Three Layers - Table of Contents

Three Layer Theories, including my own Three Peoples theory

0. Three Layers in Brief

1. Ruling Class and Country Class
   
   
2. Who are the American People?
   
   
3. The Dance of the "Three Peoples"
   Three kinds of people: subordinate, responsible, and creative


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


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


6. Suppose Blacks are Now Becoming "Commoners"
   
   
7. Applying Yarvin's Gentry, Commoners, Clients to Murray's "Coming Apart"
   And other three class theories of society


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


9. It's Past Time for Merely Defending the Market System. Etc.
   Why not go on the attack


10. Another Three Layer Theory, From Joel Kotkin
    He has Clerisy, Yeomanry, and Serfs


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


12. White Trash: The View from Mt. Olympus
    Instead of worrying about White Trash, the elite should just do its job


13. Splaining the Democrats for Deplorables Like You and Me
    Free-stuff in the front, Coalition of the Fringes to the back of the bus


14. Suppose Pelosi Was Crazy Like a Fox
    Maybe she wanted her "far left" bill to be shot down


15. Pelosi's "Far Left" Bill. The Bigger Problem
    Lefties legislating their lefty morality


16. Good Luck With That!
    The Wu Flu is going to socially distance a lot of the lefty agenda


17. What Path Should We Follow?
    It depends on what kind of person you are


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


19. Adam Bede the Exemplary Commoner
    Commoners trying to do the right thing


20. Mrs. Poyser and the Plague of Karens
    Nagging and complaining work in the home but not in the public square


21. The Two Level Left, and Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet
    Morals for the Gentry, Tribalism for the Clients


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


23. Government. It Always Comes Down to Force
    And Gentry experts seem to like it. Force.


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


25. We Won't Fix the Budget Until We Commoners Demand It
    Men on Social Security, women on health care and education


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


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


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


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


30. Reign of Terror Means the Revolution is Failing


31. Toppling Statues: The Problem with Iconoclasm


32. The Conflict of Interest of the Educated Gentry


33. Who Said: "Never Trust Experts"


34. Just Who Are Those Horrible Systemic Racist White Supremacists?


35. Liberal Woman Journalist Doesn't Get Conservative Women


36. When the White Woke Mob Comes to the Home of a Black Woman Police Chief


37. The Three Peoples and Gubmint Programs


38. Activism and a Meaningful LIfe


39. The Moment Before Wile E. Coyote Falls to Earth
    Our progressive friends have no idea what they have stirred up
    
    
40. The Terminal Bossiness of the Educated Gentry
    
    
41. Examples of Gentry, Commoners, and Victims in Everyday Life
    
    
42. Dems are for the Allies; GOPs are for the Commoners
    GOPs want people to rise, Dems want them to fight
    
    
43. The Three Peoples and Revolution
    
    
44. Why a Sorority Sister Got Arrested at a Riot
    
    
45. It's Not a Good Idea for the Supreme Court to Legislate Morality
    
    
46. Hamnet and "A More Feminine Sensibility"
    
    
47. Taleb's Three Layers of "Skin in the Game"
    
    
48. Lefty Ally-ism, and What Real Allies Look Like
    
    
49. The End of the Commoner Rebellion
    
    
50. Cheating is a Sign You Are Losing
    
    
51. Getting to Acceptance
    
    
52. Whither the Good Old USA?
    
    
53. Reducing Yarvin's Four Strata to Three Layers
    
    
54. America's One and Only Problem: Our Ruling Class