You Are So Close To Getting It

no it's not. Have you even read an "A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations"?

He argues that colleges in the West are basically ideologically synchronized with each other, with Harvard especially being the primary promulgator of liberal ideology, both due to its influence on the University system as a whole, and its enmeshment with the Washington establishment.

He argues that Harvard basically IS the state

You mean it isn't? Because honestly, it (and institutions like it) is the nerve center of the political class in the First World. You do not rise in this system without paying dues to the university and passing through its filter. Old money and aristocratic status can get you in the door, but you don't get to sit at the big kids' table unless you pay dues to the university and can get into the club. The elite universities, and by extension the education system as a whole, is the true base that makes our present system of government even possible. Ruling a technocratic national security state through nothing but fear and bribery is a near impossibility. It is through the education system and its sorting of the populace into grades that you have the real basis for making such a system stick and perpetuate beyond its founders.

The USSR was quite explicitly NOT such a state, the leaders of the USSR were generally from humble origins, and from the revolutionary generation. They often didn't have rich educational pedigrees, they were men that were able to rise through the ranks of the Party and play the game of politics well enough to make it to the big show.

If we look at the past 40 years, then it is obvious to me that "the Cathedral" really is the government in all but name, although his notion that it's a shadowy conspiracy tied to Communism is just silliness. There's no great big conspiracy, it's just what happens when power is consolidated and the institution most necessary for that consolidation to survive gains more and more prominence. We take notions of intellectual merit for granted today, the NRx people themselves fully internalize this ideology and delude themselves into thinking they're the master race or some nonsense like that. You have, today, widespread belief that failed students should literally be killed off or sterilized and control of them should be maintained through violent force, almost all of it passive but definitely ingrained into our brains at an early age. It's impossible to avoid, and it's only going to get worse.

How ironic that worthless right-wing bloggers who circlejerk about the intellectual decline of the west are one of the most egregious contributors to it.

Yarvin, attacking the accepted "World War II mythology" in a speech to the 2012 BIL Conference, claimed that Hitler’s invasions were forgivable acts of self-defense, and that this historical fact was suppressed by America’s ruling communists, who invented political correctness as an "extremely elaborate mechanism for persecuting racists and fascists." "If Americans want to change their government," he said, "they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia."[16]

So… this…. is the power … of right-wing theory……………………….. whoa….

So he is just another Hitler apologist.
Wow, so smart
big thunk

A good book on who rules America is the very straightforward "Who Rules America?" by G. William Domhoff which has been updated and republished over and over since the 1960s with some slight modifcations: but basically yeah it's a self-perpetuating corporate power elite that exercises control via ownership major industries and institutions such as think tanks and various foundations. The actual top-tier elite *start out* in very exclusive prep schools from practically birth and their parents are the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties.

Also the "SJW" stuff is really overstated as an elite thing. If you want to know what top-tier elite people think about that, just read David Brooks columns in the New York Timnes where he tut tuts about ornery left-wing scolds. Rich people have a kind of "South Park Republican" view about things that laughs at both "ironic" racist jokes while also mocking the rubes who go "dey took our jerbs."

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Who owns the corporations? Who staffs the corporations? Who runs the state that makes those corporations able to continue existing, that is able to mediate the many disagreements between corporations? At some point you start to realize that it's not the corporations that bend the Academy, but the other way around - the Academy accepts overt corporate rule for now because it ruffles the fewest feathers, and maintains pressure on the lower classes under existing capitalist norms. Educated professionals run the army, run the government, and run the everyday operations of the corporations. There is no inherent reason why the rich prep school kids couldn't themselves be Academics, but the Academy is not subservient to capital. The Academy is too big to be anyone's servant.

I think the academy is totally subservient to these big corporations and the rich benefactors who own them: chronicle.com/article/Major-Private-Gifts-to-Higher/128264