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Professional overrepresentation among worldviews

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Prateek Sanjay Posted: Mon, Jun 6 2011 11:42 AM

Here's what I mean.

Often for every single body of thought, most of the people or a significant portion of the people in its mold will belong to a particular professional background.

Would these be atleast half-correct assessments?

Anarchists - Artists, poets, literati

Progressives - Washington DC wonks, technocrats, think tank researchers

Agrarian primitivists - Writers, philosophers

European social democrats - professors (in some cases, with so many degrees that they go up to Herr Professor Doktor Doktor)

Protectionists and economic populists - self-made billionaires and plutocrats (such as Ross Perot)

Any others?

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Phaedros replied on Mon, Jun 6 2011 12:48 PM

I dont think that's accurate at all.

Tumblr The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ~Albert Camus
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