Local Eat The Rich Action

Mostly amusing because of the geographic specificity, we present comment #215 (Numbered comments? Fascism comes to the Internet!) from the Crooked Timber mocks Megan thread.

Tehanu 04.16.10 at 8:39 pm

Whereas I, middle-class lawyer that I am, know perfectly well that there’s a conservative elite as well, a very rich, very well connected conservative elite …
… that I have NO INTEREST in joining, because they would bore me to fucking death.

My dad, who was born to poor immigrants in the Chicago slums, was an elementary school teacher with 4 kids. I went to a public university on scholarship. Eventually my husband and I made enough that we could move to a pretty expensive neighborhood, Beverly Hills PO — city of LA, but with a BH zip code. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the neighbors — all college grads, accountants, lawyers, doctors, etc. — had only three topics of conversation: real estate prices; who was sleeping with whom; and how difficult it was to find housekeepers who would accept $50 for an eleven-hour day in an area with no bus service. I asked one of my neighbors once where the books were in his house; he said he had an old accounting textbook in the garage somewhere, and his wife proudly pointed to her stash of Danielle Steel novels.

We have no desire to eat these no doubt toxic morons. But where are the education camps? (In this case, reëducation camps would wrongly imply that such people learned anything on their first educational go-round.)