I would like to take a quick, 1-question survey of the Community, if I may!
–What do you think of when you hear the word ‘elite’?
Please keep you answers to 1 or two sentences.
Muchas Thank Yous.
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I think of those who believe they are so “above” others that they plot to take every last thing from them, make them slaves, or reduce their numbers so as to rid the Earth of the “pestilence”.
De-lighted at your reply…
Funny. I used to work with a guy who would come up with a new “de” word every time he saw me. 🙂
Isn’t that a song? It’s De-licious, it’s De-lightful, it’s De-lovely…
Yes, I believe it is. 🙂
Nowadays, I think overused and overhyped.
When I am in a funny mood, I quote Inigo Montoya.
I appreciate your response.
“You keep using that word . . . I don’t think it means what you think it means.” Ha ha.
The way VDH usually puts it is “Those that are not held to the standards they impose upon others”, but that is of course if your asking for the modern political use of the word.
Yes, VDH is ALWAYS good for a quote. Spasiba.
I think of very adept computer hackers.
Wouldn’t that be 1337 ?
lol Yes, but they sound the same.
I assume you mean “elite” in a political sense and not something like “elite troops” …
That being the case I think of “elite” as applying to anyone that thinks they know better than me what’s good for me … and believes they can thereby force their will on me through duress or coertion either acting singularly or en masse.
Not everyone who thinks that way has the power to make it stick but siding with people who do think that way makes a useful idiot every bit as guilty as the person actually wielding the power personally.
Why do you ask, Grasshopper?
I see a trend here…stay tuned.
I WANT to think of Elite most directly in terms of the Army Rangers or the Navy Seals: able to set up a field kitchen and probably even field hospital that can serve an impressive number of people impacted by a natural disaster with astonishing efficiency and effectiveness, and equally capable to killing the same number of enemy personnel with the same amount of efficiency and effectiveness.
I have sadly COME TO think of our Elites as people utterly convinced that they can do both of those things and spectacularly incapable of even attempting to do so without making an even bloodier mess of the mess that they propose to address.
Asante, Ed.
The derogatory form of the word “elites” evokes images of the life boats that left the Titanic…and women and children…Because their concept was too big to die, but the victims were not.
To clarify, elites let the blue collar people sink with the tragedy that the elites create.
Merci, Monsieur Plorable.
I’ve recently posted this as a comment to another thread, but I guess it bears repeating.
What do I think of when I hear the word ‘elite’? I hear the voice of Granny Weatherwax:
“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
Mighty kind o’ ya, Sam…
Arrogant people with money and or power over us pee-ons.
Nuff said. Gratzie.
Someone who thinks more of themselves than the people they serve.
Thank you, my dear.
Exceptional, as in ability: “Stefan Curry is an elite basketball player,” or “Patrick Mahomes is firmly among the NFL’s elite.”
That’s why referring to the political class and their simps as “the elite” really pisses me off – they’re only exceptional in arrogance.
Thank you, young man.
Darn it, you said what I wanted to say. Almost word for word. Oh well, great minds and all that….
Funny how that works out, eh?