Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm painfully middle class.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
I am hard-core middle class.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.