tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32643111.post115570180626805007..comments2024-03-04T22:23:43.352+08:00Comments on The Lectern: Murrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03405708736012286214noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32643111.post-8257684693530440792008-07-21T11:06:00.000+08:002008-07-21T11:06:00.000+08:00I think you have put your finger on one of the hug...I think you have put your finger on one of the huge differences between the European working class, and the Anglo Saxon working class, perhaps even European and Anglo Saxon attitudes towards culture generally.Murrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03405708736012286214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32643111.post-1155707419706131212006-08-16T13:50:00.000+08:002006-08-16T13:50:00.000+08:00Johanna's father, a welder, has told how in the fa...Johanna's father, a welder, has told how in the far off days of his misspent youth the older workers would speak over their lunchboxes of Strinberg and Sarte. Working class culture was indeed open and responsive to an enormous range of influences. The problem today is not, I think, with working class culture; it is that working class culture is dead, and has been replaced by consumer culture. Listen over the lunchboxes today and hear the workers come and go, speaking of the latest installment of Survivor.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11181437799173235159noreply@blogger.com