left), all was well. But then he went against an anointed Brahmin in the form of Hillary Clinton. This was not to be permitted. He was jumping caste. This is also why Jeb was the initial favorite of the Establishment GOP types. He was also a Brahmin. Yes, not the chosen of the Left, perhaps, but his running was not a caste jump. It’s very worrisome that India’s caste system has an almost one-to-one relationship with America’s own unofficial castes, or that the relationship is so readily observable. India is, after all, not exactly a bastion of freedom and prosperity.

Nitay provides more:

While the D party used to be one with which particularly Shudras could identify, over time it has increasingly become a patron-client coalition of Brahmandarins and Dalits. Kshatriyas overwhelmingly lean R, while Shudras and Vaishyas (other than high finance) became increasingly disaffected from D and either moved to the R column or tuned out of politics.

The current iteration of the Democrat Party is an alliance between Left-leaning Brahmins (which is most of them — I wonder how long it will take for the Bush family to switch sides?) and the Dalits, who are fed with their table scraps. But the election of Donald Trump was in large part possible because the Shudras defected. They were once reliably Democratic, but the Democrats have spent the last few decades maligning them, impoverishing them, taking their jobs, homes, and prospects… and then blaming them for every racially-charged incident. They, apparently, have had enough.

Unsurprisingly, Brahmandarin presidents tend to appoint cabinet and senior aides from among the Brahmandarin caste, while Trump’s appointments came almost exclusively from the Vaishyas (Exxon CEO Tillerson for State, and Kshatriyas (Mattis, Flynn, Kelly). It doesn’t matter that most of these people have real-world achievements to their names than a Robbie Mook type can only dream of: they are “ignorant” (read: insufficiently subservient to New Class shibboleths), “hate-filled”, etc. — All short-hand for “not one of us”.

For those same people who keep on prating about how open they are to foreign cultures (the more foreign, the better to “virtue-signal”) are completely unable to fathom the mindset of their compatriots of a different caste, who might as well come from a different planet as from a different country.

Donald Trump has explicitly denied the Brahmandarins a seat at his table. He isn’t merely disagreeing with them, he’s actively flipping them off and telling them that he will not consult with them in any capacity. And to the Brahmandarins, this is the ultimate sin. The table, you see, is supposed to be theirs exclusively. But if Trump forced himself a seat, well… so be it, but the rest of the seats should still go to the anointed ones. At least, that was their thinking.

The riots? The Faithless Elector ploy? The Russian “hacking” stuff? All of this is nothing more than the Brahmandarins throwing a temper tantrum because they are now required to share power with the others. And as Nitay tells us here, they can’t even be bothered to try and understand people from other backgrounds.

They make a good show of loving foreigners (but really, they just want foreigners to come here in order to vote for them), but they don’t even understand Americans of different castes and classes. After all, one of the most amusing mistakes Hillary made was assigning a man from Brooklyn to run her Midwestern rural outreach campaign, as if the under-employed ex-factory worker was going to listen to a carpetbagger from New York City and say to himself “yeah, I can totally see myself voting for her.” For better or worse, Trump at least spoke their language.

[Noumenon]

I've said that Trump must do all he can to defenestrate the mandarin class; that is, the faceless unelected, unaccountable and heretofore untouchable bureaucrats, administrators, apparatchiks, regulators and enforcers who dominate the American landscape.

This article sheds more light on just who these meddlers and authoritarian are. If we fail to remove them - either by Trumps' "You're fired!" or by something more direct along the lines of Unintended Consequences, then we are going to be in for more of the same.

And we'll only have ourselves to blame.

[HLPhat]

>>>> a large infusion of Brahmin nepotism and in-class favoritism.

>>the faceless unelected, unaccountable and heretofore untouchable bureaucrats, administrators, apparatchiks, regulators and enforcers who dominate the American landscape.

"In her keynote address to the 1998 University of California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Association’s “Exposed!” conference, Elizabeth Birch triumphantly revealed a deep, dark secret. First she asked furtively, “Is there any press in the room?” Then she explained: “Okay, I’m gonna tell you — ’cause some of these conversations are very private — but when I said to Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney, [that] ‘30 percent of your employees are gay,’ he said, ‘You are wrong, Elizabeth, it’s 40 [percent].’”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/14947-the-queering-of-america

 

 

Etc. Etc.

 

 

 

 

[PGR88]

The Brahmins and their government jobs and connections are, IMHO, funded by fiat, unbacked currency and massive debt, courtesy of the Federal Reserve.

Change our monetary system and you collapse the whole Brahmandarin world.

[To Hell With Poverty]

John Taylor Gotto has a chapter about this similarity to the Indian caste system in his book “The Underground History of Education in the United States.” British colonialists were quite taken by the tidiness of the caste system and one man in particular did his best to import it into Anglo society via the education system. Wish I could remember the name.

I’m a little fuzzy on the details because I read it a long time ago, the whole book was available online but is no longer at the link I had bookmarked, unfortunately.

Anyway, the gist of the whole book was that the entire goal, worked into the very setup, of the compulsory public education system, was to create a new, permanent caste system in America, to do away with all the social unruliness brought about by independent, self sufficient and educated, uppity rurals. So this similarity to Brahmanism is no accident.

[To Hell With Poverty]

The upper crusts and industrialists considered it a threat and a tragedy that the US didn’t have a class system like England, so they set about to create one.

[Freee-dame]

The concept of non-profit has led to many boondoggles. Let every organization pay taxes and have no special privileges. Let people donate to charities because they actually do good for others, not just so that the donor get a tax deduction.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Great article. Unfortunately, other than the brahmins, I didn’t savvy all the hindu-speak.

[manna]

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