{"id":11771,"date":"2019-04-09T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T21:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11771"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:06:52","slug":"the-world-doesnt-care-about-groupthink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-world-doesnt-care-about-groupthink\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Doesn\u2019t Care About Groupthink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conventional wisdom may change in a flash (remember \u2018peak oil\u2019?), but elites remain elites, united by common interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll things are in flux.\u201d \u2014 Heraclitus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The adage \u201cnothing last forever\u201d is an understatement. Far more accurate is something like \u201cnothing lasts until next week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saint-to-Sinner Silicon Valley<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A decade ago, even most Republicans admired the rugged entrepreneurialism of the high-tech Masters of the Universe who had built a multitrillion-dollar, world-dominating Internet, and the computer, mobile-phone, online-sales, and social-media industries, defined by marquee companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Yahoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In turn, Democrats gave up their suspicions of big money, as they canonized liberal Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg. Their wealth was okay, since the creators of it were progressives and dressed like Woodstock hipsters as they spread their billions freely among progressive think tanks, foundations, and political campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a near blink of an eye, Republicans finally caught on, and they now see the new billionaires as rank partisans who rig Internet searches, censor social media, manipulate data to help warp elections, push far-left causes, bully their own nonconformist employees, and demonize their conservative critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Conventional wisdom may change in a flash (remember \u2018peak oil\u2019?), but elites remain elites, united by common interests. \u201cAll things are in flux.\u201d \u2014 Heraclitus The adage \u201cnothing last forever\u201d is an understatement. Far more accurate is something like \u201cnothing lasts until next week.\u201d Saint-to-Sinner Silicon Valley A decade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1131,1],"tags":[856],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-33R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10646,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-silicon-valley-turned-off-the-left-and-right\/","url_meta":{"origin":11771,"position":0},"title":"How Silicon Valley Turned Off the Left and Right","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 After years of regulation immunity and radical profiteering, Silicon Valley mega-corporations are alienating their friends on both sides of the political aisle. \u00a0 When Left and Right finally agree on something, watch out: The unthinkable becomes normal. \u00a0 So it is with changing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Silicon Valley"","block_context":{"text":"Silicon Valley","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/silicon-valley\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7674,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-valley-of-the-shadow\/","url_meta":{"origin":11771,"position":1},"title":"The Valley of the Shadow","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"How mansion-dwelling, carbon-spewing cutthroat capitalists can still be politically correct. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online Silicon Valley is an American success story. 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