{"id":80,"date":"2005-06-13T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/06\/13\/bobo-blues\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T19:34:08","slug":"bobo-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/06\/13\/bobo-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobo Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a178\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently learned of an interesting burgeoning cultural phenonema &#8211;\u00a0a new species propagating the middle and upper echelons of society (well, they&#8217;ve probably been around for awhile, but have been newly christened).\u00a0 They are known as Bobos, based on the term &#8220;bourgeois bohemian&#8221; and popularized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0684853787\/qid=1118713946\/sr=8-2\/ref=pd_csp_2\/103-5191396-7655000?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">David Brooks&#8217; book<\/a>.\u00a0 A quick web search pulled up the following definitions, mostly taken from Brooks&#8217; book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talks like a hippy but walks like a yuppy, decrying materialism while indulging in all manner of luxuries<\/li>\n<li>Combining bohemian-style environmental tendencies\u00a0with successful careers<\/li>\n<li>Blending the mainstream and the countercultural\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Mingling 1960s rebellion with 1980s achievement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been slightly concerned about my own laziness and lack of action in the face of such a troubled world.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t plead ignorance, yet complete indifference didn&#8217;t quite describe it either.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 I care.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I just don&#8217;t know or care enough to do anything about it.\u00a0 I\u00a0toyed with the idea of being\u00a0an activist, but having tried a brief stint of activisim in college, quickly realized that it&#8217;s exhausting to care that much about anything.\u00a0 Instead, I settled for being morally opposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/amnestynow\/diamonds.html\">diamonds<\/a> I can&#8217;t afford anyways\u00a0and wanting to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordwiz72.com\/veg.html\">vegetarian<\/a> who can still eat chicken and wear leather guilt-free.\u00a0 At least I now know I&#8217;m not alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hello.\u00a0 My name is Y. and I&#8217;m a Bobo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone want to\u00a0form a support group to discuss\u00a0our problem?\u00a0 Preferably\u00a0while drinking a hot beverage brewed from responsibly picked Costa Rican beans and fashioned into a $4 latte?\u00a0 Maybe we can have t-shirts made too!\u00a0 Think it over.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll get started on the group charter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently learned of an interesting burgeoning cultural phenonema &#8211;\u00a0a new species propagating the middle and upper echelons of society (well, they&#8217;ve probably been around for awhile, but have been newly christened).\u00a0 They are known as Bobos, based on the term &#8220;bourgeois bohemian&#8221; and popularized by David Brooks&#8217; book.\u00a0 A quick web search pulled up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-and-not-so-deep-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}