as many great novels teach us, social climbing is a temptation stronger than sex, money or fame
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Replying to @lionel_trolling
What I'm trying to say is that social climbing is really a European thing. In the rest of the world it's sex, money & fame that drives things.
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Replying to @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet
uh, spent much time around affluent white southerners?
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i think so much of politics in that world can be understood in the context of social climbing, the country club is often the GOP, fundraisers are the entree to society etc.
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Replying to @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet
exactly, it's a world built entirely on social climbing and demonstrating status through social relations
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Right, but specific social relations, which is why different forms of social climbing can be incommensurable to others, which is my takeaway from this thread.
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Replying to @DavidAstinWalsh @jbouie and
Put another way: as a Midwesterner, I didn’t really get just how son-of-a-billionaire Donald Trump was a particular kind of social climber in New York City until I spent more time there.
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not a particularly successful one!
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Trump thought if he became president he'd finally get invited to the Eyes Wide Shut exotic sex parties at big mansions. Alas, it wasn't enough
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