"The lives of very poor people have not been much disrupted by recent technological and social changes, and most of their sources of status and security such as they are remain unmolested.
"The very rich and the famous (increasingly overlapping groups) have enjoyed economic and cultural gains sufficient to offset much of discomfort associated with this social evolution.
"The hardest hit are the college educated mediocrities, typically white suburban middle class and male. Young women are less disadvantaged by the failure to thrive in the modern marketplace because they are less dependent upon their professional prestigious income for status.
"They are the sexual gatekeepers, which is bad news indeed for the young men who end up playing with spreadsheets all day for $42,000 a year when that college recruiter promised them so much more. These are your hardcore 'tweet with one hand' boys.
"Generalize from the sexual impulse to a whole Weltanschauung and the psychological nexus between late night Twitter rage monkey and school shooter will come into considerably clearer focus." - Kevin Williamson, "The Smallest Minority"
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