In “Losing the Class,” Ian Marcus Corbin makes a vital point studiously and willfully ignored by those in charge of American society: an enormous generational gap is growing between the ideology of the ruling class and the inner thoughts of the younger generation. In his words, “our students are playing the game like good little Party members, but they don't believe the doctrine.”
What he notes next describes perhaps the single most unsettling reality I routinely observe from my own (unique and privileged) position observing America's political and intellectual scene. Like Corbin, “I don't know that revolution is coming tomorrow,” but “whatever you expect for a massive, demanding, expensive institution that has lost—for a whole generation—the hearts and minds of its constituents, long-term stability isn't it.”
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