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Richard Hanania Returns: How Status Competition Created the Culture War

From the New World

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The Importance of Punching Down

"I don't see this kind of like Brahmin left as any kind of like, even in the current scenario," he says. "They're punching down in order to show that they're different from the people who are below them." He doesn't think there's a problem with imposter syndrome or many tech people are just imposters. But his ideal world would be so full of disinformation that we would be all eating each other and you know, society would collapse.

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