Behold, The American Middle Class
Defining the American Middle Class is a pretty difficult task in itself. For starters, the American class system is not as rigidly attached to breed and bloodline as the European one. Even further, in this age of near-infinite credit one can never tell the social status by the sheer value of material possessions. Instead, it’s the habits and values that have replaced almost all the other status signals in the modern society. I’ll join these into a single narrative description, a shot at a unified modus operandi of the middle class.
Generally, Joe Middle Class is smug, bland and yet, pained with a strong desire to be appreciated and socially respected. He (or she, for that matter) perceives himself as well-educated, despite the fact that his education, in general, comes from a middle of the pack school. When you see a person proudly displaying the letters “PhD” on his business card, you can safely guess that these letters do not share the same piece of cardboard with a name like Yale. Neither does second-rate education prevent J. M. Class from proudly displaying his/her framed diplomas. As a matter of fact, I am a true middle classman in that respect. All of my diplomas are carefully framed and hanging where they belong - in the bathroom, where I do most of my deep thinking.
Middle classers tend to choose professions that are safe, yet provide a decent income as well as solid amount of respect. Taking risk in any shape or form, be it professionally, politically or physically is not a middle class thing to do. Risk-avoidance and desire for respect are probably the two most descriptive features of any member of the middle class. They do not accept anything fun but extreme, unless it becomes a new socially-acceptable practice, like skydiving and rock-climbing.
Conversations with Joe M. Class and his wife, Jane M. Class tend to gravitate around the scholastic success of their offspring, the real estate, some lame investment strategies and, of course, the occasional book that was recommended to them by The Times. The conversation rarely if ever involves anything extreme, be it sex, jokes or politics beyond the recent presidential race. For certain, one could never imagine a member of the middle class openly discussing things taboo, like anal sex or legalizing marijuana. This, as a matter of fact, precludes the present company from being the true representatives of the middle class, as the discussions here tend to run wild and untamed. Cursing among Middle Classers is socially unacceptable, and instead, a bunch of middle-class euphemisms have been invented. At the same time, pseudo-educated pretentious lingo makes it way in – words like “pardon” and “gourmet”.
I could probably continue, but to prevent this from becoming an unreadable, boring blob of text, I will just quote Hermann Hesse:
What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
PS. Disclamer - most of these ideas aren't nessesarily my own. My understanding of the American social structure and my own relationship with American class system has been strongly influenced by Gore Vidal, Andrew Tobias, Paul Fussell and many others.
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