we're so messy and all over the place, a hodge-podge of concepts and they don't paint a very pretty picture

"the nouveau riche might be crass and arrogant, and the poor - usually more tightly tied to objective materiality - might be obliged to speak plainly and directly of practical factuality, but today’s ossified and comfortable middle classes prefer indirectness."

i don't even have to say anything right

OKAY STOP NO THERES NO WAY

literally i will not allow you to loop in an anti-berlinian critique of negative freedom into the same crowd

okay okay from this point on i am making a vow to interpret this as a free association session where he lists out everything he doesn't like