<p>[Chris</a> Hedges: The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff - Chris Hedges’ Columns - Truthdig](<a href=“http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081208_hedges_best_brightest/]Chris”>http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081208_hedges_best_brightest/)</p>
<p>I could not agree more with Chris Hedges, the Ivy League schools (maybe with the exception of Columbia and Brown) are bastions of pro-establishment propaganda. I mean they always have been to some extent, but in the past two decades, all that was drilled inside the minds of young students was; banking/consulting or bust! </p>
<p>Whether liberal or conservative, the Ivy League is filled with wannabe policy wonks, future bond traders, and Economist reading soon to be technocrats. </p>
<p>There is hardly any talk of alternatives to global capitalism. All ideas are constructed to first meet the needs of big capital and then fulfill social needs. </p>
<p>Would people who attend Harvard say that Chris Hedges offers an accurate depiction of the school? Are alternative ideas marginalized?</p>