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| Sweet Sorrows: leftist piety as a kind of status signalling |
| 2016-02-25 |
| h/t Instapundit Ace ruminates on leftist piety as a kind of status signalling: I've heard it called "Luxurious Concerns." That is, your concerns mark your social status. If your concerns are about keeping your job, paying your rent, or whether your kids' school is any damn good, you're worried about Big Things, and therefore you are marked as a Struggling Person. Only those who have really made it -- who are at the top of the economic and social order -- have the luxury of worrying about the Small Things. And if you worry about the Very Small Things, or indeed the Microscopic Things, then, well and truly, you have arrived... If you can't afford a Luxury Car, or a Luxury Apartment, you can at least adorn yourself with Luxury Worries. It's very cheap. Easy, too... Our modern class of intellectually-insecure social climbers are posing as connoisseurs of offensiveness. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |