The Cruelty of the Overclass
8th September 2013
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, is admirably pessimistic today.
Gelernter was not the first to notice the casual, ruthless arrogance with which the elites impose their will on the rest of us, but the process has rarely been described so well.
With the passing of sixteen years, the arrogance has only become more gross, shameless, and cruel. I thought I had the measure of our overclass, but I was shocked at the heartlessness with which Paula Deen was treated.
Hey, she was white. What did she expect?
Liberalism is not just wrongheaded; it is malicious. And it never quits until its target has surrendered unconditionally to overclass norms. You thought they’d finished tossing and goring the Boy Scouts of America? Think again….
Hey, they’re male and straight. What did they expect?
Europe is of course the overclass ideal. In Germany, a swarm of state agents converged on a home last Thursday and abducted four children to prevent their being homeschooled. Coming soon to an American household near you.
Hitler and Mussolini and Lenin and Stalin were not aberrations but rather natural developments of European intellectual movements. Be careful what you wish for….