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I hope this comes to pass to become but a pox on history. This incarnation, pun intended, has greater sway amongst the elites and those in the position of prom
by mc32 5y ago
I hope this comes to pass to become but a pox on history.
This incarnation, pun intended, has greater sway amongst the elites and those in the position of promulgating and legitimizing these positions. It’s a bit concerning that these aren’t your traditional uneducated proles espousing these views but rather highly educated elites. This is what we call ideology. It's not out of "provincial ignorance," for example.
- rayiner 5y agoThis is the critical distinction. I can process most of the anti-vax stuff going on, etc., by thinking about how people in my dad's village in Bangladesh would react to things. At the end of the day, folks in rural Georgia who think the government wants to tag you with an Obama chip have a lot less power than the professors at Ivy League universities that mint almost all of our economic and political elites.