The Equality Conundrum
24th May 2020
The New Yorker is a foundational Voice of the Crust, so you know where this is going to come out.
We all agree that inequality is bad. But what kind of equality is good?
Except, of course, that ‘we’ don’t — certainly proglodytes all agree that inequality is bad, and the mass of the Great Unwashed, subject to proglodyte media brainwashing would probably sign on to that, but those who claim that ‘inequality is bad’ never bother to justify that assumption; they just AssUMe and move on.
This article also follows the Modern Journalism Model of beginning with a Pulitzer-qualifying story rather than trying to establish a basis for a reasoned argument; this is very handy when you’re trying to use intellectual smoke-and-mirrors to get your political assumptions slid in under the radar so that your audience doesn’t realize that you’re actually assuming what you ought to be proving.