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When people discuss conspiracies it is usually to discount them. This is because we are not in on the conspiracy and are just trying to put together circumstantial evidence. Funny this is very attractive to highly intelligent people.

More subtle and insidious is the development of worldview which rewards students in very material and social ways. It seems obvious to me that a student at UC Berkeley will have a more enjoyable experience as a Marxist than he or she will as a Republican. Is this due to a conspiracy? No. It’s human behavior when one worldview become dominant. Most students of a conservative bent will choose to go to another university. This, in many ways, explains red and blue states.

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