kimberlysteele | The Suicide of the Professional Managerial Class

The Professional Managerial Class (heretofore referred to as the PMC) has committed suicide, it just doesn't know it yet. This turn of events baffles me as much as anyone else: Why did they do it? Are they ever going to realize what they've done? The Coronapocalypse was the instrument of self-strangulation, and since it wasn't adequate to the task, the victim employed arson, rioting, looting, and murder in order to complete the job.

If we compare the PMC's condition to acute anorexia, it is a case of preferring the condition of death to that of being fat. In the PMC's case, the excess weight that must be ruthlessly cut is populism, and in the US, evil flab is represented by Donald Trump.

Not Ready To Die

The PMC is still living in a fairy tale they don't understand is over. For instance, there's a woman I know who is a perfectly pleasant snob. She lives in a gargantuan house on an estate size lot. Her husband is the money of the family. Almost all of her energy goes into scrubbing every surface of her mammoth home (her kids are grown up) and tidying for imaginary guests as she is largely antisocial. She is not formally diagnosed with the disorder as far as I know or care, but I suspect she has OCD in the form of compulsive cleaning. Her husband's career is tied to the success of the travel industry. In other words, they are in the unenviable position of an endangered species.

There's a PMC couple living in on the West Coast with two children. The husband is in asset management and his wife is a nurse. Family money is in play as one of the grandparents heavily subsidizes all of children and grandchildren. The kids have turned out to be disasters in most respects. The nurse is only person in her extended family who doesn't have a raging addiction to alcohol or worse, and she struggles against the tide of disaster that is the family she married into. Her husband cannot cook, cannot fix the sink, has never built so much as a wooden box, and doesn't know how to operate a lawnmower despite the fact his house sits on a lawn. To top it off, he is recently unemployed and there is no job for him to which to return. Unemployment subsidies will run out shortly and she is pregnant with her third child.

Another PMC I know depends on stock market dividends to survive. At least he can cook and fix a leaky faucet.

The PMC's mistake is the notion they can subsist on the post-COVID government gravy train forever. Because they live in an artificial, fragile bubble, they don't understand the value of practical skills or prepping. Until COVID hit, preppers were looked down upon as deplorable conspiracy theorists. When the S did hit TF, the inept former non-preppers hoarded toilet paper.

The PMC has no idea how to live simply, modestly, or sustainably. They don't grow tomatoes. They don't save seeds. They don't fix their own sinks. They're in trouble, but it is hard to pity them, because:

1. They are squarely to blame for the current predicament
2. They don't exist in a vacuum

Be Very, Very Afraid

By deliberately crashing the economy via the COVID overreaction and then extending the destruction via mask wearing, social distancing, and the endorsement of riots, the PMC has waged a terror campaign in order to maintain its rapidly-diminishing chokehold upon Western civilization. The PMC thought it would usher in the era of fully automated luxury communism via its mighty plandemic and wound up conjuring its own end in the form of a fetal Dark Age.

Destruction being what it is, the consequences of PMC clownery fall upon everyone. Make no mistake: the person who still pushes mandatory mask-wearing and the illegality of hugs and handshakes is directly responsible for the millions of businesses that have gone down the tubes and for the untold numbers of addicts who have relapsed, children who have been trafficked, and depressed people who have killed themselves out of despair. They have yet to deal with the full load of bad karma they've brought down upon themselves. There is just too much of it to arrive at once short of a large asteroid hitting the Earth.

There are five main industries the PMC has destroyed. They are travel, insurance, entertainment, education, and medicine. In an odd act of non-NIMBYism, the PMC brought the consequences of its actions into its own association-maintained backyard. That's why it has mystified me. I'm not shocked the PMC became literal terrorists and burned down buildings and killed people (Antifa and BLM). I just didn't think they would end themselves like this.

