Three Peoples - Table of Contents

The Three Peoples, a reductive theory of modern humanity

0. Three Peoples in Brief

1. The People of the Responsible Self
   
   
2. People of the Subordinate Self


3. The People of the Creative Self
   

Inventing the Three Peoples


4. Blue States Will Suffer Under Obama
   
   
5. The History of the Ego
   
   
6. Rush Limbaugh Gets It
   
   
7. Forget Woe Is Me, Conservatives!
   
   
8. The Age of the Scrounger
   
   
9. Do Liberals Sneer at the Responsible Individual?
   
   
10. Let's Talk Conservative Populism
    
    
11. Who are the American People?
    
    
12. Neo-Feudalism is not an Accident
    
    
13. Understanding 200 Years of "Counter Ideologies"
    
    
14. A Letter to Charles Murray
    
    
15. Anita Sarkeesian: The Road from Individual to Victim
    
    
16. The Wages of Division
    
    
17. "Fools, Frauds and Firebrands" Building Their Secular Theology
    

Describing the Three Peoples


18. The Dance of the "Three Peoples"
    Three kinds of people: subordinate, responsible, and creative
    
    
19. Kevin Williamson is Wrong About the White Working Class
    


20. Did Anyone Ask the Poor What Education They Wanted for their Kids?
    
    
21. What the Better People Owe to the Other People
    They need to put themselves in the place of the "Other"
    
    
22. Self-deceit the the Heart of the Liberal World View
    The idea that liberal rule means sweetness and light
    
    
23. Surrender and the Three Peoples Theory
    How each People surrenders to society


24. We Are Not In Kansas Any More
    
    
25. Yes, What Is a Conservative?
    
    
26. What Else Could the FBI Do?
    
    
27. Used to be that Men were Fighters and Women were Lovers
    
    
28. The Three Peoples: What If Most People Want to be Peasants?
    Are we slaves, or do we just get on with it?


29. What Gods Do the Three Peoples Believe In?
    We each worship a different God.


30. How to Help an In-denial Liberal
    
    
31. Let's Talk About Dystopian Novels
    Trying to make sense of dystopian novels written by today's women


32. Finding Yourself "Outside the System"
    As a Responsible, you are outside the culture of the Creatives


33. Liberals Screw the Pooch on Navy SEAL
    
    
34. Why are "College Educated" Whites So Liberal?
    
    
35. Is it the Sixties Again?
    Think of it as a religious Creative Awakening. Again


36. The Prehistory of the Three Peoples
    What of the world before the Three Peoples?


37. There is a Reason Why the Left is Always Attacking Middle-Class Values
    It's because the left appeals to people that aren't responsible or don't have backup
    
    
38. The Liberal Ruling Class Don't Know Nothing
    Because liberals don't get out much


39. Religion and the Three Peoples: The Big Problem
    Creatives don't have tolerance for responsibles


40. Communism Week: My Perfect Plan
    
    
41. Tribe vs. City: Which Will Win?
    The city will win, because of its self-ordering ability


42. Sexual Harassment vs. Sexual Revolution and the Three Peoples
    Analyzing sexual aggression with the Three Peoples theory


43. The Three Peoples Theory and Work
    How each of the Three Peoples experiences work


44. The Politics of the Three Peoples
    Obviously, they want different things from politics


45. Politics of the Three Peoples: The Trump Gambit
    How Trump threatens the coalition between creatives and subordinates


46. Real Critical Theory: How About a Critique of Leftism?
    Let's do critical theory on the left using Three Peoples theory


47. SOTU: Trump Celebrates Middle America
    But not a word to the educated elite.


48. Suppose that Gentry Liberals are Democrats' Biggest Problem
    


49. Ancient Myth and My Three Peoples Theory
    Can Three Peoples be meshed with Great Mother, Great Father, and the Son?


50. The Three Forms of Social Control
    Informal, formal, and indirect
    


51. Is This Peak Activism?
    When good little girls from activism seminaries are doing activism...
    
    
52. Which is Best, Excellence or Average?
    It depends. Should the FBI head be excellent or average?


53. But First, Humans are Tribal
    The capitalist/libertarian world view is not enough, because humans are tribal


54. The Alt-Right Takes Out After Jordan Peterson
    Peterson isn't defending the Christian culture and the nation state


55. Peterson and Jung and Nietzsche, Oh My!
    Can the three peoples make sense of modern psychology?


56. Whither the Culture War Now?
    Tell the left to stop beating up on the middle class.


57. On Failing to Rewrite my "Three Peoples" in the Light of Lefty "Privilege" Notions
    Leftism raises the status of the marginalized and lowers the status of the previously privileged


58. At Jordan Peterson's Road Show
    We all see the world through the lens of our values


59. Meaning and the Three Peoples
    The different meanings of meaning.


60. Yes, But What is Pinker's "Reason" for Being?
    
    
61. What Comes After Conservatism
    Try to understand what each of the Three Peoples needs


62. The Two Paths: for Rich Kids After the Death of God
    Either the nostalgia of "activism" or the real path of self-discovery
    
    
63. The Dilemma of the Well-born Human
    How to rise above the herd.


64. Tribalism: The Empty Middle
    Between Progressive Activists and Devoted Conservatives


65. The Three Peoples and Power
    How the Three Peoples in different ways understand and interact with power.


66. No Critical Theorists, Creativity is not the Only Thing
    Creativity is built on top of bourgeois responsibility, not in opposition to it.
    


