take a long, hard look in the mirror

thank you, mr. jameson:

"It does not seem unduly restrictive, in an age of mass education, to suggest
that the public of such a middlebrow late-modernist literature and
culture can be identified as the class fraction of college students (and their
academic trainers), whose bookshelves, after graduation into ‘real life’, preserve
the souvenirs of this historically distinctive consumption which the
surviving high modernist aesthetes and intellectuals have baptized as the
canon, or Literature as such."