Bad Quad: Non-Elite Elitist

Since I do history and history is a story, let's cheat and go right to the last page. Certainly a problem, plausibly the problem:

That's not a great quadrant to be in. It's analogous to the joke (probably just a joke, but I've never seen the XY plot) about American students: "last in math, first in math confidence." It's definitely the (adult!) student who sat on my couch and told me he'd heard my class was hard but he found it pretty easy. "Hold on a sec," I said-- (insert typing sound effect here)-- "You have a 64. They didn't mean it was hard to get a D."

My hypothesis, nailed to the cathedral door for the data debate, is that the steeper our national nosedive becomes the haughtier the piloting overclass becomes. Aristocrats arrogate. Big piece little pie.

Besides, Alida means noble and it's fun to say: non-elite elitist.