shout out to the uhuru 3!!!! though they should be paid back for all the stress (which kills!!!) and the expenses they had to go through., instead the got probation and 300 hours of community service. i had to do 100 hours once and it seemed like it would never come to an end. it beats prison, that goes without saying, but man, for doing "nothing" but advancing a political idea of liberation, it sucks hard!!!! 🙌🏽❤
1:25:04 “Luigi Mangione doesn’t fit neatly into any box. He wasn’t a downtrodden laborer raging against the wealthy elites. Nor was he a far-right agitator, though he sympathized with some of their gripes. Raised among privilege, educated in the Ivy League, and fluent in high-demand STEM skills that most of us can only pretend to understand, Mangione should have been a poster child for the American Dream. Instead, he found himself arrested at a McDonald’s, carrying a ghost gun and handwritten notes condemning the healthcare system. His alleged crime? Murdering a CEO-arguably the apex predator of America’s elite caste. What happened to Luigi Mangione? And why does he feel like a character plucked from the pages of history, one of those people who stumble into the wrong place at the right time to set something immense, something unstoppable in motion? Maybe Peter Turchin has an answer-or at least, the beginning of one. - - - Turchin, a scientist and historian, isn’t your typical academic. He doesn’t just study the past; he looks for patterns that might explain why societies crumble. One of his big ideas is “elite overproduction.” It’s a fancy way of saying, “Too many ambitious people, not enough big chairs.” In societies like ours, where everyone’s told they can climb the ladder if they just work hard enough, Turchin warns that the top gets overcrowded. You end up with too many lawyers, too many MBAs, too many tech geniuses-and not enough room for them all to become comfortable successes, let alone titans of industry. When these aspiring elites find their ambitions thwarted, Turchin says, things get messy. When members of this elite class begin to sense the bitter taste of failure, they start to turn on one another, or worse, they start looking for someone else to blame. That’s when societies can go off the rails: revolutions, civil wars, assassinations. History isn’t short on examples. Just ask the French aristocrats of 1789 how that surplus of lawyers and intellectuals worked out for them. - - - And then there’s Mangione. If Mangione wasn’t exactly an elite himself, he moved among them, close enough to touch the hems of their robes. His family was wealthy; he went to prestigious schools and graduated into a field-tech-that traditionally guarantees success. But somewhere along the way, the system that had always worked for him stopped working. His chronic health issues left him incapacitated, sometimes bedridden, and forced him to abandon his dreams of building apps and climbing corporate ladders. For someone raised to expect success, this wasn’t just a setback. It was a betrayal. And it wasn’t the kind of betrayal you shrug off with a yoga class and a glass of kombucha. Imagine working your whole life to get a comfortable seat at the table, only to find that the table was rigged by the healthcare industry-or so it seemed to Mangione. The American Dream, in his eyes, wasn’t just unattainable; it was actively conspiring against him. According to Turchin’s framework, Mangione fits the mold of a “blocked elite”: someone groomed for greatness but denied a place among the winners. Blocked elites don’t just sulk in the corner; they lash out. And Mangione’s alleged target, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, wasn’t random. It was a strike against the very system he believed had sabotaged his future-against an elite that he personally blamed for the ruination of his dreams. Does that make him left, right, or just… angry? Mangione’s actions-and his motivations-don’t map neatly onto America’s political divides. Was he a leftist, angry at corporate greed? Was he a right-winger, disgusted by bureaucratic overreach? Maybe he was both. Or neither. Even in his own explanation of his actions, he emphasizes that he’s not the best person to provide analysis of what went wrong: he saw his role as being a person of action, an agent of change. What’s clear is that he saw himself as a tragic victim of a broken system, his future robbed from him by members of his own elite class; and he decided to use his knowledge, privilege, and resources to fight back in the most grim way imaginable. Turchin’s theories remind us that social instability isn’t just about the