Interview · moment 26 of 27
Undignified Elites and Longing for Old Money Villains
from #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show · #239
3 min
Guest
Tim reads an old Tumblr post lamenting that today's rich elites (unlike old Long Island money) are touchy-feely and apologetic rather than intimidatingly evil, tying into Hannah Arendt's banality of evil.
- Tim's main criticism of modern culture: elites are undeserving and unaspirationl, no longer intimidating or mysterious.
- Silicon Valley billionaires leak their nutrition regimens and take shirtless selfies—undignified behavior Tim leaves to Instagram models.
- Tim has always been obsessed with old money—Fifth Avenue, North Shore of Long Island—and finds modern wealthy people grotesque by comparison.
- Driving around Sands Point on Long Island, Tim was amazed by stone castles that felt intimidating and mysterious before new money ruined them.
- Tim actually wants the evil billionaires back—people who stay in their castles and leave everyone alone instead of giving low-carb diet advice.
- The line that captures it: modern titans are touchy-feely Twitter types constantly apologizing, too boring to be evil.
- Tim would take Rockefeller or Carnegie over today's apologetic billionaires—at least you knew what you were getting with old money villains.
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