Re: [Leica] Leica Class

["Bill Larsen" <ohlen@lightspeed.net>]

I don't understand this discussion of class.

I took two photography classes last year.  My instructor said I lacked talent,
taste and class.  Two classes have to count for something, though.

I took a lot of geography classes in graduate school so I guess I qualify as
class on a geographic basis.

A Belgian-based lugger with roots in some dalsgaard pretty much told me I was
déclassé and parochial --- but always think of myself as rather catholic and
hence classical.

I went through Dallas one time and couldn't afford it so I stayed in Ft.
Worth.  But I did have a ten gallon hat and a pint in my pocket.

Finally wife says I don't have class because I make her live in a "59 trailer
and while I am finer than frog hair otherwise, I just have no class.  I guess
that is the definitive answer about class as it regards me.

Bill, who grew-up absurd and has to have raisins in his oatmeal.

Tom writes:


|There are really different types of classes in the US - economic, education,
|geographic, social, etc.  One can be in a high economic class and not be
|accepted into a high social class, depending on one's ancestors and where one
|lives.  For example, in some cites like Dallas and Charleston, money won't
|buy access to the top social orders.  There is also geographic class and
|others.  Very interesting.
|
|In some instances, people are loosing up regarding class distinctions.  Some
|wealthy people choose to not flaunt it, but rather purposely live under their
|means.  Warren Buffet is one for example.  It is not uncommon to find some
|rather wealthy persons who do not want the glitz.  Of course, this is
|probably the exception.  There is also a great expanse of wealth that is
|expressed in staggering ways - multiple houses, private jets, etc.
|
|By the way, having a personal jet seems now to be the significant
|distinctions between those who have and those who really have.....
|
|I suppose that a few might consider having a Leica to be a "sign" but I
|suspect that most don't know what one is.
|
|Tom Shea
|
|<< We don't admit to a class structure in the U.S.A. This makes Class a huge
|issue.
| If we admitted it exists it would be less of a big deal. >>
|