Cringe as you read David Blatt stroking his ego in the Stanford Review:

Walking along the beach in Santa Cruz today, observing all the overweight, poor, and generally unattractive people, it dawned upon me that I truly am superior to most everyone else. I mean, just look at me. I go to Stanford, I'm extremely intelligent, I'm in good shape, I'm socially apt, and, most importantly, I'm rich. (in One Man in Defense of Elitism)

David certainly makes it easy to get infuriated. However, since one of the Philosophist tenets is to find the truth in everything, even in your enemies, I will dredge up some positive here.

I disagree with embracing elitism, but I do share his disgust with all this "equality" business. This is the disease of self-esteem, politically-correct image-boosting, wherein everybody must feel like there is no better or worse to anything. This issue is a matter of difference between self-esteem and self-acceptance. Self-esteem connotates feeling like one's traits should be esteemed with equal strength compared to others. Self-acceptance, on the other hand, embraces the reality of our relative strengths and weaknesses. Both self-esteem and self-acceptance seek the same goal, to make us feel better about ourselves. However, the latter is more pragmatic, honest, and healthier than the former. Self-esteemism, this business of bringing everybody down to our level by erasing our differences, is insidiously selfish and ultimately annihilates the individual.