[lbo-talk] counter-stereotypes [was: Beaten Black Man's Death a Homicide (Cincinnati)]

[Doug Henwood]

Eubulides wrote:


>You, of course, want to be identified with the group that doesn't want to
>be identified with any other group. A finer case of Veblen's snob effect
>has not been seen on this list...........

Or as Paul Fussell dubbed it in his amusing book Class, this is Class 
X, which is the hipster/intellectual fantasy of belonging to no class 
at all. Fussell bought the fantasy, though.

Doug