>>5674
>That was always a thing
Yes, but the percentage of people who went to college for liberal arts degrees and had elitist aspirations was tiny. Turchin identifies an "overproduction of elites" as something that has prefigured discord and often, collapse in societies throughout history
>This is not a fight for elite-status, is a fight over scraps.
One does not preclude the other. Society is downstream from culture, and elites often are arbiters of culture.
> Lately there was a leak from some shitty public college in your country, it was about the wages the diversity faggots make to spread their cancer around. Nobody made less than $80k, the director made fucking $400k.
Thank you for making my point for me. The competition to signal virtue has gotten so intense that our leaders spare no expense in upping the ante. They continue to ignore the real social costs of maintaining such white elephants, even as our collective well-being goes to shit.
>They are just repeating the bullshit others say, they know somethings wrong with that but they are too fucking afraid of the consequences of thinking outside the box
Everyone knows they're miserable, no one can articulate just why. The more you look into it, the more you get trapped in a web of a thousand causal factors. /pol/ tries to short-circuit this with the talk about 'da jooz' but it is a lot more profitable to critique modernity as a whole. This explains why there has been a resurgence of interest in primitivism and also things like traditional high-church religiosity (if you are right-wing) and occultism (if you are not)
>orwellian system that would unperson them
that's only gonna get worse. Another +1 for primitivism.