Consciousness-raising would lead to activism. Counterculturalists sought alternatives to mainstream cultural life in music, drugs, and alternative living arrangements. Interestingly, neither radical working class groups nor civil rights groups picked up on this critique of alienation and the search for greater fulfillment. On the contrary, the matter of alienation seemed an almost distinctively white and middle class problem. Middle class problems have a way of finding middle class solutions.
Informality is the rule of the day.
Today's middle class is living through an epidemic of assertive personalization and formal informalization. Even the trend toward the electronic office can be read in these terms. By working at home, my schedule is supposedly freer, but in the bargain, all of my non-sleeping time can potentially become work time. Informality may be nothing more than a euphemism for inequality. Conclusion What I am arguing is that interest in the presidency as the trials and tribulations of an actual person rather than an institution is part of this massive cult of informality in American life.