On sanctimony
Carole Cadwalladr (that’s really how her surname is spelled!):
[W]hat’s changed most of all is that being snotty about Cheez Strings and Sunny Delight and, now, battery eggs, is not simply about despising the lifestyle choices of others; it’s become ideology, a moral and ethical belief system that to flaunt in any way will mark you as either a dangerous transgressive-cum-chicken mutilator, or worse, poor.
Hmm. Quite reminds me of the people who continually - and publicly - congratulate themselves on living in a deprived but up-and-coming area and blessing the genuinely deprived natives with their glorious, beatific presence. Because it would simply not do to say in so many words: “I don’t have to live there. I’m not poor myself, obviously. And don’t you forget it.”
Filed under: Life
The new “ethics” is the new religion of the UK among people who would have been Christians a couple of generations ago. Interesting how much human beings seem to need ideology of one form or another. I don’t think this stuff affects people who have other belief systems already.