[George M. Middius[_4_]]

Scooter, why do you resent "elitists"? You've used the word like an epithet
several times on RAO. Do you remember when Ludo pinned your ears back after
you yapped "elitism" in one of your dumb rant-posts? That was pretty funny.
All your life you've been clinging to your one-size-fits-all elixir of
stupidity, never realizing how ignorant you are. I'll bet you didn't realize
that nearly every scientific, artistic, and engineering breakthrough in human
history has been jeered as "elitist" by the stick-in-the-mud crowd. Do you
appreciate the workmanship of the ancient pyramids? They were built by slaves
in service of the massive egos of kings. How about Galileo and Martin Luther?
They were excoriated as elitists because the christian priests yapped that
ordinary people's lots were determined by "God" and self-determination was
sinful. Automobiles were hugely resented too, first as esurient indulgences of
yuppies, and later, when racing caught on big-time, as the handmaidens of
Satan. And I'm sure you know that up until the mid-1990s, cell phones were
derided as phoney status symbols by the backward-looking contingent (who then,
as now, made up the republican party).

So on the one hand, your anger and envy impel you to bitch about "elitism",
while on the other hand, you profit from the breakthroughs that once defined
it. This is called irony. (Yes, the Normals all know you're unacquainted with
the meaning of that word.)