Careerism vs. Great Books

Why Does the Middle Class Prefer Netflix to Aristotle?

Everyone with a desire to learn, grow, and think about the meaning of their life, should read Great Books. Historically, this was something that very few people got to do. For some time, we adopted an egalitarian sensibility that anyone could do this. Today, we are more or less back to where we started with the difference being that even most oligarchs …