Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures.

The most basic class distinction between two groups is between the powerful and the powerless. Social classes with more power usually subordinate classes with less power, while attempting to cement their own power positions in society. A police force can be a useful tool in obtaining this objective.

As societies expand and become more complex, economic power will often replace physical power as the defender of the class status quo, so that the following will establish one's class much more so than physical power:

Ignorant Movie Review:  Time to Leave

Response to title:  What the hell does this mean?  There is time to leave?  It is time to leave?  This is time for leaving? 

Response to curbside poster:  I forgot to look!  Damnit.

*Warning*:  I could not review this movie without mentioning the plot’s driving element as it is disclosed within the first five minutes and is central to every moment thereafter.

Response post-credits:  What a horrible translation of the title.  The film is French (is it ever!), and its actual title is Le temps qui reste, meaning, the time which remains.  The movie itself is existentialist through and through, and centers about a 31 year old Parisian fashion photographer diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.  Pulled through his search for meaning, permanence and release, I found myself more often than not venting in silence at his inability to do anything other than find new ways to ruminate upon his past.  The subject matter being artistically tried and true, I think the film good, not great, an old story with no new light shined upon it, too heavily reliant upon its often sad subject matter to create a connection with its audience.               

Ignorant Movie Review:  The Science of Sleep

Response to title:  Maybe this will help me.

Response to curbside poster:  Well, now that’s surreal.

Response post-credits:  What a visual smorgasbord!  An interesting and, I think, apropos side note regarding this movie, the French word for "Director", réalisateur, literally means one who realizes ideas.  Seemingly casting himself as torch bearer of a 21st century surrealism, Michel Gondry (le réalisateur) creates life as a series of breaks between dreams in The Science of Sleep.  Through a landscape of temporal distortion, dialogic miscommunication between three languages, movies within a movie and familiar human themes (love, death, work, sex, lies, art, etc.), Gondry strives to see us delivered from Plato’s cave on the back of a chaotically mechanical horse vis-à-vis a protagonist who lives a life of dream and sleeps a dream of life.  I think this is an absolutely fantastic film.

The Backside of the Moon

Christmas is coming. and soon sleigh bells will ring
    while frozen ground and snow prepare the earth for spring--
Barren but beautiful the world in wonder waits
    for winter fun and carols sung and love to quell the hate.

As I sit here and ponder the birth of our lord,
    I wonder at burning sands upon a foreign shore--
Beasts of burden are we, bearing too much sorrow, 
    following a northern star that leads into tomorrow.

Hope can creep and healing seep into deep despair
    when we crucify the past and venture out to care--
Angels sing and treetops ring with songs of yester yore
    and love that heals in golden fields of journeys gone before.

Around the backside of the moon lies a pasture green
    where pilgrims rest and share the best of all they’ve lived and dreamed--
Beyond the bend I see my friend in distant olive groves,
    dancing free for all to see in circles wide and slow.

AB Christie

.....I'm not crazy, stupid or high on anything that would make me think or see this would happen.