whoa; for the first time in like, seven years, vgr and I are nearly perfectly alignedhttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-next-experiments-in-elitism …
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some of these items rhyme almost exactly with sections in my civics seriespic.twitter.com/mEb47XQUL2
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although, we slice the topic of "elites" up in different ways; I have a much cruder split of "citizens" using a classic leader/follower dichotomy, and am less focused on a specific privileged class of "leaders" than a fluidity wherein citizens lead/follow in different domainspic.twitter.com/Z6VM8b4fNi
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curious what you think
@vgr -- while I agree there likely always will be circumcised groups of natural aristocracy, i wonder if you buy the argument that nobility dynamics rhyme deeply with the cruder follower/leader model of the under-the-API, disenfranchised worker class3 replies 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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Umm natural aristocracy is your gloss on it. I think there is always an elite but the structure and composition keeps changing with the times. I treat follower/leader briefly towards the end. It’s not cruder, it’s just the doing side where elite/masses is the being side.
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sorry, I didn’t mean “natural” as in biological / immutable; I meant it as a more colloquial way of saying “inevitable”, given the structure of social organization you outlined. I think about it in terms of information management;pic.twitter.com/5xvplTaI22
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This is a topic where certain terms like ‘natural’ are extremely fraught 
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