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Hi

This will probably start a flame war.  But I am entitled to my well formed 
opinion based on what I see here in CA, and how it has changed in 40 years.

I am reading Bobos Now, and I live with the Bobos in Silicon Valleydise.  
Yeah well, they wear t-shirts and jeans and have no social skills or social 
sense.  I really do not mind the t-shirts, but not at a dinner party.  And I 
prefer to dine with people who know how to eat.  I wish they all had some 
semblance of manners.  But then I am from another generation where you cared 
about your appearance and other such oh-so establishment things.
Having money does not mean you have class or taste.  Just because they can 
buy a 2 million dollar mansion for cash and not furnish it as a 'Statement', 
says to me, they are strange. (in Silly Valley, 2 million will get you a 
fixer upper - see http://www.saundrakaerubel.com/house.jpg for what $675,000 
buys you - not my house thank you)

I hate what Silicon Valley has become and thus am moving to North Carolina in 
two months.  I guess I am a TechnoAristocrat.

try reading the Talmud  and the Internet also, another short read.

Oh boy, I can see the flame war now.........

At 04:08 PM 09/07/2000 -0400, Linda Watson wrote:
>As an electronic conversation starter for tonight's pow-wow --
>
>I've just finished Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicron" and am 2/3s of the way 
>through David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They 
>Got There." I wish I'd read them in the opposite order, though, since the 
>folks in Cryptonomicron are SO Bobo!
>
>So, what are your thoughts on (to quote the Amazon review) "the bourgeois 
>bohemians--'Bobos' --an unlikely blend of mainstream culture and 1960s-era 
>counterculture that, according to David Brooks, represents both America's 
>present and future: 'These Bobos define our age. They are the new 
>establishment. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we all breathe. Their 
>status codes now govern social life.'"
>
>If you don't have an opinion, you can easily disguise this by saying 
>something unintelligible, which we will all just take as an encrypted 
>message.
>
>Cheers, Linda
>
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