Re: "the land where the best of the best can rise to the top through their own unaided efforts": I saw what was packaged as a proposal for replacing our higher education system with something modeled after a project of seeking out creative geniuses with a rare combination of character traits and a well-formed entrepreneurial plan, then offering them funding and occasional coaching. Hardly anything was said about instruction, and nothing was said about how this model would translate to a larger set of people who aren't creative geniuses with very special traits.
The takeaway: the best of the best deserve assistance in rising to the top, while everyone else isn't worthy of any concern. The project in question is aligned with Peter Thiel.
Others in the reactionary right like to invoke the "natural order" as something that aligns (often explicitly) with their religious beliefs, while they sneer at "liberalism" as an "ideology" that was imposed upon the world, and indeed a force that has become "totalitarian." Which all sounds somewhat upside down.
Bannon clearly seems the problem and should be taken as a serious threat that needs to be investigated and undermined while it’s still relatively easy to do.
Re: "the land where the best of the best can rise to the top through their own unaided efforts": I saw what was packaged as a proposal for replacing our higher education system with something modeled after a project of seeking out creative geniuses with a rare combination of character traits and a well-formed entrepreneurial plan, then offering them funding and occasional coaching. Hardly anything was said about instruction, and nothing was said about how this model would translate to a larger set of people who aren't creative geniuses with very special traits.
The takeaway: the best of the best deserve assistance in rising to the top, while everyone else isn't worthy of any concern. The project in question is aligned with Peter Thiel.
Others in the reactionary right like to invoke the "natural order" as something that aligns (often explicitly) with their religious beliefs, while they sneer at "liberalism" as an "ideology" that was imposed upon the world, and indeed a force that has become "totalitarian." Which all sounds somewhat upside down.
Bannon clearly seems the problem and should be taken as a serious threat that needs to be investigated and undermined while it’s still relatively easy to do.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joeyortega/p/stephen-k-bannon-russian-influenced?r=2scq8
The Right has attacked its own historically too. Recall the Rohm Putsch, aka The Night of the Long Knives.