7 August

Thanks to David for this. I’ve highlighted the critical sentence. This isn’t just a cheap shot, this is exactly the cultural shift we’re living. Because societies are social, and use social models, the fact ours is modelled on the culture of high schools means everything ‘nerdy’ is now under assault and collapsing. Jocks run the culture of high schools, not nerds. D.H. Lawrence nearly a century ago saw that this would happen as a result of compulsory schooling. Driving contempt for all learning amongst those who did badly at school. Those people now dominate the world. Trump is their God. They’re tearing to pieces all of the institutional bases of adult life.