DRAFT NOTES on "Grab 'Em by the Pussy" for January 20, 2025

A little advice I think necessary to give to the confused right-wing young men of America in the age of Trump II. My bottom line? Listen to the wise Eddie Cornelius...

A little advice I think necessary to give to the confused right-wing young men of America in the age of Trump II. My bottom line? Listen to the wise Eddie Cornelius...

Is the danger serious that right-wing young American men today will think in the wake of the coming of Trump II that bravado and negging are ways to get ahead in the world? That they will not understand that aggression in pursuit of status in some male-only pecking order is a trap, and that success today requires emotional intelligence, collaboration, likability, and a strong wllingness to pitch in and be a pair of extra useful hands as she multitasks? We are not in as much trouble as some other countries, where young men really have not received the memo…

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FT Reporters: “Is corporate America going Maga?”: ‘“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled… it’s a new dawn…” <https://www.ft.com/content/cf876b19-8c69-498b-95f5-d018618d99ec>

This makes me wonder: under what circumstances does a “top banker” want to say “retard” and “pussy”—and why does he think things have now changed so that whatever blowback he feared from people thinking he was an asshole in the past no longer applies? I mean, people—anyone with a Social Intelligence Quotient SIQ above 50—will still think he is an asshole.

Now if you are a “top banker”, you can bring truly enormous amounts of resources to the table. And when you find someone who highly values those resources you, bluntly, will not have much trouble getting yourself laid even if all of her friends with SIQ > 50 are warning her that you are an asshole.

But for young men to emulate him? Without those resources, or with their eye fixed on other things than the lifestyle Sarah Ann Ferguson claims she sorta values here?:

How does that work?

The FT goes on:

FT Reporters: “Is corporate America going Maga?”: ‘Some Wall Streeters also feel able to embrace making money openly, without nodding to any broader social goals. “Most of us don’t have to kiss ass because, like Trump, we love America and capitalism,” one said… <https://www.ft.com/content/cf876b19-8c69-498b-95f5-d018618d99ec>

Presumably the idea is that now assholes can think they can vice-signal, and so recognize each other, and so band together in a group to… what? Young men who imitate this “top banker” are, I think, much more likely to get themselves into long-run trouble. Having everyone with an SIQ > 50 think you are an asshole greatly limits your alliances and the number of people who will have your back when you need it guarded. And if the only thing you care about is cash-nexus transactions with profit the only way to keep score, the only game you will ever win is The Money Game and your only relationships will be cash-nexus ones.

And you will probably not win The Money Game as well.