Re: brushing shoulders with Holden Caulfield?

I'm thinking Scottie had a bit of a point, but I think there's more to
be said. I wrote the following back in 1996 -- it's a description of
life in a So. Ca. subdivision. Very middle class, all the same angst
you see in Holden and I assume the kid in the HBO special:

http://www.towerofbabel.com/sections/ourmaninhavana/ourmanfromutopia/

I think the real issue is...why are we so surprised that a rich kid is
unhappy? Do we really think money would do it for us?

Jim

Omlor@aol.com wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I saw the same show on HBO and thought it was odd, but also a hoot.
> And yes, I did hear overtones of Holden at times (such as when the
> young men were bragging about how they "misbehaved" in school while at
> the same time "regretting" it as well).
>
> But I must say that my favorite was the young Baron / Viscount who was
> directly descended from Kaiser Wilhelm. There he sat, with an awful
> haircut, bad skin, and a pasty yellow-eyed face, and as cliched a
> voice as one can imagine, talking about being noble -- and you'd
> absolutely swear he was being played by a beginning acting student
> from some small American high school who was preparing for his first
> real role. This kid had to be a plant. If he was real, than both Hem
> and Scott were at least partially wrong -- sometimes they really
> aren't different from you and me, no matter how much money they have.
>
> In any case, it was an interesting show, and perhaps the most telling
> moment came when you saw that they all shared a single, most powerful,
> most terrifying fear.
>
> I'll let you guess what it was.
>
> All the best,
>
> --John
>

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