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It's similar to Norbert Weiner's thinking (the originator of the term "cybernetics" from the Greek word for "helmsman"), which postulated that society would be increasingly governed by "feedback," allowing elites to steer better.
And the intellectual elites who once defended standards have proved all too willing to go silent in the face of deviant behavior like Newt Gingrich's affair with a staffer.
(Glendon shares Scalia's distrust of undisciplined judges, but hers is the more traditional anxiety, rooted in a fear of elites.)
(He says the people's symbols shouldn't be chosen by "elites" and "modernists"--I wonder whom he could mean.)
In view of the fact that the present system for selecting elites selects one that is critical of the system, concerned about inequality and greater opportunity, one wonders why Lemann is complaining.