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Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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Seeing Like a State and High Modernism, Link in Post

When working-class Republicans lost their upper-class allies, their natural choice was hostility to all elites. The rise and fall of culture wars, link in post. Is there a simple patch or is meritocracy inherently dangerous? I previously attributed secular changes in American culture to something like the Baba Pole theory of fashion. Being right-wing was fashionable in the early 20th century, then it became the symbol of a stodgy, uncool establishment. By the 1960s, being a progressive hippie was fashionable; today that's no longer true.

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