cabal exposed

"the groups of people who make culture what it is."

in an unparalleled expose the new york times style magazine has named names and provided photographic identification of the secret cabal of ideological commissars that rule style and elegance and are the final arbiters of what we should think, wear, eat, drink, find and decorate a domicile, and , in general be what they find to be acceptable...this is a valuable document...unprecedented investigative journalism...

there are definite ideas about how i should dress to fit into the "culture" they so assiduously work to create...

and remaining true to habit there are multiple suggestions on how women should dress themselves at any cost ( and there are $53535 worth of clothes in this photo and the obligatory number of "price on request" [if you have to ask you cannot afford it ] articles from the top flight of haute couture designers ) to fit into the elite perception of itself...

i will be declining their suggestions of what to imbibe...and they can cram the idea of leaving the subject of politics out of the conversation with walnuts...

they have claimed home decor as part of their purview as well...who am i if i don't have a $10000 bed or leather couch?

and if i can afford the clothes, the jewelry, the drink, and the bed i can certainly afford to "live happier" in a $1.1 million condo...that would be having it all...at least as far as the cultural cadres are concerned...

if the cadres would like to talk about it they can find me in the back yard, cleansing the palate by hanging out with the trees, wheat, rye, asparagus, ramps, onions, daffodils, and the russian olives...we have radically different definitions of culture.