The glass ceiling

Just read something interesting;

When you have a fairly static system, again like the economic model mentioned above, where it’s in the interest of those at the top to keep things the way they are, you have to find a way to keep the unrest of the “have nots” down to a managable(sic) level. One of the ways you do that is to (a) convince them that the peak is reachable by almost anyone and (b) make them feel better about where they are. Make the middle sound better, look better, and reward them a little bit and you’ve created a “middle class” that’s satisfied enough to act as a buffer between the top and the bottom. Do it will(sic) enough and they’ll continue to admire those at the top, and probably even link to them.

And of course, the entire system itself must never be spoken of and it’s existance(sic) should be denied. The articles states that “[t]he very subject of the A-list is so toxic” that none of the big-timers mentioned in the article would agree to be interviewed for it.

That was in reference to the "great blog purge" where the large liberal blogs dumped the smaller liberal blogs from their blogrolls, but it does seem to me to have a larger meaning.

There are a heck of a lot of people who want to be "important", who think they deserve to be important, and likely have the talent/skill to be important.. but they never will.. and it truly is the "middle class" which caused that. After all, you can't have an elite class if the middle class doesn't worship them.

I don't know what it's like to be "elite" in anything, but it must be pretty nice because it's true that those that are perceived that way will fight tooth and nail to not dilute the elite pool by just allowing any Joe-Schmoe in their club. If you want in, you have to break in.

The alternative is to just not give a fuck about it. Clearly the person who wrote the text I quoted doesn't care because they don't even spell check their own writing. Or, maybe they're just whining.