Fanboy Elitism
I was called an elitist by a commenter on a piece I wrote for another site. I’ve been called worse.
To characterize things fairly, I don’t know that I was so much called an elitist as it was suggested something I wrote smacked of elitism. I haven’t aspired to be an elitist but I can’t really argue the point too strenuously. I do have some elitist tendencies. So be it.
You have to have thick skin if you’re going to be me and, as far as I can tell, being me is something I’m stuck with. Sometimes I forget that – not that I’m stuck being me, the bit about needing thick skin. You damn well better be able to handle it when people disagree with you f you’re going to have the nerve to voice a point-of-view, take a stand, and put it out there and promote it.
I was pissed off about this, for about a minute. Then I started to laugh.
What I find funny about the accusation is that the piece accused of containing elitist ideology was a piece I wrote critical of this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, specifically Grandmaster Flash. Let me get this straight – it’s not elitist for a group of self-appointed experts to deem themselves qualified to define rock and roll and determine its greatest performers, but it is elitist for me to say I think they inducted someone who doesn’t belong? Fuck that! A Hall of Fame, by definition, is the embodiment of elitism. In the case of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, artists are judged to be greater than other artists by a panel who thinks they know the difference.
Jann Wenner and his cronies hold the keys to the kingdom, but some big mouth in Huntsville, AL is an elitist dick. That’s funny.
Filed under: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
for the record, i’ve always thought you were an elitist dick, but i like you anyways.
Are they anything like this: or elitist liberals from the northeast.
uh…maybe!!