[Urbane Guerrilla]

Pierce, in my experience they who shout "Arrogance!" are using it as a codeword for a whine of "I don' wanna dooooo that." Pfah!

Frankly, I think at the least a touch of "elitism" is about the only functional way to think of anything: value judgements are essential to good living -- if you actually want to know you're living better. Howling about "elitism" as some kind of pejorative is another way the weak, the specious, and the immoral, trying to drag the inexperienced ones down to their level.

And beware of being an anti-capitalist. Being that way means being opposed to each and every thing that makes life worth living. You may, however, be safely opposed to poor ethics and greed, etcetera. The liars-about-capitalism try and tell you that only through bad ethics can you realize great wealth in capitalism. They're wrong; you do even better with capitalism conducted ethically. A failure of, or lack of ethics means your gains will be taken from you along with your liberty: prison time.