In this third post on the economic omnicrisis we inhabit I am going to go on about how our debt system funds a vast and ever expanding dependency culture of administrative bureaucrats.
This “Lanyard Class” is bought and paid for by borrowing - a model of state management professed by Mr Keynes.
I have tried to write a decent treatment of what the Lanyard Class is, what it does and why their certain doom will be welcomed by the sane. Part one appears today, with two parts to follow.
In this first instalment on The Lanyard Class I say something of Mr Keynes, the power of ideas, and explain in brief the function of the Lanyard Class.
It should take you five minutes to read.
Part One:
John Lanyard Keynesianism: Economics, politics and the policing of mass belief
CONTENTS
The Rainbow Warrior Mr John Maynard Keynes
The Power of Ideas is the Power of the Lanyard Class
One Lanyard to Rule Them All
Origins of the term “lanyard class”
The Function of the Lanyard Class
Notes on Mr Keynes
John Maynard Keynes is far more interesting than my reductionist reading of his economic theory as expounded in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935–36).
He said in that book
“Ideas shape the course of history”
Keynes went on to say which ideas he thought significant.
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.”
One reason for this is that in an age when culture is identified with the contents of mass communication it can be readily manipulated to coincide with the concepts convenient to this or that political or economic theory.
The ideas which rule us are bad ideas because they are bad for everyone, producing moral nihilism, dissolving meaning and nations, and delivering us all into living debt.
Making these ideas popular is the role of cultural production.
Making your life conditional upon them is the role of the lanyard class.
The Power of Ideas is the Power of the Lanyard Class
The lanyard class is financed by government borrowing. This class manages and polices your access to government and state services and sets the terms and conditions of your working life.
The lanyard class can and do enforce a social and career death penalty for public heresy against the international rainbow nihilism informally known as “the globalist agenda”.
This means our lives are made joyless and conditional upon adherence to the worship of the idols of our consumer-nihilist political economy, whose every wrong is presented as an unquestionable right.
The ideas shaping the course of our history, present, past and future, are those of the international state religion. The Lanyard Class is a sponsored tier of State and State-aligned ideological bureaucrats whose livelihoods depend on the defence of the political economy of civilisational suicide.
One Lanyard to Rule Them All
Mr Keynes, who was a keen cyclist, went on:
“Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."
I have argued in the previous post that the ideas supplied by our manufactured culture have been crafted to effectively enslave us, as if by enlightened consent, to an almost defunct economic system which sees mass immigration as a basic necessity.
Perhaps my point does not seem so extraordinary when put beside Mr Keynes’ remark, which is noteworthy for suggesting the power economics wields over the ideas we believe, and not for good reason, that we believe we believe in freely.
The not good reason we believe we have arrived at our beliefs freely is basically vanity. It is embarassing to accept we believe what we do in some cases because we believe in ideas supplied to support the demands of political economists.
I am saying that the religious belief in open borders, the raibow flag, the climate cult, in hysterical progressive cults of grievance advertised as the fight for rights are produced and transmitted as our working and social culture because they align with an economic objective: to standardise and manage the entire world in a single system.
JM Keynes - “Rainbow warrior”?
Keynes probably deserves the rainbow lanyard he sports in this witty meme, as he was in his early adult life an enthusisastic homosexualist, before moving on to affairs with women. He died childless despite marrying the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova and spending twenty years with her before his death in 1946.
Origins of the term
The Lanyard Class is a term popularised by Maurice Glasman in 2025, but usage goes back at least ten years.
It commonly denotes the managerial rank of the liberal regime which serves as the interface between the ruling elite and the ruled.
“Lanyardism” is a more recent term, denoting the sort of rule setting and policing which typifies the behaviour of administrators in public health, education, HR departments and the civil service (for example).
The observation that the lanyard class and its ideology (“Lanyardism”) typifies a detachment from those ruled or managed is significant.
Since the Second World War the Liberal State has been against its people and increasingly disconnected from their interests and their thinking.
It has imported by policy the “chaos of global modernity” to replace our way of life.
The Function of The Lanyard Class
The lanyard class occupies every office of every institution to direct the population into submission to an agenda which is at best parallel to their every basic interest, and is presented in total as the only respectable position to hold.
The recognition that state power is inimical to the fundamental demands for a decent life shows that this is a question beyond the forced consensus of party politics which is presented as the pinnacle of democracy.
This is increasingly understood because the actions of this power are so obviously and universally destructive that the effect is to unite anyone not dependent on the State against its permanent agenda.
Maurice Glasman has spoken (at around 3:50 here) about why the Lanyard Class is despised - because they humourlessly police the mismatch between the rhetoric of government and the miserable reality its policies have produced.
Glasman also stresses the disconnection of government from the governed, and in more detail the departure of the Labour Party from the interests and demands of the working class they were founded to represent.
The recognition of the Lanyard Class, its function and its perception by the public is essential to understanding the nihilism of a political economy that relies on mass immigration to survive, against the wishes of the governed, and at the expense of the security, dignity and meaning of their lives.
The crisis we inhabit increasingly resembles the terminal crisis of the international economic model which produced the political consensus normalised throughout our lifetimes.
This economic-politics is policed by a class of nylon-noosed commissars whose existence can only be justified if we accept that our own is secondary to the success of the political economy of national suicide.
This is the reason I think it is important to recognise the existence of the Lanyard Class and the function it performs in securing the power of a system which is clearly not for but against us.
In the second part I will explore how the Lanyard Class came to preserve the permanent agenda of the political economy of liberal internationalism.
I will argue that it mandates belief in irrational superstitions to set the terms and conditions of our increasingly joyless working and social lives, and will explain why the Lanyard Class is blind to its own existence.
The Permanent Agenda and the Lanyard Class
Lanyardists as Apparatchiks
From Burnham to Lanyardism
The Superstitous Beliefs of the Lanyard Class
Lanyard Leadership in Western Politics
Ideological blindness - why the Lanyard Class is invisible to itself
In the third part I will explain how the Lanyard Class operates as a repressive and ideological State apparatus, being a caste of belief-discipline funded by soaring government borrowing. I will show why the Lanyard Class is doomed by the developing omnicrisis that is an historic opportunity for real change.
The Lanyard Class as Ideological State Apparatus
The Lanyard as Instrument of Repression
Tax and Spend it on the Lanyard Class
The National Interest Rate
Why the Lanyard Class is doomed
The Terminal Crisis as opportunity for Change
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Frank, this is brilliant. I have spent the last twenty years of my working life dominated by the lanyard class. I also remember working life before the lanyards and it was so much better - so much more human.
The managerial class love them and the power they imagine they bestow.
I always hated having to wear a lanyard (I was not a manager) but was penalised by HR for removing mine …
I look forward to Part 2. No one makes so much sense of this mad regime as you!
Absolutely brilliant. You could be writing about the, allegedly, quasi-homoseuxal Mark Carney with his twisted but bloodless past, his (Jimmy) Savile Row suits and his dowager's humped, Uriah Heep posturing. All the theories about a Lanyard Class are confirmed in that sorry, grey, joyless personage.