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True. How's that worked out so far?

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > How's that worked out so far? Pretty damn well in the long run!
  • voakbasda 2y ago
    Worked great for the French too, right up to the Revolution.
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > Worked great for the French too, right up to the Revolution Each of the French Revolution’s successive governments had their own sets of elites. (La Révolution itself had its elites.) Arguing against elites as a category is arguing against hierarchical sociology. It’s inchoate. We don’t have an example of a society without elites; we barely have examples of social animals without hierarchies. (Zebra herds.) And speaking of the French Revolution, the elites ex post facto were not only mostly the same as before, they escaped with so much money and wealth that it’s actually debated if they increased their wealth share through the chaos [1]. [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/650023 https://www.jstor.org/stable/650023
      • elcritch 2y ago
        Nah, one day we'll just have flat societies with AIs to replace the beaurocracy and elites and manage everything for us. Nothing could go wrong with that! </sarcasm>.
  • forgetfreeman 2y ago
    You ever lick a boot clean off the foot wearing it?