67. There are Two Kinds of Liberal Programs
    Ones that benefit the lower class and ones that benefit the elite


68. The Trouble is that Yellow Vests are Already Toast
    Because they are underlings


69. Why I Think Jordan Peterson is Important
    He is saying what I am saying, only better.


70. Let Us Imagine a New Culture
    It will be a brave new world of cults


71. Now the Psychologists Come Out Against Traditional Masculinity
    My Three Peoples theory is not as reductive as lefty psychologists.


72. To What Do the Three Peoples Subordinate Themselves?
    To Earthly lord, divine Lord, and the creative process.


73. Why Don't We Normals Have Anti-Left Pejoratives?
    It would be nice, but it's not who we are.


74. My Three Peoples vs. the Left's Three Peoples
    Lefties turn the Three Peoples upside down.


75. Let's Apply Three Peoples to This Week's Issues
    Such as Covington Kids and Medicare For All


76. Three Peoples: There is No One True Faith
    Because the People of the Creative Self should be tolerant


77. Government: Is Plunder All There Is?
    The poverty of a regime that is only interested in power


78. The Problem of Creative People and Power
    Too many people want to get the creative rush from political power.


79. We Must Bring the Past Back to Life
    Because our lefty friends have murdered it


80. Free Spirit vs. Fettered Spirit
    Updating Nietzsche's notion for the 21st century


81. Searching for a New Religion: Leftism, Feminism, Wokeness, etc.
    Yes, but don't think that We should impose our new religion on others


82. The Elite's Religion: We are Holier Than Thou because We Care about the Victims
    But does the elite understand this?


83. It's Too Soon for a "Dissident Right"
    First we need to get the left on the back foot and gasping for air.


84. What the Three Peoples Should Reach For
    Subordinates for responsibility; responsibles for creativity; creatives for humility


85. Lefties: Getting the Hero's Journey Upside Down
    Where the lefties get to the Promised Land and the deplorables get sacrificed


86. What the Three Peoples Want From Society
    Hey, they want society to make them meaningful


87. Reich: Three Consciousnesses is Not Enough
    "Greening of America" guy leaves out the consciousness of the subordinates


88. Is There a Difference Between Ethnic Politics and Identity Politics?
    Ethnic politics is the politics of new arrivals in the city. Identity politics is an intellectual system


89. Innocence and the Three Peoples
    Only the Subordinates are real innocents


90. David Koch was a Good Guy
    When the Kochs inherited Dad's business it was in trouble. Now it's worth billions.


91. Trying to Put Multiculturalism on the Stage
    When you are "creative" the easiest thing is to be creative about sex


92. Dems That Believe The Talking Points
    The leaders don't but the primary voters do. Believe


93. Accepting the Fact of Exile in America's Jacobin Terror
    We have to "develop an independent set of religious and social beliefs"


94. Comte's Three Stages vs. My Three Peoples
    Mine is better


95. Our Ruling Class Does Too Have Religion. And How
    It believes in equality, education, climate change, by the creative/educated


96. Men Want Victory, Women Want Beauty
    Is beauty a release from busy-ness?


97. Suppose Nancy and Co Have to Do Impeachment?
    
    
98. Why The Enthusiastic Trump Rally Crowds
    Because they think he is fighting for them


99. Applying Yarvin's Gentry, Commoners, Clients to Murray's "Coming Apart"
    And other three class theories of society


100. My Three Peoples vs. Yarvin's Three Layers
     My Creatives, Responsibles, Subordinates vs. his Gentry, Commoners, and Clients


101. "Why Liberalism Works" For the Gentry
     But not necessarily for Commoners and Clients


102. Could Chile's Collapse Happen Here?
     It could, except we Commoners have Donald Trump in our lane


103. Liberals with Nowhere to Go
     We should not be creating the future but adapting to it


104. When the Ruling Class Decrees Only One True Religion
     Trouble is that it might all end in religious war 
     
     
105. Liberalism Properly Understood
     
     
106. Three Peoples: What Happens When It All Goes Wrong
     Depends on whether you are subordinate, responsible, or creative


