PREVIEW: Clintons: Excerpt from a conversation with author Adrian Wooldridge re his new book, THE ARISTOCRACY OF TALENT, re how the elite authority of the 1990s, exemplified in the Clinton Administration led the way to discard the traditional valuesof the

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🗓️ 10 March 2024

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PREVIEW: Clintons: Excerpt from a conversation with author Adrian Wooldridge re his new book, THE ARISTOCRACY OF TALENT, re how the elite authority of the 1990s, exemplified in the Clinton Administration led the way to discard the traditional valuesof the US -- patriotism, religion, family -- and replace the familiar with the anything goes thinking that moves toward the disordered values of 2024. More later.

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by Adrian Wooldridge

https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World/dp/1510768610/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1658009977&refinements=p_27%3AAdrian+Wooldridge&s=books&sr=1-2

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0:00.0	This is John Batchelor, continuing conversation with Adrian Wolrich for his new book,
0:05.0	The Aristocracy of Talent, How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.
0:10.0	Adrian points to the 1990s and something that's not obvious to see it first.
0:17.0	The people in power, the Clintons and the Clinton administration, were products of elite institutions. They were very
0:24.0	talented. They had the radical ideas of transforming the country from its
0:30.9	traditional roots of patriotism, flag-waving, religion, confidence in the
0:36.9	American exceptionalism, transforming that into something else, something beyond that. We know now it was transformed into what is easily
0:49.2	identified as DEI transforming America's values from the patriotic American to the globalist.
1:00.8	This is a transformation that Adrian identifies in his new book, The Aristocracy of Talent.
1:06.0	Here is Adrian Waldrich on the elite leading the movement to take America's fundamentals and transform them into, well, you'll hear.
1:17.0	Adrian Woltrich.
1:20.0	Well, Christopher Lache, his book is a brilliant book and he's a very interesting story really because he starts off as a Marxist, very much on the left wing academic, but sort of moves to the rise, or at least begins to take the complaints of the right very seriously and
1:34.2	one of his central arguments in this is that the revolt of the elites it's the
1:38.0	elites who turn against patriotism who turn against nationalism who turn against religion and who are in favour of cosmopolitan
1:46.4	values looking down on ordinary Americans from the great heights of their cosmopolitan
1:52.4	elitious values. I think it's a great paradox because a lot of these the radicalism of the let's say the 1990s was actually led by you know by people who were in power, like the Clinton.
2:04.4	So their radicals in power, and they're saying we must dismantle a lot of the
2:08.9	inherited structures of the country, classically, you know, flag-waving patriotism, religion, and replace them with a new set of liberal values.
2:18.0	And that causes a big populist reaction back in favor of the flag, in favor of religion, in favor of traditional values,
2:26.4	some people who feel that they're being looked down upon by Harvard, Yale, Stamford,
2:31.2	and the rest of these credentialing.
2:32.8	More of this later.
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