<p>Here is what I have learned from this threat:</p>
<p>I knew all along the elites are bastions of privilege, and have said so for years on CC. These threads on legacies have done nothing to alter my mind. If anything, they only add further weight to my position.</p>
<p>The primacy of self-interest- whatever ones political orientation, when it comes to personal self-interest, everything else pales. Ayn Rand was right, and I am correct in analyzing things geopolitically.</p>
<p>My main concern here is how the elites try to have their cake and eat it too. While serving the privileged, they also try to appear as bastions of meritocracy. By obscuring the difference between privilege and merit, the elites are able to put a lot more of their alumni into positions of power and influence than their ability would suggest. This increases the desirability of an elite education, which only make the elites even more ““elite””.</p>
<p>The downside of this is obvious to anyone who has followed political and economic development around the world this last couple of decades. These folks with power and privilege have certainly not served America well.</p>
<p>As I see it anyway.</p>