52 Books, Week 6: Snobbery

As you may be able to tell, I'm swtiching back and forth between fiction and non-fiction. Going between the two provides a nice change of pace, and so far I haven't felt burned out. Reading is also keeping me from making potentially foolish purchases (including this one).

Eventually, I would be uttering these words, just as Montaigne, "I attach too little value to things I possess, just because I possess them."

Back to the show... Snobbery by Joseph Epstein is really a book about attitudes related to superiority, and the development of "society" (with a little s) in the United States over the past 70 years. If you're interested in learning about what it takes to have a truly elitist attitude, then this might be for you. Epstein, a trained sociologist, offers a well-reasoned critique of snobby ways and attitudes. Even though it might make you wanna puke at some points, still an okay read.

Alas, we may all have a touch of snobbery in us (i know i do, which is probably the reason I grabbed this book). "Snobbery haunts those who are not reconciled with themselves; evolution is the hope of the immature. You cannot be everything. Why not be what you are."

Because its Feburary, i think i'm going on a black history run this month: The Corner; No Longer at Ease, We Who are Dark, and, Is Bill Cosby Right.

RIP Jay Dee