20080819

preservingelitism

I rattled off this comment to something on the Trib webpage a couple days back. After some thought I've decided I rather like the wording, so I'm putting it here rather than let it simply languish in the forgotten Trib archives.

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"Elitist," apparently means anyone who thinks the people should put more thought into politics than just cheering whoever buys the most ad time during NASCAR to tell them how great they are just for being born in the USA. "Elitist" is anyone who thinks the people should think more about philosophy than merely internalizing whatever daddy and the preacher told them in childhood. "Elitist" is anyone who thinks people should care more about art and culture than merely deciding which summer blockbuster has the coolest explosions and which country/pop/hiphop star has the catchiest unchallenging tunes.

You're an "elitist" if you think the people ought to be anything more than easily manipulated pawns of the already wealthy and powerful.
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Posted by Zac at 9:06 AM
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2 comments:

Sra said...

You should link to the article this is posted under. I'd like to read the discussion.

19/8/08 10:27
Zac said...

There really isn't much discussion. It's in the comments following this LTE.
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_10207371

Basically me ranting at an already dead discussion.

19/8/08 19:34

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