Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

by Matt Taibbi

When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them.

When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good.

Brooks meanwhile wrote an entire book called Bobos in Paradise about how rich New Yorkers had achieved the apex of consumer taste. This was like Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History, except the Brooks version was The End of the History of Buying Tasteful Furniture.

The favored epithet was “wild ones,” but that was soon accompanied by other descriptors: “vermin,” “ratpack,” “ill conditioned odious louts” (Daily Express), “retarded vain young hot-blooded paycocks” (Daily Sketch), “grubby hordes of louts and sluts” (Daily Telegraph), “their bovine stupidity… their ape-like reactions to the world” (Evening Standard).