More On The English Class System

In my post of November 26, 2010, I described our John's comment on the British class system.  Basically, John was making a sarcastic remark on the exploitation of the working class by the ruling class.

The bull that the English media was propounding in the mid-1960's was that the British class system was dissolving under years of "unprecedented prosperity" in England.

The American writer Tom Wolfe went to London at that time and in an essay called "The Noonday Underground" concluded that class stratification was alive and well in England---and the kids knew it:

     "There is hardly a kid in all of England who harbors any sincere hope of advancing himself in any very striking way by success at work.  Englishmen at an early age begin to sense that the fix is in, and all that work does is keep you afloat at the place you were born into."  

The real Beatles were useful to publicly promote the myth.  But at the Royal Command Performance they thumbed their noses at being used by the British ruling class and their media front men to push the myth.  And the two "instigators" of the rebellion--John and Paul--were replaced.

Our Paul and our John stepped into this social-political minefield and our Paul ended up fighting for his life to survive it.