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Nice infrastructure of irresponsibility we’ve managed to create. Fist you have first-order grifters:: weapons manufacturers, defense contractors, and logistics suppliers — Then come the second-order grifters — the think tankers, foreign policy fellows, and adjacent “experts” who don’t make weapons but polish the narratives that keep them flying. Then there are the third-order grifters: journalists, influencers, academic strivers, minor bureaucrats — people who echo second-order narratives because they need a seat at the table, a clip that lands, a fellowship, a consulting gig. They mimic the frameworks and language because that’s what gets rewarded. They don’t invent the grift, they just learn its rhythms.
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Fourth-order grifters are the new online amateur experts —. They don’t get paid, but they build a brand by sounding just like the second- and third-order grifters. Their reward is growth, engagement, maybe a podcast spot. Fifth-order grifters are the rest of us if we’re not careful — when we share their bs and normalize their terms, when we let ourselves be trained to think in their logic. The whole system depends on layers of distance — not just from the battlefield, but from accountability. Each layer thinks it’s removed from the consequences, each layer thinks the real decisions are being made somewhere else.
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