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Re: Have you never met a self-absorbed person of a "lower" class?

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In Reply to: Have you never met a self-absorbed person of a "lower" class? posted by Victor Khomenko on November 14, 2006 at 09:52:44:

I must agree with Victor on this, tin...
As a teacher of low-income students in Shreveport, Louisiana (how low? One asked if I were rich because, after all, I "came to school in clean pants every day!"), I find that they can be just as self-absorbed as the women in "Persona", hell, just as self-absorbed as me. Class and wealth should not be used as an indicator of a person's worth.
Besides, I can sit through a lot of rich neurotic self-absorbtion for that monologue! At least we agree there!

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Victor seized on "self-absorption," not I. The point is that only the rich - tinear 04:35:03 11/20/06 (1)
can lead a life in which that is the consuming, defining paradigm: the poor would end up on a street, in a cardboard container. Financial survival is a cruel master but it does keep one grounded.
I don't know why people seem to feel wealth creates no "space" from others: it does. The lives of the rich are quite different and it's not just the possessions: not to worry about one's next meal, rent check, etc. is a MAJOR impactor on life. The greatest one, actually, since survival is our strongest instinct.
One needn't be a card-carrying Commie to point out differences in economic class, ours is an extremely class rigid society.
Anyhow, a poor person's descent into a mental illness which paralyzed her would have a hell of a lot more drama. Go to a private island, have a 24-hr. a day governess for whom you harbor unspoken lusts: hardly the stuff of riveting drama, URGENCY, eh?
If that's a serious problem, let Bibi Andersson know that I'd gladly have suffered it!
- Re: Victor seized on "self-absorption," not I. The point is that only the rich - Rod H. 08:44:14 11/20/06 (0)
  It doesn't make the film bad, just not the film you seem to want to make.
  Check out "The Passion of Anna" to see a few characters in less than wealthy circumstances, and psychological distress, living on the same island.
  Rod

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