Polite society has not changed and never will. It is a function of social success that one avoids discussing or even thinking about the cruelest facts of human nature and, by consequence, political existence. True, among the elite there is much virtue-signaling about the poor, and a vocal concern for human rights is a necessary tool of professional advancement in the high social echelons. A bored elite can certainly develop a brainless infatuation with radical causes. But that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about the silences inside which the future lies: the disturbing rumblings
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