I just got done reading the letters to Salon.com about their most recent article on the problems of having a nanny. Which reminded me again of the weird thing about the Bay Area. This is where the liberals with money live. Liberals with money beget some strange things like Clinton and computer companies and more than likely affirmative action. They say they are feminist and not racist and down with the working people. But they encourage their daughters to marry well and have decorative careers. "I think art school is a swell idea Buffy." They hire nannies from third world countries. "I just think it's so great that little Blythe and Mortimar are going to learn Spanish." And of course they see no problem with earning outrageous salaries themselves while other people and families struggle.
Which gets back to the idea that all evil springs from willful innocence. George W. Bush is a bad man because he refuses to take responsibility for his actions and refuses to see the reality of his choices. Liberals can be just as guilty of that kind of innocence.
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I agree that there is some willful ignorance in the Bay Area. There is a certain hypocrisy about having your organic coffee in a
groovy non-paper consuming stainless steel mug as you patrol the streets in a ExTerra that sucks x Iraqis per gallon into oblivion. However, the northeast is so much more brazen and unashamed about its largesse it is scary. People their flaunt their chauffered Escalade as the roll down the streets like nothing. It all comes down to a matter of flavor; do you want to be around semi-aware people that try while being sometimes disingenuous(here), or do you want to be around unabashed mammonism and plutocracy (NE US). An interesting question for those of us looking at the hypocrisy in others is "what will I do when I get x amount of money?" Personally I'd be content to ride a bike as my main vehicle, and spend that money on less conspicuous things than undocumented nannies or escalades--like say a Officine Panerai Luminor Marina. But that's me--I don't know if I'm better for the planet than anyone else I just have odd tastes. Perhaps if we could all embrace some form of our idiosyncracy such as this there would be less buying into more universalized currencies of status--the ExTerra or the 900k house that's actually just an old victorian on the peninsula. I ramble, I digress. .
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