Forgive the following paragraph, its author was writing stream of consciousness.

Actually, now that I state that, I have seen that pattern in many social groups which sees themselves as ‘elite’. In a way, it is part of the exclusionary mindset many elitists fall prey to, where mockery of all other groups is seen as an incentive for members of the other groups to join the ‘elite’ group. It places a subjective value judgement on otherwise objective observations. I suspect that it is connected to a human need to have our positions validated by our peers.

Ok, brain dump done now. Returning to regularly scheduled compliment; great post.