[Carry_Okie]

In the introduction, they suggest that elite attitudes are expressions of cultural capital.

Nonsense. They were willing to endure more university indoctrination in return for the ephemeral brass ring of "financial security."

[Ex-Con777]

It is called socialism and is taught in the Poison Ivy League schools.

EC

[Noumenon]

Historically, there is only one way this will turn out.

[Pontiac]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[blueunicorn6]

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.

[rdcbn1]

Those who go to our self proclaimed “elite” schools are indoctrinated with contempt and open hostility towards their fellow non elite Americans.

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.

[x]

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?”

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.

[Dr. Franklin]

55% of Ivy League graduates believe that the U.S. “provides too much individual freedom” compared with just 16% of ordinary U.S. voters.

And these are overwhelmingly our judges, who consider individual rights against the state as something to be finessed rather than respected. "Qualified immunity" of government officials and "standing" to challenge illegal government action are how they do it.

[Chode]

ELITISTS are not not elite...

[SaxxonWoods]

“The Grand Canyon-Sized Chasm Between Elites and Ordinary Americans”

That would be the definition of elite, wouldn’t it? Elites have investable resources, the seed money for jobs, especially the better and best jobs. That said, one doesn’t need to BE an elite to be financially independent and happy.

[9YearLurker]

Wow. The Ivy Grads’ take on rationing meat, gas-powered vehicles, air travel, freedom, etc., is even worse than I would have imagined.

[Grampa Dave]

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club! ~ George Carlin

(Warning! Typical George Carlin language!) May 4, 2014

“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got.

Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t.

You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want:

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them.

That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting ***ked by a system that threw them overboard 30 ***king years ago.

They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money.

They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something?

They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, ‘cause they own this ***king place.

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks.

The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people — white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on — good honest hard-working people continue — these are people of modest means — continue to elect these rich ************s who don’t give a ***k about them. They don’t give a ***k about you.

They don’t give a ***k about you. They don’t care about you at all — at all — at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their ********** everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

― George Carlin////May 4, 2014

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason

https://media.tenor.com/HhA-coxG7gAAAAAC/plan-planned.g

[Grampa Dave]

Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, ROB HENDERSON. FEB 4, 2024

The Grand Canyon-Sized Chasm Between Elites and Ordinary Americans

Ivy Leaguers versus everyone else!:

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.

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/the-grand-canyon-sized-chasm-between

[metmom]

More like a Marianas Trench size.

[yelostar]

The concept of elitism within a societal framework began with the ancient mystery schools.

Esoteric, hidden knowledge was passed on only to the initiated, and secrecy was paramount. The knowledge passed on was not meant for the masses.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/mystery-school-0013599

The world as it stands now - politically, economically, spiritually, and every other way - bears this out. The mass of humanity is - and has been for millennia - managed by an elite hierarchy.

[daniel1212]

And demographically, there are Boomers 53 million functional boomers (ages 55 to 73), vs. 72 million Millennials + 66 million Generation X = 53 million vs. over 138 million Millennials and Gen X, plus many Generation Z who can vote now (more later)

Sep 13, 2023 Of more than 55.8 million elderly adults in the U.S. (65 or older), 1.3 million live in nursing homes, representing 2.3% of the elderly population. An additional 818,800 elderly Americans reside in assisted living facilities. - https://www.aplaceformom.com/senior-living-data/articles/elderly-nursing-home-population

2023 72.24 million Millennials were the largest generation group in the U.S. in 2022, with an estimated population of 72.24 million. - https://www.statista.com/statistics/797321/us-population-by-generation/

2024 Generation X, or Gen X, refers to the generation of people born between the mid-1960s and the early-1980s. Gen X-ers, falling between baby boomers and millennials, number around 66 million.- https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/generation-x-genx.asp

2024 Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012... approximately 68.6 million Gen Zs living in the United States (US Census) - https://explodingtopics.com/blog/gen-z-stats

2019: Millennials overtake Baby Boomers as America's largest ... Apr 28, 2020 — Generation X (ages 39 to 54) numbered 65.2 million and is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.

Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living adult generation, according to population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

As of July 1, 2019 (the latest date for which population estimates are available), Millennials, whom we define as ages 23 to 38 in 2019, numbered 72.1 million,

and Boomers (ages 55 to 73) numbered 71.6 million.

Generation X (ages 39 to 54) numbered 65.2 million and is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.

Projected population by generation
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/28/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers-as-americas-largest-generation/

[Clemenza]

Well as long as the “right” keeps looking like phonies complaining about “elites” while arguing for economic policies that keep these elites wealthy they will keep losing.