Some Things Don’t Change in Grover’s Corners [Frank Rich]
[via NYTimes.com]
‘The once-lionized lifestyles of the rich and infamous were appallingly tacky. John Thain’s parchment trash can was merely the tip of the kitschy iceberg. The level of taste flaunted by America’s upper caste at the bubble’s height had less in common with the Medicis than, say, Uday and Qusay Hussein.’
Meanwhile, however, the NY Times mythologizes the lifestyles of the rich and famous in their Style section, only a few pages away from Rich’s op-ed piece. Now we are starting to see the New Calvinism take hold, and being middle class is once again something to laud or hold onto, instead of being at best a launchpad into Wall Street wealth.
Posted 8 months ago
