What is ‘Elite’?
This is the second guest post by Kola. He will be a more regular writer in the future, so we won’t need to use the term “guest post” anymore for him.
What is this magical word that conjures up feelings of resentment in the American people? It didn’t sound connotatively negative until the media bit the syllables on it a few thousand times. When I think about the word elite the first thing that comes to mind is ’skilled.’ The second is ‘top of the class.’ It seems to me an incredibly positive word worthy of any man or woman I would want as my president.
Is it possible that the tag line ‘pretentious’ isn’t catchy enough for the American people? I think it’s all too obvious that’s what the news media was trying to say about Obama after his completely accurate comments regarding the actions of…pretty much rural USA.
Could it be that they had to dumb down the words to tell these people Obama was calling them dumb?
The greater issue that concerns me here is that our intelligence on a whole is being assessed as low for the sake of political enlightenment. The news media won’t deliver us easy details on the candidates’ plans for education, environment, economy, etc, because we haven’t the mental power to stay interested in such details. But when it comes to a candidate lying to glorify themselves a little, calling hicks hicks, or a charismatic preacher speaking his mind in an entertaining fashion, we are fed this as the important political insights. These are the facts we will be electing our representative from!
And if all this is true, and not just a plot by the news corps to keep us dumb, then Obama is truly elite. If not, maybe he is just pretentious.
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The media has gotten so pathetic. They stand around waiting for a story to come to them like a bunch of stalking paparazzi. If any small issue comes around they will sensationalize it. It’s all about entertainment and ratings. Really it all started after the 1st Persian Gulf War when CNN captured the world’s attention because of their journalists being right there on the ground and reporting around the clock. After that every news channel has strived to be a source of entertainment for viewers, instead of a actually reporting ‘news’. Everything is a crisis, a disaster, or a scandal called something-gate.