What is the point of Cultural Literacy? I must score in the 99 percentile, but it has contributed little to the quality of my life except some intellectual camaraderie with the famous names of the past, long dead. Shaw: "Your first responsibility in life is not to be poor."

Actually after one minute's rumination I have concluded that the importance of Cultural Literacy is ultimately Marxist; we who have been educated wear it like Montezuma's headdress to flaunt our superior class status.