Elite
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During the agricultural revolution, what happened is that immense technological and economic revolution empowered the human collective, but when you look at actual individual lives, the life of a tiny
elite
became much better, and the lives of the majority of people became considerably worse.
But we may end up again with a tiny
elite
reaping all the benefits, taking all the fruits, and the masses of the population finding themselves worse than they were before, certainly much worse than this tiny
elite.
CA: You are a card-carrying member of the coastal elite, my man.
Because I'm just offended as being put in a box as a coastal
elite
as someone in Middle America is as being considered a flyover state and not listened to.
DB: I mean, most American universities, especially
elite
universities, are overwhelmingly on the left, and there's just an ease of temptation to use your overwhelming cultural power to try to enforce some sort of thought that you think is right and correct thought.
Make the idea occur in their own minds that democracy and its institutions are failing them, their
elite
are corrupt puppet masters and the country they knew is in free fall.
I've overpowered his
elite
guard, burst into his secret bunker with my machine gun ready.
They only talk about kings and princes and
elite
white male people doing stuff.
My idea came to life in 1998 under the name of Advanced Chess when I played this human-plus-machine competition against another
elite
player.
Wealthier families are better positioned to finance an elite, independent school and college education, access capital to start a business, finance expensive medical procedures, reside in neighborhoods with higher amenities, exert political influence through campaign finance, purchase better legal counsel if confronted with an expensive criminal justice system, leave a bequest and/or withstand financial hardship resulting from any number of emergencies.
Over the last 45 years, wealth disparity has increased dramatically, and essentially, all the economic gains from America's increase in productivity have gone to the
elite
or the upper middle class.
So in fact, they are as elite, compared to the typical human, as the typical billionaire, Nobel Prize winner, Olympic gold medalist, head of state.
Big political identity claims are
elite
bids for power.
Like me, he was an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, a young member of the educated
elite
in the independence era.
But eventually, she was able to go to community college, get her associate's, then go to an
elite
college to finish her bachelor's.
And that's the pathway that allowed her to become accepted to one of the most
elite
colleges for women in the country, and she received her bachelor's at 36, setting an incredible example for her young son.
That second or third language you spoke indicated your
elite
education.
Economics taught in most of the
elite
universities are practically useless in my context.
And if we care about their future, we, as the
elite
around the world, we can do something about it.
And we, as now the elite, parents, librarians, professionals, whatever it is, a bunch of our activities are, in fact, in trying to get the best we have to offer within reach of those around us, or as broadly as we can.
And I would like to suggest that it's not a coincidence that this supposed decline in the
elite
arts and criticism occurred in the same point in history in which there was a widespread denial of human nature.
Well, the argument in "The Blank Slate" was that
elite
art and criticism in the 20th century, although not the arts in general, have disdained beauty, pleasure, clarity, insight and style.
People are staying away from
elite
art and criticism.
Is the power in your country concentrated in the hands of a few, an
elite?
It can be a political elite, ideological
elite.
Where what's good in the short run for the
elite
is bad for the society as a whole, there's a real risk of the
elite
doing things that would bring the society down in the long run.
And within the last couple of years, it's been obvious that the
elite
in the business world correctly perceive that they can advance their short-term interest by doing things that are good for them but bad for society as a whole, such as draining a few billion dollars out of Enron and other businesses.
We're not doing films for the
elite
and the people in their glass houses.
The story begins when a meeting between two members of Moscow’s literary
elite
is interrupted by a strange gentleman named Woland, who presents himself as a foreign scholar invited to give a presentation on black magic.
No longer putting society at the service of art, and much less at the services of monopolies of the elite, but instead art at the service of society, at the service of the weakest, at the service of the children, at the service of the sick, at the service of the vulnerable, and at the service of all those who cry for vindication through the spirit of their human condition and the raising up of their dignity.
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