YSSUP (Wise Up)

#5
Dear Dean Owen There was a couple of things I was thinking of when I wrote this, There is a new class drama in the US, because for a time people in the US only used the term middle class, as if the working class did not exist. It took 3 counties and about 70,000 votes in the Rust Belt to give the election to Trump. The elites sold the Middle Class and the Middle Class exploited the Working Class, for one cannot forget that in 2008 the housing loans given out where to people who could least afford them, by people who trusted the professional classes were looking out for their interest. So this is not about class division, but BS of the middle class to be spoiled by vicarious politicians and not see decades of mutual complicity. The title of the post is actually a play on these two stories 1. That famous Russian Group that Putin for a time had jailed [LANGUAGE] http://www.salon.com/2016/10/27/watch-pussy-riot-takes-on-donald-trump-in-new-music-video-for-make-america-great-again/ 2. The infamous SNL sketch about the infamous YSSUP moment everyone thought was game over. [FUNNY] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPM9im4Ob4 Reply

#3
Dear Chas [ Chas \u270c\ufe0f Wyatt ] it is education that keeps the middle class so middle and that is what the joke here is about. Other than YSSUP is Pussy spelt backwards. The film Magnolia was brilliant and the choice of Aimee Mann's music to score that movie a brilliant choice. There is now a venerable collection of humour that is really about the grayness of middle class existence which includes Dilbert cartoons and here self-deprecation isn't a humility here it is a surrender. Whether it is Paul Thomas Anderson creating Magnolia or Sam Mendes & Alan Ball with "American Beauty" - or the various comedies that poke away essentially at middle class values (whether they be left or right which essentially means a democrat family does not want to marry a republican one and vice versa) or the writings of middle class malaise that just fizzle away in that mass https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/us/observations-on-americas-middle-class-malaise.html?_r=0 or the fake outrage which fades away as media has the middle classes number - so it is with much fun I echo the wit and humour of the late and great Douglas N. Adams about the "useless third of Golgafrincham". Reply