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This advice comes not because engaging in this pseudo-scam might ruin your credit or irritate your friends (which it will), but because the iPod is an elitist, antisocial device that provokes the kind of class divisions of which only Karl Marx would approve. The campus is already divided between the conversation-loving proletariat and the expanding bourgeoisie who choose to forego all verbal communication with fellow students and withdraw entirely into the acoustic bliss of the iPod, or some inferior substitute. Don’t join the ranks of the latter...
...their perceived competence or wisdom. It is not up to some elevated intellectual group to decide national policy or who is worthy of suffrage. That would be called oligarchy. We are all subject to the laws; we should all be free to have a say in their formation. The elitist tendencies that suggest that children cannot vote are the same tendencies that once convinced people that blacks and women were unworthy...
...Viewers will see a particularly raunchy campus magazine called “H-Blast,” lying around on a dorm table next to the famous college newspaper called “the Vermillion,” which keeps its writers hard at work each night. A certain elitist social club referred to appropriately by its members as “the Wasp” is mentioned in passing conversation between guests at a local dorm party...
...campaign, George Bush sneered “Massachusetts” like it was a four-letter word. Not since the elder George Bush deployed the same thirteen-letter epithet against Michael Dukakis had a state been appropriated as an adjective to connote such out-of-touch, weak-kneed, secularist, elitist, tax-hiking Un-Americanism. Tragically, though maybe not surprisingly, it resonated on both occasions...
...nail gossip—a handy distraction from the arrogant, petulant president that debate viewers saw two weeks ago—might yet emerge as a secret justification for anti-elitist undecided voters to break for Bush. Despite its seeming insignificance, our nation’s future may actually hinge on whether a couple hundred political independents fail to learn the whole truth about Manicure-gate...