I’m probably referring to all of the above. That’s an interesting speciation of anti-intellectualism, but I am meaning it in the broad sense, because I’ve seen all of them. If someone calls me a “liberal elitist”, is it version 1, 3, or 5? Does the class issue also result in a gut reaction? Is the traditionalism directly related to the totalizing? I understand the differences as described in the article, but I’m not sure they are easily separable. Sometimes yes, but not always.
So: A. I think the differences are interesting, and useful, but not always clearly delineated, and B. when generalizing about a group, I’m not sure it’s necessary.
If I say “New Yorkers really like dogs”, it’s probably not cricitcal which breed I mean. If I say “that person really likes his/her dog” then it matters more.
(and we all know that when you generalize about things it’s like when you assume things: it makes a general out of I and, um, ze)
As relates to the original quote: which type was Godin referring to? He talks about being ashamed at being uninformed, which touches on 1 and 5, possibly 2, and interacts with 3. (pobre quatro)
One of the things we’ve slowly seen is the other side: being unashamed at being informed...or politically unpunished, for that matter. Politicians want to be “regular people” because they are berated for using subclauses in sentences (John Kerry), for being a know-it-all (Gore), elitist (everyone, per Palin), destroying the fabric (Obama), utopiansim (the 90′s Clintons), etc...
(and we all know that when you generalize about things it’s like when you assume things: it makes a general out of I and, um, ze)
What really entertained me about this clause is that I spent a noticeable period of time trying to remember which of the many competing novel pronoun schemes “ze” was in, before realizing from context that it had to be a second-person pronoun and wondering why would we create a new second-person pronoun given that the English “you” is already ambiguous about gender and number and basically everything else, and only then did my parsing of the rest of the sentence catch up and make me realize it was a joke.
I’m probably referring to all of the above. That’s an interesting speciation of anti-intellectualism, but I am meaning it in the broad sense, because I’ve seen all of them.
If someone calls me a “liberal elitist”, is it version 1, 3, or 5? Does the class issue also result in a gut reaction? Is the traditionalism directly related to the totalizing? I understand the differences as described in the article, but I’m not sure they are easily separable. Sometimes yes, but not always. So: A. I think the differences are interesting, and useful, but not always clearly delineated, and B. when generalizing about a group, I’m not sure it’s necessary. If I say “New Yorkers really like dogs”, it’s probably not cricitcal which breed I mean. If I say “that person really likes his/her dog” then it matters more.
(and we all know that when you generalize about things it’s like when you assume things: it makes a general out of I and, um, ze)
As relates to the original quote: which type was Godin referring to? He talks about being ashamed at being uninformed, which touches on 1 and 5, possibly 2, and interacts with 3. (pobre quatro) One of the things we’ve slowly seen is the other side: being unashamed at being informed...or politically unpunished, for that matter. Politicians want to be “regular people” because they are berated for using subclauses in sentences (John Kerry), for being a know-it-all (Gore), elitist (everyone, per Palin), destroying the fabric (Obama), utopiansim (the 90′s Clintons), etc...
What really entertained me about this clause is that I spent a noticeable period of time trying to remember which of the many competing novel pronoun schemes “ze” was in, before realizing from context that it had to be a second-person pronoun and wondering why would we create a new second-person pronoun given that the English “you” is already ambiguous about gender and number and basically everything else, and only then did my parsing of the rest of the sentence catch up and make me realize it was a joke.