While I've been trying in vain to catch up on blog reading, Robin's been in the other room watching Alain de Botton's Status Anxiety on our local PBS station. I went in for awhile to watch with him, and found it pretty fascinating, particularly where de Botton talks about the American "myth of the meritocracy" (and its effect on people who are repeatedly propagandized to believe that if the rich get to where they are primarily on merit, then it stands to reason that the poor also deserve to be where they are). I stayed right up until de Botton went to visit with Grover Norquist, at which point I fled the room. I guess I have Norquist Anxiety.
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