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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus7/11/2017 9:38:35 am PDT

From Brooks:

In her thorough book “The Sum of Small Things,” Elizabeth Currid-Halkett argues that the educated class establishes class barriers not through material consumption and wealth display but by establishing practices that can be accessed only by those who possess rarefied information.

Said information can be found in public libraries and free on Google.

Life is not fair. People start out not all on the same footing. Some children just have a head start due to circumstances they did not create.

Not only is this not new, it’s never really been denied by anyone who is open to a discussion on the issue.

It is a strawman to put up that somehow we have previously pretended to live in a flat-society. There was no pretense of such.

What well meaning people have done, and which has reaped some reward, is by taxing the rich we can provide more education to the poor.

Yet even that is now under attack by the atavists.

So the last thing I’m going to challenge is those who are well educated but who will acknowledge that those with more money carry more responsibility for paying for our civilization.

It’s those who are wealthy who want to escape this responsibility at whom I’m peeved.

So if there’s some double-Doctorate couple out there pulling down a household income of $250k, and send their kid to a private school, I’m not going to point my finger at them and say they are the problem, as long as they are willing to pay their taxes to fund education for those less well of then them.

On the other hand, some “Libertarian” 24y.o. geek on the internet who complains about taxes because he’s working at some fast food place and sees he’s paying for SS out of his check, and wants to eliminate the evil government - he’s the one who I think is the real problem. He’s clueless about how progress is made, and just wants to escape into some fantasy.