Tech bros, woke theorists, psychobabblers — George Orwell endures because his plainness is relief from them all
Life & ArtsMargaret Thatcher privatised British Telecom in 1984. The FTSE 100 index ticked into life. Frankie Goes to Hollywood topped the singles charts in the UK with a piece of considerate advice about male orgasm postponement. Even when Wham! celebrated monogamy, the song was titled “Freedom”, as though to fit the individualist age.was not
Clever fools surround us. Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are much-cited. But the Santa Clara Valley, the world centre of ill-directed brainpower, has worse than them. Tech bros — and no few sisters — are susceptible to libertarianism, quack lifestyle regimens of the 4am ice-bath type and, if not the Russian view of the Ukraine war, then a spurious even-handedness.
The problem traverses the ideological spectrum. The movement known as woke could only have been incubated and hatched on campuses. Few places have so much intellectual potential. Few places have so little, well, I am going to call it “lived experience”. When the cultural left makes contact with that less credentialed but longer-in-the-tooth movement called the electorate, see how it struggles.
There have always been clever fools: Cambridge spies, eugenics-smitten Fabians, Hitler appeasers with All Souls fellowships. During his leadership of the Pentagon, Robert McNamara, the ultimate genius/sucker, fought the Vietnam war as a hedge fund quant might.
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