{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "A big part of the generation change coming up is like\n The bourgeois respectability bubble that had been reinflating since the...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/186347053488/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/186346972813/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>A big part of the generation change coming up is like</p>\n<p>The bourgeois respectability bubble that had been reinflating since the 80s popped<br/></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>That was why the \u201cyuppie\u201d was such a hate figure in the \u201880s - \nworking your way up the system had been tabooed but they were bringing \nit back</p><p>The evangelical explosion being largely a story about the rise of a new white middle class out of the rural working class</p><p>Into the \u201890s with the \u201cbourgeois bohemian\u201d \u2013 even the hip types who had sneered at the yuppies were doing it</p><p>All the way putting more emphasis on college - the credentialing institution of the officer class, on prim, upright values&hellip;</p><p>But the thing was it paid off, for a while. If you cultivated a professional attitude and a professional education you\u2019d get a professional job and a professional life, right?</p><p>Right?</p><p>People have realized that\u2019s no longer true and they\u2019re recalibrating.<br/></p>"}