Tetra Ciklina

  Advice in bold. Fill in the blanks as appropriate. Feel free to use multiple times for different purposes, this template will never get stale.     Santiago, ___________ of ___________, 2020   In an unexpected upset, today the Chilean parliament voted to _________ ( describe policy here, but do not go into the details. Of course there are nuances to the policy and, if it was unexpected, probably no one thought elected members of parliament would go this far. But your job is not to explain things, so just move on) . This was an apparent victory for the _______ coalition, which has been trying, unsuccessfully, to uproot the neoliberal agenda of the ruling elite ( it is essential to use the word neoliberal here, this is catnip to our readers. I mean we all know the definition of the word is a bit loose, and there is no particular way we can prove any of this, but studies by our marketing department have shown that using the word in an article increases clicks by 50%. A...

( English Version ) “ El verdadero terror es levantarse una mañana y descubrir que tus compañeros de colegio están gobernando el país”.  Kurt Vonnegut   Últimamente, he estado leyendo sobre la " Sobreproducción de la Élite ", una hipótesis propuesta hace algunos años por Peter Turchin. La idea es relativamente sencilla, aunque un tanto difícil de probar empíricamente: la educación superior promete la pertenencia a la élite de un país (intelectual, económica, política). Cuando el ingreso de las personas a este nivel de educación es bajo, la mayoría de los ciudadanos no aspira a ser miembros de la élite, independientemente de la forma con que ello se mida.  Por otro lado, a medida que aumenta el ingreso a la educación superior, también lo hace el número de aspirantes que quieren ser parte de dicha élite.  Además, y debido a que los cupos en ésta son limitados [1] , aquellos que inevitablemente no serán admitidos en ella, se rebelarán. Dado que, y por definición, la éli...

 ( Versión en Español )   “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” Kurt Vonnegut       Lately, I have been reading about the “ Elite Overproduction ” hypothesis, put forward by Peter Turchin a few years ago. The idea is relatively straightforward, if a bit difficult to prove empirically; membership in a country’s elite (intellectual, moneyed, political) is the promise of higher education. When enrollment is low, the majority of citizens do not aspire to be members of the elite, however you measure it. As enrollment increases, so does the number of aspirants. Because the number of spots in the elite is limited [1] , those who will inevitably fail to be admitted into the elite, will revolt. Since, by definition, the elite is a very small proportion of the population (around 1%), the number of the disaffected will be relatively large. Some intra-elite competition is good, because it selects the best ca...