Define 'elite'

A.O. Scott (New York Times): SOME people renounce liquor or sweets. My New Year’s resolution for 2011 was to give up meta: no panels on the State or Future or Death of Criticism; no trolling the Internet looking for fights over first principles; no thumb suckers for the Sunday paper on the history or the essence of the critical profession. Enough of all that! Instead, a renewed commitment to the basics. For 12 months or more phrases like “politique des auteurs,” “Pauline Kael,” “received wisdom,” “reflexively contrarian” and “formalist hack” would not pass my lips or issue from my keyboard, no matter how much I was provoked.

-eddie