bs2Mar 20, 2023
> For us the legendary strongholds of snobbery are the Hollywood studios, where two thousand dollars a week dare not talk to three hundred dollars a week for fear he be taken for nothing more than fifteen hundred dollars a week.
In an essay, #MannersMorals and The Novel, #LionelTrilling on #Snobbery in #Hollywood reminded me of similar obsevations by #DouglasRushkoff in the book #LifeInc. I wonder how much of this was covered in #VancePackard's The #StatusSeekers?
Show threadbs2Mar 20, 2023
Why so much bullshit? Money?
> The characteristic work of the novel is to record the illusion that snobbery generates and to try to penetrate to the truth which, as the novel assumes, lies hidden beneath all the false appearances. #Money, #Snobbery the ideal of status, these become in themselves the objects of fantasy, the support of the fantasies of love, freedom, charm, power...
#LionelTrilling in the book, The #MoralObligation #ToBeIntelligent, essay,
#MannersMorals And #TheNovel