> It is, in a way, like in the Old South - not that many whites actually
> owned slaves, but most believed they were entitled to such ownership,
> and thus identified themselves with plantation owners. When they lost
> that sense of entitlement after the Civil War, they became vile
> reactionaries, even though they did not lose much - far less than the
> plantation owners at least - in the material sense.
>
> I suspect that most of the college-anointed "meritorcracy" will also
> turn into reactionaries rather than revolutionaries when the
> neoliberal myth of the "new economy" based on creativity and
> entrepreneurship will finally end up in the junkyard of history and
> unpaid student loan bills start piling up.
But those old southerners could at least use a hammer and a shovel, the merit babies would freeze in the dark long before they starved.