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Any good articles/books about this phenomenon?
It's a feeling I'm intimately acquainted with, and it occurred to me as a point of discussion when reading tributes to K Punk which made reference to his pride in being working class. I feel I naturally, unthinkingly inherited it, without ever really understanding it.
What is it about the middle class which compels this shame and self loathing? Is it the awareness of being neither one thing nor the other, of having roots in a working class culture, less buttoned down and servile towards the loathed and envied upper class, and of aspiring towards a condition of upper class cultivation, without possessing the proper credentials to get past the doorman?
And is the concept of 'working class pride' something of a sentimental fantasy (or projection of self loathing) on the part of the middle class?
Anyway, I'll stop banging on now, because I'm sure others will have much more interesting and informed things to say on the subject. Unless they're middle-class, in which case it'll be pretentious waffle (and they're probably drinking posh coffee, the cunts).
It's a feeling I'm intimately acquainted with, and it occurred to me as a point of discussion when reading tributes to K Punk which made reference to his pride in being working class. I feel I naturally, unthinkingly inherited it, without ever really understanding it.
What is it about the middle class which compels this shame and self loathing? Is it the awareness of being neither one thing nor the other, of having roots in a working class culture, less buttoned down and servile towards the loathed and envied upper class, and of aspiring towards a condition of upper class cultivation, without possessing the proper credentials to get past the doorman?
And is the concept of 'working class pride' something of a sentimental fantasy (or projection of self loathing) on the part of the middle class?
Anyway, I'll stop banging on now, because I'm sure others will have much more interesting and informed things to say on the subject. Unless they're middle-class, in which case it'll be pretentious waffle (and they're probably drinking posh coffee, the cunts).
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