The binary halves

There are things accused of as being pedantic, high-brow. There are things accused of being uncultured, low-brow. These criticisms are aimed at each side by the other, a perpetual war of who is most right and righteous.

This is the rift between the sides of one of the many binaries that our society thrives on. Accurate or not, these ideas exist in the minds of most as stereotypes and identities. That’s what a binary is, really—cultural assumptions roots in gross generalizations for the sake of pigeon-holing at best, oppressing at worst.

On one side of the binary we have the so-called “cultural elite,” the educated, the worldly, the appreciator of the finer things in life, the classy; the elitist, the sheltered, the snobby, the posh, the removed-from-reality, the useless-to-society.

One the other side we have the so-called “average citizen,” the masses, middle America, the contributors to general society, the street-smart, the reality-based; the uneducated, consumeristic-without-question, the classless, the TV-watching, the fast-food-eating.

from: "Highbrow vs Lowbrow" by Vee
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