dan
2009-02-27 07:23:53
peterike, i can second your emotions. status is pretty much the Ur-moral, to such an extent it makes nonsense of all sociological and psychological explanations. there is some Thing toward which they all throb, which animates the city, which makes thousands of bright young people immiserate themselves in genuine squalor and un-beauty. manhattan and its predilections is the heart of american darkness, for all its glamour.
