not just only for elites. that there s something broader and cultural going on, although obviously it correlates to some degree with class. you didn t convince me, though, it was necessarily a great thing, nor maybe do you need to say it s a great thing. but i wanted to get your response to one of the critiques by kim velsy in the new york observer that went around quite a bit in some of the brooklyn circles where she was saying what better way to enhance the insular qualities, so particular to the brooklyn brand, to nurture the inward-looking, self-reflective culture than to shut out all the noise of urban life and just focus on home life? a critique that this is ultimately too insular to be good in an open and democratic society. what do you think of that. well, that s a critique that i make in my own book. you know, i think there are many really great things about new domesticity, but it runs the risk of being too insular and very essentially individualist. if we re concerned