Charles Murray at Cato has trumpeted this BA “bubble” too.
I can’t shake the similarities with the Komsomol and how communists sweep the single-minded into power. No critical thinking skill, they were outwitted by the most simple of folk.
endthematrix: “I can’t shake the similarities with the Komsomol and how communists sweep the single-minded into power.”
But that’s not entirely true, and that’s not what the article said either. The author consistently made the point that the new American Mandarins are generally quite intelligent. I don’t doubt that many of the communist elite were similarly intelligent people. They may not have much experience outside of their isolated world and they’re generally lacking in wisdom (in my opinion), but that doesn’t mean they weren’t intelligent.
That’s the problem. There’s a mindset in America that these people have the answers, because they’re generally well educated and smart. Civilization, however, is far, far more complex than most of these leaders admit. It takes a great deal of audacity (and faith!) to believe, like President Obama, that he can change the American system into something better. No person or group of people, no matter how talented, can do that, and the more they try, the more they’re going to muck things up.
These folks apparently think they have the answers. They don’t even know the right questions!!!
My apologies. I thought you wrote “simple minded” in your post, not single minded. Yeah, the commies were single minded but most assuredly not simple minded.