the creation of an intellectual eLiTe that gets negligible exposure to the history of western civilization and intellectual history in particular is probably the greatest curse of our time I am so mad about this instead we have distribution requirements in psychology good god
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not sure I agree, either way def think it's important to distinguish actual elites like Bernanke from intellectual elites like idk Ezra Klein. in the middle we have people like Fauci. Im not sure that first group of people is less competent than their predecessors, they know more
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Ezra Klein is not an intellectual elite. The problem is there are too many with the pretensions and the appearance for justifying. What capital is supremely good at is obfuscation.
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Maybe the ever increasing complexity of systems means modern elites have to spend all their time trying to keep things afloat. No time for greatness
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