It's Class War, Karl, But Not As We Knew It

Sixty years without serious material disruption to a way of life is a long time when that life has been accruing more and more means to buy 'space' with which to elaborate itself. When you've never known famine or other self-and-kin-threatening crisis, had plentiful time to develop your personality and preferences, and the last war to necessitate your land's entire attention is a significant part of your programme (ie ultimately a positive, a moral cornerstone) then it's easy to act and talk as if you don't have a body, don't need to use the lavvy, and that your personal code will conquer everything.

Despite Tony's assertion that the Class War is over it looks to me to be in full swing, indeed approaching some kind of major juncture, as the developed world starts to divide into (very broadly) two new classes for each domain - geographically we could call them the mobile and the immobile. The mobile have the means (skills, networks and/or capital) to move from country to country (or within them) at something like will, availing themselves of global opportunities and transcontinental special offers. The immobile don't.

Then there are the mere wannabes who take the Western tradition of individualism and implicit anti-ethnocentrism to its logical conclusion by decrying 'narrow national' outlooks whilst spending far more vitriol on members of their own ethnos who fail to measure up to the highly-pious standards necessary for jet-setting moral-entrepeneurs than on outrages committed by aliens. Anti-nationalist fervour is the moral equivalent of collecting air-miles.