The Bourgeoisie at Play

[kent_allard_jr]

On Saturday, after moonlightalice and wellgull showed me Extreme Dagobah -- for which I will be eternally grateful -- we slooooowly made our way to West 51st Street. (The subways were wonky and human traffic was a bitch.) Along the way, we encountered a bus from Bourgeois Tours, which provided us with endless amusement. Apparently it's a French Canadian outfit, and I guess that "bourgeois" has a different connotation for them than it does for everyone else, for whom it's equal parts "rich" and "philistine." Do they go and look at banks all day? We wondered if there are alternatives like "Lumpenproletariat Tours" where you lie in alleyways drinking beer and so forth.

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[tmlforsyth.livejournal.com]

I thought bourgeois just meant middle class and was just excessively cookie cutter and suburban. I thought lumpenproletariats would be resentful masses easily motivated by demagogues, though drinking beer is probably a huge part of their lives, too :)