[xor99]

The implicit argument here is that humanities grads are somehow more likely to "rebel" because they are disaffected due to overproduction of similar deluded or "fake" elites. This is like a 90s deadbeats vs suits style bifurcation and there's no numbers provided to specifically prove "radicalisation" and "rebellion" only amongst humanities grads.

As a result, EOT seems to enter spotlight effect territory where influential socialists who have humanities backgrounds are seen as typical of ALL of that category. A similar logic would relate terrorism to ALL engineers because of something like the Salem hypothesis.

[vineyardmike]

The author touched on it, but I don’t think they addressed it enough - there is a societal rebellion amongst different cohorts as well. I think the “EOT” may have some truth, but to ascribe it as the source of unrest in society is in bad faith and politically motivated. The idea of reality vs expectation makes sense universally, and the bit about why free college is seen as a political objective makes sense and is an interesting idea.

One such rebellion is American uneducated white people voting for trump - and much more dramatically, later a small subset of them storming the capital. Lots of press ink has spilled over “white plight” and how the stagnation of the growth in quality of life among rural and blue collar white people. So I think saying EOT is the source of all unrest is wrong, but EOT could have truth to a specific democratic’s experience in america.