/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3823192]

I'm watching The Stand, and it occurred to me: why are all the scientists at the beginning of cackling, finger-steepling douchebags? Come to think of it, why do all of America's great and/or prolific writers (novelists and otherwise) have a hard-on for the "common man" of the South? Could it be that we can the woeful state of our national discourse to the exaltation of the rebel son? If even our greatest literary minds spend half their time lionizing the hick, the white trash, and demonizing anyone with an ounce of education, obviously the rest of us don't really have much of a chance, no?

[Anonymous No.3823211]

The middle class hates itself because it's not the upperclass, so they latch on to the lower class as a source of identity while at the same time retaining a sense of superiority. The unibomber discussed this phenomenon.