part VI.

i wanted to take the last part up again.
so what happens when the lower classes have adapted themselves to the upper class? the upper class has to find new ways to isolate themselves from the others. for example: a bigger variety of expensive bags and clothes (the upper class has the money for it while the lower classes only can afford a few expensive clothes, which they wear every year again - think of the fur jackets from woolrich). the elite is able to change their expensive clothes more often, so they can show, that they really are part of the upper society. but is that enough for a clear distinction? i don't think so.
there are many other ways like cars (mini coopers mostly), travels (tropical places, expensive hotels, the u.s.a., etc.) and what is the most difficult thing for the lower classes to imitate: huge mansions (the home you live in and what is important: where your home is located).
i'm not saying that people are traveling so they can brag and define themselves. no, people travel because they want to. but when you post every flamboyant detail on instagram, it is obvious that you want to communicate something to the world. and nobody can tell me it is only "look how amazing my trip is". at this point people want to say "my pool at the luxury hotel is just fine. i don't even swim in it, but i make a photo next to it, because i can".
so you see there are many ways for creating borderlines between the upper and the lower classes, even if the lower ones are very good at simulating the same lifestyle (they also post pictures next to pools, they also drive mini coopers sometimes, but they cannot fake living in a huge mansion).
but you have to consider that this phenomenon exists since forever. it's not something that came up with the modern times. no. the people of the ancient world already created borderlines between social classes through defining themselves from the others. and even them were not the first ones doing such things.
today it is just way more easier for the lower classes to adapt themselves to the upper ones. you might think the reason is, that the differences between the social classes are not as intense anymore as it was. it's not like back then in medieval times of course, we have the middle class, which is something between upper and lower class. but the differences are still huge. people just can't see it that clear nowadays because of the described phenomenon.
i'm very curious how things will be in a few decades. it's very interesting to observe the process of the lower classes adapting themselves to the upper classes and the upper ones isolating themselves from them in return.

next part's coming soon


p.s. i don't want to insult anyone by the term of lower class. by this term i'm thinking of the classes which are lower than the upper (upper middle) class - including the middle class, lower middle class and lower class. so i'm not speaking of the lowest class.



yours truly,
gossipgirl

part V.

there were many bad things about the elite in the other parts of this series. so let's talk about the few good exceptions. the ones with beautiful minds.

yes, there are also good rich people. i don't want to sound like i'm putting everyone down who was born into the upper class. it's not like that, but i've said that before. first of all you can't choose who your parents are. second, it is totally okay, if you are part of a rich society, because it only depends on your personality how you handle it and how you get along with it. sadly, there are too many show-offs: only interested in the largest private tables at clubs and bars, the fastest cars and hugest mansions with biggest pools. but not everyone has to be like that. 

what i've noticed is, that rich kids whose parents are more settled in the creative business are more likely not to be show-offs. it's like two kind of people: rive droite or rive gauche, brooklyn or manhattan, p1 or glockenbach-nightlife and so on.

i'm happy to know a few, who have really special attitudes and beautiful minds despite all their money. isn't it a much stronger statement, when you leave your expensive bag at home instead of taking it with you every single day. isn't it a much stronger statement, when you're not dressing like the other rich kiddies in your city (or even the not so rich kiddies, which dress also like they have all the money in the world)? isn't it a much stronger statement, when you focus rather on inner values than on the superficial ones?

but why do people have the need to show all the expensive clothes and other stuffs to friends and strangers? well, i guess they really crave to be part of a group. at one point, they want to appear as very individual and autonomous and at the other, they define themselves as part of a bigger group through the same clothes and attitudes. you can see that phenomena in other societies as well: punk, gothic, emo, etc. 

it's a fight between individuality and social affiliation.

but it mostly depends on the environment (city, neighborhood), which you are faced with. let's take munich as an example: there are many rich people - it's just like that. the others want to adapt themselves to the life and style of the majority, so they start acting like them, wearing the same clothes and so on. take a closer look at odeonsplatz during wintertime: so many fur jackets. almost everyone has one. and most of them are even from the same label (woolrich). the funny thing is, that you can't separate anymore the upper class from the middle (or lower) classes. they've already adapted themselves so perfectly.

i will get back to this point in another part. for now, i wish you all a good night.

yours truly,

gossipgirl

part IV.

well, well. here's the fourth part of my post-series. another question came up: why do i write in english? the answer is not that spectacular as you may have thought: i can reach more people, even those, who don't speak german. this might sound a bit odd, because this blog is especially made for munich, but almost every city in the western world has got their own little "elite". so maybe - no i'm pretty sure - this affects them, too.

