When the Masks Our Intellectual Superiors Wear Pretending to Be ‘Better Humans Than You’ Slip

It seems well nigh inevitable anymore that when things begin to get a little spicy in the court of public opinion, those who claim – rightfully or otherwise – a seat on society’s upper tier of wisdom and judgment will have something to say. Some nugget of wisdom we should all grasp with our dirty little grubby working-class fingers that passes for sagacity and, in some cases, ‘the final word.’

It annoys these self-appointed Brahmins of the upper reaches to no end when the lower classes not only ignore their ponderous and unsolicited guidance but reject it out of hand as the utterances of an isolated caste of bubble people for whom the realities of life – and the decencies that produce a civilized society – no longer have any meaning, so detached from it have they become.

It used to be that such conflicts remained somewhat obscure. The teeming masses had a sense they were sneered at and disdained, but, in times of upheaval, there were few public expressions of it from that group.

In today’s world, the intellectual elites are every bit the narcissists that a giggling cadre of twelve-year-old girls with new iPhones are. They are compelled to publicly wade into moments where their input is not requested or required, earnestly opine upon the situation, and then their intensity level ratchets up as they are ignored, mocked, or both.

As that happens, without fail, the wisdom mask slips. The ties holding the solemn concern for all involved mask fall from an ear, and the self-absorbed, pitiless authoritarian bares its teeth as it’s exposed.

Nowhere was this more obvious than the Pandemic as that ghastly episode played out.

All the upper crust bought in on ‘for the children,‘ ‘fifteen days to slow the spread,‘ and ‘the jab.’ Why?

First and foremost, it was the members of their very exclusive collective that formulated and pushed the response.

EVERYONE ON THE BUS

It was chipper messaging, six feet of distance, and we’re all in this together.

Until, thanks to the modern age of information (and in spite of social media’s best efforts), the peasants began to diverge and question the track and the methods.

Then their friendly tone changed, they became more patrician and then downright unkind as resistance to edicts, mandates, and arbitrary rules became more widespread.

The intelligentsia mocked.

Then they got downright ugly. From the US to Canada to Australia – the ‘free Western countries’ – the intellectual class was all about COVID camps, denying deniers hospital care and their very livelihoods, and confining the rowdy populace through fear, intimidation, and use of a compliant police force.

It started with a mom of a special needs little boy in Meridian, Idaho

Now it spread to Encitas CA where surfers are being arrested by idiots in brown shirts and completely unnecessary face masks

DO NOT ACCEPT THIS

THIS IS NOT FREEDOM IT IS TYRANNY

https://t.co/mwZnfswxLx

— Jon Robberson (@RobbersonJon) April 25, 2020

Unless, of course…

Gavin Newsom’s COVID lockdowns were never about science.

Gavin Newsom’s COVID lockdowns were about control. pic.twitter.com/BZaazqmEn5

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) March 10, 2025

…you belonged to their supper club. Or the approved vacation get-away plan.

Or were part of a movement they’d chosen to promote, like BLM riots in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.

The rules were then flexible if you had the right event to go to and the right sign to hold.

Meet in a church parking lot? You were dispersed, if not arrested.

But gather for one of Floyd’s many state funerals or the protests?

By all means, carry on.

Tim Walz insists he’s a moderate, but he waited 3 days before deploying the National Guard to quash BLM riots, he created a Covid “snitch line,” and he doubled down drugs and surgeries for kids and teens confused about their gender. https://t.co/ZwhYg66tnw pic.twitter.com/imOEDcUyQn

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 6, 2024

It’s happening again now – that divergent split is opening between the supposedly concerned, educated upper tier and the rabble who voted for Trump.

The incoming Trump administration and his hammer of efficiency, Elon Musk and DOGE, have upset the equilibrium that those formerly secure bluestockings felt regardless of who sat in the Oval Office. Previously, their agendas and initiatives had all proceeded as planned through a bureaucracy well-stocked with strategically placed believers whose sinecures enabled conveyor belts of policy and largesse to flow with well-larded extended contracts. The ball always kept rolling.

DOGE has upset that apple cart and interrupted the process. It has exposed the underbelly of government, so much of which has been in situ for so long, doing irreparable harm and costing untold amounts of money.

All those years of paying taxes I thought I was only funding national defense, federal law enforcement, some gorgeous national parks and providing assistance to those who cannot help themselves.

I did not understand until 2025 that I was also actually paying for Washington DC…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) March 19, 2025

…I did not understand until 2025 that I was also actually paying for Washington DC elites to fund the exorbitant salaries of their NGO cronies in pursuit of off-the-books neo-Marxist nihilistic policies that Americans would never have voted for if given the chance.  

It’s a good thing I’m not a Democrat as if I were I would probably be burning down some NGO headquarters.

None of which was ever meant to see the light of day.

And, where once this Musk guy amused that upper tier with his edgy tech wizardry and appealed to their desire for possessing the epic cool factor, now he’s the enemy.

Where once Elon Musk was acceptable, thanks to this work, he no longer is and neither is anything associated with him.

It is all, according to this superior class of intellectuals, fair game.

The veneer has cracked, and the sneering has slipped through once again.

This former founding editor of a failed idealistic online magazine (Quilette) and huge booster of Australia’s dystopian quarantine camps (among other mask-slipping episodes) has expressed weighty thoughts on Elon and the current Tesla terrorism campaign.

I’m sorry but the world’s wealthiest individual leveraging their wealth for political influence and power cannot claim victimhood when the inevitable backlash engulfs his business interests. The narcissistic entitlement here is off the charts.

— Claire Lehmann 🇦🇺 (@clairlemon) March 18, 2025

She, in effect, believes this everyday man – who simply parked a truck at the dentist’s he’d worked hard/paid for and emerged to find it ruined – got what was coming to him.

Black man’s Cybertruck is vandalized and covered with anti-Elon messages while he was taking someone to the doctor.

Where’s Black Lives Matter? Where’s the Democrat outrage?

These attacks on Tesla owners are t*rr*rism and need to be prosecuted as such. pic.twitter.com/ccns5tDHyS

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 18, 2025

The sad little fraud who might have been vice president also seems to believe that man had it coming to him.

You’re a sad petty little man cheering as peoples retirement accounts dropping in value, all because your political party is encouraging its worst elements to commit vandalism against the products of an American company to help tank the stock

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) March 19, 2025

Oh, gosh. 

There goes some rational fool trying to explain to his better where she’s gone totally off the rails.

This is galling. You can’t expect to participate in politics without accepting the threat of terrorism? What are you even trying to say? No one is complaining about his bottom line. This is about literal arson, directed at totally unrelated people who merely bought cars from him.

— Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) March 19, 2025

You can’t, you know, once the mask slips. 

It’s who they are, and it’s everywhere.

It’s time we learned.

At least now we know exactly who they are, as they can’t help but tell you.