listening to late 18C european politics and like holy shit, absolutely star-studded frederick, marie theresa, catherine, pitt, talleyrand eventually who could even remotely compete with this kind of mad ability today
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instead of Pompadour we have fucking Hillary Clinton and i am incensed
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shes included It Takes a Village in her portrait this is peak premium mediocre
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frederick and catherine knew how to handle an Intelligensia contemporary politicians should take note
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Dark satanic diploma mills
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Mass media politics does not select for elites.
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I think you can make an argument that because there's 500 new polysci grads to send to every crisis, no one gets experience or does enough actual work to get either credit or blame. We can't use the real world to separate the wheat from the chaff, because the bin's overflowing.
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“Elite overproduction” is shorthand for “a surplus of over-credentialed mediocrities convinced of their own brilliance.”
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i know im just trying to make a point,, :)
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