“Over the course of the next four years, I was shaken, many times, by a realization that most people already knew, and that David Halberstam wrote in The Best and the Brightest in 1971 on the war in Vietnam. And that realization is that the story that elites tell one another, and believe, well, it’s just not true. We don’t believe in merit. It’s easy enough to understand, but it’s very hard to really accept. If your identity is constructed around the idea that you are where you are because you deserve it, it’s rough to learn this truth”
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