Comment by aebtebeten
10 hours ago
I guess that's where we part ways: just as the US is the world's richest 3rd* world country, I'd call ERM the richest upper-middle-class person in the US, but not exactly upper-class...
(just as a datum point: ERM is the opposite of an éminence grise, in just about any of its senses)
* in the economic sense. In the political sense, by definition the US is 1st world [after what happened to Yugoslavia (former leader of the non-aligned movement) I'm surprised Carney is brave enough to attempt to revive a "2nd World" ... surprised; but pleased!].
Quick delve: American class-based exceptionality gyrates around Norman Mailer's "philosophical psychopath"
Which Hollywood stars (mostly from the "middle-middle class" mentioned in my earlier link) are. Professional hipsters?
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2019/03/the-banality-of-the-...
>remember G.K. Chesterton’s lesson about how “two opposite passions may blaze beside each other
Wonderfully anachronistic essay on a wonderfully anachronistic opus, oh wow, I must have meant "timeless" somewhere
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528839/summary
Compare: SV founders (including "broligarchs"(?)) will never say "cowboys" in vain, but East Coast financiers might :)
(How familiar are you with 1990s-2010s neo-hipsters?)
Edit: MPAA^W AMPAS will never think secret thoughts of "British upper middle class theatre" outside the occasional hire (for "diversity", these days). Is that why PG and Trevor moved to the UK ;)?
It's not reactionary centrism, but it's also not progressive centrism.. to always say never!