Feels like some people can't tell ideas apart from hors d'oeuvres.
I think that's where conflation of intellectualism and elitism comes from.
Relativity, new archaeology, latest pop song, color of first lady's dress: it's all the same if your true North is a cocktail party
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Buckley::Vidal lived in terms of creating & serving "intellectual" hors d'oeuvres to their respective benefactor elites.
Their playground was on TV and then cocktail party it seems.
It all devolved into bland corporate punditry after that.
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