A well written, concise book. Makes the point without wasting words. It offers useful analytical tools with a ray of hope at the end. I only wish it offered more than a hope but I suppose it is up to all of us to figure out a way forward. If we don’t, I fear the Humanity will perish.
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excellent summary of the current political miasma
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a jolly good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2022
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2022
"Change always takes concerted organisation and cannot hope to be achieved simply by convincing the greatest number of people of your point of view. Power does not care, in the final analysis, how many likes you got on your Twitter account."
Well, this is no ordinary burger book, I thought, and pressed on. Parvini, rather than talking about burgers as I had hoped, instead gives a summary of the thought of the elite theorists, bringing it to bear upon present day politics, such as they are. In a sense, there is little original here, but it a) saves you the time of reading probably millions of words, and b) Parvini skilfully situates these thinkers in relation to each other, so you have not merely the York Notes of Pareto et al., but also something like a conversation between thinkers across the decades, centuries even (Machiavelli), and c) Parvini as something of a Vince MacMahon of political philosophy, presents the elite theorists much as MacMahon presented Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Randy Savage etc. – compelling acts, but his own presentation, his organisation of their thought, is discreetly important & persuasive.
Parvini is the expert organiser, the maker of lists, the eater of burgers, and here he uses his MacMahonism to bring out the most interesting, most relevant aspects of the elite theorists, and to set them against and alongside each other, and then in a move that even MacMahon has never dared, Parvini unleashes Hulk Hogan, Flair, The Undertaker, Sid Justice, on the audience, on us, sending them charging into the crowd to beat us into shape, to knock the smartphones & seed oils & anime out of our girly hands.
In the end, instead of finding burgers I found a bleak and largely unconsoling truth - that society is a top-down affair, that elites control as is their destiny, that there is no Italian burger chef called Nima Parvini, only Neema Parvini, the Vince MacMahon of political philosophy.
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Bob Joggrell
Excellent primer on Elite theory
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2022
