When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
The political class is becoming increasingly alien to the people.
I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.
Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.
The wealthy have nothing left except money.
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.