A parable from my time in American academia: One day, the Gates Foundation descended on a field related to mine, with enormous bags of money. They wanted to fund /encourage a certain flavour of historical research. The orders had come on high, from Gates himself.
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Then Gates lost interest and the whole thing basically went away, except for a few dumb stragglers who are still doing that stupid shit, probably to this day. This is what I mean, when I say that elites are mostly stupid, and that there is no goal.
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Gates wasn't trying to achieve anything. He just got out of bed one day, scratching his ass, & thought this was a good idea. Then, after his money had caused various disruptions, he forgot all about it & went on to fund some other stupid shit. There was no plan, no point, nothing
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Sounds like how the whole of political science works.
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