technological change has made it so that a guy like Mark Andreessen can see the baseline level of "mad at elites" that has existed in every culture in human history, and it has made him insane, and he is going to be insane until we invent Ultra Stalinism or he gets over it
One way to read the political divide is which elites youre mad at
This is why Matt Yglesias doing his centrism schtick is annoying, because one side despises everything he stands for and is currently burning down our scientific community out of spite toward people like him
I misread this as "ultra Stancillism" for a sec and got to thonkin'