It's interesting how we all project a moral position, in defining what sits across from elites... representing everyone else. The blog puts a lot of weight on

It's interesting how we all project a moral position, in defining what sits across from elites... representing everyone else. The blog puts a lot of weight on prestige and attention, celebrity in it's expert-elite division. "People are far more interested in talking with elites in elite mode on most topics, than in talking with the clear relevant experts in expert mode" There's a "some animals are more equal" retort to this, IMO. If attention and prestige was showered onto the real experts, in expert mode, then they would be the celebrities. Are you concerned about elitism, or the quality of elites? You're addressing elitism more broadly. I sort of agree with you in principle, but I think you're discounting how much breadth the principle allows. It's definitely true that most societies have elites and power structures. But, there's a pretty big range of how that works. Nobel prizes are actually a good example. It's an intentional, symbolic piece of elitism... they kind of things that an archaeologist or historian might note. It doesn't relate to majhor power structures very directly though.