One of the most visible symbols of America’s ruling class is the Bohemian Club.  Last year, they spent less than their usual $400 – $600 for single bottles (plural) of wine.  Hard times, right?

Now they are trying to run a Redwood timber harvest.  “Second-, third- and fourth-generation redwoods will be thinned…”   SFGate Leaving only the largest of the great trees.  This is a classic power monger remake of the physical world.  The mightiest few are meticulously cared for (themselves and the oldest growth trees) and fell anything less.  That probably means clearing a few old-growth trees to make the property better conform to their orderly world view too.

They wrapped the harvest in the previously politically correct and fail-safe  ‘fire suppression’ meme.   Now, if it were the case that they did just harvest the fast-growing pine-variety invaders, I’d have no problem with the harvest.  It’s the fact they documented clearing the younger redwoods.  This is an external validation of the epic scale of their self importance.  Who needs to be bothered with petty small trees that won’t be large enough to gaze in wonder at (like me and my fellow Bohemians) for at least 1000 years?

Is it the case that their business lives are so slow they have time for a little ‘grounds maintenance?’  Or maybe they can’t get their rapacious urges sufficiently validated by a hostile proletariat?  Like the typical maniacal messiah, do they simply blame the thankless populists that can’t possibly understand the enormous burdens of remaking the world in their view?

An inquiring populist would like to know…