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July 21, 2010
Get me a real peasant!
If the establishment bent a knee to service, the new elites prefer a certain attitude.
They love ideology more than achievement, striking poses more than ideology. Their nirvana is the moralistic beau geste: the theatrical embrace of the downtrodden, the apology for past sins, the chastizing of generic racists, sexists, Wall Street capitalists, homophobes, Islamophobes -- endless punitive categories filled by those irrational plebeians. When, as vice president, Al Gore landed in La Paz, Bolivia, for an official visit, he demanded to see a peasant. That's the attitude. -- The problem of the elites « vulgar morality
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