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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

How apropos that "The New Yorker" used a superfluous l’accent aigu (é) on élites. I prefer my term "cruelites," however, which I defined as follows after my Apocaloptimist Manifesto:

"cruelites: members of a group of narcissistic abusers who by virtue of their wealth, privilege, or power claim the right to rule over ordinary people, often making cruel decisions, which they justify with manufactured crises, propaganda, and fraud" (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/against-defeatism-the-apocaloptimist)

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

I busted out laughing that they used the French spelling. How ELITIST.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Perfectly coined term MAA!!

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daverkb's avatar

Well yes, the Effete Elites! They surely cannot help themselves mired as they are in their interminable conceits.

1) Take Vincent Van Gogh. With the elites is hardly possible to pronounce poor Vincent's last name without a chicken bone caught in one's throat!

2) And my other favorite is the country of Niger whose pronunciation had to be Frenchify lest someone accidentally spell or pronounce the word with one too many a letter 'g'. They did so failing to see the taint of imperialist assumption in their new fangled acoustic sophistication. But then again, these folks could never see past image and lies.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I like that definition.

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