Joel touches on only one aspect of our fear of elites: food safety. We haven’t even begun to explore the effects that medicine, schooling, media, etc., have on our autonomy to live within the parameters of our natural world. Are we like sheep; pickled in our own herd myopia?
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.
Perhaps, we're starting to come to our senses.