Travel

Travel is one industry that I believe will return within a decade, though I suspect it won't be in such a grandiose form. Airlines were already prone to bankruptcy before the Nothingburger Flu got blown out of proportion. What happens now after hotels in big cities can be commandeered at any time by maniac mayors as addict asylums? What happens to luxury stores when nobody wants to shop there because their contents are considered "reparations" by crazed BLM lunatics, to be reconnoitered by lethal force if necessary? Much of the travel industry existed based on the pretense that businesspeople needed to put their butts in chairs for endless in-person meetings. That is clearly over. The salt in the wound is travel being harder and knowing you can be kicked out of the country (or worse, be quarantined inside it) the next time a severe flu season is used as an excuse for political power overreach.

Insurance

The insurance industry only works if there is an economy to support it. When everyone and their uncle has an insurance claim because of an omni-disaster, the insurance company cannot pay claims. For instance, in Minneapolis where Democratic leadership enabled rioters to burn, loot, and murder with impunity, business owners are quickly running into brick walls when they try to get the money they paid in for that "just in case" scenario. There are only so many GoFundMes one can employ to save a repeatedly looted and burnt business. Like the salon owner who allegedly set up Nancy Pelosi by catching her without a mask at a government-forbidden hair appointment, at some point you have to cut your losses as a business owner and try to make a living far, far away. If every city in California wants so badly to become the next Detroit, the rest of the country cannot waste its time trying to stop it.

Entertainment

The moment of peak cringe for the entertainment industry is hard to pinpoint. I think the goofballs under the leadership of Gal Godot who banded together to sing Imagine, a song about opening borders and giving away everything you own, represent the moment where Hollywood died. I expect to see a gutting of the film and TV industries in years to come. Legacy TV and film producers, including the Disney sacred cow, can expect relentless scrutiny for pedophile activities. Heads could very well end up on pikes because of Pedogate. Professional sports killed itself via wokeness and has become a meme. Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, and Jimmy Kimmel, once adored, are now hated. Netflix has impaled itself on the Cuties stripper pole. Nobody in their right mind trusts CNN or MSNBC. John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are suspected of the nastiest forms of pedophilia, thanks to Chrissy Teigen's creepy tweets revolving around getting her "pedo on" and admitting to feeling like a criminal when she watches Toddlers and Tiaras. Tom Hanks became a Greek citizen for suspicious reasons that could have to do with being accused of being a pedophile by multiple sources.

Education

This is an area where the PMC has taken a hot, steaming dump in their own living room. What does a PMC university administrator do if pensions dry up (say the university ceases to exist and its assets are sold) and they are reduced to depending on Social Security? What do tens of thousands of them do if half of all colleges and universities go out of business in the next ten years?

What has gone unsaid for many, many years is the hard fact that most Americans don't go to college in search of an education. They go so they can gain the prestige of supposedly possessing an education as indicated by a diploma. They go in order to get laid. They go in order to find someone to marry, hence the saying "She went to college for her MRS degree". They go to college in order to experience friendship, and for some that means partying and experimenting with substances. But they absolutely, positively DO NOT GO so they can be locked in a small room in solitary confinement while connected to the outside world solely via a Zoom conference and a crappy mandatory food plan from the cafeteria.

Medicine

In the US, healthcare represents 17.7 percent of the real economy. Let that sink in for a minute. Heathcare is a racket. It is founded in blind superstitions, one of which is the belief that science in its current form is infallible and incorruptible. It is only within the last decade that a significant group of Americans have routinely dared to question their doctor's advice. Documentaries like Forks Over Knives and What The Health were the first foray into questioning the medical profession's conflicts of interest via its payouts from Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Agriculture. There is still a long road to travel. On average, US medical schools offer only 19.6 hours of nutrition education over a four year university stint, according to a 2010 report in Academic Medicine. The cost of seeing a doctor for pinkeye or a routine UTI remains outrageous despite Trump gutting the Obamacare mandate. Personally, I have not had health insurance for several years and have only been able to afford it for a two year stint when my husband had employment with a company known for its great insurance benefits. In the US, one can only afford to see a doctor regularly if they are rich, which kind of defeats the purpose of health insurance, doesn't it? People like me learn to do whatever they can not to catch a cold -- we literally cannot afford to be sick. But I'm not certain I would see a doctor even if I had cancer, because I don't trust the lot of them as far as I can throw them.

