WHEN IS A SANDWICH NOT JUST A SANDWICH? Rod Dreher on David Brooks, “condensed symbols, cultural elites, and Italian salami as a barrier to social mobility:”

The point is this: in our time and place — in liquid modernity — a man who can make and accommodate those kinds of radical shifts in perspective is a man who is enormously advantaged professionally over a man who cannot. More prosaically, a man who can walk into a gourmet sandwich shop and roll with it is enormously advantaged over the man who cannot. This is the real meaning of the David Brooks anecdote. Don’t laugh at it.

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