I think this point is similar to that made in Nathan Heller's Slate article - http://www.slate.com/id/2269308/ http://www.slate.com/id/2269308/ - that Sorkin be

I think this point is similar to that made in Nathan Heller's Slate article - http://www.slate.com/id/2269308/ http://www.slate.com/id/2269308/ - that Sorkin believes that Ivy League schools are still controlled by some kind of elite class (if not the WASP elite of old, some kind of new Internet-connected parvenu elite). Similarly, a member of King George the Third's court (jester or not) might assume that the United States was controlled by a landed aristocracy similar to that in England. The fact that the 18th century British court did not have jesters is tangential at most. Call our theoretical author a macaroni (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 ) if you must.