So when hospitals locked down over a flu that supposedly overran them with patients, we were all left to ask why so many nurses, doctors, and other people in medical scrubs had time to choreograph and film viral Tik Tok dance videos, including one where they apparently danced while hoisting the corpse of some unfortunate soul? Why should we trust mouse-find-cheese executives in scrubs whose perks come from sleazy Big Pharma reps in expensive suits? I know nurses who were laid off because there aren't enough people in the hospital to justify them being there. Fake hospital footage from Italy was used in March to frighten Americans into believing New York was experiencing the Black Death 2.0. Yet we all know someone who put a cool million into battling cancer and died the most horrible of deaths anyway. The idea these medical "professionals" would like all of us to wear face coverings forever and for always strikes me as suspicious. Aren't they supposed to know more about the human immune system? Or are their motives purely political?

This article raises more questions than it provides answers, and for that I apologize. I am lucky to have reached a point where I am not worried about the future, not because of my advantages imaginary or otherwise, but because I legitimately cannot see a point in worrying about the things over which I have no control. I think we are in line for a hard economic and social reset that has already begun to happen, but how this will affect me or anyone else remains a mystery.

Your opinions and speculations are welcome. I thank you in advance for refraining from profanity.

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From: (Anonymous)

I'm not too worried about the PMC -- even though I'm kin to some of them. I'm worried about the working class that's been totally screwed by all of this. I'm kin to a LOT more of THEM.

In the particular part of the South I'm from and live in to this day has become steadily more and more dependent on travel and entertainment to the point that people now out migrate because they want something more than waiting tables and competing with illegal immigrants to clean motel rooms. Now that's all busted. I wish someone could give me the magic key for how to explain to the working poor people that I love and am blood kin to that I'm really not kidding this time. They need to plant beans behind the trailer and in front of it too.

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kimberlysteele

I remember when I was ten and all of the strip malls went up around my area of the Midwest (far west suburbs of Chicago) and knowing how much of a waste it was, especially considering there were already two traditional multi-story malls within a fifteen mile distance. Nowadays there is hardly a scant half acre of meadow outside of a forest preserve that hasn't been paved over for some idiot's financial grift project. One doesn't need to be Nostradamus to see its future as hollowed out ruins, and the future isn't as far off as the PMC would like to think.

The only thing we can do is build morale by leading by example. Every time I start fretting about the people I love who really have zero plans to farm their yards anytime soon, I turn to the mirror. The more I learn about plant propagation, how not to kill the curry tree seeds I ordered from Etsy (maybe next year, ugh), preserving food, etc. the more I can help others to change. I can warn them once or twice about the writing I see on the wall but other than that, I think it is better to back off and go pick the raspberries and spinach. Those two I didn't kill this year!!

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ecosophian

"They are travel, insurance, entertainment, medicine, and medicine."

You might want to correct that. Even though I find the idea that they destroyed medicine twice hilarious.

Personally I've never met a member of the PMC who wasnt suffering from a severe stress, had a drinking problem or a mental disorder of some sort. And that's when everything was quite good in the economy. We might expect suicide parties now as their lives come unglued.

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kimberlysteele

Yes, and as they are true herd animals, if a decent sized group commits suicide, it will become all the rage. Definitely NOT a place I want them to go as I live in an area that is swimming with them.

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kimberlysteele

I've never met a member of the PMC who wasnt suffering from a severe stress, had a drinking problem or a mental disorder of some sort.

I'm racking my brain and I can't think of a single one of them that I've met who doesn't have at least one of those problems either... scary!

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