¿Quiénes serán los próximos cabrones?

 There's a tri-polar world scenario, a platform-state world order (most vulnerable to the global financial triffid that uprooted itself and is moving like a sprinter). Oil is subordinate to global finance now. In the US the Democrats are the party of the rentier elite. I want to politically defeat the rentier elite.

It can't just be the engineers. Even though Toynbee respected Veblen's critiques he thought Veblen was corrosive, not creative. Engineers don't generate new myths or new legitimacy or inspire collective purpose (which will unify the fractured society).

Wouldn't it be funny if the poor slobs schlepping our materials around the world via the supply chains, are it?  Jalaja.

They'll have to rebel against both the financiers and the Dark Enlightenment.

There 𝘪𝘴 something darkly comic — and also profoundly historical — in the idea that the people who actually keep the world running, the ones who move matter, maintain infrastructure, and keep the supply chains breathing, might turn out to be the nucleus of the next creative minority.

Not funny as in “haha,” but funny as in “the irony of history is sharper than satire.”

🚚 The people who move matter understand reality better than the people who move symbols.

The supply‑chain workers — truckers, longshoremen, warehouse operators, rail crews, port engineers, maintenance techs — are:

- materially literate  

- constraint‑aware  

- system‑conscious  

- embedded in the real economy  

- attuned to fragility and resilience  

- aware of how civilization actually functions  

They live inside the circulatory system of the world.

They know what breaks.  

They know what’s scarce.  

They know what’s brittle.  

They know what’s real.

In a civilization that has forgotten matter, they are the ones who 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 forget.

🛠️ They are the only group with both material knowledge and mass scale.

The financiers have power but no material literacy.  

The Dark Enlightenment types have theories but no infrastructure.  

The managerial class has credentials but no grounding.  

The platform class has data but no matter.

But the supply‑chain workers have:

- hands on the levers  

- eyes on the bottlenecks  

- tacit knowledge  

- embodied skill  

- operational awareness  

- a sense of the whole system  

They are the only group that touches the entire civilization every day.

That’s not a small thing.

🌍 Historically, creative minorities often emerge from the “practical classes”. Toynbee’s creative minorities rarely come from:

- aristocrats  

- financiers  

- ideologues  

- intellectual salons  

They come from:

- frontier administrators  

- engineers  

- merchants  

- navigators  

- craftsmen  

- logisticians  

- military innovators  

People who 𝘥𝘰 things. People who solve real problems. 

People who understand the world as a system of constraints. The supply‑chain class fits this pattern better than any elite currently in power.

🔧 They are already halfway to Victor Ferkiss’s "technological person”.

Think about it:

- They think in flows.  

- They understand bottlenecks.  

- They know the difference between theory and practice.  

- They know that matter is stubborn.  

- They know that energy is finite.  

- They know that systems fail.  

- They know that resilience is built, not declared.  

This is the temperament Ferkiss described.

Not the engineer in the lab.  

Not the theorist in the think tank.  

But the person who keeps the system alive.

⚙️ Why they would have to push back against both finance and the Dark Enlightenment.

A. Finance

Finance treats supply‑chain workers as cost centers to be minimized.  

It strips redundancy, squeezes margins, and punishes resilience.

The supply‑chain class sees the consequences of this every day.

B. The Dark Enlightenment

The DE worldview is abstract, hierarchical, and contemptuous of the “low.”  

It fetishizes sovereignty but ignores infrastructure.  

It worships power but forgets matter.

The supply‑chain class knows that:

- sovereignty without logistics is a fantasy  

- hierarchy without maintenance is a collapse  

- power without energy is a metaphor  

They would reject both.

🔥 The irony: the next creative minority might be the people who never asked to lead. This is the part that feels almost mythic.

The people who:

- keep the ports running  

- keep the trucks moving  

- keep the warehouses humming  

- keep the grids stable  

- keep the shelves stocked  

…might be the ones who eventually say:

 “Enough.  This system is brittle, extractive, and delusional.  We know how it actually works.  We know what needs to be rebuilt.  We know what’s real.”

Not a revolt of ideology.  

A revolt of competence.

A revolt of material realism.

A revolt of builders.

🌱 The next creative minority won’t be:

- the financiers  

- the theorists  

- the ideologues  

- the influencers  

- the platform aristocracy  

It will be the people who understand matter, energy, and systems — whether they wear hard hats, lab coats, or logistics vests.

And yes — the supply‑chain class might be the unrecognized backbone of that emerging coalition.

Not because they want power.  

But because they understand reality.

Big questions: How will AI fit into this? How thirsty and how hungry? If this new class can only answer these.