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What is a snob?
PG always thought it was someone who thought he was better than others. This is one of the “sins” that most people denounce, and then practice. Who doesn’t see someone that is just a few notches below you on the scale of human coolness? Or, who doesn’t see someone that is just a bit chillier.
A trip to the dictionary yields this:
1-a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
2-a person who believes himself or herself an expert or connoisseur in a given field and is condescending toward or disdainful of those who hold other opinions or have different tastes regarding this field: a musical snob
The origin of the word is amusing. Snob was a nickname for a cobbler, or someone who makes shoes.
This is a working class occupation, but one that is needed by all people. How this would become a label for someone who “puts on airs” is a mystery.
There are snobs in a book PG is reading, “The city of falling angels” by John Berendt. An American writer goes to live in Venice, and has tales to tell. At one point, there is a dispute in an organization devoted to restoring stuff in Venice, and some of the players are labeled snobs. On page 318, there is a definition of a snob. You can be a snob upwards, by working the people on a level above you. Or, you can be a snob downwards, by being rude to those on a level below you.
PG used to work in an architect’s office downtown. A man there had a sign above his desk. The sign said ” I have never met a snob who was not a born liar”. Beside that sign was a plastic case. Inside the plastic case was a white shirt, with an ink stain in the bottom of the front pocket.
The architect whose office PG worked in is famous. Some might be impressed. However, PG worked for a blueprint company, and was placed in the printroom there. It was nothing to brag about.
The reader may have figured out by now that this post is going to ramble for a few paragraphs and not really go anywhere. The practice of “uppity”, or “putting on airs”, is hard wired into the consciousness of almost everyone. Like telling the truth and lying, no one wants to admit to being a snob, and yet almost everyone plays the game on some level. Maybe the sign should have read “ I have never met a human being who was not a born liar“.