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Alistair Penbroke's avatar

No, I'm pretty sure they always sucked. Opposition parties are separated in Parliament by a specific width calibrated to the length of a sword, specifically to stop them stabbing each other in the days when, you know, it was normal to carry swords around all the time.

Some of the 'elites' greatest hits in the 20th century:

1. World War 1, a Great War in aid of a cause so moral it requires a textbook to explain and even then you won't understand it.

2. World War 2, another Great War, this time the motivation was so simple it could have come straight out of a Marvel comic book yet somehow enough elites thought this was a good idea that it took the combined efforts of the entire Anglosphere to put them back in their box.

3. Communism and its various spinoffs.

4. Vietnam, the CIA, etc.

5. The war on terror.

Our elites have never been elite.

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CTE's avatar

When you factor in war things do become more clear. I was thinking they at least built institutions but then the modern university is largely to serve the interests of power and not otherwise (same as media and that doesn’t even get into the cia). Well they at least presented better than our modern elites. They at least had a modicum self respect and stoicism.

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