Rosa Parks v Audi Owner.

So knitwear owner Sarah Duncan parked her large Audi blocking the traffic in a busy Bath street. A passer by filmed it on his phone. She and her husband followed him for some fifteen minutes as he walked away. The video has gone viral. It seems because it takes little more than a finger exertion to press ‘share’ anything that captures the zeitgeist will spread like a forest fire in a munitions factory. It wasn’t the inconsiderate parking, which Audi drivers have an inane right to, but the harassment. It was, shall we say, Audi-esc. Where Mercedes are for wealthy has-beens, I’ve got one, and BMWs are for lads and drug dealers, Audis are for aspirational bullies. So the lady, lets call her Sarah, oh I already have done, and her husband, lets call him Dunkin, felt affronted by their inconsiderate Audi-ness being captured for, as it turns out, the world to see. In a wonderful example of transference these people accused the bystander of harassment whilst pursuing and haranguing him as he tried to walk away. This one sided conversation encapsulated the arrogant bullying, assumed entitlement and quite frankly the general lack of intelligence of the middle class better than any PhD dissertation. Their argument consisted of repeating the same phrases repeatedly by repeatedly repeating them, a gambit well known to the Conservative/Republican Parties. In fact this couple may be like those unsung catalytic whites that harangued Rosa Parks on the bus that day. It seems today’s heroes are more likely to be unknown iPhone users with the notoriety going to those they capture. But before you get too smug anyone who isn’t homeless in the UK or US is in the world’s middle class. Last night for example I happened to read an NRA handout on ‘keeping hold of what you’ve got.’ It suggested preparedness for catastrophic social breakdown, you know where rampant hoards of starving gun-toting hoodies break in to your home, which is pretty ironic considering it’s from the NRA. I mean what would you do when you’re down to your last stick of celery and Sainsburys is closed, forEver? Do you say, “My God we’re all starving! We must help each other to rebuild our society”, or buy a gun?