Prabhat Sarkar and his social cycle

[David Horn]

(09-30-2018, 05:54 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Aren't we under a society of intellectuals now? Media, the academia, the NGOs, pop culture. Everything is led by boomer intellectuals.

Acquisitors had their big time in the Victorian age and early 20th century, but later they started to be more and more despised. Perhaps the last time they were really dominant was the era of Reagan and Thatcher.

That depends entirely on who you include in the category of "we".  In the coastal elite community, you are undoubtedly correct.  As you  move away from those areas and demographics, that becomes less true.  Eventually, you get to the anti-intellectual fringes, and it's all downhill from there.  And fwiw, there is still a large contingent of wealth worshipers who have none themselves, but idolize those who do.  Why the do may be a mystery, but they're out there and not in small number either.