[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]
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At the bottom of everything, if salvation will come at all, it will come, as someone (sorry, I can’t remember who) said in the comments “from a butterfly flapping its wings somewhere.”
What this means is, that our elites are in many ways very stodgy people. First, as I said, they most of them suffer from 3rd generation blight. They were eased through life. They never met real challenge. They’re not the most creative people around.
So… they’re carefully trying to close off every avenue of creativity and prosperity that individuals can create. But they’re not us. They don’t really “get” us. They’re like the aristocrats of the ancient regime, very good at the life of Versailles, but ignorant of how the real world works. I’d bet you dollars to doughnuts most of them never MET a working class person in their lives. Not to talk to. They’ve perhaps had short conversations with working class people in the service professions when handing in dry cleaning or ordering an espresso. That’s it.
And they’ve certainly never met people like us who are competent with our minds and our hands: and this is (I think) still most of America. We are or can be competent in both realms. And we don’t blush to use our hands.
So, they’ll miss stuff.
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