Hype Our Car, Stupor Car
From the Department Of Venom, a new Avoidable Contact on TTAC. I tried to keep the social commentary to a minimum in this one, but I am becoming more and more concerned by what Charles Murray calls the "New Eloi":
There are so many quintessentially American things that few members of the New Elite have experienced. They probably haven't ever attended a meeting of a Kiwanis Club or Rotary Club, or lived for at least a year in a small town (college doesn't count) or in an urban neighborhood in which most of their neighbors did not have college degrees (gentrifying neighborhoods don't count). They are unlikely to have spent at least a year with a family income less than twice the poverty line (graduate school doesn't count) or to have a close friend who is an evangelical Christian. They are unlikely to have even visited a factory floor, let alone worked on one.
Now all I have to do is make sure my son impregnates one of their women, and I'll be set for retirement in the spare room of some Connecticut commuter home.