boqueronman: Just so.
However, I will point out that democracies paradoxically seem to require an elite or group of elites, the signal point being that the ascendancy of these groups should be justified by some moral,intellectual,practical or spiritual accomplishments and set of values that have been demonstrated to be of true, high and necessary value to their civilization as a whole.
Is it really the notion of any elite that fulmmuxes you or this elite?
The old WASP Establishment did may great things, even though it is their perhaps failure to stand up for what was right after WW1 that started us down this path. I often ponder this as I walk by the wonderful buildings they built in NYC during the Gilded Age. (But Here we are back to FDR and the democrats again.P
It is my feeling that the current elites has not earned their positions, and this includes the enervated remnants of the old establishment that went to the fashionable left and the new entrants that came in as technocrats under the New Deal and the Cold war (or their descendants and/or epigones).
Not only are the current elites incompetent, they are against us. They seem to hate our civilization and everything it stands for while at the same time not truly comprehending what that civilization is. In fact they do not seem to understand the notion of civilization at all, not civilization of any sort, Western or otherwise. Or if they do, they only understand it to the point required to acquire some sort of hatred for it. This seems to be one of the main points of their education. It seems to be what they use to hold themselves apart from and above the rest of us. This is absolute insanity. It is a parody of what elites are supposed to be.
It is very much like the situation in Europe after WW1 where the foundation of the old order — crown and altar — were cracked and thrown out in disgrace and disrepute. Our current intelligentsia is much like the British intelligence of that time, of the time of Shaw and Bloomberg crowd, only much less civilized. It is just harder to see just what barbarians they are because they hide behind and obscuring veneer of pseudoscience, sciencism, jargon and arcane pseudo-intellectual nincompoopery. The difference between now and then is that then there was a diseased and decadent remnant of the ancient order whereas here we have rent takers, frauds, poseurs and hucksters. Our debauched elites seem to be not caused by any real crisis, just born out of our own lack of seriousness.
I am constantly amazed that we tolerate them. This nonsense on Wall St. is but one manifestation of what buffoons these people are and it touches across all their harbors: Politicians, business “leaders” and academics, and infuriatingly, it seems like they will pay no real personal price for their rank and oh so obvious incompetence.
