/lit/ - Literature

>Be a polymath and student undergraduate at Harvard University, the most respected higher education institution in the world
>Have little cousin going to state school
>"Anon, I'm gonna be a writer!"
>I'm no aristocrat, but I also don't believe in the feeding the delusions of the, err, 'lower orders'
>"Well, you know, all the best writers went to Ivy League and Oxbridge. Not to be mean, but if you really had the potential to be a talented writer, you wouldn't be at the University of Alabama."
He thinks I'm a dick now. Really, it's hard to be on top. I can't talk about things I enjoy (continental philosophy, theoretical physics, modernist poetry) outside the purlieus of my university, because common people simply aren't operating on the same level. They have sex with one woman, and then, after a dull adolescence and a dreary young adulthood, they get married and never have fun again. How am I supposed to connect with people who aren't on my level?