even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/12/what-we-hate-read-2013

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304367204579268301043949952

Really dunno where to put this

This thread or shit that looks like an onion article?

here - too many past tense indicative sentences w/o sufficient historical irony

real resigned view of education dere

Apart from mathematics, which demands a high IQ, and science, which requires a distinct aptitude, the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling. Having been a good student, in other words, means nothing more than that one was good at school: One had the discipline to do as one was told, learned the skill of quick response to oral and written questions, figured out what professors wanted and gave it to them.

agree 100% wasps have funnier clothes and names than nerds

I don't think there's any shortage of people willing to do boring but well-compensated jobs.

They were alive and breathing, and they had such names as......Robert McNamara.

the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling

Forgot to tell you I went back in time to when I was 16 to write that article.

Insistence that WASP rule resulted in a nobler, less corrupt and self-interested society is breathtakingly myopic. Yes, when one group dominated, they did indeed fashion of the nation a fine playground for themselves. I hardly think it's coincidence that the decline of American WASPocracy maps so comfortably onto the rise and consequences of the civil rights era. I mean, sure — the wealthy society WASPs I know do tend to be liberal progressives, heavily involved in community and charitable work, tightly bound by puritan propriety, and averse to flagrant displays of power or wealth. At the same time often racist, smug, exclusionary, cruelly blind to the concerns of anyone not in their circle, etc...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/realestate/a-white-glove-state-of-mind.html

Some prime quid/ag holiday reading right here

New hires take a weeklong course to learn how to color-code residents based on their personality type. A red-coded resident needs to be validated and heard, whereas a blue resident simply wants the facts.

'is he cool?'

I feel like that's not only a class thing but also a generational class thing, with the increasing mentality of "service" as a "product"

Yeah the baseball chitchat with the help is very old-school noblesse oblige.

where a three-bedroom rental apartment was recently listed for $22,995 a month

What?????

oh, it's been a while

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/nyregion/as-shop-owner-woman-sees-troubling-sides-of-herself.html?_r=0

that's a gem

I can't even read past that fucked-up lede about emotional landscapes.

sort of reminds me of the big firm lawyers who complain about how they'll never be "truly rich" like their clients

Silby otm

this is classic:

http://nypost.com/2014/01/21/upper-east-side-residents-feel-spurned-after-plow-delay/

fwiw, the city claims this was partly false perception due to busted gps not updating the plownyc website. As for the traffic excuse, I work in the area and can attest that it was complete gridlock for hours.

http://observer.com/2014/01/let-them-eat-kale/

nice crossover with "shit that looks like an onion article" on that one

fuck, that observer piece is so long and says so little

Silicon Valley billionaire compares treatment of America's rich to Nazi persecution of Jews

A billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist has been condemned for "ghastly and disgraceful" comments after he compared criticism of America's rich to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Tom Perkins, 66, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal, which was published, in which he likened the Occupy movement to Kristallnacht, the infamous pogrom of Nov 9-10, 1938

check the occupy wall street thread for deets on his porn novel

Oh good I was going to link that article here. Wow.

quiddities and auchwitzes of the ruling class

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-myth-of-sex-drugs-and-money-on-wall-street-2014-02-18?link=MW_story_featstor

amazing find

I love that we are supposed to simultaneously feel sorry for them because money turns out to not make them happy AND because they make less money than they used to!

Unhappy rich people should use some of their money to pay off my student loans. It will make us all feel good!

cosign ^

You know what, I do feel sorry for people with that kind of warped worldview, in a way. They are wounded people.

yeah they're somewhere near the top of my list

everyone is wounded, but not everyone chooses the psychopathy of wall st

don't you see, they had to. they just couldn't not ~despite themselves~

this is the problem w/ pathologizing good/evil

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/fashion/the-monocle-returns-as-a-fashion-accessory.html?ref=fashion

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/garden/the-wildebeest-in-the-room.html

"“I got it just to have my own style, bring something new to the table,” said Jose Vega, 23, an aspiring Miami rap musician... “Also, I’m nearsighted.”"

that wes anderson piece is some vile shit

coming from someone who doesn't really have any time for wes anderson

Wes Anderson cosplayers apparently a lot more respectable than the sci-fi/fantasy kind.

There's something very Q/A about this standardized test resistance article. It has that anti-vaccination feeling to it--like, she just has this gut feeling and all of a sudden it becomes really, really important that her kids don't take standardized tests.

yeesh, what a long and boring story

standardized test resistance is some real-ass shit though

like, individual well-educated families not taking them is not like a fight for justice, but high-stakes testing is basically poison for schools sold as medicine

like an entire campus in chicago is boycotting the ISAT exam, thats some gangster shit right there

you're never gonna take our test scores alive, copper!!!