poor rising up against the rich. It’s also about those near the top who feel pushed out, overlooked, or betrayed. So on a personal level, Mangione probably wasn’t railing against elites because he was a populist hero. He was probably railing against them because, in his mind, they’d turned him into a casualty of their game-a game he was supposed to be on the winning side of, too. For every Mangione, there are countless other “blocked elites” feeling the same frustrations, simmering just below the surface. If Turchin is right, this isn’t just one man’s story-it’s a warning sign. When society produces more elites and promises them more cushy roles than it can sustain, and when privileged people discover that the systems that they expect to help them thrive instead leave them to flounder, the results aren’t just individual tragedies. They’re societal convulsions. Turchin points to revolutionary figures like Vladimir Lenin as a predictable result of these dynamics: highly educated, well-positioned elites who found themselves blocked by a rigid system and instead channeled their ambition into revolution. People who would rather destroy the system than accept mediocrity-or misery-or the humiliation of being told they should have been capable of better. Does that resonate with you? Lenin wasn’t alone-he was the tip of a frustrated iceberg, mobilizing others who felt betrayed by their own elite aspirations. If elite overproduction creates enough Mangiones-angry, alienated, and convinced the system is irredeemable-the result isn’t just individual vendettas and violence. It can snowball into something larger, something revolutionary. When enough people like Mangione start believing the game is rigged, they become willing to break it entirely. - - - Drafting accelerated with 🤖 assistance; concept, research, and final revision are mine. I read Turchin’s book about a year ago.” - Catmin’s Anticapitalist Treehouse of Solidarity
Awesome intro Dr. Ear! 🫡❤️✌🏼 If the gun is registered to him that means he gave her access to the gun. Much like how parents are being charged for their children doing school shootings. I don’t know the law but that could be why he was charged and she was not charged.
The arrest of Uhuru's leadership is meant to act as a deterrent to younger others who are or would be be outspoken about the US gov'ts criminality. The point wasn't to send an 80 year old man to jail but to provide a tangible example of the state's power to take people's lives, whether through imprisonment or murder.
I honestly don't think that anyone in my Fam, Mum, Dad, Uncles, Aunts, here & back in London, we never believed any of the "Christian" Christmas stuff. we knew it was an end of the year celebration that probably had to incorporate a whole lotta people from a whole lotta religions & regions & was like "a'ight, how are we ALL gonna be repped by this & still do this celebration thing?" like from before I knew calculous I knew this. whole Fam too (random Fam finding "The Lord" or Islam in jail & then 5 years later they out not whitstandin', lol). I'm pretty sure that's how your friends who like to go out & have fun for no reason see Christmas & New Years & Halloween. Love the Show all day everyday.
She must have told investors that it was his gun. He was charged because he must be a felon. MO is a constitutional carry state, so that explains why she wasn't charged.
9:04 you know they spit in it if you ask for a tiger woods, right? 9:58 people also love hip-hop n rap, but... do they love the originators? Good on the docs kid for taking advantage 😂
I’m not sure if it’s right to say that wolves and coyotes are dangerous. No more dangerous any way than any other dog, certainly not as dangerous as moose. Between 2002 and 2020 there were only 26 fatal wolf attacks world wide, two of which were in the US. Wolves are really only threatening if you’re of sheep-kind, and it’s this sort of off hand characterization of wolves that nearly lead to their extinction in the US. It is true that the mountain lions and wolves and bears have more to fear from humans than humans have to fear from them. It would be better to say diamond back and copper head or brown recluse and black widow. something poisonous that may actually result in death if encountered. But I’m with the wolves they don’t deserve such slanderous an association as American politics. The honourable spirit of the most noble house lupus from the realm of canis must be defended. Refuse all bourgeois wars! Land back free Palestine, workers stand with the oppressed peoples of the world, unite! !Bienvenidos camarada trabajadores del mundo!
