So as members of the educated elite — we did some good things lately…
We created the internet, and the bunch of crazies who think AI is going to eat the planet, as we also created really modern killing wars, along with Sunday bs brunch, mocktails, transgenderism, and the Kardashians.
–You’re welcome.
Yet, it seems that we did some bad things too.
We designed a meritocracy designed around the skills we ourselves possess and rigged the game so we succeeded and everybody else failed.
By age 12, American children of affluent kids are four grade levels above everybody else. By university age, rich kids are 77 times more likely to go to university or die going to university than kids from poor schools. In adulthood, 54% of the people at elite workplaces went to the same 34 elite colleges.
So we ended up creating a caste system. People with high school degrees die nine years sooner than people with college degrees. People with high school degrees are five times more likely to have kids out of wedlock. People with high school degrees are 2.4 times more likely to say they have no friends.
So we created a caste system, even though we pretend to be egalitarian. But the worst things we did were not material. America has a very strong economy. The worst things we did were spiritual.
We privatized morality and destroyed the moral order. George Marston is a great historian who said, what gave Martin Luther King’s rhetoric its power was the sense there’s a moral order built into the universe.
That if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. If segregation is not wrong, nothing is wrong. We took that essential moral order that holds people together and we decided it’s up to you to find your own truth. Find your own values.
Back in 1955, a great American journalist named Walter Lippmann understood this was going to be a big problem. He said “if what is right and wrong depends on what each individual feels, then we are outside the bounds of civilization.”
And so without a strong moral order, it’s hard to have trust. It’s hard to find your meaning in life. And so America, and I think Britain too, has become a sadder society. Rise in mental health, rise in suicide. 45% of high school students say they are persistently hopeless and despondent.
Since 2000, the number of Americans without close personal friends is up by fourfold. Since 2000, the number of people who say they are in the lowest happiness category is up by 50%. We’ve just become sadder.
The third thing the educated elite has done, and this may not please you, is we produced the Deep State, the NSA, CIA, FBI, and also geriatric moron Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Donald Trump. And we elevated them all three to positions of unprecedented power. Yet, even today, some people think Donald Trump is a populist.
But that is nowhere near the truth.
Both Donald Trump and Elon Musk went to University of Pennsylvania Wharton school of business, and attended the most prestigious Ivy League school, and learned what it takes to become a billionaire.
J.D. Vance went to Yale. Pete Hegseth went to Princeton and Yale. Stephen Miller went to Duke. Fox News types like Laura Ingraham went to Dartmouth. And they all represent the educated elite.
And the key factor of the educated elite is that they’re not pro-conservative. They’re anti-left. They don’t have a positive vision, a conservative vision for society.
They just want to destroy the institutions that the left now dominates through graft, corruption and criminal conspiracy.
And this means, that the left like all criminals, they’re astoundingly incompetent, in doing anything honest, straight forward, or even real.
Because in our business we are 1) Customer centric — focusing on customers rather than competitors. 2) Long-term thinking — prioritizing extended investment horizons. 3) A drive to invent — embracing new ideas, even if they require trial and error. 4) Professional pride in operational excellence—maintaining high standards, even for unseen work. These principles are the foundation of Concorde co, reinforcing a culture of innovation and execution.”
I have a lot of sympathy with what drove people to vote for Trump, but I’m telling you as someone who’s on the front row to what’s happening, do not hitch your wagon to that star…
Because on the other hand we have the real Creators of Culture, like Baldwin who was unafraid to tell the Truth about the hardness of his existence…
“I have slept on rooftops and in basements and subways, have been cold and hungry all my life; have felt that no fire would ever warm me, and no arms would ever hold me. I have been, as the song says, ‘buked and scorned and I know that I always will be. But, my God, in that darkness, which was the lot of my ancestors and my own state, what a mighty fire burned! In that darkness of rape and degradation, that fine flying froth and mist of blood, through all that terror and in all that helplessness, a living soul moved and refused to die.”
“We really emptied oceans with a home-made spoon and tore down mountains with our hands. And if love was in Hong Kong, we learned how to swim. It is a mighty heritage, it is the human heritage, and it is all there is to trust. And I learned this through descending, as it were, into the eyes of my father and my mother. I wondered, when I was little, how they bore it-for I knew that they had much to bear. It had not yet occurred to me that I also would have much to bear; but they knew it, and the unimaginable rigors of their journey helped them to prepare me for mine.”
“This is why one must say Yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found—and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is; and if the father can say, Yes, Lord, the child can learn that most difficult of words, Amen. For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”
–James Baldwin
“Nothing Personal,” 1964.
Yours,
Dr Churchill
PS:
What a Soul…
So why can’t we be more like the Baldwins of this world and the MLKs of this life who actually have a dream for America, instead of these money sucking vampires leading us in politics ?