107. Scott Alexander's Two Tribe System vs. My Three Peoples
     He's missing the Victims Tribe


108. Why is Everyone Going Crazy?
     Because the progressive project is splitting at the seams


109. Cloud People vs. Dirt People is Three Layer Too
     But they forgot about the lower layer below Dirt People


110. What is Best in Life for Children of the Privileged?
     They want to be special, but not put in the elbow grease


111. Understanding the Left's Secular Religion
     The problem is its faith in force


112. The Problem With Two-Layer Cultural Analysis
     Often the third item is not a cultural actor


113. Meaning of Life: Let Me Count the Ways
     Depends on your class, or your dreams


114. Getting Beyond Binary Thinking
     Gentry won't go there until their project has utterly failed


115. Three Layers, Three Peoples, Three Religions
     Political theory, cultural theory, religious theory, three times three


116. The Creatives Attack Dignity. Of Course They Do
     Because dignity is a Responsibles thing


117. Habermas's Lifeworld and My Three Peoples
     If humans have a lifeworld, then each Three People has a different one


118. The Meaning of Life and the Gods of the Three Peoples
     Each of the Three Peoples has a different meaning of life


119. The Rule of Threes. It's a Human Thing
     Past, present, and future; grammar, logic, and rhetoric


120. Creatives that Aren't Creatives: Stuck-up Commoners
     Because most people don't have the stomach to be Sacrificial Heroes


121. Elon Musk Schools the Karens
     It's a gender -- and a class -- thing


122. The Sacrificial Hero Ancient and Modern
     How do we "save" the Gentry hero from egoism?


123. Lockdowns and Poetry and the Ego Hero
     Lefties don't think that the point of life is to get to work


124. The Three Realities of the Three Peoples
     Fault, rules, and " state function"


125. Toppling Statues. The Problem with Iconoclasm
     I want to know history, the good and the bad


126. The Conflict of Interest of the Educated Gentry
     It's really cool, ordering everyone around, on their dime


127. Three Peoples -- Script
     
     
128. What Do Voters Want?
     Different voters want different impossible things


129. Just Who Are Those Horrible Systemic Racist White Supremacists?
     Who they are is ordinary go-to-work Commoners


130. Liberal Woman Journalist Doesn't Get Conservative Women
     Educated Gentry women don't get Commoner women


131. The Three Peoples and Gubmint Programs
     Get others to provide, provide yourself, order how to provide


132. What I Believe
     A better world for Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates


133. The Moment Before Wile E. Coyote Falls to Earth
     Our progressive friends have no idea what they have stirred up


134. Trump Against the World
     
     
135. The Terminal Bossiness of the Educated Gentry
     Activists are passionate about a moral goal; so they have to boss the rest of us


136. Examples of Gentry, Commoners, and Victims in Everyday Life
     Gentry on COVID; could blacks become Commoners, Factory Girls in China


137. Is This the Week That Changes History?
     When average people start to push back


138. Dems are for the Allies; GOPs are for the Commoners
     GOPs want people to rise, Dems want them to fight


139. The Mostly Peaceful Hellscape
     The lefty activists are barking up the wrong tree


140. The Three Peoples and Revolution
     Creatives think that Revolution could be rather cool


141. Why a Sorority Sister Got Arrested at a Riot
     She thinks she is an "ally" of "oppressed peoples"


142. It's Not a Good Idea for the Supreme Court to Legislate Morality
     As the fight over abortion proves


143. But How Does a New Regime Come Into Being?
     It starts with a new religion, because the the religion of creativity doesn't work for the rest of us


144. Taleb's Three Layers of Skin in the Game
     No Skin in the Game, Skin in the Game, Soul in the Game


145. Lefty Ally-ism, and What Real Allies Look Like
     It depends, different strokes for different folks


146. Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Slavery
     Total freedom is the last thing an organization wants
     
     
147. Is the Trump Phenomenon a New "Awakening?"
     Whatabout those Trump rallies and car parades
     
     
148. Now Penguins are Getting Triggered
     
     
149. Reducing Yarvin's Four Strata to Three Layers
     
     
150. Why the Good Guys Always Lose: It's Not Their Fault
     
     
151. Getting a Word In Against Liberal Cultural Hegemony
     
     
152. How About a Critique of Critique?
     
     
153. Good Luck, Joe. You'll Need It
     
     
154. America's One and Only Problem: Our Ruling Class
     
     
155. The Intersection of Innocence, Victims, Chastity, and Complaint
     
     
156. What Do You Say to a Progressive Seattle Politician?
     
     
157. But Tear Gas and But Hate
     
     
158. Lefties, LGBTs, Liberals and Their Conceit
     
     
159. "Wittgenstein's Vienna:" When a Ruling Class is Losing It
     
     
160. The Worse the Better
     
     
161. The "Four Americas" and My Three Peoples
     
     
162. My New Reality on Race and Economics