The Opiate of the Elite
In a comment on our Hollywood Politics post of yesterday, Robert Champ, a literary instructor at the University of Maryland, contributed a very pithy and true thought, which I don't want you to miss. Hence I reprint it here on the main page.
Bob writes:
One might say, to paraphrase a famous maxim, "Politics is the opiate of the elite."
So true. When one has achieved great wealth and access to a sybarite's dream of pleasures, yet still feels somehow unfulfilled, . . . politics offers a noble cause, an even bigger stage, an even greater sense of power, and perpetual opportunities to assert one's moral superiority.
No wonder it's addictive.
It's a pity it also gives morons the chance to do great mayhem.
