Posted on 07/19/2010 7:19:00 AM PDT by dennisw
2) Nature. The cultural elite class tends to romanticize nature, since it has little contact with it. Energy Secretary Steven Chu cheaply announces that California farms will dry up and blow away, with no clue how the tomatoes in his salad or the lamb chops on his plate are grown, cleaned, shipped — and land in his mouth.
The more we don’t clean and eat the fish we catch, the more we don’t know an apple from a cherry tree, so the more we idolize something like a three-inch Delta smelt and shut down 500,000 acres of icky distant irrigated land to ensure the minnow-like, but beloved, fish has enough oxygenated water in the California delta.
I think that instead of SAT camp or a summer tutorial in estuary biophysics, it would be far better to assign Jason to apprentice with Mott’s septic service or Wright’s tree-trimming.
3) Muscularity. An elite is often characterized as staying fit entirely by the workout, the gym, the jog — never by chain sawing, digging, climbing, or hammering. Yet here too arises contradiction. The elite, being largely progressive, champion the muscular classes to the degree they can stay distant from them. Having good abs by crunching is far different from having big arms by using a five-foot long pneumatic drill. Expect the more cerebral our jobs, the more paranoid we will become about diet, fitness, and appearance, and the more we will romanticize, fear, and separate ourselves from those who work with their muscles. Yet get off a Massey-Ferguson after 11 hours, and one does not care how one looks — only how many grape stakes the disc took out. Not so after coming home from running a foundation or a newsroom in Washington. Much of modern elite neuroticism derives from the combination of not working physically with the desire to look as if one did.
4) Gender. Here I am worried, as I have expressed previously, about the marked differences in the way our cultural elite express themselves. Hollywood offers an instructive example. Why can’t any of our actors talk like a Humphrey Bogart, Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Bill Holden, or Gregory Peck? I’m not asking for Jack Palance or Fess Parker, just a normal male mainstream voice. I know there are Al Pacinos and Robert De Niros, but they too seem to fade before the new wave of DiCaprios. Elites talk (and probably sound) like the freedmen in Petronius’s Satyricon.
Today’s male’s voice is often far more feminine than that of 50 years ago. Sort of whiney, sort of nasally, sort of fussy. Being overexact, sighing, artificially pausing, all that seems part of the new elite parlance. In terms of vocabulary, the absolute (“he’s no damn good,” “she’s a coward,” “he ran the business to hell”) is avoided. Pejoratives and swearing resemble adolescent temper tantrums rather than threats that might well presage violence.
5) Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense. The idea that taxes cause scarcity, and subsidy abundance is a foreign concept. The notion that entitlements create dependency is considered Neanderthal. Tough penalties supposedly do not deter crime. Abroad, military preparedness or deterrence pales in comparison to “soft” diplomatic power and clever talking. Borrowing trillions is “stimulus” and need not quite be paid back. In other words, take a deep breath and imagine the opposite of everything you know by experience to be true, and you have mostly the worldview of the sheltered cultural elite, who navigate in rather protected channels and not in the open seas of the real world.
Just what I have posted here many times..... Does anyone seriously believe 0bama has ever changed the oil on his automobile or done the brakes? He’s so effete I would not be surprised if he never changed a flat tire. Or having once done it swore he would never get his hands dirty again and joined the AAA so they would do it for him. And bought 15 of those fix-a-flat inflators (you stow in your trunk) so he could drive the car to a gas station where they would fix any flat
The above applies to any number of the Harvard jerk-offs 0bama has hired to kiss his butt and work for him
A summer working for Mott’s septic service would done 0bongo a world of good. Instead he’s just another spoiled elitist who lives up in his head...Which I wouldn’t care about except he is president
Our Elite today have a very false sense of nature, do not understand hard work, and do not understand how success is measured in the real world. They are far more like the Ancien Regime than they are like our Founding Fathers.
They get away with it because we are saddled with “respectable conservatives” who know their place.
This is the world we now live in:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
___________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 1, 2009
and he did it again in 2010 !!!
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009
- - - - - - -
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Presidential-Proclamation-LGBT-Pride-Month/
Amazing, don’t you think???
And your taxes are paying for the web site too !!!!!!!!!!!
He dished out ice cream once
while giving it for free to his BFFs ... (i.e. stealing)
Gee
Kinda like he does now !!!
Hate to be crude, but instead of “post-modern elite” I have always used the term “p#ssy” to describe today’s metrosexual. Funny world we live in, isn’t it? Most of today’s youth have no idea how to build or fix anything. They don’t even know how a flush toilet works.
Michelle too has one.
I forsee a future where a few males wearing heels, hose and powdered wigs offer each other pinches of “snuff” from cloisonne snuffboxes while the rest of us live in squalor.
Well, that’s the plan. Let’s see if they can pull it off.
Well, sharpen up that old Guillotine is what I say. :)
Hanson is magnificent! He is one of this country’s truly elite in his brilliance and yet possesses common sense with roots in the ‘classic’s’. He is one of a kind.
I am a fan for sure.
There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense.
This is the bone cruncher comment. Luxury created the nonsense that the elite indulge in. In fact, luxury helped support the hippies and liberal left since the 60s. Imagine Leonard Bernstein inviting the black panthers to his cocktail party if he had to put in a 16 hour work day on a pneumatic drill? No doubt his music would also be different too. But the salient point is that America is prosperous enough to put up with idiocy of all sorts. Once the prosperity runs out — so will the liberal idiocy.
One other sad thing about the elite is that they look to the lower classes to follow fashion and ape the street life subculture with its filthy language. They don’t lead. They are hedonist followers who are constantly lowering the bar on culture because of their white guilt. They feel they are guilty of everything and there is a natural resentment that is built up over time, especially to parental authority that said “don’t become fascists. We fought them in the war.” So, guess what? They become fascists. Spoiled children they are — dictating a “we are the world” idiocy — in an unprecedented time of luxury.
I agree with you on all points...so would VDH but he’s not going to use the p-word for a general audience. In private he would not mind you using it
I have noticed that these types speak in various “Muppet” voices, sounding like Grover, Kermit, Ernie or Bert.
Yeah, and guess what? They can’t eat anything that comes out of her fake garden. Figures huh?
Had a girlfriend once whose ex was a nice guy. Served in the Airforce. Well, after dating a while, she mentioned that he’d never called the plumber to fix her leaky sink, leaky toilet, and some basement wiring.
I fixed the sink, replaced the entire toilet (it was beyond repair), and fixed the basement wiring. All over one weekend. She was amazed. I was amazed by that.
Any able bodied man should be able to do those things. Few can in our meterosexualized world...
Can’t help but to be impressed. My sweetie could do that too, but he isn’t with us anymore. I have to hire work like that done. Didn’t have to learn it because I had someone who could take care of stuff like that.
You hit the target dead center.
Makes sense. Elites are completely dependant on others for everything. They are very comfortable in thier situation where they live like kings or a dictator.
“Fetch me my blackberry, knave.”
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