2023-02-22


Worthy

  • The View From The Top - The Ivy Exile

    Again and again I’d hear how we—the global meritocracy—would’ve solved poverty and inequality and climate change long before if not for evil saboteurs. We were enlightened administrators of the rational future, civilizing braying savages for their own good. Feelings in our collective gut amounted to the sum of human wisdom: we’d read the New York Times and realize of course we’d always known.

    Amongst an increasingly international crowd, Americans tended to be intensely jealous of peers from the European Union and especially China, where elite experts had more latitude to dispense with troublemakers. Due to stupid separation of powers in our obsolete constitution we in the U.S. were prevented from fixing things by neo-Nazis out in flyover country.