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The system incentivised the promotion of individuals who could read the room — or the Hippodrome.

What they are doing is converting human choices into inevitability. But they are never inevitable.

The whole project in the twentieth century of creating a broad middle class was precisely to create a buffer for the system against the appeal of that ideology. As soon as the Soviet Union collapsed — the moment it did — you could see our elites starting to roll that back.

There is hardly any positive democratic thinking in the European tradition until probably the twentieth century. It really took the First World War to get Europeans to start thinking along those lines. So it is quite recent. I think we need to understand just how fragile it is.

The things we take for granted the most — the ones we discuss the least — are sometimes the ones most deeply embedded in the infrastructure of our thought.