In Whit Stillman’s 1990 film "Metropolitan," a clutch of gentlefolk in a Park Avenue salon ponders the hushed concept of downward social mobility, which threatens to “doom” them. A generation later, however, the downwardly socially mobile have followed the empowerment playbook of every other out-group, even deftly deploying in their...
In Whit Stillman’s 1990 film “Metropolitan,” a clutch of gentlefolk in a Park Avenue salon ponders the hushed concept of downward social mobility, which threatens to “doom” them. A generation later, however, the downwardly socially mobile have followed the empowerment playbook of every other out-group, even deftly deploying in their…
