Thanks. I've written a lot on this way of looking at history, although I don't know how original it is. Elitist conservatives often rail against liberal modernity for elevating the "mass man" or everyman. I eschew conservatism, though, for being implicitly socially Darwinian and anti-humanistic.
This article specifically should be paired with another one I recently posted, called "The Ancient Cold War between Intellectuals and the Unreflective Masses" (link below).
Those are interesting questions about where intellectuals go from here. It's possible we're being trained to discount intellectual elitism. That's the upshot of wokeness, political correctness, democracy, egalitarianism, human rights and so on. It's a downside of humanism, I think. The question is who benefits from a lack of subversive, artistic, uncompromising intellectuals. Then again, technology increasingly empowers us to pursue our dreams, as it were.
Morris Berman talked about a coming dark age when intellectuals or defenders of high culture may have to go underground, like monks to preserve wisdom from the savage mob.
I'll check out Ted Giola.
