Thread by @cityatlas, Just to refresh Twitter world, here's another [good, if] repetitious article about [...]

Just to refresh Twitter world, here's another [good, if] repetitious article about Trump 'flooding the zone with sh*t,' to borrow a phrase from the first 120 versions of this article. [See: https://www.google.com/search?q=flood+the+zone+with+shit&oq=flood+the+zone+with+shit&aqs=chrome..69i57.4048j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8] https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1294672109315203074

What's exciting, though, is that this is a City Atlas tweet, so there will be a different point. If we want the sh*t to stop, shouldn't we stop it at the source? https://twitter.com/cityatlas/status/1267139673761202176?s=20

https://twitter.com/cityatlas/status/1267139673761202176?s=20

If we stop this Trump, won't America's universities [or their wealthiest graduates] find another Trump to take his place? Or get their fingers into even an apparently Trump-free administration? https://www.chronicle.com/article/larry-summers-and-the-subversion-of-economics/

Larry Summers and the Subversion of Economics

A compromised cadre lies at the nexus of academe, banking, and government.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/larry-summers-and-the-subversion-of-economics/

While we're all reading 120 versions of the 'flood the zone with sh*t' article, the GOP is accelerating by harvesting the brightest American minds for the next round of wealth concentration. Here's what that looks like:
https://ocs.yale.edu/outcomes/

Here's what that process felt like in 2008:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/yves-smith-on-why-we-didnt-see-the-2008-crash-coming.html

Here's what that process feels like now: https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/1294674300172206083?s=20

https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/1294674300172206083?s=20

Here's what it feels like when a bright journalist finally catches on:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/ via @KBAndersen

College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots

How I got co-opted into helping the rich prevail at the expense of everybody else

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/

As it turns out, another bright journalist caught on *even earlier.* https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/opinion/14trillin.html

Opinion | Wall Street Smarts

A theory about why the financial system nearly collapsed seemed too simple to be true, but it was hard to find any flaws in it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/opinion/14trillin.html

But wait, a philosopher caught on even earlier than that...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/books/richard-rortys-1998-book-suggested-election-2016-was-coming.html

a meta-journalist in 1967... https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/this-political-theorist-predicted-the-rise-of-trumpism-his-name-was-hunter-s-thompson/

This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.

In Hell’s Angels, the gonzo journalist wrote about left-behind people motivated only by “an ethic of total retaliation.” Sound familiar?

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/this-political-theorist-predicted-the-rise-of-trumpism-his-name-was-hunter-s-thompson/

Somewhere in a corner of Harvard's library separate from the larval stage private equity guys, you could probably spend a month reading about oligarchy in the classics.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo22555152.html

I like reading 120 versions of the same article as much as the next person, but on the 121st time, my mind turns on, and I can't help it. Then it's a long series of cause & effect thoughts.

On the bright side, our team at City Atlas comes from the same universities that brought us Trump, and none of them seem to want to launch more Trumps at me, so I live in utopia. But they are only about 5% of their classes (at best). The default for other students remains same.

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