“Pavlovian flattery” – The Clerisy’s Role
One of the main roles of the Clerisy is to flatter the political class and the tech oligarchs. We must mock the Clerisy, who treat every burble and belch of the political class and tech oligarchs with “Pavlovian flattery.”
Anyway, China’s apparently stifling environment has now produced what investors in the NYSE have determined is the world’s most valuable company. And in Jack Ma, it’s also produced an entrepreneur in the classic mould, whose every babble and belch on mission and personal development and leadership and customer value and the rest of it is treated with Pavlovian flattery.
The Status Quo around the world–from France to China to the U.S.–is optimized to protect its Elites and the sprawling Upper-Caste of academics, managers, think-tank toadies, technocrats, apparatchiks, functionaries, factotums, lackeys and apologists who serve the Elites, and are well-paid for enforcing the Status Quo on the disenfranchised castes below.
Demographer Joel Kotkin, author of the new book The New Class Conflict, has coined the word Clerisy to describe what I have been calling the Upper Caste:America’s new class system.
What the Global Status Quo Optimizes: Protecting Elites and the Clerisy Class That Serves Them
The New Class Conflict, by Joel Kotkin
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