The Inequality Map: The Official Word From a Certified Voice of the Crust
13th November 2011
David Brooks lays out the party line.
Foreign tourists are coming up to me on the streets and asking, “David, you have so many different kinds of inequality in your country. How can I tell which are socially acceptable and which are not?”
Of course, the key step-back question here is, ‘Acceptable to whom?’ And Brooks, the Crust’s official pet ‘conservative’, actually has to lay out the official establishment road map.
The amusing part is that whether or not a particular form of inequality is ‘acceptable’ or not is entirely a First World problem; the rest of the world has more real-world concerns to occupy their minds.
November 14th, 2011 at 08:40
What’s a little scary is that he’s serious about this. How very Crustian of him.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:53
On the contrary, I believe a lot of it was written tongue-in-cheek–a physical affectation which is acceptable in some parts of the world, but not in others.