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It would be a tragedy if intellectual curiosity were to become the preserve of an ever-narrowing cognitive elite.
The New Class are "coercive utopians", who constitute a "cognitive elite … primarily created by the university system".
Working-class whites are different from the cognitive elite in at least one way: They have less money.
Political cynics on both sides of the aisle, the self-described "cognitive elite," are pretty sure they know what Nascar Dad, the caricature, wants.
Here is where the "esoteric" or Straussian social conservative argument comes into play: For those outside the cognitive elite (they would argue) this does notwork out fine.
For all the talk of the world becoming dominated by a "cognitive elite", in reality it appears it is nothing more than a "confidence elite".
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The cognitive elites Murray cites are deeply committed to liberal norms of cultural tolerance and permissiveness.
In the aftermath of the Iraq war and the great recession, the disconnect between the white working class and its coastal and cognitive elites morphed into a chasm.
The future isn't "invented" by superbly educated cognitive elites; it's interactively shaped by the individuals, institutions, and communities that actually adopt and use the innovations in their own time and in their own way.
Mounk's solutions will probably come up short as the haves and have-nots continue to move down separate paths, with the rich hiving off and the cognitive elites pairing off.
Our cognitive elites dislike the very idea that Los Angeles, as Dorothy Parker once supposedly described, has long been "72 suburbs in search of a city".
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