i wanted to dedicate this part of the series to one special subject: love.
yes. you may know that feeling. i hope you know it. true love. i guess that everyone had that at least once in a lifetime and if not so, then it will sure happen one day. but what is the difference between an average relationship and this overwhelming feeling of true love, of complete dedication to another human being? and why do we settle for average relationships with people, just because they could possibly fit into our lifestyles? why don't we look out for or even believe anymore in true love?
the answer is very sad: we cannot handle true love, if we are looking for self-fulfillment. it makes us too confused, too psycho, too crazy...too weak. and someone who wants to achieve his dreams and life goals is not able to afford weakness. there is this kind of love out there, we know it. but we stopped looking for it since the day we got burned by his infernal flame. we stopped opening our hearts entirely. we barely open it, because we don't want to get burned anymore. we don't want this kind of uncontrollable feeling. it is not efficient. and god knows we have to be efficient as hell nowadays.
there are only a few people who are not scared of the consequences of being truly in love. or maybe they are scared, but they don't care, because they know: it is worth the suffering. pathos, that's the word for it. or as we say in germany: leidenschaft. it's so obvious, that you can read it in the word itself. no pathos without the willingness for suffering.

the elite is not willing for this kind of suffering. the elite has to be efficient. the elite has to seem to be perfect. true and deep feelings? don't expect that.
but as i've already said: there are a few exceptional cases. look out for them in your environment and take a leaf out of their books. these people are very, very brave.


part V is coming soon, take care...


yours truly,
gossipgirl

part III.

you may ask yourselves what changed my style of posting or let's say: what changed my mind about the elite. it's not like something bad happened or some bad experience made me think so.
no, not at all. these posts have nothing to do with hate or anger.
in the beginning i told you, that this blog was a blog from the elite for the elite. it still absolutely is.
i don't like to call myself a part of the elite, but i have to admit, that i know the life and the circumstances behind it, because i was "born" into it, too. and i'm not proud of it. not at all. why being proud of being born into a rich and superficial society? why being proud of finding it so hard to find a true - i mean a really true - friend his whole life? for all those people who admire us, who want to be part of it: you have no reason. really. be grateful for what you have and concentrate on your lives and your beloved ones. this blog was never made for you as i said.
this blog is for those, who are unhappy although they have everything.
for those who are mostly concentrating on their careers, parties, bodies and images, because they see no more the true esthetics and the true beauty of life. don't be ignorant, don't fool yourselves. it is not that hard to open up your heart and let the good things in, which are not money, nor vanity, nor power!
this blog is for those, who are traveling the world, because they can easier open up and show a bit more of their true and beautiful insides in another place or another city. try to keep your heart open, when you come back to your hometown instead of falling into the old habits. life is an eternal development of personality and mind.
this blog is for those, who are reading this on the sly and would never admit it.
and for those, who are not just stupid elite kiddos, but real and interesting personalities. stand for yourselves and be proud of things, that have nothing to do with the money of your parents. be proud of your skills, be proud of your attitudes, be proud of your thoughts and acts.
i see hope, because i see broken people, who are trying to figure out life, who are trying to find their sense, their place in life. and this process is something, that everyone has to overcome. maybe we are still searching with 40 years, but it doesn't matter as long as we are searching and not fooling ourselves, that we already are finished personalities, because believe me, we are not! so overcome your proud and look for the truth.
the truth behind the elite.


yours truly,
gossipgirl

part II.

so where do i begin?
the elite is a term that was created for people who are very wealthy and mostly beautiful, too. can someone call himself part of the elite without being at least a bit beautiful? i think that's pretty hard. the elite is a society in which people are born into it. it's like some kind of royalty for no royal people. you see, even the elite is clinging to an image that is above theirs. you can be rich, you can be beautiful, but you'll never be royal without being born or married into royalty. remember blair and her dream to become royal? it is the same construct of desires and thoughts as someone who is normal (or as the elite calls it: "poor") and wants to belong to the elite - and there are so many people in our wonderful munich, who actually have this desire as a life goal.
do you get my point?
people are people. they always want something better. they always want the things they do not have. there is no limit, no end station of dreams. if you fulfill your dreams, you better wish you haven't, because suddenly life makes no sense and people have to find other (bigger) dreams. i guess that's the biggest problem of our modern society.
back then, when royalty and wealth were given by god, people who didn't belong to the upper class of kings and dukes were totally all right with it, because they thought, that this was simply their fate. today, where all the people and all the media want to convince you, that you can achieve anything you want, you don't even know what you want anymore, because theoretically you have no limits of achieving anything.
you may think, that there are also many good sights to this, because even poor people can work their way up to the top. but that's the thing, where the ways part. it's not thou shall anymore, but thou can. and if people believe they can and can and can, so they go on and on and on and one day all of this system is going to break down, because everyone thinks he can reach anything he wants - without any limits through thou shall. people come home from work and go on working.
the elite knows this the best. mostly the children. parents, who are so busy earning more and more money, so that most of the childhood memories are created with their nannies instead of mommy and daddy. isn't that awful? creating another generation of exactly the same people with the same attitude and so on. and the most dangerous part is: we look up to them. we think, that we have to achieve at least as much as our parents have. the expectations are becoming higher and higher from generation to generation. so can't you see what i mean? one day all this will collapse, because people cannot contain themselves anymore.

