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This phenomenon in America is related but different, and oddly physical in that the physical presence of people from elite backgrounds often has an almost child
by motohagiography 8y ago
This phenomenon in America is related but different, and oddly physical in that the physical presence of people from elite backgrounds often has an almost childlike, sexless affect in both men and women. I think it comes from a lack of reliance on physical competence and years of the practice of acting through others. It's easy to recognize, and almost impossible to fake for very long.
I see educated people try to replicate it, and it comes off as a kind of unctuous, false over agreeableness that catches on the same way up-talk and baby talk do among teenagers, but for a set of more subtle affectations related to their schools.
The shibboleths of class are ever present, and the best solution to monocultures is to enable better mobility instead of contriving ways to filter against them.
- AlexTWithBeard 8y agoI'm curious. Do you have more specific details about this effect?
- ableal 8y agoPossibly something along these lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Official_Preppy_Handbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Official_Preppy_Handbook
- genericone 8y agoThe summary on that wikipedia page made me chuckle lightly at work. All kidding aside, I'm now doing searches for all manner of 'subculture' handbooks. Looks like I'll be encountering some new reading material soon.
- pbrb 8y agoCan you elaborate?
- motohagiography 8y agoAnd give away the game? Never. However, it essentially boils down to what people perceive as that effortless alignment to power. The difference between real and fake is how effortless it is and why.
- antisthenes 8y agoDid you generate this with some machine learning algorithm? No offense, but to a layman who isn't part of this rich culture, your whole post reads like a bunch of incoherent nonsense. Can you ELI 5?