I have to offer my fellow posters/readers here an apology: My acronym demon has been at it again!
I’ve found myself referring quite often lately to ‘the guardians of current orthodoxy’. And this morning, whilst shaving, I suddenly thought: “Does that acro naturally?” And lo and behold: gocos!!!
Truly sorry, but my childish sense of humour just can’t resist it! The more so as it fits so well with ‘gics’.
Consider: The gangster-in-charge - the gics - work out what line of deceitful propaganda-patter best serves at the moment their WealthPowerStatus addiction: the ruling star of their psychopathic lives. Then, by that weird social osmosis that seems to happen without anyone ever spelling anything out in plain terms, the guardians of current orthodoxy - the gocos - adopt these fakery memes as naturally as ducklings to water, and promptly begin to display the standard hysterical verbal savagery of gocos in denouncing anyone who dissents.
I guess it’s something to do with innate proclivities: The gics love nothing in the world so much as their bone-deep addiction to WPS; the gocos - almost always elder unigrad technocrats who’ve done very nicely thank you by adopting a comfortably-fitting orthodox doctrine in early adult life and getting a profitable career out of it, with prestigeful status and some fame - the gocos then osmotically absorb the gics’ preferences and make them orthodox. Globalism and neoliberal capitalism, for a couple of Western examples.
I suppose it’s scarcely an original thought to point out that successful gocos get where they are as much by sooking up to gics for approval and funding as by any true originality of thought. Every aspiring technocrat knows, without ever letting it get up into their conscious awareness, which side their bread is palm-greased, and who they have to please to ‘get on’.
A match made in Mordor. And gazetted to aspirants by the Fraudian, and its US lamestream equivalents. (Though really, is the Fraud actually still a British paper, or more of a US recent-immigrant? So pleasing to think that Kath Viner’s wretched loo-paper will go down the tubes with the disintegrating Anglozionist empire. Kath did an early stint of her mediawhore experience on outlets in NYC, so it figures. Just deserts…! )
For an example of true originality of thought, consider Rupert Sheldrake. His originality earned him - as he once humorously put it - the status of the Antichrist; at least amongst the gocos who find his excellent experimental work so deeply irritating…