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PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation, author Adrian Wooldridge describes how the extremely well-educated of the university institutions came to assume rule over the great numbers of citizens and even over the few vastly wealthy commercial men. The al

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation, author Adrian Wooldridge describes how the extremely well-educated of the university institutions came to assume rule over the great numbers of citizens and even over the few vastly wealthy commercial men. The alarm in the Ivy Leagues just now --faculty and administrators-- is in part the realization that the voters and the billionaires are pushing back.

1/8: 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

Christmas, eh? All about sharing, isn't it? But to be honest, some things I just don't want to share. Like the

0:08.8

packed car park, along with everyone else who left their Christmas shopping a little bit well, last minute.

0:15.0

And the TV remote on Christmas Day, when everyone wants to watch something different.

0:20.0

These what's its giants, the other hand made for sharing.

0:25.0

Go on help yourself.

0:27.0

Walkers actually made for sharing.

0:30.0

This is John Batchelor speaking with Adrianridge, the author of the aristocracy of talent.

0:35.2

We discuss how it is that the elite, defined by their education, the elite have come to disdain both the aristocrats, the well to do, the really well to do, and

0:49.5

the mob, the voter, the citizens. How it is that we see the crisis today in the elite

0:56.5

university campuses. How is it that it's so at odds with the mob that is people who are not on campus and with the well

1:10.7

to do extremely well to do The billionaires of Wall Street who are

1:14.9

revolting against the presumption of the elite campuses to persecute

1:20.9

individuals and call it tolerance to assert their well-being over

1:32.4

everyone else's to make up to construct to advance rules that are

1:38.7

patently disproportionate. How is it that the elite have all these privileges, self-described privileges,

1:50.7

and the money of Wall Street and Industrial Revolution, and the numbers of the

1:59.0

citizens are not asked to participate. Eduina answers very carefully how it is the elite came to be.

2:07.0

Starting in the 18th and 19th century, and here we are in the 21st.

2:12.0

Much more to this, but here's a piece. We are only a product of

2:16.2

democracy but is that doubted at this time that you can't trust the common man

2:21.6

that you have to have an elite?

2:24.2

Absolutely. I mean, I think actually if you look at both the American and the French

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