Selected Snobberies of Huxley
Snobbery is a general human weakness everyone suffers from one kind of snobbery or the other. The cause of snobbery too, can be anything under the sun. It may seem funny but there is no dearth of people who are snobbish about diseases.
Only such a loathsome and disfiguring affection as leprosy is excluded consumption has long been regarded as a romantic disease by unthinking adolescents. Keeping Ketas and Marie Bashkirtself in mind such adolescents have described "to fade away in the flower of youth." They never cared to look at the exasperating and pathetic final stages of the patient's consumption.
Snobberies ebb flow, rise decline and fall like dynasties and kingdoms of history. There was a time when people prided their noble birth and cultural superiority. Now this snobbery is no decline. Low-browism, ignorance and stupidity constitute the source of a new and unique kind of snobbery.
What kinds of snobs have been discussed in the essay 'Selected Snobberies'?
American Prohibition has bred a stranger and bad kind of snobbery in recent times. It is that repulsive boozae- snobbery, which has spread over so many countries. People now drink to excess and shamelessly show themselves as drunk at open parties.
Modernity snobbery has become very important today. It is a blessing for the industrialists and businessmen. In their craze to be untodate people write off their things quickly and buy new ones. "Organized waste among consumers" may be called the chief factor in the rise to trade and industry in the present age.
Art snobbery is another significant aspect of modern life. The plantonic art snobs remain contented with only the verbal and visual admiration of art, but the unplatonic ones buy art objects to impress others with their excessive wealth, and to gratify their instinct for possession.
Those who buy the art pieces by dead masters believe in "art for their own sake". They don't help the living artists. But there are many who patronise the living artists too.
