Are there any known ways to systematically reprogram typical class attitudes (from lower to upper middle class for example)? Not superficial stuff like dress or speech or table manners. Stuff like financial habits, education plans, work ethics etc.
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1. This is the idea behind “classless society” projects that assume that we reach equality when bourgeois values are abandoned. In America it’s usually reckoned that classlessness is achieved when petit bourgeois values are universal: aka “The American Dream”.
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2. Today the American embrace of petit bourgeois economic model of the American Dream often conflicts with other historical bourgeois values. Modesty, thrift, respect and community are being eroded by hyper-individualism piloted by the baby boomers.
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3. Trumpism is a pure expression of this contradiction. “I want all of the stuff, I want all the benefits of this great society, I want none of the personal obligations that helped to build it”. I want working class personal emotional freedoms with upper middle class resources.
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