I live in Arizona and don’t understand time jumping. Maybe we should listen to the seasons and rest more in the winter….embrace natural cycles
Congrats to your daughter Jared. So excited for her
shout out to the uhuru 3!!!! though they should be paid back for all the stress (which kills!!!) and the expenses they had to go through., instead the got probation and 300 hours of community service. i had to do 100 hours once and it seemed like it would never come to an end. it beats prison, that goes without saying, but man, for doing "nothing" but advancing a political idea of liberation, it sucks hard!!!! 🙌🏽❤
I'm poor so that orange is not more dangerous than ol sleepy
You such a good dad Jared. 💜
Lyft, Uber, and taxi
Hochul has to protect her campaign contributors
22:59 It’s the double beige face palm for me. 🤣🤣
30:55 Ear Dr. going off with his onset Alzheimer’s ass. 😂😂
Tried to make another comment but TH-cam removed it. I was just encouraging more people to protect black people like that lady did
1:25:04
“Luigi Mangione doesn’t fit neatly into any box. He wasn’t a downtrodden laborer raging against the wealthy elites. Nor was he a far-right agitator, though he sympathized with some of their gripes. Raised among privilege, educated in the Ivy League, and fluent in high-demand STEM skills that most of us can only pretend to understand, Mangione should have been a poster child for the American Dream.
Instead, he found himself arrested at a McDonald’s, carrying a ghost gun and handwritten notes condemning the healthcare system.
His alleged crime? Murdering a CEO-arguably the apex predator of America’s elite caste.
What happened to Luigi Mangione? And why does he feel like a character plucked from the pages of history, one of those people who stumble into the wrong place at the right time to set something immense, something unstoppable in motion?
Maybe Peter Turchin has an answer-or at least, the beginning of one.
- - -
Turchin, a scientist and historian, isn’t your typical academic. He doesn’t just study the past; he looks for patterns that might explain why societies crumble. One of his big ideas is “elite overproduction.” It’s a fancy way of saying, “Too many ambitious people, not enough big chairs.”
In societies like ours, where everyone’s told they can climb the ladder if they just work hard enough, Turchin warns that the top gets overcrowded.
You end up with too many lawyers, too many MBAs, too many tech geniuses-and not enough room for them all to become comfortable successes, let alone titans of industry.
When these aspiring elites find their ambitions thwarted, Turchin says, things get messy.
When members of this elite class begin to sense the bitter taste of failure, they start to turn on one another, or worse, they start looking for someone else to blame.
That’s when societies can go off the rails: revolutions, civil wars, assassinations. History isn’t short on examples. Just ask the French aristocrats of 1789 how that surplus of lawyers and intellectuals worked out for them.
- - -
And then there’s Mangione.
If Mangione wasn’t exactly an elite himself, he moved among them, close enough to touch the hems of their robes. His family was wealthy; he went to prestigious schools and graduated into a field-tech-that traditionally guarantees success.
But somewhere along the way, the system that had always worked for him stopped working.
His chronic health issues left him incapacitated, sometimes bedridden, and forced him to abandon his dreams of building apps and climbing corporate ladders.
For someone raised to expect success, this wasn’t just a setback.
It was a betrayal.
And it wasn’t the kind of betrayal you shrug off with a yoga class and a glass of kombucha.
Imagine working your whole life to get a comfortable seat at the table, only to find that the table was rigged by the healthcare industry-or so it seemed to Mangione.
The American Dream, in his eyes, wasn’t just unattainable; it was actively conspiring against him.
According to Turchin’s framework, Mangione fits the mold of a “blocked elite”: someone groomed for greatness but denied a place among the winners.
Blocked elites don’t just sulk in the corner; they lash out.
And Mangione’s alleged target, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, wasn’t random. It was a strike against the very system he believed had sabotaged his future-against an elite that he personally blamed for the ruination of his dreams.
Does that make him left, right, or just… angry?
Mangione’s actions-and his motivations-don’t map neatly onto America’s political divides. Was he a leftist, angry at corporate greed? Was he a right-winger, disgusted by bureaucratic overreach?
Maybe he was both. Or neither. Even in his own explanation of his actions, he emphasizes that he’s not the best person to provide analysis of what went wrong: he saw his role as being a person of action, an agent of change.
What’s clear is that he saw himself as a tragic victim of a broken system, his future robbed from him by members of his own elite class; and he decided to use his knowledge, privilege, and resources to fight back in the most grim way imaginable.
Turchin’s theories remind us that social instability isn’t just about the poor rising up against the rich. It’s also about those near the top who feel pushed out, overlooked, or betrayed.
So on a personal level, Mangione probably wasn’t railing against elites because he was a populist hero. He was probably railing against them because, in his mind, they’d turned him into a casualty of their game-a game he was supposed to be on the winning side of, too.
