Begun on July 4th 1983 when I arrived in Tempe, Arizona from Atlantic City after living there for 11 years. I spent my first week in Tempe at Baker's Acres.
The Middle Classes want neither understanding nor friendship.
It wants continual "Services."
"Service" means helping with particular legal, technical, medical, or economic problems on a professional basis.
The great dream of the middle class is to get "Free Service."
Relatives are supposed to provide "Free Service."
Middle Class life is impersonal--lower class life is overfamiliar. "Politeness" provides the basis for upper class life.
College language and literature classes are primarily designed to teach "politeness." They never succeed.
Polite people know how to smile while kicking you in the groin. Ideally, both the kicker and the kicked are expected to keep smiling throughout the kicking episode.
Since most upper class people are really lower class with more money, they ususally fail to keep smiling.
All classes subject their members to loyalty tests.
Such tests become the basis for later tests, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.
Of all human inclinations the industrious middle class rates curiousity as the lowest.
" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds adored by statesmen, politicians, and ministers divine." (Emerson)
The ability to endure a bad job and marriage is the final proof of consistency.
Casino gambling represents the absolute negation of the work ethic
The Middle Classes want neither understanding nor friendship.
It wants continual "Services."
"Service" means helping with particular legal, technical, medical, or economic problems on a professional basis.
The great dream of the middle class is to get "Free Service."
Relatives are supposed to provide "Free Service."
Middle Class life is impersonal--lower class life is overfamiliar. "Politeness" provides the basis for upper class life.
College language and literature classes are primarily designed to teach "politeness." They never succeed.
Polite people know how to smile while kicking you in the groin. Ideally, both the kicker and the kicked are expected to keep smiling throughout the kicking episode.
Since most upper class people are really lower class with more money, they ususally fail to keep smiling.
All classes subject their members to loyalty tests.
Such tests become the basis for later tests, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.
Of all human inclinations the industrious middle class rates curiousity as the lowest.
" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds adored by statesmen, politicians, and ministers divine." (Emerson)
The ability to endure a bad job and marriage is the final proof of consistency.
Casino gambling represents the absolute negation of the work ethic
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