“David Brooks Admits He Lives in Wealthy Bubble and to rectify that he plans to break out of his New York Times cocoon and travel down the Heart of Darkness to mix with the hoi polloi.”
It won’t work: elites like that are always encased by their elitist “wealth” bubbles no matter where they go or what they do. Elitist bubbles are attitudinal not locational.
In the old days it was just called “goin’ slumming’”.
Maybe he’ll write a book about it.
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