It's incredible to me how much I've returned to this piece.https://sweettalkconversation.com/2015/10/09/secret-handshakes-and-reputational-suicide-pacts/ …
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I came here to post this, thought about it frequently since refactor camp. It only got better with age :/
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Not quite - the narratives shift. You are treated like a Titan of Industry, or a Luminary of Science, or a Patron of Sacred Arts. The heavy weight on your shoulders is to make the *tough* calls; mere mortals don't understand. But we do. "We've all been there", "we get it".
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That’s the outer ring of self-congratulatory pageantry. The inner rings aren’t quite like that. There’s the “you can’t handle the truth” inner ring of self-righteous, self-justifying abuse of power, and a parallel inner ring of naked secretive abuse.
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That's not my take. I think there's a sense, not just among elites, of how people are multi-dimensional and do good and bad things. The difference is that the bad can be used to attack elites in a way that it can't be used elsewhere.
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My point is elites do their bad things in networks of complicity. It’s not a “take”. It’s an observation.
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I occasionally think the same but wonder if it’s more simply a function of raw power. From one perspective every US citizen is an “elite” who benefits from US global actions, including the immoral ones.
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2/ im not sure if adding variables beyond power to the model improves its resolution.
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It’s the other way round also. It’s harder not to get into elite circles as you start getting complicit in something ugly.
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