Third, we’ve come to dominate left-wing parties around the world that were formerly vehicles for the working class. We’ve pulled these parties further left on cultural issues (prizing cosmopolitanism and questions of identity) while watering down or reversing traditional Democratic positions on trade and unions. As creative-class people enter le.....

David Brooks Reconsiders Bobos in
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-the-bobos-creative-class/619492/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Over the past two decades, the rapidly growing economic, cultural, and social power of the bobos has generated a global backlash that is growing more and more vicious, deranged, and apocalyptic. And yet this backlash is not without basis. The bobos—or X people, or the creative class, or whatever you want to call them—have coalesced into an insular, intermarrying Brahmin elite that dominates culture, media, education, and tech. Worse, those of us in this class have had a hard time admitting our power, much less using it responsibly. First, we’ve come to hoard spots in the competitive meritocracy that produced us. As Eli....

David Brooks Reconsiders Bobos in
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-the-bobos-creative-class/619492/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

The most hateful u.s. group may be we Boomers. Victim-blaming while we slop at the trough our plunder of Earth, collectively fiddling while Rome Burns.

The most hateful u.s. group may be we Boomers. Victim-blaming while we slop at the trough our plunder of Earth, collectively fiddling while Rome Burns.