The White-Middle Class Syndrome

The white middle class syndrome filters through our society like a river of disdainful comfort. One great man, or I like to think of him as great, the Irish comedian Dara O’Brian said that “there is no laughter in Utopia.” So, what do you do when you have found it…Utopia. You look for laughter, obviously.

‘Hipster’ is a term that is thrown around a lot, however, if I were forced to describe hipster, the way I believe others see the ‘Hipster.’ I see a sad white and middle class person, a person who has found such happiness in their life that they don’t have much else choice but to find sadness.

The white middle class syndrome in my opinion is the ‘Hipster’ whether they purport the cultural brand or not. See us clever little human beings have managed to make middle-class life so comfortable, so utterly easy that we have no choice but to look for emotion elsewhere. Whether that be pretending to actually care about the little Africans whose images we are bombarded by 50 times a day or whether it is choosing to live a slightly more uncomfortable life by rejecting modern science and attempting to live in the dark ages.

I’ve not been on this planet for very long, but if there is one thing I don’t need to even pretend to understand but know is true at the very bottom of my life experience database, is that it is a fact of the human condition that we can never be happy with simply being happy.

We must create a sickness. We must see misery where we cannot otherwise see it. Otherwise, life would be boring and there simply wouldn’t be any laughter.