Class and Death
6:23pm
Over at the always thought-provoking Open Kingdom blog, Anthony Barnett makes an interesting point about class, you knew that good only English obsession had to get an airing today, and the rise of emotionalism in the country. Barnett writes that, “At its best (there were also worsts) upper-class behaviour was about good judgement providing the steel for strong emotions and inner integrity.
What has changed is that these qualities can now be found more among the lower classes while the upper classes have lost their way… The ranks now know how to deal with loss. Those who once trained them no longer do.”Barnett has some anecdotal examples to back up his point. But I’m not sure there is any huge difference between the way the classes approach death. What do you think?
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Toby Belch
August 31st, 2007 6:37pm Report this commentIt is the middle class who are the blubbers.
albert hammond bootleg
September 1st, 2007 10:13am Report this commentMr Brown's welfare profligacy has also created a teeming underclass which, when not out roaming in packs is also most likely to blub and claim victimhood status. Compare this with the stoic self restrain of the real 'old' working class.
Anonymous
September 1st, 2007 11:31am Report this commentThe middle and upper classes only grieve privately for their friends and relatives. The working and unemployed classes grieve publicly for people they don't know - soap stars, princesses, other people's children, pop stars etc.
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