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In Defense of Elitism
Politics / Society
A Pulitzer-winning Time cultural editor's 1994 polemic against the unexamined cult of egalitarianism — the argument that a society that refuses to acknowledge excellence, hierarchy, and the cost of difficulty pays for it in mediocrity. Şengör cites the book as one of the cleanest English-language statements of the position he defends in Turkey: every society without elitism collapses.
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Celal Şengör
“Elitizmin olmadığı her toplum çöker.”
Şengör cites Henry's 1994 polemic as one of his core sources for the position he defends in his own book Aptalı Tanımak — that ignorant egalitarianism is fatal and that every society without an elite collapses.