Our society has already failed when it produced people who
proclaimed that he would dictate and demand foreign maids to do his
bidding at his whims and fancies.
Comparsion to U.S society:
...The kind of a car a person drove was, until very recently,
one of the best guides to middle-class status, since a car to the
middle classes was a status symbol, while to the other classes it
was a means of getting somewhere. Oversized Oldsmobiles, Cadillacs,
and Lincoln Continentals are still middle-class cars, but in recent
years, with the weakening of the middle-class outlook, almost
anyone might be found driving a Volkswagen.
Another good evidence of
class may be seen in the treatment given to servants (or those who
work in one's home): the lower classes treat
these as equals, the middle classes treat them
as inferiors, while aristocrats treat them
as equals or even superiors...
The working class in the United States is much smaller than we
might assume, since most American workers are seeking to rise
socially, to help their children to rise socially, and are
considerably concerned with status symbols. Such people, even if
laborers, are not working class, but are rather petty
bourgeoisie.
The real working class are rather relaxed, have present rather
than future preference, generally worry very little about their
status in the eyes of the world, enjoy their ordinary lives,
including food, sex, and leisure, and have little desire to change
their jobs or positions. They are generally relaxed, have a taste
for broad humor, are natural, direct, and friendly, without large
basic insecurities of personality.
The world depression, by destroying their jobs and economic
security, much reduced this group, which was always proportionately
smaller in America, the land of aspiration for everyone, than in
Europe...
...The second most numerous group in the United States is the
petty bourgeoisie, including millions of persons who
regard themselves as middle class and are under all the
middle-class anxieties and pressures, but often earn less money
than unionized laborers.
As a result of these things, they are often very insecure,
envious, filled with hatreds, and are generally the chief recruits
for any Right, Fascist, or hate campaigns against any group that is
different or which refuses to conform to middle-class
values.
Made up of clerks, shopkeepers, and vast
numbers of office workers in business, government, finance, and
education, these tend to regard their
white-collar status as the chief value in life, and live in an atmosphere of
envy, pettiness, insecurity, and
frustration.
They form the major portion of the Republican Party's supporters
in the towns of America, as they did for the Nazis in Germany
thirty years ago....
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