“The new upper class holds ordinary Americans in contempt and disdain,” said Charles Murray in a recent interview with Sam Harris. “They’re not even hiding it, anymore.”
Against the backdrop of his most recent book, “Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010,” Murray spoke of a modern acceleration of social stratification driven by growing material rewards for high-IQ individuals in an increasingly knowledge-based economy. In contrast with previous manifestations of American social fragmentation along the lines of class, Murray argued that today’s new upper class is increasingly isolated from what he described as “mainstream America.”
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