I’ve read that, it’s interesting, don’t know if it’s true. I grew up near Silicon Valley and everything is indeed today very different than when I was a kid. But one thing: the NYCCW is NOT looking for her progeny to be Tesla or Mozart. For most, with some exceptions, that is not a desirable outcome. Such a child has the potential to be an outcast freak. What these women are most concerned with is “loss of caste.” In a more straightforward hereditary aristocracy, this can’t be a concern because birth is everything. In our “meritocracy” it is a huge, nail-chewing, cuticle bloodening preoccupation. It has to be. The only way junior has a chance of making his way back to the UES is through brains: brains => high IQ test scores => elite pre-school => Dalton => Ivy => Goldman => money => co-op + Hamptons. You can revise the script at certain points but that’s the basic plot. Wolfe points to this in Charlotte Simmons where he has the douche Hoyt basically about to fall off a cliff until he is bribed. Meanwhile frat brother Vance, who comes from BIG money (820 5th Ave) spends serious time in the library working on his “inner dork.” He has to, in order to live the script. Downward mobility in the Davos economy is very real from generation to generation when kids are insufficiently smart. This points to other changes. I interviewed Wolfe last year and one of the things he told me was that, not so long ago, to work in I-banking in NY, you had to be “a plausible candidate for a fraternity.” Not any more. They know that brains are the key. Time was, we had a quasi-hereditary aristocracy in which the alpha douches in HS and college could get top jobs and make top money simply on the strength of personality and connections. That’s not longer true in the Davos economy which dominates the coasts. Mommies know it. It’s why smart herbs can get laid–at least often enough to make one or two babies. 119 Morpheus says: November 6, 2013 at 8:54 pm It’s why smart herbs can get laid–at least often enough to make one or two babies. https://md.bloodyno.se/s/d0aYCRIwG https://doc.sonoj.org/s/odsFOu5Xj https://docs.copincha.org/s/9dGyfUCDg https://hack.utopia-lab.org/s/LFmbKsZYM https://docs.twgrid.org/s/1i1QRzdnN https://hedgedoc.dsor.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ccpRWeDLTDeRvKKyeGE19g https://pad.pixie.town/s/Rq6blfNbwU https://hedgedoc.dsor.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/s/QQwWXMXnC https://hack.utopia-lab.org/s/pLM3Osy8u https://pad.nantes.cloud/s/7yrCIIhbu https://notes.kocelazoo.cc/s/UyxbgyvofD https://hdoc.shorinryu.org/s/0BrKI5EzG