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Do you believe spending $15,000 on the media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on the slate shower stall is a sign that you will be at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Would you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as though a wall of ice were going to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you may be a Bobo.
In his bestselling work of "comic sociology," David Brooks coins a fresh word, Bobo, to spell it out today's upper class -- those people who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious go through the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a fresh generation.
