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*Elite are drawn to political progressiveness today. Liberal elite. Contradiction? How do you justify liberal as elite? | *Elite are drawn to political progressiveness today. Liberal elite. Contradiction? How do you justify liberal as elite? | ||
*All types of distortion comes from elite disavowing their elite status. Self delusion. | *All types of distortion comes from elite disavowing their elite status. Self delusion. | ||
*Does the elite really matter, or is power somewhere else? It seems that progressive ideology escaped humanities departments, to 'wokeness' or other progressive idealogies such as during COVID etc? Huh? | *Does the elite really matter, or is power somewhere else? It seems that progressive ideology escaped humanities departments, to 'wokeness' or other progressive idealogies such as during COVID etc? Huh? The effects are real in terms of a 'liberal elite agenda' so called | ||
*Solution: elite bypass: huge upward mobility and financial independence at scale. | *'''Solution''': elite bypass: huge upward mobility and financial independence at scale. | ||
=Notes= | =Notes= | ||
*Review - Proposes that affirmative action be class based rather than race or ethnicity based. | *Review - Proposes that affirmative action be class based rather than race or ethnicity based. | ||
*Our society is facing never before seen income inequalities because of the structure of the economy and not because of the rise of research universities. If you want to de-escalate the college admission arms race, bring back the humanities, and offer a better undergraduate experience, you need to implement big structural changes in the economy and social welfare systems (e.g., student loan forgiveness, single payer health care, affordable state college tuition, abolishing Balkanized school districts, etc.). Trying to change elite higher education in the plutocracy of late-stage capitalism is like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. | *Our society is facing never before seen income inequalities because of the structure of the economy and not because of the rise of research universities. If you want to de-escalate the college admission arms race, bring back the humanities, and offer a better undergraduate experience, you need to implement big structural changes in the economy and social welfare systems (e.g., student loan forgiveness, single payer health care, affordable state college tuition, abolishing Balkanized school districts, etc.). Trying to change elite higher education in the plutocracy of late-stage capitalism is like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. | ||
Revision as of 05:21, 25 March 2024
A book by Deresiewicz
Elite Rule
- Self-perpetuation of elite, multiethnic, culturally homogenous
- They speak for the poor, but are not too familiar with the poor
- In the 60s, elite called themselves the elite. Now, the elite no longer self-describe as elite. Guilt. Liberal guilt.
- Elite are drawn to political progressiveness today. Liberal elite. Contradiction? How do you justify liberal as elite?
- All types of distortion comes from elite disavowing their elite status. Self delusion.
- Does the elite really matter, or is power somewhere else? It seems that progressive ideology escaped humanities departments, to 'wokeness' or other progressive idealogies such as during COVID etc? Huh? The effects are real in terms of a 'liberal elite agenda' so called
- Solution: elite bypass: huge upward mobility and financial independence at scale.
Notes
- Review - Proposes that affirmative action be class based rather than race or ethnicity based.
- Our society is facing never before seen income inequalities because of the structure of the economy and not because of the rise of research universities. If you want to de-escalate the college admission arms race, bring back the humanities, and offer a better undergraduate experience, you need to implement big structural changes in the economy and social welfare systems (e.g., student loan forgiveness, single payer health care, affordable state college tuition, abolishing Balkanized school districts, etc.). Trying to change elite higher education in the plutocracy of late-stage capitalism is like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.