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Default For Harry, "The Strange Failure of the Educated Elite"

On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 10:04:37 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

Courtesy of David Brooks and the New York Times.

A must read:

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJ5aGOexmyDlQ4tZBV1aUGoqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAz CWrzwwpoIY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen



"Those dimwitted, stuck up blue bloods in the old establishment had something we meritocrats lack —
a civic consciousness, a sense that we live life embedded in community and nation, that we owe a
debt to community and nation and that the essence of the admirable life is community before self."

That's true for most of us dimwitted, blue bloods anyway.
 
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