10Shorter Mark Lilla: How dare you serfs think you can run your own lives and think for yourselves!
From Jeff G. in the comments:
By the way, I think we should send a copy of Lilla’s article to everyone in the country.
The message is clear: if you aren’t a coastal elite, he despises you. He resents your power. He curses your vote. He decries your unwillingness to join the herds he’s hoping to round up and put in pens, where he hopes he can control you.
He is angry that you are circumventing the official gatekeepers of his narrative. He is stung by your ungrateful attitude toward his intellectual largess spent on your behalf (for what else are his plans to run society but a plan to save you who are unfit to do as he from your very selves).
He loathes your associations. He sneers at your food choices. He belittles what you watch and what you read, because doing so makes you less likely to listen to him — and he is what is well and truly good for this country: a lifelong thinker who has thought enough for all of us and reached his conclusions.
And those conclusions involve his right to tell you how to live your lives.
I’m not sure his message will play in Peoria, frankly. So let’s pass it along!
Consider this post as me doing my small part.
