[c]lass Consciousness Is Not One Of Our

H. L. Mencken

[c]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. that delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. one is the liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the united states senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moronrun through a university and decorated with a ph.d. will cease thereby to be a moron.