The middle class is the new proletariat, clinging to antiquated notions such as the belief that education matters, just as the old working class believed in the sanctity of the job.
“I think we’re all perhaps innately perverse, capable of enormous cruelty, yet paradoxically our talent for the perverse, the violent, and the obscene may be a good thing. We may have to go through this phase to reach something on the other side. It’s a mistake to hold back and refuse to accept one’s nature.”
J. G. Ballard | The Atrocity Exhibition