Four Kinds of People

Mount Holyokers can be organized into four groups according to two determining factors: Whether they are rich and whether they were spawned by intellectuals. We can represent this system of grouping as a doubly bisected square (see figure 1.1).

The top left quadrant (quadrant 1) represents those individuals who are rich and were spawned by intellectuals. The top right quadrant (quadrant 2) represents those who are not rich and were spawned by intellectuals. The bottom left quadrant (quadrant 3) represents those who are rich and were not spawned by intellectuals, and finally, the bottom right quadrant (quadrant 4) represents those who are not rich and were not spawned by intellectuals.

Figure 1.1

................Rich............................Not Rich...........

Spawned by Intellectuals






Not Spawned by Intellectuals







We can go about determining which quadrant particular people fall into by watching a documentary with them and noting how they respond.

Members of Quadrant 1 will say something like "They should have found a better camera guy. The part where those people were trying to get away from the police was really shaky. Why were they running away again?"

Members of Quadrant 2 will respond with something more like "It sucked when the police were mowing down protesters in the streets and then indiscriminately shooting people. You can't have a functioning democracy without free speech."

Members of Quadrant 3 will say "I've never seen a movie like that. How did they get it to look like it was actually happening?"

Members of Quadrant 4 will say "It was good."