Journalists, teachers, professors, doctors, and narrative professionals who curate opinion while depending on the power elite.
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intellectual class
Journalists, teachers, professors, doctors, and narrative professionals who curate opinion while depending on the power elite.
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Key Notes
Jiang uses C. Wright Mills’s Power Elite to distinguish the indifferent 1% from the 10% intellectual class that curates public opinion and derives status from loyalty to the real power elite.
He says Trump Derangement Syndrome reflects class fear that Trump represents a popular revolt against intellectual-class authority, not mere irrational hatred.
He argues AI threatens white-collar intellectual workers, making control of public opinion their last value to the power elite.
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"...people who are doing this. Engaging social control. Are the liberal intellectual class. Okay. So let me explain. So 1950s. There's a very popular..."
"...wealthy. There was. A. Agreement. Between. The power elite. And. The intellectual class. And that. The intellectual class. Would be the check and balance...."
"...The. Problem. Though. Is. 2016. Donald. Trump. Won. And. Now. The. Intellectual. Class. Have. Fair. Anxiety. Because. They. See. Donald. Trump. As. Representing. A...."
"...Then. You. Had. Covid. Happen. Which. Destroyed. A. Lot. Taught. The. Intellectual. Class. That. Okay. It's. Great. To. Be. Intellectual. Because. You. Don't. Really...."
"...High. School. Teachers. Right. So. Now. You. Have. This. Entire. Industrial. Class. That. Knows. That. This. Is. Popular. Populous. Revolution. Rising. They. Know. That...."
"Have. The. Promotion. Of. D.I. Transgenerism. Throughout. Schools. Because. That's. To. Brainwash. Kids. Into. Obedience. Okay. So. That's. My. Theory."
"...power elite that are most dedicated to the system. It's the intellectual class, the, um, um, you know, the, the chattering class, the professors,..."
"...I mean, like we're seeing like the collapse of the elite intellectual class, right? So we look at the elite intellectual class. We look..."
"...Almost. Word. For. Word. That. Smart. People. Hate. Me. Smart. People. Intellectual. Class. The. Ones. That. Understand. What. He's. Doing. And. That's. Why. Trump...."
"...in latin even though latin was the official language of the intellectual class in europe at the time he purposely chose to write in..."
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