Freeman Dyson on Thatcher-Hate
14th April 2013
Steve Sailer says what others merely think.
In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class.…I learned to look on the commercial middle class with loathing and contempt. Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher, which was also the revenge of the commercial middle class. The academics lost their power and prestige and the business people took over. The academics never forgave Thatcher….
The only thing I’d add is that in reality, a commercial middle class usually breeds its own critics. And I’m using “breeds” literally. Consider the perhaps most prestigious clan in the history of the British intellectual middle class — the Darwin-Galton-Wedgwood-Benn-Keynes agglomeration.