tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237013510406351701.post7181810880133853011..comments2023-12-27T16:39:40.424+11:00Comments on Ecstathy: A misplaced sense of self-importance (I: "elitism"-ism)Efriquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08526031804261484547noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237013510406351701.post-27651578205393549352008-07-20T12:03:00.000+10:002008-07-20T12:03:00.000+10:00Yeah, I totally got distracted by demotivatus.com ...Yeah, I totally got distracted by demotivatus.com and spent a 45 minutes reading all the demotivational posters and cracking up...<BR/><BR/>Easily distracted I guess. Anyway, who's elite: the privileged son of a wealthy east-coast insider or the son of a car dealer?<BR/><BR/>Wait - the first one pretends to be from Texas so I guess it's the other one!george.whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10893495384863805805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237013510406351701.post-37267097696157032352008-06-21T20:08:00.000+10:002008-06-21T20:08:00.000+10:00David Brooks is totally elite: an elite media clow...David Brooks is <I>totally</I> elite: an elite media clown. Gah, what a putz. I hate our Village idiots. Love your smackdown! <BR/><BR/>This accusing others of what you're guilty of yourself is fast becoming an art form. The Republicons used it as a conscious tactic, if I remember my reading on political fuckery rightly. Wish I remembered where I'd seen that article... what it basically said was that they decided to go after their own weaknesses in their opponent, I think on the theory that leveling such charges against someone else would make Average Joe think they couldn't possibly be guilty of the same failing, only worse, because they wouldn't attack someone else for their own weakness, now would they?<BR/><BR/>Republicons + guillable rubes = our current disaster.Dana Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588487815623499463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237013510406351701.post-74928138546659860392008-06-20T23:51:00.000+10:002008-06-20T23:51:00.000+10:00Hi vitaminbook,I don't live in the US myself (I'm ...Hi vitaminbook,<BR/><BR/>I don't live in the US myself (I'm Australian), but I've been there a dozen or so times - enough to have been in an <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applebee%27s" REL="nofollow">Applebee's</A>.<BR/><BR/>They have steaks, salads, hamburgers, pasta, seafood, burgers and so on. <BR/><BR/>And, yes, living in Europe probably makes you an elitist in the eyes of David Brooks; his criteria seem to be pretty broad.Efriquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08526031804261484547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237013510406351701.post-34677057347096381672008-06-20T20:48:00.000+10:002008-06-20T20:48:00.000+10:00I actually don't even know what Applebee's is...bu...I actually don't even know what Applebee's <I>is</I>...but then, I have the excuse of living in another country. I don't know, maybe residing in Europe makes you elitist as well? :P<BR/><BR/>But all joking aside, I agree with you on this one. I've never heard someone claim elitism who wasn't fairly elitist themselves, consciously or unconsciously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com