Palin vs. elitism

Recién leí este artículo en el National Review que me pareció excelente.

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Palin supposes that our degree fetish has bred an arrogance she calls “elitism.” Lionel Trilling thought much the same thing.

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“Some paradox of our nature leads us,” Trilling wrote, “when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion. It is to prevent this corruption, the most ironic and tragic that man knows, that we stand in need of the moral realism which is the product of the free play of the moral imagination.”

The modern will, he said, “hates itself and finds its manifestations guilty and is able to exist only if it operates in the name of virtue.” The spiritual progeny of Faust cannot admit to themselves the nature of their desire, as Faust himself could: I suppose it is too dark. And so they cloak it in a philosophy of social altruism, one in which they figure as agents of salvation armed with a benign social technic.