Mercy of Quality will be a collection of fifty (initially) essays of cultural criticism describing things that are bourgeois. These are things that are unnecessary, culturally stagnant, intellectually destructive and promote laziness. These are things that exist only to be self-perpetuating.
In the interest of full disclosure I must admit I have yet to read The Communist Manifesto so I may not be using 'bourgeois' entirely accurately (then again, 'awesome' and 'irony' are never used properly). My use of the word (and the entire project) is inspired by Roland Barthes' collection Mythologies.
Other inspirations include:
Comedy Central spleenfests Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and its quite probable spun-off Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.
Public Radio International star Jesse Thorn's concept "Post-Irony/New Sincerity."
Stephen Fry Podgram #3 "Wallpaper."
And my own "Is He One of the Marx Brothers?" from Information Subterfuge, specifically the third stanza.
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