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I'm not sure if the elites of HN have spent much time among today's average youth, but they certainly aren't learning a common memetic foundation. They barely graduate from high school. And in fact, the average youth are what drag down today's achievers. The achievers are made to feel there's something wrong with them, and that it's a sin against the collective to try to be better than average.

FWIW, I graduated high-school in 1991, which is probably before some posters here were born. And everything you just said was true in 1991 as well. I have a hunch it was true quite some time before that as well.