Trying to find a better historic example of the utter disconnect between the hobbies of the new elite, and the world they helped usher.
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/836350781888540674 …
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Replying to @zeynep
Want a movie/book playlist on people whose talents and/or smarts and/or wealth (aka surrounded by sycophants) blind them. Very old story.
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Replying to @zeynep
I know too much of literature about Europe 1930s—there are others places, times, too. Really really old, recurring story.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Raw appetite for power, one thing, how the smart & the talented so seduced to mobilize idiotically convoluted justifications? meh
9:09 AM - 28 Feb 2017
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