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John Welsh's avatar

Enjoyed the article! Looking at your content, I think you might get something out of The TransAtlantic. Have a look at these recent posts and maybe consider subscribing, because I think there will be a lot of crossover with your work in the coming months.

https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/preparing-for-the-intelligence-it

https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/what-is-leftright-now-three-questions

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> Elites ask “what do you do?” Non-elites ask “where are you from?”

Note to self: never in a million years, in a public cocktail party ask "what do you do". Nobody wants to be outed as being working or middle class.

> Elites mark themselves by... what “spiritual but not religious” belief system they follow — in short, they define themselves through active and deliberate demonstrations of their “sophistication”... A professor who makes $50K a year is an elite while a plumber who makes $200K is not.

Isn't there a line that says on the lines of "taste are for people who can't buy jewellery" or something like that? Or is this just the "working rich" denying the importance of the educational elite? https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/

> According to Teixeira, democrats have gone far left on social issues, but they’ve moved right on economic issues that the working class actually cares about

Did a shift happen between 1970s (peak of wellbeing and low elite overproduction, educated rich vs masses) and 2010s (elite overproduction out-shining public wellbeing, working rich vs educated class) in what Turchin expect? That the "right" is always the party of the wealthy (thus economic rightism is a constant), but that money has been moved from the educated class out to the industrial and technocratic class, making the educated class move left (cultural left incongruity hinges on if the educated are poor or not)? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.12834

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