This is the fourth part of Musa Al Garbi’s quest that we have never woken up to. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).
As we saw, al-Garbi spends quite a bit of time establishing the demographics of the people most likely to be “awakening.” And the group is overwhelmed by its bias towards highly educated white liberals.
This is more than just a function of US population characteristics. Compared to other American workers, the iconic capitalist could be white. They at least unanimously posted to BA. Political and ideological, they are overwhelmingly democratic and liberal. The iconic capitalist Lion share said American, a highly educated white liberal and happens to be an educated white liberal, was very likely to be an iconic capitalist.
If this is where we are, how did we get here? In answer to that question, you will look at the iconic profession, its history of excellence and power rise, and how the dynamics that created it have influenced the ideology that is most appealing to this new elite group.
The work that constitutes iconic professions has always existed in one form or another, but they rose to prominence for decades while obscuring World War I. The obstacles and confusion of the era created for a strong sense of civilization that needs to be changed at a basic level:
It was progressive to move on to this environment. Secularizing the social gospel movement, they have committed to helping America experience frozen peace and prosperity by transcending its division, redeeming its souls, and exploiting science and reason, maximizing human prosperity in ways laissez-faire capitalism never could. They promised a world where the robber baron was bound by the defeated technocrats. There, corruption, nepotism, exploitation and unjust discrimination caradize the poor and are gradually eliminated by a combination of aid, education programs, and expanded rules and regulations (and enhanced enforcement). Political partisan, ethnic and religious conflicts, and other forms of tribalistic ugbles were resolved by objective, biased experts who committed to greater interests. Class struggles have been eliminated because inequality has not been eliminated, but people from the social class may be persuaded to entrust their share of wealth and authority to symbolic capitalists in order to manage the economy. The iconic occupation occurred in the services of this project.
As the progressive movement strengthened political power, members of the iconic occupation worked to manage progressivist goals in both state and private institutions. By using symbolic capital, symbolic capitalists are driven by data, guide expertise, and pull the lever of policy to achieve desired objectives. This made the profession of Valyas, the symbolic capitalist class, stronger formalis. Harvard University created Harvard Business School and became the “the world’s first institution to offer a Master’s Degree (MBA) degree in Business Administration.” Education has also become more formal as a profession:
Progressive also led the spread of secondary schools and lobbyed in accordance with mandatory attendance laws.
When this new class of elites were born, they also sought to integrate political power into their own hands.
To justify their poses, increase compensation and increase influence, they sought to remove more and more decisions from the realm of democratic conflict by redefineing them as a matter of expert judgment. Experts, experts were to identify what the public wanted, not only, but what it should. Similarly, they determine the best way to achieve specific goals and formalize progress towards those goals.
The formalization of this new professional class was accompanied by the heavy use of gatekeeping to keep Riffraff out. As members of the new class took the reins of the state’s technocratic power, the establishment repeats once more, only those with the appropriate iconic capital.
To support Tosee’s work, Woodrow Wilson, who was ultimately filled by “right” people, allowed them to be cut off from civil servants based on race, and since 1914, he needed photographs with job applications to promote the ease of racial discrimination. Later, under Franklin D. Roosevelt (and, to a lesser extent, Harry S. Truman), immigrants and minorities will also be disqualified in Valus’s way as they will take advantage of opportunities for fair trade with the New Deal and the fair trade, or benefit from the relevant government wealth construction programme.
In the private sector, members of the new professional class will try to create their own barriers to entry through regulatory acquisitions, create explosions of license and certification requirements, and lock out the “wrong” kind of people.
There has been a movement to limit access to journalism work to people with specialist degrees. Teacher accreditation requirements have increased dramatically. Similarly, new licensing, testing, accreditation, and degree requirements similarly multiply medicine (and derivative fields such as dentistry, pharmacology, nursing, psychiatry, etc.), law, social work, information professions and more. Scientists (in the natural or social sciences) needed more and more advanced degrees to be accepted or worked formal as scientists. These measures were explicitly adopted to reorganize the “correct” types of people (middle class wasps) while the “wrong” types of people (ethnic and religious minorities) were filled out. The American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, and many other professional organizations have explicitly restricted membership to white people and refused to accredit it to most schools born to train immigrants and minorities in their occupations.
Even before the barriers officially stated their purpose of protecting the wrong kind of people, they were often consciously adjusted to reproduce the desired outcome.
Colleges and universities award scholarships and admissions based on “Merit”. However, when many of the “wrong” people (i.e. Jews) began to qualify for meritocratic admission and aid, they moved the university into a “comprehensive” decision-making process, which was “unwanted” and “unwanted” decision-making process where they were qualified based on grades and exampages.
Overall, the system of qualificationism, licensing, accreditation and other barriers for entries created by the new iconic capitalist class was extremely beneficial to them. Al Garbi Notes (original Ellipsis), cited the work of sociologist Randall Collins.
In fact, Collins’s research shows that the iconic occupation and qualification system is in fact a major wealth of wealth, from sponsors of wealth and opportunity, and sponsors of opportunity from top people to poor people. What happened during this period was from the upper to middle classes. The symbolic capitalist took from the rich and gave it to himself mostly.
But while the symbolic profession has acquired its own wealth and power, it is very important that the whole existence is very important that they serve myopia, so that the symbolic capitalists can keep their duties in mind, to serve the elite interstitial at their technocratic power and at the wider public sacrifice, or to acquire their status as parasitists on earth in society. “It creates an arms race within members of the iconic profession.
This mode of justification sets the stage of a unique form of status competition with iconic experts. They are committed to promoting more effective or common interests, and are committed to supporting the generally vulnerable, marginalized and disadvantaged. Suitable for fame, respect, autonomy, and more. On the other hand, those who are successfully portrayed as values, priorities, and actions that appear unsuitable for their occupation often show an accurate position of their work and social status. And when times get harder, iconic capitalists become even more aggressive by trying to maintain or strengthen their social status by demonstrating that their peers and rivals have never woken up.
This aggressive competition creates “awakening.” The term was recently coined to describe “great awakening” among iconic capitalists since 2010, but Algarbi argues that this is just the latest example of repeated events. There are many awakenings, everything is driven by members of the iconic profession. But when Al Garbi says this happens “when time gets difficult,” it is a certain difficulties he has in mind.
In the next post, we will look at Al Garbi’s discussion of what conditions lead to awakening and what ultimately causes their mitigation.
