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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!


(Mostly just the jokes:

Q. How did the hipster wind up in the emergency room?

A. He fired his 3D-printed gun before it was cool. )

Not sure what you're getting at with cowboys, for me the intersection with SV is/was Gibson's console cowboy — "In the bars [Case had] frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh."

What is the opposite of relentless searching for the frontier? cottage-core?

Should we add Dolphus Raymond to the "white negro" pantheon? How about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezz_Mezzrow#Personal_life ?

EDIT: you might be interested in Wister, "The Virginian" (1902) as a Trope Codifier for the cowboy: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1298/pg1298.txt


My answer to that is that what little time Gibson spent on the West Coast was on the underclass :)

Normcore as reaction to hipsterism (We're still sort of in it apparently)?

Thanks! Virginia is screaming at the top of her lungs! (Ohanian, Poole, Gibson)

Imho Mailer was an quasitroll, so whatever works




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