The elite [[Globalists]] or the establishment is how we often refer to the people in charge of the country often unofficially. Another way to refer to them is "The Cathedral".
The Cathedral refers to the media and academia portion of the establishment. They often control the [[The overton Window]] and keep it in a position to help the people they want in power. This was coined by a guy by the pen name Mencius Moldbug. (real name Curtis Yarvin)
This cathedral is often referred to when we talk of "red Pilling" somebody. According to Michael Malice "red PIlling" is defined as;
>The belief that what is presented as fact by the corporate press is a carefully constructed narrative, intentionally designed to keep some very unpleasant people in power.
The media and academia are at the center of modern intellectual society, like the church was the center of society in medieval ages.
It's almost if the cathedral is working in unison. The cathedral is a way to explain how these institutions seem to work in lockstep without attributing it to any sort of conspiracy.
The cathedral has one clear doctrine or perspective , it always agrees with itself. More puzzling is that this doctrine is not static and evolves together but in a very predictable way. (Get the actual quote from "The mystery of the cathedral" paper). maybe written by Curtis Yarvin (AKA moldbug)
The cult of woke has taken over academia and this becomes a problem because when anything is valued over truth than it harms the ability to determine truth in any matter.
We can see the cult of wokes influence through cancellations, the very narrow threshold politicians are allowed to talk in and the bowing down of corporations to their ideological intolerance
## Problems and misconceptions
It seems that that academia and the media are always on the same page at the same time, which causes the common misconception of a deliberate conspiracy, shadow government, secret society etc.
The concept of the cathedral is an anti-conspiracy in that it explains how these forces work together, without the need for any behind the scenes secret dealings.
Nobody is in charge of the cathedral despite people having varying levels of influence.
Which brings the question. How does the cathedral act in unison with no clear leaders. This brings us to the 2 methods this is done.
## 1. Ideological intolerance
(look for fundamentalism article in my obsidian)
Tolerant Ideologies will tolerate this force, but when the force captures a majority of thi institution, they do not tolerat the tolerant and push them out.
Once the ideological intolerant have the majority of the institution they will not tolerate divergent thought so slowly begin to push out others until they operate under a type of hive mind.
You now have a system where behaving like you have woke beliefs is selected for. (look at lefty power seeking behavior via virtue signaling)
It seems like so many species evolve into crabs because they are operating under a similar type of environment. So similar environmental pressures (see woke cultists), will result in similar adaptive behavior.
This is why fundamentalism spread so far. Intolerance. The cult of woke acts like a spreading religion in this way. They are a secular intolerant belief system, accept there is no God attached.
Their belief system does obsess over harm avoidance and will engage in the equity fallacy.
The equity fallacy; The false belief that unequal outcomes between groups is solid evidence of systematic discrimination of the less fortunate group.
This then causes the group to search for inequities, without proof assert they are due to discrimination and label anyone who disagrees a bigot, and allows them to shame opposition into silence and then these people are replaced with the cultists and those pretending to be cultists due to self preservation or hierarchy games.
