soreff comments on Rationality Quotes January 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: soreff 03 January 2015 06:38:51AM *  2 points [-]

Not to endorse the view, but criticism of specifically the middle class is not novel: (from a comment on Paul Fussell's Class):

Quoting Lord Melbourne, he notes: "The higher and lower classes, there's some good in them, but the middle classes are all affectation and conceit and pretense and concealment."

Comment author: g_pepper 03 January 2015 03:34:28PM 3 points [-]

criticism of specifically the middle class is not novel

This is true. In fact, reflexive bourgeoisie-bashing is so ubiquitous in some circles that it has become a cliché. This is what led me to liken Moorcock’s comment to empty pseudo-intellectual Marxist rhetoric.