I've never been able to figure out what exactly is wrong with being an elitist snob. I've enjoyed every moment of it. And I appreciate other elitist snobs who know more about certain subjects than I do (Science, Mathematics, et al) and grant them their elitist perch high atop the font of knowledge, looking forward to the erudite theories and illuminations that will fall from their lips. I don't begrudge them their knowledge. So, I've never really understood the view that some republicans have that knowing a whole bunch and informing others of your studies is this bad thing.
Obama has not done as well with uneducated people. Shouldn't this be a light-bulb moment? Shouldn't we all say, "hmm, I think I'll hang my hat on that Obama fella because people who aren't educated beyond the 12th grade don't seem to like him much!"
And just what are Hollywood values? Sappy, smarmy, everything-turns-out-ok-in-the-end views of life? The Brokeback Mountains are pretty few and far between. If the artistic value of that film were matched regularly by most Hollywood fare instead of the schlock that so often fills the billboard of my local Loew's Cineplex, we'd be going to the movies a whole lot more than we do.
But this is the one that really gets me. Conservatives, it seems, are happier than Liberals: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080507/sc_livescience/conservativeshappierthanliberals;_ylt=ApQOWUbSRW7e6eDExGg3wYADW7oF
And apparently this is true because Liberals are less able to rationalize away the notion that some of us are having a hard time in this life. We tend to see the inequities and are BOTHERED by them whereas many Conservatives rationalize that people who are sick, cold, hungry and poor really deserve their fate. It's sort of the devilish version of The Secret.
What's so funny really, is that I absolutely dislike most people and think that, by virtue of the fact that I am smarter than 90% of the population, I am just a little bit better. And yet, I cannot rationalize away the very un-level playing fields that I see in the world... It's a puzzlement.
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