For every Mangione, there are countless other “blocked elites” feeling the same frustrations, simmering just below the surface. If Turchin is right, this isn’t just one man’s story-it’s a warning sign.
When society produces more elites and promises them more cushy roles than it can sustain, and when privileged people discover that the systems that they expect to help them thrive instead leave them to flounder, the results aren’t just individual tragedies. They’re societal convulsions.
Turchin points to revolutionary figures like Vladimir Lenin as a predictable result of these dynamics: highly educated, well-positioned elites who found themselves blocked by a rigid system and instead channeled their ambition into revolution.
People who would rather destroy the system than accept mediocrity-or misery-or the humiliation of being told they should have been capable of better.
Does that resonate with you?
Lenin wasn’t alone-he was the tip of a frustrated iceberg, mobilizing others who felt betrayed by their own elite aspirations.
If elite overproduction creates enough Mangiones-angry, alienated, and convinced the system is irredeemable-the result isn’t just individual vendettas and violence. It can snowball into something larger, something revolutionary.
When enough people like Mangione start believing the game is rigged, they become willing to break it entirely.
- - -
Drafting accelerated with 🤖 assistance; concept, research, and final revision are mine. I read Turchin’s book about a year ago.”
- Catmin’s Anticapitalist Treehouse of Solidarity
Awesome intro Dr. Ear! 🫡❤️✌🏼
If the gun is registered to him that means he gave her access to the gun. Much like how parents are being charged for their children doing school shootings. I don’t know the law but that could be why he was charged and she was not charged.
1:03:01 i agree with kim. This womens statement is akin to you reap what you sow or the chickens are coming home to roast
The arrest of Uhuru's leadership is meant to act as a deterrent to younger others who are or would be be outspoken about the US gov'ts criminality. The point wasn't to send an 80 year old man to jail but to provide a tangible example of the state's power to take people's lives, whether through imprisonment or murder.
I honestly don't think that anyone in my Fam, Mum, Dad, Uncles, Aunts, here & back in London, we never believed any of the "Christian" Christmas stuff. we knew it was an end of the year celebration that probably had to incorporate a whole lotta people from a whole lotta religions & regions & was like "a'ight, how are we ALL gonna be repped by this & still do this celebration thing?" like from before I knew calculous I knew this. whole Fam too (random Fam finding "The Lord" or Islam in jail & then 5 years later they out not whitstandin', lol). I'm pretty sure that's how your friends who like to go out & have fun for no reason see Christmas & New Years & Halloween. Love the Show all day everyday.
Where's the link to Dr. Ball's analysis of Peter Theil.. Please post.
-th-cam.com/video/kdKvgc7gitM/w-d-xo.html
1:33:17 call a white a communist, watch how that sits with them 🤣
She must have told investors that it was his gun. He was charged because he must be a felon.
MO is a constitutional carry state, so that explains why she wasn't charged.
Google is a tool good people.
www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/kc-man-sentenced-illegally-possessing-machine-gun-used-fatal-shooting-kc-fireman
9:04 you know they spit in it if you ask for a tiger woods, right? 9:58 people also love hip-hop n rap, but... do they love the originators? Good on the docs kid for taking advantage 😂
All JB has to do is show up and look pretty
I’m not sure if it’s right to say that wolves and coyotes are dangerous. No more dangerous any way than any other dog, certainly not as dangerous as moose. Between 2002 and 2020 there were only 26 fatal wolf attacks world wide, two of which were in the US. Wolves are really only threatening if you’re of sheep-kind, and it’s this sort of off hand characterization of wolves that nearly lead to their extinction in the US. It is true that the mountain lions and wolves and bears have more to fear from humans than humans have to fear from them. It would be better to say diamond back and copper head or brown recluse and black widow. something poisonous that may actually result in death if encountered. But I’m with the wolves they don’t deserve such slanderous an association as American politics. The honourable spirit of the most noble house lupus from the realm of canis must be defended.
Refuse all bourgeois wars! Land back free Palestine, workers stand with the oppressed peoples of the world, unite! !Bienvenidos camarada trabajadores del mundo!
Why yall (kim and Kamau) acting suppressed the state is coming down on Dwights who engage in class struggle?