What Has Been Lost to Jose Tega?

Ortaga: We have systematically removed aristocracy from society. He says that by flattening out society, we lose something on the qualitative side of things. The masses are not just unqualified to do a job, they don't care about getting better at it. Ortaga literally calls them spoiled children,. and this is what he means. To ortega, they wave around technology that's taken thousands of years to produce without any knowledge of what constitutes an individual self.