Tuesday, 10 May 2022

A Flaubertian Irony.

In order to outrage the middle class[es]
– épater les bourgeois –
you have to be middle-class.

And there will (eventually,
probably) come a time
when the FOMO* Principle
will take effect.

*Fear of Missing Out.


3 comments:

  1. WoflMay 10, 2022

    Unless, of course, you are ignored entirely.

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  2. Caer IbormeithMay 10, 2022

    You are not being ignored.

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  3. WoflMay 10, 2022

    Ha! Ha! Many thanks.

    Really, honestly, truly, sincerely I wasn't thinking of myself, who was born into the Lower Bourgeoisie (Class 2b).

    Many thanks for the information on Caer Iborneith (who I first thought to be Welsh!). I wonder if the 'fortress on the River Boyne' was the now-desecrated archæo-supermarket of Newgrange (which I remember as a grassy mound) ?

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