“the botched who have always existed became the elite”– Correct. Though I would

–“the botched who have always existed became the elite”–

Correct.

Though I would say the problem with the pseudo-elite just like pervasive behavioral pseudoscience was created knowingly and intentionally by ‘Credentialists’ who lacked loyalty to the country, meritocracy, empiricism, and rule of law, and made possible by the demand generated for them by the expansion of the State, in competition with the slow progress of developing natural elites and natural aristocracy with loyalty to the country.

There were still meritocratic people in academy and government as late as 1960, but the ‘activists’ ended the elite academy and government with their intentional ‘march through the institutions of cultural production beginning with education’.

Read Gramsci. Read Adorno et al. Read Friere. Destruction by design.

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