Learning The Elite Class
Having come from an ordinary well off family and studied at elite institution X, this account reads as surprisingly consistent with my experiences, despite my evident differences with it&#x27;s author.<p>In these environments I was always surprised by how much of what people said and did was a show and how inaccessible their true thinking was. Friendliness was just another commodity or marketing tool. The arrogance is not always well concealed and it&#x27;s what tends to give away the falsity of many interactions.<p>If for whatever reason one winds up in more intimate social settings with these folk, some of them turn out to be wonderful people, talented and creative and open, but many turn out to be predatory pirates, looking to take from the rest of us what they think is their right. Some of the former eventually morph into the latter as the social environment in which they operate teaches such behavior is virtuous.