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29 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 23h \ on: The Wailings of a Broken Class (Mises, Joakim Book) BooksAndArticles
It's the inevitable result of an intelligentsia that has become hopelessly self referential. i.e. you are a credentialed intellectual because other credentials intellectuals say you are.
The result of that is a lack of free, independent thought. And instead everything becomes a performance to signal your conformity to the group.
That's what it looks like to us, outsiders.
To them it looks like good journalism and intellectualizing.
How do those Venn diagrams begin touching again?
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That's right, few of them realize what's going on. They still think that they are in their positions because they are actually smart, LOL
One thing I would like to start doing, which I haven't because I'm too timid, is to heap unrelenting scorn on anyone who says they come from or work for an elite institution.
"I work for the New York Times."
"Oh, what's it like working in the entertainment industry?"
"I graduated from Harvard."
"Oh, you mean the school that discriminates based on the color of your skin?"
haha, too bad I'm such a scaredycat
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