T.S. Eliot’s Praise for Privilege | Episode XVI
New Humanists
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Isn't This All So Eledist?
i think that the question, of course, stamds from taking this love for equality as axiomatic. As we mentioned earlier, there is going to inevitably be such a thing as an elite. Ah, so does the recognition of there be ofm the reality of an elite make one an elitest? Probably not. Otherwise, everyone who is not blind theletest. i'm dispositionally with jacobs on at least some of his criticism of eliot. It really does seem, eliot really does seem like he wants traditional english social class in stant protectedreally reinstantiated. And it's like this nestalga credocur for a hierarchical society
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