PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY:

People say nobody read books now. They say it's because people don't have time to read anymore but actually that's not right. These days the only value left is money. So the rich want to make sure they are not doing an activity the poor can do. Could you imagine a billionnaire reading Proust and then discovering that some poor dude did the same at the public library? What would be the point of being billionaire? I guess that's why now you have all the really rich people buying 50 millions dollars golf club membership or buying cars they're never going to drive or 80 millions dollars painting they don't really like. So this way they know they will never run into some poor guy telling them he was on the same yacht as them in Monte Carlo last week and it really makes them feel great. I guess it's the same for beauty. Ugly people are the pleasure of beautiful ones, dumb people the pleasure of intelligent ones, and poor people the pleasure of rich ones.

Centuries ago people were saying that you shouldn't show how the kings and queens were living because people would revolt. Now people would revolt if you don't show them how the rich live while they're watching TV alone at night eating hot dogs. Isn't it a great century?