Saturday, June 13, 2026

Elite Gatekeepers

Dan Williams at Conspicuous Cognition wrote Let's Not Bring Back the Gatekeepers over half a year ago, but I missed it.

 Put simply: Once established institutions lost the privilege to control the public conversation, they acquired an obligation to participate within it, which, so far, they have mostly failed to do.

It's a pretty good understanding of anti-elite sentiment from someone who only partly shares it. 

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