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[Ashberto]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/17/i-narcissist-va nity-social-media-and-the-human-condition (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/17/i-narcissist-vanity-social-media-and-the-human-condition)

Jack Price, 34, professional narcissist (60,000 followers):

“I sometimes spend hours thinking about what to post, thinking about what my followers want, but also what I want them to think about me. But I see it as time well invested: it’s made me successful, well known, and it’s made me money,” says Price, whose name has been changed.

“I’ll often see moments as ‘good content’ for my social media followers. It’s almost like the photographing and sharing of a cool time is more important than actually appreciating it in real life.”

That. Sums it all up.

[Berni]

Pretty much everything they've written makes me despise the entire generation utterly. I was ambivalent about them before.

[Monty91]

[Luis Anaconda]

Absolutely nailed it with that quote -

I mean people who just go to a place to tick off their list should be shot (funnily enough this thought occurred to me when I visiting what was left of the wall in Berlin). Those who barely take in what they see in their all out efforts to get a snap ... Jesus wept

[Classic Jorge]

It's as if all of our apathy and lack of passion for this has ultimately left us out of the whole business of the modern world.

The baby boomers, with their fat pensions and vastly appreciated property wealth are as bad as these whingy new millenials, if you ask me.

They all smack of effort, which is decidedly uncool.

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

A bit like someone in their blog thrilling about her 'lifestyle journalist' boyfriend.

[Pat Vegas]

I wasn't Fash he died after eating a bad sandwich.

[Ashberto]

[Classic Jorge]

The idea that you can be handily placed in 20 year bars of existence and ne'er the twain shall meet is frankly rather rubbish.

Though in true That Was the Week That Was style I do look down on the yoot of today whilst barely concealing my contempt for just how easily the generation before us had it. Bloody free love, free housing, free pensions etc etc etc

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Berni]

I will always honour his memory for his body disposal advice. :hehe:

[Classic Jorge]

I was reading an awful '30 before 30' blog the other day where the girl wrote that she wanted to fall in love before the age of 30 and, as if by magic, had indeed fallen in love with a lovely chap and it was wonderful.

:puke:

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

have a 'sexual bucket list' with which his wife had no wish to engage.

I learnt from this that the words 'sexual' and 'bucket' have no place in the same sentence.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

or you disolved him in a bath of his own tears

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Monty91]

No-one that horrendous could possibly speak about themselves in such self-aware terms.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

The bloke came across as a monumental bell-end.

[Ashberto]

postwar austerity and few higher education opportunities?

It's rarely clear-cut, comparing 'wealth' across the generations.

[Classic Jorge]

Mind you, I dont imagine it was all that rosy growing up in the bunk.

Have you finished that book btw?

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

but surely it can't be that difficult finding massive narcissists on social media who want to talk to national newspapers about themselves.

[Berni]

My parents had maids and grew up in the achingly bourgeois postwar South Dublin

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We had a bucket.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Doesn't really work.

[Berni]

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

He's focussing on the time between the wars, as first-hand witnesses were still available when he wrote it (in the 80s), and Cambell Road was demolished after WW2. He starts with the 19th Century history of the urbanisation of Holloway, and the specific cicumstances that affected that street which was to blight it forever. Also the overall industrial make-up of Islington at the time which I haven't seen covered in the same way in other books.

He then gives a somewhat lengthy Marxist disection of the lumpen proletariate and how that class differed from the working class as it was both rejected by capital and itself rejected the workplace, preferring, y'know, ducking and diving basically.

Then he gets on to apply all this theory, and very well, I thought, to stories and accounts of various characters and familes, and the differing male and female responses to the situation. Most interstingly, I thought, women had a better chance of escape as there were more regular employment opportunities for women than men, which enabled them to get some money together and move out, until they hit the problem that it was not really done for women to establish their own household as they had to get married.

All in all it's an analysis and understanding of the history that shaped the conditions and the minds of the people in that slum which other political viewpoints are less likely to comprehend. The right-wing would just dismiss all the people there as scum who should all be shot, while yer modern lefty would just see the vulgar UKIPesque chauvinism side.

There. I promised you a full review.

[Classic Jorge]

Only joking, cheers, that's interesting. I shall buy it for me Ma