How GamerGate Revealed The Total State
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Excellent assessment, salient throughout.
I'm not entirely in agreement that there is truly nobody at the helm of 'the cathedral', though. The most obvious answer is the biggest shareholders. They can make their feelings known to corporate bosses very, very quickly. The richest men on earth are only rich because their shareholders approve of them.
Remember that all of this is fundamentally about dividing the population to fight amongst themselves instead instead of going after the super rich, as they came very close to doing in the form of Occupy Wall Street.
I think the beliefs of the Cathedral are subject to evolutionary pressures same as any. The wealthy and powerful apply pressure to emphasize the aspects of thought that don't threaten their power or wealth. But there's also a consensus aspect to it where one elite can't necessarily go off and do their own thing without repercussions from the others, and the entire elite can't necessarily go off and do their own thing without repercussion from the commoners.
To continue your example though: things are further complicated when the largest shareholders end up being fund managers like Blackrock and Vanguard, who vote simply based on proxy voting policies defined by the organization. Who sets the policies? The elites at those organizations. Who are the major shareholders of the Blackrock and Vanguard funds? Probably pension funds, trusts, and 401(k)s. How do they advise Blackrock and Vanguard to vote? They have their own voting guideline policies. And so on and so forth.