Re: brushing shoulders with Holden Caulfield?

    In most of the responses to Tim's Rich Kids I sense
    the lingering suspicion - despite Ernie's great deflator -
    that there IS somewhere a special breed called
    the RICH & that they ARE somehow different from
    you & me. Which strikes me as romantic & outdated
    as a ukulele or a racoon coat. I think it must be all
    those crypto-Marxist history teachers you chaps suffered
    in high school.

    It certainly doesn't accord with my observation or experience.
    Personal insecurity visits most of us at one time or another
    & different people fix on different indicators. Money is certainly
    one. Looks, even, can be another. In England (& Japan?)
    social caste is a tremendously powerful one & has little or no
    connection with wealth. And what about mental stability?
    Or sexual success? Take your pick. The level of your bank
    balance will not be the decider. It's the group to which one
    can never imagine oneself belonging that becomes the infinitely,
    the magically desirable.

    Scottie B.

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