They were NEVER smarter. At most at one time they had more leisure time and access to books and tutors when reading and books were rare. That made them more educated, and they want to go back to that desperately.
they don’t want to be more educated than they already are, they want to be more educated than us. they’re doing it by destroying the public school system, keeping tertiary education prohibitively expensive, eroding trust in experts through anti-intellectualism, and promoting the spread of misinformation
Exactly. They want to be perceived as smarter (basically look down on the unwashed masses.) They don’t want to do the work to be more educated. Hence the hurdles they can put in front of the poors while they get to pay for fastpass to skip the line directly into the ivy leagues.
Remember during the French Revolution where, when told that her people were starving because they didn’t have any bread, Marie Antoinette wondered why they don’t just eat cake? Rich people have always been idiots who believe they’re smart. They live simple lives due to the luxury they enjoy, and wonder why poor people without such luxuries think life is so complicated.
not to defend french royalty, but she didnt say that, im certain she wouldnt have thought it either.
to think the rich are unknowingly oppressing their people is a stupid idea, they know where their cake comes from, and they want it because you can’t have it.
to think the rich are unknowingly oppressing their people is a stupid idea, they know where their cake comes from, and they want it because you can’t have it.
I don’t think it’s that far fetched to think that some of the people back then, who were born into aristocracy and have been separated from regular folks their entire lives, might not know that.
Yeah, at least like their grandparents had interesting and clever schemes about money that made you feel like they thought it through even if they were largely incapable of anything else.
Currently it feels difficult to assume they think about anything.
I mean…
You know…
Like for a bit…
They were NEVER smarter. At most at one time they had more leisure time and access to books and tutors when reading and books were rare. That made them more educated, and they want to go back to that desperately.
I dont think much of our ruling class wants to go back to reading, looking at the way they… are.
they don’t want to be more educated than they already are, they want to be more educated than us. they’re doing it by destroying the public school system, keeping tertiary education prohibitively expensive, eroding trust in experts through anti-intellectualism, and promoting the spread of misinformation
Exactly. They want to be perceived as smarter (basically look down on the unwashed masses.) They don’t want to do the work to be more educated. Hence the hurdles they can put in front of the poors while they get to pay for fastpass to skip the line directly into the ivy leagues.
Remember during the French Revolution where, when told that her people were starving because they didn’t have any bread, Marie Antoinette wondered why they don’t just eat cake? Rich people have always been idiots who believe they’re smart. They live simple lives due to the luxury they enjoy, and wonder why poor people without such luxuries think life is so complicated.
not to defend french royalty, but she didnt say that, im certain she wouldnt have thought it either.
to think the rich are unknowingly oppressing their people is a stupid idea, they know where their cake comes from, and they want it because you can’t have it.
I don’t think it’s that far fetched to think that some of the people back then, who were born into aristocracy and have been separated from regular folks their entire lives, might not know that.
They’ve always been morons about something. Just seems now that they are morons about damn near everything.
Yeah, at least like their grandparents had interesting and clever schemes about money that made you feel like they thought it through even if they were largely incapable of anything else.
Currently it feels difficult to assume they think about anything.
We occasionally get lucid leadership. As a whole group though, our leadership class has always had some glaring idiocy going on.