Friday 3 April 2009

Another True Conservative Writes

Specifically, Taki writes:

New York has always been a parochial place, like all great cities, divided along ethnic and class lines. Little Italy, Chinatown, Hell’s Kitchen, the Upper East Side, the West Side and, of course, Harlem. It all changed after the hipsters from the Village and the yuppies from Wall Street — brothers under the skin, in reality, in their worship of brand names and designer labels — called a halt to the faking and joined forces. It had a lot to do with my friend Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. His hero, Patrick Bateman, believed the Armani suit he wore had more reality than the person who wore it. Brett’s man was strange, but so were the yuppies he wrote about.

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