The Quintessence of Middle Class Morality

Middle class etiquette insists that we are all equals, but it does so in a very particular way. On the one hand, it pretends that nobody is giving anybody orers. On the other it treats every gesture of what i've been calling base line communism as if it were really a form of exchange. Like tive neighborhoods, middle class society has to be endlessly recreated as a kind of constant flickering game of shadows.