Dear Gaudium,

Your point has been made time and time again
on this forum - by myself and many others.
It doesn't always work - but one is obligated
to continue to try.
However, sometimes one has to adapt one's response
to suit the poster to whom it is being directed.
In this case because the response originally was a
"ditty" another "ditty" in reply seemed appropriate.

Cheers.

SWPL woman wears hijab to signal status, signals ignorance instead
http://therightstuff.biz/2015/02/03/swpl-woman-wears-hijab-to-signal-status-signals-ignorance-instead/#more-13273

SWPL = white educated liberal bohemian

So what the heck is a bohemian? Wikipedia aptly defines “bohemian” as a word of French origin, “first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors in major European cities. Bohemians were associated with unorthodox or antiestablishment political or social viewpoints, which were often expressed through free love, frugality, and/or voluntary poverty.”

But modern bohemians aren’t necessarily impoverished. In fact, being college educated, they are usually wealthier than regular middle class white people, and many SWPLs are downright rich. BIGLAW is full of SWPLs such as Heather Eisenlord. Consequently, there is a great deal of overlap between SWPL values and upper middle class values.

SWPL is actually an acronym for “stuff white people like” which was coined by Christian Lander who founded the blog of the same name, Stuff White People Like. In his blog, Christian wrote post about stuff that “white people” like, which includes things such as farmer’s markets, sushi, knowing what’s best for poor people, and the Ivy League. The blog was so well done that people initially thought that the author was Asian, but it turned out that the author was a member of the very class he was mocking.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SWPL

There are now proportionally more university educated people in Australia than ever before. In 1901, 2% of the population was tertiary educated, compared to 15% today. University educated people in the past were almost always the progeny of the Establishment and made up the nations engineers, doctors, lawyers and scientists. But with the growth of arts and "soft" university courses, bourgeoisie and bohemians were getting all mixed up together.

What has resulted is a new and growing class of educated elites who's values are a blending of opposites. Social climbing superiority mixed with socialist egalitarianism. Anti materialism reconciled with hedonistic one upmanship. Most were very successful professionally, and their numbers included rock stars, bond merchants, senior or mid level government employees, investment analysts, and start-up software company executives. Patrician suburbs like Dover Heights and Mossman started sprouting cappuccino cafes, while formerly working class suburbs like Balmain and Ultimo started sprouting million dollar condominiums.

Then there were the less successful, lower level government bureaucrats like teachers, academics, social workers, artists, professional social welfare recipients, and the trust fund endowed socially parasitic offspring of the rich.

But rich or poor, what sets them apart are attitudes. Individually, they can all be categorised as patrician, bourgeoisie, working class, or disadvantaged. These classifications strike them all with horror. Even more mortifying, is that some working class people have wages much higher than the lower level educated elites. And if wealth defines status, then the status of the lower elites is actually "lower working class", which meant that their higher education accounted for nothing.

People like Foxy are therefore desperate to adopt values, attitudes and behaviours diametrically opposed to those of popular culture, which are calculated to show their social distinction from the Great Unwashed. Her more well endowed peers adopt socialist social causes calculated to get up the noses of their business class social rivals, who are usually their parents.

To be continued....

Continued.

Unable to be defined by the usual connection of wealth to status, they are defined as a class by attitudes. They are not just politically correct, they compete to be politically exquisite in their own status games among themselves. Aspirants to this elitist class affirm their membership and loyalty to this new class by their continued devotions to what their manipulative self appointed former Communist leaders define as "progressive causes." They love to play the champions of morality with an advocacy worthy of any religious fanatic.

All of them think that they are oh, so fuccking clever, and they present their views as the height of moral and intellectual enlightenment. They adopt every "progressive" social cause like they picked them from a clothing catalogue, and they are the ones who formulate the slogans and man the barricades for every batty left wing cause imaginable.

They are difficult to deal with rationally, because their values and attitudes are not based upon any objective rational analysis of any issue. It is based upon a compulsive psychological need to think that they are members of a elite brahmin caste which is superior to everybody else. To attack their opinions on any cause they adopt, is therefore to attack their fragile self esteem and their social status, which they will defend to the death using any potty excuse imaginable. This is why they can think in double standards and openly declare that black is somehow white without it even registering on their consciousness.

Yes, Lego,

Its called DEHUMANISATION.

The Erasure of History and the Politicisation of Everything
http://imagineathena.com/book-review-our-culture-whats-left-of-it-by-theodore-dalrymple/

Blame it on Bloomsbury (and the frickin Marxists as above)
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/17/classics.highereducation
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_3_oh_to_be.html

The Relevance of Classical Education
http://forum.theodoredalrymple.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=2351

The Flynn effect. Read closely and see that we have become more disassociated with our inner selves instead we have become more abstract. Explains why a lot of our architecture has become uglier.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/rising-iqs-decline-faith

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_otbie-british_children.html

And now begs the question, why have a lot of Leaders in the world have backgrounds in Law. Dodgy lawyers now rule.

Too much Marxist education in the West has brainwashed students who have become INSTITUTIONALISED. They have been taught to self-loathe their own culture and hate Christianity. It is no longer possible to have ordinary people to become a Prime Minister, such as Ben Chifley who was a train driver, and of the people.

Funny you mention self-esteem and social status - exactly.

The psychobabble of the self- esteem industry which has brought about the Narcissism now well entrenched in society.

"One has only to go into a prison, or at least a prison of the kind in which I used to work, to see the most revoltingly high self-esteem among a group of people (the young thugs) who had brought nothing but misery to those around them, largely because they conceived of themselves as so important that they could do no wrong. For them, their whim was law, which was precisely as it should be considering who they were in their own estimate."
http://incharacter.org/features/theodore-dalrymple-on-self-esteem-vs-self-respect/