Mark Twain's 1898 Harper’s essay “Concerning the Jews.” He wrote about what might happen should “the cunningest brains in the world” find political cohesion: “It will not be well to let the race find out its strength. If the horses knew theirs, we should not ride any more.”

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's not about intelligence, they have the same intellectual capacity as Europeans and East Asians. The difference is that they have no fondness for goyish morals. They are shameless and fiercely nepotistic. They have a racial supremacist religion which binds them together and justifies any actions done to outsiders for the benefit of their race. This allows them to gain power in an already prosperous society, for a while at least, but they can never let good enough alone, and their arrogance is their downfall.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're basically discribing every upper class around the world. The British aristocrat operates the same way. The upper end of the US political class operates the same way. Etc.

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Traditionally they had a noblesse oblige, though today the ultra-rich are radical individualists and see no duty toward the greater society. They are just as rootless and cosmopolitan, and they are still half of the problem.