- Reaction score
- 25,124
- Location
- United states
And validating
"“For all its talk of openness, the creative class is remarkably insular,” Brooks writes. “In ‘Social Class in the 21st Century,’ the sociologist Mike Savage found that the educated elite tended to be the most socially parochial group, as measured by contact with people in occupational clusters different from their own. In a study for The Atlantic, Amanda Ripley found that the most politically intolerant Americans ‘tend to be whiter, more highly educated, older, more urban, and more partisan themselves.
Rather than using their power and privilege to preserve freedom and diversity, the creative class has largely coalesced around all-or-nothing advocacy, from the culture-warring of woke capitalism to the cookie-cutter conformity of higher education to the fatal conceits of central-planning elites. Rather than freeing civil society to do what it does best, our elites have largely deflected such responsibilities to the state, hoping that top-down control will do the heavy lifting of social harmonization."
And they are completely unaware of themselves.
"Third, we’ve come to dominate left-wing parties around the world that were formerly vehicles for the working class. We’ve pulled these parties further left on cultural issues (prizing cosmopolitanism and questions of identity) while watering down or reversing traditional Democratic positions on trade and unions … … These partisan differences overlay economic differences. In 2020, Joe Biden won just 500 or so counties—but together they account for 71 percent of American economic activity, according to the Brookings Institution. Donald Trump won more than 2,500 counties that together generate only 29 percent of that activity. An analysis by Brookings and The Wall Street Journal found that just 13 years ago, Democratic and Republican areas were at near parity on prosperity and income measures. Now they are divergent and getting more so. If Republicans and Democrats talk as though they are living in different realities, it’s because they are."
"“For all its talk of openness, the creative class is remarkably insular,” Brooks writes. “In ‘Social Class in the 21st Century,’ the sociologist Mike Savage found that the educated elite tended to be the most socially parochial group, as measured by contact with people in occupational clusters different from their own. In a study for The Atlantic, Amanda Ripley found that the most politically intolerant Americans ‘tend to be whiter, more highly educated, older, more urban, and more partisan themselves.
Rather than using their power and privilege to preserve freedom and diversity, the creative class has largely coalesced around all-or-nothing advocacy, from the culture-warring of woke capitalism to the cookie-cutter conformity of higher education to the fatal conceits of central-planning elites. Rather than freeing civil society to do what it does best, our elites have largely deflected such responsibilities to the state, hoping that top-down control will do the heavy lifting of social harmonization."
And they are completely unaware of themselves.
"Third, we’ve come to dominate left-wing parties around the world that were formerly vehicles for the working class. We’ve pulled these parties further left on cultural issues (prizing cosmopolitanism and questions of identity) while watering down or reversing traditional Democratic positions on trade and unions … … These partisan differences overlay economic differences. In 2020, Joe Biden won just 500 or so counties—but together they account for 71 percent of American economic activity, according to the Brookings Institution. Donald Trump won more than 2,500 counties that together generate only 29 percent of that activity. An analysis by Brookings and The Wall Street Journal found that just 13 years ago, Democratic and Republican areas were at near parity on prosperity and income measures. Now they are divergent and getting more so. If Republicans and Democrats talk as though they are living in different realities, it’s because they are."
