The relation between the texts "Who Built the Pyramids ?" and the movie "Born Rich" may be in the description of how one social class (the working one) wishes to have more time for leisure, and how the second one (the rich one) is tired of too much time for leisure. The dream or fantasy of one is the life of the other !
Also, Mike in "Who built the Pyramids" says that all he wishes for is that one day there will be a place where the college kids and the steelworker could sit down and talk without any shame and difference. basically no separation of working class and rich class: Respect if not equality of classes.
In "Born Rich" we see that these kids are taught to not feel sorry for other people's poverty and to take pride in their life as they deserve what they got. They don't/can't even imagine what life looks like for poors and working families. There is also no chance from their perspective that a person from the working(or poor) class can mix with them. They always hang out together with no one else outside their social group. They all know each other and are all planning on making their future fiances sign a "Prenup" before getting married. So no chance for anyone who think that they can by getting married to a heir to get rich.
Am not sure if this what you were referring to Prof. T, let me know.
Will post essay #2 for you after this.
Yes, I wasn't referring to any one specific connection, but was curious about some of the ones you were starting to make, which you pick up on here very nicely!
ReplyDeleteIt's so interesting that Mike years for leisure but the rich don't take pleasure in it. Do you think this is just about wanting what we don't have, or is something else going on here?
And I wonder what you think the obstacles to Mike's vision of honest exchange would be. What stops these conversations from taking place?
The very rich class has lucked itself in a virtual world that doesn't allow that dialogue. The world rich people live in, exist only in the imagination of the working and poor class people.
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