By Charles Murray
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Pg 24. This, the author says, is our first glimpse at the fledgling new superclass...
"The culture depicted in thirtysomething had no precedent, with its characters who were educated at elite schools, who discussed intellectually esoteric subjects,"
I remember this show. I remember seeing thisnshow and thinking who are these people.
"The culture depicted in thirtysomething had no precedent, with its characters who were educated at elite schools, who discussed intellectually esoteric subjects,"
Yep yuppie scum
"In the years to come, America would get other glimpses of this culture in Mad About You, Ally McBeal, Frasier, and The West Wing, among others, but no show ever focused with the same laser intensity on the culture that thirtysomething depicted—understandably, because the people who live in that culture do not make up much of the audience for network television series, and those who are the core demographic for network television"
Pg 35 "but such data are proprietary. (Google) The best I can do is use the DDB Life Style data that were provided to Robert Putnam in the research for Bowling Alone and are now available to other scholars. 11 That database does not permit us to isolate the top few centiles—the highest income code is $ 100,000—but it does give a quantitative measure of the relationship between income, education, and a wide variety of tastes and preferences."
37 "Garrison Keillor—if you are in a gathering of the new upper class, you can use the phrase “all the children are above average”and be confident that almost everybody recognizes the allusion." (From.Lake Wobegon)
Pg 43 "Other workplaces in America haven’t changed even that much. The technological changes in hospitals have been sweeping, but the nurses, dietitians, respiratory therapists, and orderlies who work there do their jobs much as they always have, subject to the same constraints of hours and place that those jobs have always imposed (and the same is true, I should add, of physicians). Not true sir. The hospital has changed dramatically. Severely.
Pg 46 "FOUR DEVELOPMENTS TOOK us from a set of people who ran the nation but were culturally diverse to a new upper class that increasingly lives in a world of its own. The culprits are the increasing market value of brains, wealth, the college sorting machine, and homogamy."
Pg 49 "Just about all of the benefits of economic growth from 1970 to 2010 went to people in the upper half of the income distribution." And since
Pg 50 "Then in 1994–95, the bottom end of the top centile careened up from $ 233,000 to $ 433,000. Whether the change happened within that single year is open to debate—an analysis using IRS data shows the leap occurring from the late 1980s through the late 1990s—but there is no doubt that a phenomenal growth in top incomes occurred sometime during that"
Pg 54 on having to put up with us interact with us peasants..."Still, it amounts to one of those things that people are glad they have done, but did only because they had to. Either they figure out a way to fit in or else they are lonely (see Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street for the revenge of the lonely small-town smart boy). Those same young people would have jumped at the opportunity to be around other people like themselves. Over the last half century, the opportunities to do so opened up."
Pg 57 "Given this concentration of academic talent in a relatively few colleges and universities, the original problem has been replaced by its opposite. Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when exceptionally able students hang out only with one another."
Pg 59 "Without doubt, certain applicants get an edge that has nothing to do with merit. In The Price of Admission, journalist Daniel Golden documents the ways in which elite schools manage to find room for the children of alums, big donors, celebrities, athletes, the elite college’s own faculty, and wealthy parents."
Pg 61 "1940 to 2003.26 They found that homogamy has increased at both ends of the educational scale—college graduates grew more likely to marry college graduates and high school dropouts grew more likely to marry other high school dropouts."
Pg 62 "IQs at age 18 will be very similar to what they were at age 6, and statistical analysis will not show that the children who went to the expensive private schools got an IQ boost as a result."
Pg 70 "In 1960, 40 percent of Manhattan’s jobs had been industrial. By 2000, that 40 percent had shrunk to 5 percent. By 2000, 15 percent of all jobs in Manhattan were in the financial sector, another 15 percent fell into the category of “professional, scientific, and technical services,”and another 9 percent were in a category labeled simply “information.”That’s 39 percent of all jobs."
Pg 80 "But Asians have since the 1960s been seen by whites as “honorary whites,”in sociologist Andrew Hacker’s sardonic phrase,"
Pg 88 "Thirty-one percent of Wesleyan graduates were living in SuperZips, and 65 percent were living in zip codes at the 80th centile or higher. It would appear that the college sorting machine replicates itself with remarkable fidelity as a residential sorting machine. The hypothesis."
Pg 1o4 De Tocqueville's America:
"Local freedom …perpetually brings men together, and forces them to help one another, in spite of the propensities which sever them. In the United States, the more opulent citizens take great care not to stand aloof from the people. On the contrary, they constantly keep on easy terms with the lower classes: they listen to them, they speak to them every days."
The author says,"Not any more."
Just as I tjought this book dovetails perfectly with Putnams Our Kids.
Pg 131 The founding virtues industriousness, honesty, marriage, and religiosity. Thats our secret lol
Pg 137 "When Tocqueville was traveling around America to observe our prisons (the original reason for his visit), he commented on how few magistrates and public officers America employed for apprehending crime, “yet I believe that in no country does crime more rarely elude punishment."
I hate blogger!!!!! I.really need some other note taking software. This POS sucks
184 "Between 1985 and 2005,” Aguiar and Hurst write, “men who had not completed high school increased their leisure time by eight hours per week, while men who had completed college decreased their leisure time by six hours per week.” And I see they put that "less leisure time" to good use.
204 "Religion’s role as a source of social capital is huge. “As a rough rule of thumb,” Robert Putnam wrote in Bowling Alone, “our evidence shows [that] nearly half of all associational memberships are church-related, half of all personal philanthropy is religious in character, and half of all volunteering occurs in a religious context.” 1 But it’s not just the contributions of Americans in religious settings that make religion so important to social capital." Putnam makes the same.comments on the importance of social capital in his new book Our Kids.
Pg 210 "None of the graphs I have just shown you fit the conventional wisdom that working-class white America is still staunchly religious while white American elites are dominated by secular humanists. There are two explanations." Just a myth that doesnt play out in the actual facts.
Books:
Robert Reich The Work of Nations,
Richard Florida The Rise of the Creative Clasz
David Brooks Bobos in Paradise.
The Bell Curve Charles Murray
Joseph Soares’s The Power of Privilege,
Robert Putnam Bowling Alone
Robert Putnam Our Kids: The AmericanDream in Ctisis
David Callahan Fortunes of Change.
Eli Pariser
The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
Michael Harrington’s The Other America
Henry Adams
History of the United States During the Administrations of
The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt
Moral Basis of a Backward Society
The Big Sort Bill Bishop
Bowling Alone Robert Putnam
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism By Robert William Fogel
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