H.L. Mencken - [C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we...

[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich.. Another is the doctrine that a moronrun through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. Will cease thereby to be a moron..

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[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich.. Another is the doctrine that a moronrun through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. Will cease thereby to be a moron.. H.L. Mencken

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