Posted on 02/11/2024 7:22:23 AM PST by karpov
55% of Ivy League graduates believe that the U.S. “provides too much individual freedom” compared with just 16% of ordinary U.S. voters.
Back in 2019, as I was developing what became the luxury beliefs framework, I read a recently issued chapter published by Cambridge University Press titled “Why Are Elites More Cosmopolitan than Masses?”
Authored by a team of social scientists, this 2019 paper reports stunning gaps in political views and outlooks between elites and ordinary people in various western countries.
In the introduction, they suggest that elite attitudes are expressions of cultural capital. That is, the large gap in views between elites and everyone results from elites drawing symbolic boundaries between themselves and the provincial masses.
Indeed, another report found that 65 percent of Americans believed that the most educated and successful people in America are more interested in serving themselves than in serving the common good. This view is held across the board—across age, gender, race, political party, and ideology.
(Excerpt) Read more at robkhenderson.com ...
Nonsense. They were willing to endure more university indoctrination in return for the ephemeral brass ring of "financial security."
It is called socialism and is taught in the Poison Ivy League schools.
EC
Historically, there is only one way this will turn out.
I grew up with the “elites” and I think you are partially correct.
They are indoctrinated for sure—even though I knew all my professors were leftist liars from day one. (I had already mastered the complete works of Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard by age 17.)
They also like the “perks” of “fitting in”.
We all live in a model of the world—not the actual world.
Their model—of course—has them as the virtuous rebels fighting against the evil plutocrats.
My model has me as the virtuous rebel fighting against them.
Lol.
The elites think
The common man is are idiots, they are educated like we are.
And they don’t share my opinions which proves that they are idiots and should not be able to share those opinions freely.
To a very large extent, honest work will not provide the social rewards (money, respect, status) today that it did 50 years ago.
The way to get ahead today is through political pull. Repeating The Narrative. Having the right friends. You can be incompetent and stupid, but if you can check certain boxes, you will be richly rewarded.
We are not a meritocracy anymore. Young people see this. They don’t want to work and support that system. But the Baby Boomers, who built the system, don’t see the system at all and still want young people to join the rat race, sacrifice everything for the Big Boss Man. But what’s the point if that choice is no longer rewarded?
When Ayn Rand wrote about “Going Galt”, she had all of this in mind. A lot of young people are Going Galt. In my mind, they are ahead of a great many Conservatives on this board.
You’re right about that. And I believe that at our cores, we all know it. And I see that the ‘elites’ continue to provoke us, sneering “So what are you going to DO about it, loser?” as they gut our civilization in every possible way.
Kings and emperors used to justify their use of power by telling everyone that they were descended from gods.
The gods wanted them to use power over others.
I don’t see elites.
I see people born the same way I was born.
I see people who have 99% of the same physical characteristics that I have.
I see people who breathe the same air and eat food and drink water and urinate and defecate and get sick and die.
I do see a lot of frightened people.
People with a lot of wealth who are afraid of losing that wealth or afraid that their heirs will lose that wealth.
Fear.
Get over it rich people.
We all turn to dust.
Agreed—I am very optimistic that a significant portion of young men are ready to be heros and remake civilization.
It will be very difficult for them—so they better get hard and mean with lots of street smarts.
Survival—of course for you and those you love—must be priority number one.
Anyone who gets in the way of that is the enemy—no matter who they are or where they are.
Hard Times Make Good Men
Good Men Make Good Times
Good Times Make Weak Men
Weak Men Make Hard Times
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
They especially have contempt for those backwards sub humans living in fly over country. Which is kind of ironic because a lot of those newly minted 'elites" are from the areas they have been indoctrinated to despise.
I always though that this was odd because, while the non DEI admit kids that gain admission to our top schools have traditionally ( but not so much anymore) been among the top students of their respective high school classes, they are seldom the top students.
Usually, many of the top students used to end up at their local state schools for financial reasons. Now they end up at their state schools because they are white and some DEI person of color admit has cut in front of them in the line.
That is sort of to be expected, isn't it? Elites go around looking for things to be interested in and a lot of those things are foreign. The difference now is that the elite's opinions and views have become highly politicized and regimented. It's not a question of appreciating Picasso or Schoenberg or some strange new cuisine any more. It's about a political program.
The White Elite use minorities, like the Nazis used the SA.
But just as with the SA, eventually they will wear out their welcome.
The superiority complex gets internalized in a hurry.
I may be giving too much away here but where I went to college and graduate school we referred to it as simply:
“The college”
“The law school”
“The grad school”
“The business school”
“The med school”
That was in the language itself—deep programming and brainwashing.
The superiority complex gets internalized in a hurry.
I may be giving too much away here but where I went to college and graduate school we referred to it as simply:
“The college”
“The law school”
“The grad school”
“The business school”
“The med school”
That was in the language itself—deep programming and brainwashing.
The SA are the opposite of the violent minorities. Antifa is the equivalent of SA. Not minorities.
The point is, they used the SA to intimidate their opponents into silence.
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