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Mark Greif examines class structure in "The Hipster in the Mirror," in a recent New York Times' essay. Anything that reasonably examines class is important. We are a nation of 300 million, all claiming to be "middle-class." Obviously, if everyone were middle-class, no one would be. Class, the root of "classification," implies division by definition. As others have pointed out, the notion of universal middle-class-dom indicates values and desires. Ironically, no one agrees on what values are middle-class.