Florence King Quotes About Elitism
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Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.
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