tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post6456101061693855001..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Anti-suburban snobberyRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-42542679870845882062008-12-31T18:55:00.000-05:002008-12-31T18:55:00.000-05:00"So we have the strange bedfellows of the counter-..."So we have the strange bedfellows of the counter-culture - upper middle class intellectuals and common street thugs."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Yes, and Leonard Bernstein brought it to ridiculous heights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-50501567095848182152008-12-31T12:29:00.000-05:002008-12-31T12:29:00.000-05:00"As Siegel says, this theme is puerile. Children d..."As Siegel says, this theme is puerile. Children dream of distant, exciting places, adolescents rebel against their parents, Bright Young Men think they'll invent the world anew -- well, most of us grow up. We acquire the mature perspective that the ordinary sort of life (job, marriage, mortgage, kids) is actually a very good thing, well worth the having, and in fact a more difficult achievement than we'd imagined back when we were smart-aleck kids bored by our own ordinary upbringing. The elite intellectual, however, succumbs to a Peter Pan fantasy, refusing to let go of the flattering childhood conceit that he is an extraordinary and superior being."<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, this is not so different from the attitude of career criminals, not understanding the accomplishment of the ordinary, they think it beneath them. Incapable of the persistence and occasional tedium of life they insist on attempting to bypass it somehow. Thinking themselves superior to those around them, who they see as lacking vision and enterprise they justify themselves.<BR/><BR/>So we have the strange bedfellows of the counter-culture - upper middle class intellectuals and common street thugs.Ronsonichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03084095209525920755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-36022607640271067782008-12-31T11:13:00.000-05:002008-12-31T11:13:00.000-05:00If you are an unhappy suffocating housewife in the...If you are an unhappy suffocating housewife in the suburbs.. you will be an unhappy suffocating housewife in the middle of the city.. <BR/><BR/>it's not the location.. it's the person.. <BR/><BR/>not sure why that is so hard to understand in Hollywood.. <BR/><BR/>but then, that would mean doing an actual complex story with layers instead of tired cliches..Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13779153708960447630noreply@blogger.com