![]() ![]() ![]() In short, he predicted the Whole Foods-buying, Zoom-using class that we now take for granted, but who at the time were still an odd bird. To very briefly summarize, Lasch predicted that the formerly aristocratic WASP elites, who considered the US their personal political project which they took on with a considerable sense of duty and noblesse oblige, would be replaced by a grasping and transactional neoliberal elite utterly indifferent to the plight of those outside the new economic order. Your book seems a closing parenthetical bookend to that classic work. That said, I find the eponymous reference here to be Lasch's 'The Revolt of the Elites'. In a sense, it's an updated version of Ortega's book, but this time the 'mass man' has smartphones and an even bigger entitlement chip on their shoulder. ' Revolt of the Public ' is an obvious play on Ortega y Gassett's 'Revolt of the Masses' (which I think you credit). ![]()
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