By Owen Paine on Tuesday June 13, 2006 01:57 PM
Club manias abound in history--
just read a bad piece on the three-generation
rise and fall of the Elks, the Moose, the Lions, etc.
If we want a more double domed claquery,
we can think of the coffee clubs of Queen Anne's London, I suppose.
All classes have their gathering pretexts, but if there's a generalization to be made, it's -- as with much else -- the old chestnut: a great dearth precedes any great new rage.
After years of X-er anomie, the communal activity spawned by the internet would indicate that at least for broad swaths of the merit class, the club dearth has ended.
