Another thing that strikes me about the heterodox moment is that the brightest people in that world were simultaneously very anti-clerical in the sense that they viewed woke as something utilized and disseminated by a sort of priestly class, while also themselves being jealously protective of the privileges of the Bohemian intellectual, taking a kind of Fascinating Fascism esque line that there are lifestyles, art, and ideas that are just not acceptable for the rubes Out There, who after all need to keep working our 9 to 5s and reproducing the species so that our betters can sip their martinis and talk about art.
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