Thursday, January 25, 2024
Zombie Outbreak
The business suit once set the comfortably affluent apart from the proles. Paul Fussell, indispensable analyst of class signals, wrote in his 1984 book Class: “the suit ‘not only flatters the inactive, it deforms the laborious.’ (And the athletic or strenuously muscular: Arnold Schwarzenegger looks especially comic in a suit.) For this reason the suit…was a prime weapon in the nineteenth-century war of the bourgeoisie against the proletariat.”
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Bull shit!
ReplyDeleteWhat is 'bull shit'? Sounds like somebody touched a nerve. You live in one of these shithole cities? You approve of the homeless industry? You like posers like George Soros getting pinko DA's elected, so shoplifting can go crazy and un-prosecuted? Why not share your deep thoughts?
DeleteIt appears trolls have infested this site as well, Anon@4:05.
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That's a pretty good essay, thanks for sharing Kenny.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of shit words from that there educated suit.
ReplyDeleteHave re-read "Class" numerous times. A wickedly funny book. Also recommend Fussell's "Thank God For The Atomic Bomb" essay collection.
ReplyDeleteAs the US becomes more socially stratified, tell me when a Person in a Suit represents any kind of good news for most citizens.
ReplyDeleteMen in Suits are seldom seen without bring bad news. Death, IRS Audits, Smugness. All from Suits.
Someday, Men in Suits will be hung by their neckties, and the Tie, and the Suit, will cease to exist.
Some good points woven around a twisted effort to make it fit into Marxist class based ideology. Leave the Marxism behind.
ReplyDeleteKenny, this was one of the best essays that you have ever shared, thank you.
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