The Inner Circle
Have you noticed that everything involving people always seems to have an inner circle syndrome?
For example, there are people who drink coffee. Instant, drip, whatever. But, they get their coffee from the grocery store. They get Folgers or Maxwell House in the big cans and use it, and it tastes just fine. But, then there are the people who buy Starbucks coffee. They go to Starbucks, buy the bags of beans and get them ground and make their coffee. House Blend, Verona, Kenya, whatever. There are different brands of Starbuck’s coffee. However, there is an even more inner circle of coffee drinkers. Those who have shunned Starbucks as common and bad tasting, and who get the rarer brands, such as Peets Coffee. They look down their noses at the poor Starbucks drinking slobs who think they’re all that. Did you know that there are even people who take the fresh coffee beans and roast them by hand. This is (of course) much better than buying that off the shelf crap. Poor deluded people. Everyone knows that the best way is to roast your own.
Have some fun and look around you for other instances of the inner circle syndrome. You’ll find it in any organized or unorganized group of people who get together to share a common interest. If you want, post the ones you can think of in the comments.