[eru]

> It's a sort of anger at the lionization of Western, Capitalist claims and ideals, at the whitewashing of the means by which they were asserted, at the implacable sneers towards anything in opposition to this story of glory.

Alas, capitalism isn't all that popular in the west anymore. Perhaps you need to look further afield to find its champions.

[nine_k]

Not "in the West" but rather "in Western media and universities, especially outside STEM". By no coincidence, these are the most vocal minorities.

Capitalism is not cool with novelty-seeking intellectual elites anymore. But nothing established is; the purpose of these elites is to look for and research alternative ways. Most if these ways are detrimental or are dead ends. But so are most mutations that drive evolution forward.

[eru]

Alas, if you look at opinion polls of regular folks, they aren't especially interested in capitalism either.

Eg minimum wages and tariffs are pretty popular.