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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Orcas Island, WA
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    1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 25

      "Whatever its faults, middle-class nationalism provided a common ground, common standards, a common frame of reference, without which society dissolves into nothing more than contending factions, as the Founding Fathers of America understood so well—a war of all against all."

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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 25

      This is from Lasch's "Revolt of the Elites", which describes the shift of the US from a fundamentally local and middle-class society to an urban and cosmopolitan one. At the time it probably seemed prophetic. Now, it simply seems to describe the commonplace.

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    3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 25

      If I were teaching this book to (say) Millennials or GenZ'ers now, I'd probably have to assign reading that somehow conveyed what the US was like before it was split into localist/globalist, mass-market/elitist, Flyover/Bicoastal halves.

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    4. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 25

      That, in fact, there *was* something other than our current, post-Reagan neoliberal reality at some point. To me it's poignant, as I'm old enough to remember hints of the world before (particularly given my very bourgeois Goldwater Republican parents)...

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    5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 25

      ...and then discovering what the world had really become when I entered the wider world, a nation of smug elites masquerading as meritocrats that had given up any notion of a Jeffersonian democracy. It was quite the shock. Not least of all, because I was decidedly *not* an elite.

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    6. Stefano 👾‏ @StefanoZorzi Oct 25
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      There is one thing here that gives some hope. Since those days were not that long ago, a large part of todays "elite" are like you - not born elite. And they/us should be able to get rid of the recent conditioning and see behind the veil.

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 25
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      Oh, but I'm not an elite now. I crashed the party briefly, and was shown the door. Among the solid elites I know, I see little interest in redesigning the hierarchy. I see little interest in even understanding the hierarchy, beyond passing claims to have read 'Hillbilly Elegy'.

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        1. Stefano 👾‏ @StefanoZorzi Oct 25
          Replying to @antoniogm

          Curiosity: what triggered you to read (or re-read) Larsch? I had just finished the culture of narcissism when I read your quote.

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        1. Stefano 👾‏ @StefanoZorzi Oct 25
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          Well. If this is so, then the consequences are pretty clear.

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