The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary… (1992)

The craftsman, like the peasant, is envisaged by the intellectual as a respectful, contented, wholly meritorious subordinate, in tune with nature. But the mass (in this case the version of the mass called the bourgeoisie), with its unnatural appetite for plastic (or, in an earlier era, for tinned food), reveals itself as unnatural, and not fully or wholesomely human.