83) Middle Class is living without intent.
84) Middle Class is blaming ‘problems’ on surroundings.
85) There are middle class corporate executives and middle class homeless people. There are those in this office or others who are not middle class.
86) To transcend this middle class life is to be amazed at the smallest things and to shrug off the larger things. When she wanted 3 sugar cubes in her coffee and you found the bigger three cubes for her and smaller cubes for yourself, when that was the most important thing, how could you even fit into any class? If you worry about job titles and consumer goods and sports teams, you might be middle class. If you find wonder in the way her foot moves or the flow of smiles and acknowledgements people give each other on the bus, how can you be classified?
87) Middle Class is failing to see the value of raw emotions and new ideas.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
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This appears to be another definition of middle class. Whereas you seem to take it as an attitude towards life, I have viewed it first as a place you are in physically: as determined by your job, your income, the things you buy and the activities you participate in, and the similar class of the people you associate with. In this sense of "middle class" it makes little sense to speak of transcendence. One would just walk out on his job, his associates, etc etc. What would be the point of staying and performing some strange mental act to separate your body from that life?
ReplyDeleteI would add that through debt the middle class life has been made accessible even to the working poor. I plan to write further on debt. Debt has made possible the great fiction of equality between all people. Debt is a big idea, and one which may bridge the gap between our respective definitions of middle class.