Obama’s Elite Power Base
2nd January 2010
Rather than the “good old boys,” Obama’s core group hails from what may be best described as the “creative class” – the cognitive elite, or, to borrow from Daniel Bell’s The Coming of Postindustrial Society, the “the hierophants of the new society.” They come not from traditional productive industry, but the self-conscious “knowledge” sectors – such as financial services, the software industry, and academia.
This article points out an important truth: Obama is neither a Democrat nor a Liberal but a Crustian, a member of, and representative of, an ever-more-firmly entrenched Establishment that includes overlapping circles of politicians, academics, bureaucrats, and journalists – what the Soviets used to call the ‘apparatchiks’, Mencius Moldbug’s ‘the Cathedral‘.