Courtesy of David Brooks and the New York Times.

A must read:

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJ5aGOexmyDlQ4tZBV1aUGoqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAz CWrzwwpoIY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 10:04:37 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

Courtesy of David Brooks and the New York Times.

A must read:

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJ5aGOexmyDlQ4tZBV1aUGoqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAz CWrzwwpoIY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen


"Those dimwitted, stuck up blue bloods in the old establishment had something we meritocrats lack —
a civic consciousness, a sense that we live life embedded in community and nation, that we owe a
debt to community and nation and that the essence of the admirable life is community before self."

That's true for most of us dimwitted, blue bloods anyway.

On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:02:08 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 10:04:37 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

Courtesy of David Brooks and the New York Times.

A must read:

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJ5aGOexmyDlQ4tZBV1aUGoqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAz CWrzwwpoIY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen


"Those dimwitted, stuck up blue bloods in the old establishment had something we meritocrats lack —
a civic consciousness, a sense that we live life embedded in community and nation, that we owe a
debt to community and nation and that the essence of the admirable life is community before self."

That's true for most of us dimwitted, blue bloods anyway.

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from the NYT:

Once upon a time, white male Protestants ruled the roost. You got into
a fancy school if your father had gone to the fancy school. You got a
job at a white-shoe law firm or climbed the corporate ladder if you
golfed at the right club.

Then we smashed all that. We replaced a system based on birth with a
fairer system based on talent. We opened up the universities and the
workplace to Jews, women and minorities. University attendance surged,
creating the most educated generation in history. We created a new
boomer ethos, which was egalitarian (bluejeans everywhere!), socially
conscious (recycling!) and deeply committed to ending bigotry.

You’d think all this would have made the U.S. the best governed nation
in history. Instead, inequality rose. Faith in institutions plummeted.
Social trust declined. The federal government became dysfunctional and
society bitterly divided.