Great post, the key insight being that elites are inevitable and the question is how can we move towards one that does greater good than the one we currently have in evangelicalism (the shadow system Aaron describes). I wonder if in sub-spheres of evangelicalism we had such a system as with Dutch Reformed youth naturally going to Calvin …
Great post, the key insight being that elites are inevitable and the question is how can we move towards one that does greater good than the one we currently have in evangelicalism (the shadow system Aaron describes). I wonder if in sub-spheres of evangelicalism we had such a system as with Dutch Reformed youth naturally going to Calvin College, Dordt, etc (in a prescribed order). In the South we often heard of school X being 'the best school in the South', implying that academic elites did not aspire to Northern schools. I wonder if in Mormon circles BYU is still the preferred destination.
On the Thiel fellowship, while accepting all the points Aaron made, I would say that the aspiration to build a tech unicorn is still at a fundamental level aligned with the establishment - it is Wall Street that rounds up the funding and provides the valuations, and we know that the Facebooks and Twitters of the world were more than willing to do the bidding of the USG in censoring undesirable posts.
Great post, the key insight being that elites are inevitable and the question is how can we move towards one that does greater good than the one we currently have in evangelicalism (the shadow system Aaron describes). I wonder if in sub-spheres of evangelicalism we had such a system as with Dutch Reformed youth naturally going to Calvin College, Dordt, etc (in a prescribed order). In the South we often heard of school X being 'the best school in the South', implying that academic elites did not aspire to Northern schools. I wonder if in Mormon circles BYU is still the preferred destination.
On the Thiel fellowship, while accepting all the points Aaron made, I would say that the aspiration to build a tech unicorn is still at a fundamental level aligned with the establishment - it is Wall Street that rounds up the funding and provides the valuations, and we know that the Facebooks and Twitters of the world were more than willing to do the bidding of the USG in censoring undesirable posts.