Wow, that article is some graceful bridge burning. The lower ed cult is slightly different, though. It's not concerned with unearned prestige, or indulging in personal abuses of power, but the constant, grinding Malthusian refrain of "human capital" and "social mobility" as salvation from economic precarity. Your _personal_ salvation, of course; the poor will always be with us, but you can clamber over them and leave them behind if your faith is strong enough. [#Facepalm! And there I go again…]