Why a Sorority Sister Got Arrested at a Riot

In the BLM riot over a man shot by police in Lancaster, PA, after he charged them with a knife, a certain

Kathryn Patterson, 20... was “charged with felony arson, felony vandalism, felony riot, failure to disperse and other protest-related charges.” It turns out that Patterson is a junior at Franklin and Marshall College, a private liberal arts college in Lancaster where the annual cost of attendance is $75,801, including room and board. She’s also a Kappa Delta sorority member and an “ally” (whatever that means) of the college Black Student Union[.]

Readers of this blog will know that "ally" refers to the current notion of society as "oppressed peoples" and "allies" fighting against "white oppressors." Obviously, as a white sorority sister, Kathryn cannot be an "oppressed people." But she can be an "ally."

Why in the world would a sorority sister at a swank private college be into rioting? Because it's fashionable. And fashion is where it's at. Curtis Yarvin is the guy that 'splains it all. 

You see, we are ruled today not by politicians, but by "the System," and the System is directed by the "Cathedral." 

Its inner circle, the Brain and the Voice, includes all professors, journalists, serious artists, published authors, etc. Its outer ring, the Conversation, is the whole upper social class.

Stop right there and read it again. The Cathedral is professors and journalists and artists and authors. And they tell us what to think. Just as fashion magazines tell sorority sisters what to wear.

As I wrote yesterday:

"The central fact of the Cathedral, the center of power in our System, is its "monopoly on legitimacy." It works like this:

Prestigious information passes from Brain to Voice, and Voice to Conversation. This process is subtle enough, and its product is of high enough quality, for the Conversation to believe it is actually making up its own mind—from filtered inputs. The Conversation—all of legitimate public opinion—always admires the System. It thinks of this as a completely voluntary and spontaneous critical assessment."

And the Conversation is all about fashion.

And the Conversation, which is the discourse of the upper social class, is always the discourse of fashion. For the nobility (rich or broke), fashionable ideas are de rigueur.

In other words, when you walk around your nice gentrified neighborhood, and see all those fashionable #BackLivesMatter and #WeBelieve yard-signs, you are seeing people wearing the current fashion in political ideas in the "upper social class."

For some reason, I have rebelled against this. And I don't know why. Maybe I have the fashionable notion that it is fashionable to be a rebel.

So of course sorority sisters are out there protesting. That's what a fashionable young woman does these days. Better still, protest at Trader Joe's; then you can do some shopping after you are done protesting.

I first cottoned onto this Activism Culture years ago when a woman friend allowed as how she had always wanted to "get into activism." That is what you do if you want your life to have meaning and purpose if you are a member of the "upper social class" these days. As Yarvin writes:

A noble's [or sorority sister's] life purpose is the highest stage on the pyramid of needs: self-actualization. The most obvious way to be self-actualized is to be important, so nobles crave power and importance. 

Back in his Three Layer days, Yarvin wrote about the Gentry and its need for "ambition, "vanity" and "honor." Of course! How else would the educated Gentry sorority sister get to "self-actualization?"

Or you can explain it with my reductive Three Peoples theory, in that the People of the Creative Self have an existential need to be "creative" and what that generally means is doing the current fashionable thing decreed for creative people by the Cathedral.

The point is that all this fashionable "upper social class" activity is all about them. It is not really about "oppressed peoples." It is not really about the dreadful bitter clingers and deplorables and Trump supporters and "white oppressors." All the Gentry are merely players, strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage, signifying nothing. And the bitter clingers are just the usual opera chorus of peasants.

By the way, who would the "white oppressors" be but the "upper social class" that imagines itself to be "allies" of the "oppressed peoples?" It can't be the bitter clingers and deplorables because they are all far too busy attending Trump Car Parades, Trump Boat Parades, and Trump Rallies. And they have no power.

My question is: can't we start a new fashion that the fashionable sorority sisters can get down with? And all the gentry liberals in their gentrified neighborhoods? One that gives the liberals their ambition, their vanity, their honor, but doesn't beat up the poor bloody commoners and doesn't entangle the "oppressed peoples" in the dysfunctional hell of the welfare state and its programs?