I think Scott McLemee makes a great point on the social anxieties of not only the Georgetown jerks set, but most exclusive groups:
The point of a club like Late Night Shots is, in large part, to keep other people out of it. That's obvious. But those other people have to (be imagined to) want in.
The greatest terror is not that they will try to overthrow you—or even that they might somehow break through the barriers of exclusivity. It's that the outsider might laugh at the exclusivity.
