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Graham Cunningham's avatar

This is a very interesting essay but it goes seriously awry with its association of university-educated elites with "non-conformism" and "critical thinking"..... "Baby Boomers and Generation X generated a much larger group of critical thinkers unwilling to take institutional pronouncements at face value." etc. (Depends which "institutional pronouncements").

The true - paradoxical - situation in the 21st c. West is that those who have been through the tertiary education leftist sheep dip are actually probably MORE likely to be conformist group-thinkers (conforming to every crass, fashionable 'woke' fad) than those lower down the social scale. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind

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The most truthful statement in the entire post is: "A Hunger Games-style urban elite has already formed". Kudos to you for realizing that and that you are part of it. However, you don't follow the implication throughout the entire post.

Large cities, the majority of colleges, the majority of institutions, the media, etc... are all part of the indoctrination program creating one-minded automatons resembling the "Capital" that you recognize as a problem.

Your following false dichotomy summarizes your position: "The schism is between a) โ€˜left-leaningโ€™ elites favoring individualist techno-modernism instead of social tradition and b) โ€˜right-leaningโ€™ elites trying to return to an imagined patriarchal past of strict gender roles, limited class mobility for non-whites, even white supremacy."

i.e. the people in "The Capital" are weirdo uppity snobs under peer pressure to think exactly alike through a lifetime of manipulative coercion from schools, colleges, media, and groupthink... and that's not good...but if you don't fall in line with this way of thinking then you are -gasp- a white supremacist?

As long as this is the hand that you reach out with for reconciliation, the "deplorables" in "District 12"

will reject it and continue to laugh at the Karens who shop at Whole Foods and go to idiotic yoga retreats.

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