Bourgoisie is the word you wanted. It just means 'middle-class'. All the middle class, whether arrogant or not. Nothing to do with religion, just the economic role - people who were neither working class nor aristocrats.
The world has changed since Marx's time and the words don't quite apply the way they used to.
I am suspicious of all comedy, but I do like some - though almost never movies who are just billed as 'comedy'. It needs an adjective in front of it. Social comedy, romantic comedy, musical comedy - that I like. Shakespearean comedy. Sitcoms: no. Farces: only if they're live on stage.
I'm getting a strong impression that your dislike of comedy is akin to my dislike of being looked at too long. Ask me later.
That sounds as if you think it's related to an embarrassment factor. It isn't. More likely related to my dislike of puns, but not necessarily that either. A lot of comedy is ridiculing subjects or people and I don't much like that. Sometimes it's just setting up ridiculous situations that make no sense.
I did like Monty Python, when it was on.
seems your days are shorter now that you have an external schedule to keep again, and the quiet end of the day is just a good time for being online, no?
Not to mention one of the few times I get to read and answer email and write in my LJ.
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Date: 2008-08-04 01:03 pm (UTC)The world has changed since Marx's time and the words don't quite apply the way they used to.
I am suspicious of all comedy, but I do like some - though almost never movies who are just billed as 'comedy'. It needs an adjective in front of it. Social comedy, romantic comedy, musical comedy - that I like. Shakespearean comedy. Sitcoms: no. Farces: only if they're live on stage.
I'm getting a strong impression that your dislike of comedy is akin to my dislike of being looked at too long. Ask me later.
That sounds as if you think it's related to an embarrassment factor. It isn't. More likely related to my dislike of puns, but not necessarily that either. A lot of comedy is ridiculing subjects or people and I don't much like that. Sometimes it's just setting up ridiculous situations that make no sense.
I did like Monty Python, when it was on.
seems your days are shorter now that you have an external schedule to keep again, and the quiet end of the day is just a good time for being online, no?
Not to mention one of the few times I get to read and answer email and write in my LJ.