these posts called parts, are parts of the truth. 
the truth behind the elite. the truth behind the sparkling, perfect world.

wait for the next one...


yours truly,
gossipgirl

part I.

let me tell you something. something about the masquerade we are all in. we all are actors. we all wear masks. but why? are you afraid of your inner truths? do you even know yourself? are you afraid to touch life so hard? why are so many hiding behind their perfect images and perfect worlds they try to submit to others. these perfect worlds are not true. there are no perfect worlds. no perfect people. the elite is a society of broken people. every society contains broken people. because we all are broken! and this blog was created to see how the elite is working. i've made money through this, so thanks. but there's nothing more behind it. i'm not trying to glorify the elite. just you. you people, who give those, who claim to be better, the power to be.

there is no elite.
just people. and people are imperfect, vulnerable, insecure and mostly of all scared. scared of the world. scared of the things they don't know. yep, we call that comfort zone. and if there's a comfort zone, then the "elite" is in it. deeply. i'm so sorry for all those people, whose minds will never belong to themselves, whose minds will never be truly open and free.

wait for the next post...



yours truly,
gossipgirl

Solange Attacks Jay Z!

Was war da denn los?
Zwar ist das alles nicht in München passiert, aber ich denke es passt ganz gut:
Von außen eine kleine perfekte Familie. Doch man weiß nie - wirklich nie - was hinter geschlossenen Türen wirklich vor sich geht. Zumindest solange nicht bis jemand das Skandal aufdeckt, wie zum Beispiel in dem Fall ein Angestellter des Sicherheitspersonals, der das Überwachungsvideo des Aufzugs einfach hochgeladen hat. Die kleine Schwester von R&B-Queen Beyoncé attackiert in einem Fahrstuhl auf der Met Gala in NYC ihren Schwager Jay Z. Ein Bodyguard versucht sie zwar davon abzuhalten, jedoch schafft sie es dennoch ihn mehrmals ausgiebig zu attackieren.

Und was macht B währenddessen? Nichts. Sie steht da wie ein Roboter und versucht weder ihren Mann zu schützen, noch Solange zu beruhigen. Die perfekte Fassade ist am bröckeln. Und ich kann's kaum erwarten den Grund für diese Eskapade zu erfahren. Das wird sehr an Queen Beys perfektem Image zerren, auch wenn sie keinen Finger gerührt hat. Vielleicht gerade deswegen.
Aber so läuft es doch auch bei all unseren Münchner Elite Familien, wenn wir doch mal ehrlich sind. Zumindest bei den meisten. So viele Skandale, so viel Hass und Streit hinter den privaten Mauern, hinter den verschlossenen Türen und hinter den perfekten Fassaden. Es gibt so Vieles, was wir noch nicht wissen. Ich wäre wahrscheinlich 5 Jahre lang ununterbrochen am Bloggen, wenn alle Geheimnisse auf einmal herauskämen. Ein kleines Geheimnis habe ich heute dennoch für euch:
Die Eltern von K.E. befinden sich gerade in der Anfangsphase ihrer Scheidung. Warum? Daddy hatte eine jahrelange Affäre mit seiner Sekretärin. Klingt total nach Hollywood-Kitsch, ist aber wirklich so passiert. Und das aller schlimmste: Er will weder das Haus, das Auto, noch sonstiges Geld abgeben und laut Ehevertrag hat ihre Mutter auch keinerlei Anspruch darauf. Outsch.
Da sieht man mal wieder: Life creates art (und nicht umgekehrt!).
Hier das Video zu Solange, Beyonce und Jay Z im Fahrstuhl. Unfassbar.
http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_6lrpg6kh


xoxo GossipGirl