History Main / BourgeoisBohemian

* Johnny Silverhand in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', is a downplayed version. He's a BombThrowingAnarchist who frequently criticizes people for being part of the System and not standing up to the Man, which is perfectly valid considering the dystopian setting, and there is absolutely no reason to believe that Johnny is anything less than absolutely sincere in his beliefs. But unlike most of the people he yells at, Johnny is also a wealthy rockstar for whom money was never an issue.

* The [[Radio/GTARadio show-within-the-game]] ''Impotent Rage'' in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' is a mocking parody of this trope. Its protagonist Braxton Hunter is a billionaire liberal CEO who moonlights as the titular superhero like a mix of [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] and Ted Turner, and whose efforts to help the world [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inevitably make things worse]]. His ArchEnemy, the {{Uberm|ensch}}an, is an ultra-libertarian CorruptCorporateExecutive who [[CardCarryingVillain destroys the environment simply because it's fun]] and [[TheBadGuyWins frequently thwarts Impotent Rage]] largely due to [[FailureHero the latter's own incompetence]].

* Music/PhilOchs' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw Love Me, I'm a Liberal]]" attacks this type from the left.

** Tanya is a 60-something wealthy white woman who loves holistic wellness and is impressed when she thinks a date is involved with Black Lives Matter. However, she ultimately falls short of her ideals when she [[spoiler:gets a working-class black woman, Belinda, believing that she's going to bankroll a business with her only to abandon Belinda (with a huge tip) to work on herself]].

* Jonah in ''Series/SuperStore'' is a college educated metrosexual leftist who is the son of two psychologists. He cares a lot about social and political issues. The other employees constantly give him shit for it, Garrett especially. This part of his personality eventually develops into leading the attempt to unionise the store, and later he decides to run for city council.

* The Quinns of ''Series/You2018''. Parents Ray and Dottie are old money Californians who started a hip, ethical grocery store named Anavrin (Nirvana backwards); their GranolaGirl daughter Love manages one. They're introduced at their 30-year vow renewal (called a "Wellkend"), where guests dress in linen, affirm each other, do weed, "confront their inner id", the works. However, they turn out to be abusive parents.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', when defending Cadmus' preparations against the Justice League, Green Arrow refers to himself as "an old lefty" and says that "the government must do for people what people can't do for themselves." While he's ultimately proven wrong about Cadmus, he's still portrayed as sympathetic and sincere.

* Johnny Silverhand in ''VideoGame/Cyperpunk2077'', is a downplayed version. He's a BombThrowingAnarchist who frequently criticizes people for being part of the System and not standing up to the Man, which is perfectly valid considering the dystopian setting, and there is absolutely no reason to believe that Johnny is anything less than absolutely sincere in his beliefs. But unlike most of the people he yells at, Johnny is also a wealthy rockstar for whom money was never an issue.

Often someone's HippieParents, and often SelfMadeMan and NouveauRiche, having earned their comfortable living after a poor and rebellious youth. Compare with {{Yuppie}} which is what a Bourgeois Bohemian would've been during TheEighties had they been more materialistic, class conscious, and obsessed with SimpleYetOpulent ConspicuousConsumption.

The trope originated as an insulting depiction in the 1890s, and among Socialists rather than the nationalists, with Populists in the United States and Labourites in Britain using it to mock their more bourgeois liberal/socialist counterparts. These people have also been called "champagne socialists" in the U.K., "gauche caviar" in France, and "limousine liberals" or "latte liberals" in the U.S. Anti-liberal and anti-socialist nationalists and conservatives began to co-opt it in the mid-20th century. The [[TropeNamer term itself]], however, comes from the [[NewerThanTheyThink 2000]] book ''Bobos in Paradise'' by ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers The New York Times]]''[='=]s conservative columnist David Brooks. Brooks identified Bourgeois Bohemians -- "bobos" for short -- as Baby Boomers like himself who had grown up with the individualistic, do-it-yourself ethos of the 1960s counterculture, but now found themselves in TheNineties as well-off middle-aged professionals.

The trope originated as an insulting depiction in the 1890s, and among Socialists rather than the nationalists, with Populists in the United States and Labourites in Britain using it to mock their more bourgeois liberal/socialist counterparts. These people have also been called "champagne socialists" in the U.K., "gauche caviar" in France, and "limousine liberals" or "latte liberals" in the U.S. Anti-liberal and anti-socialist nationalists and conservatives began to co-opt it in the mid-20th century. The [[TropeNamer term itself]], however, comes from the [[NewerThanTheyThink 2000]] book ''Bobos in Paradise'' by ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers The New York Times]]''[='=]s conservative columnist David Brooks. Brooks identified "bobos" as Baby Boomers like himself who had grown up with the individualistic, do-it-yourself ethos of the 1960s counterculture, but now found themselves in TheNineties as well-off middle-aged professionals.

* Johnny Silverhand in ''VideoGame/Cyperpunk2077'', is a downplayed version. He's a BombThrowingAnarchist who frequently criticizes people for being part of the System and not standing up to the Man, which is perfectly valid considering the dystopian setting. But Johnny is also a wealthy rockstar for whom money was never an issue.

[[StrawmanPolitical Unsympathetic examples]] of the trope will often be portrayed as being hypocritical about their wealth, criticizing other wealthy elites while sharing much of their lifestyle. Sympathetic portrayals will usually suggest that progressive principles and wealth aren't incompatible, and may, in fact, invoke such ideals as the "Gospel of wealth" or ''noblesse oblige'' as a justification for it.

* ''Series/{{Dickinson}}'': Thoreau came off like this. Despite his claims about "living alone in the woods" he was actually right near civilization, his mother doing the cooking and his laundry. He's a well-off man who can quit this whenever he'd like, and is only indulging in this haphazardly to make a point of valuing nature.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', when defending Cadmus' preparations against the Justice League, Green Arrow refers to himself as "an old lefty" and says that "the government must do for people what people can't do for themselves." While he's ultimately proven wrong about Cadmus, he's still portrayed as sympathetic and sincere.

* ''Series/{{Dickinson}}'': Thoreau came off like this. Despite his claims about "living alone in the woods" he was actually write near civilization, his mother doing the cooking and his laundry. He's a well-off man who can quit this whenever he'd like, and is only indulging in this haphazardly to make a point of valuing nature.

* ''Series/{{Dickinson}}'': Thoreau came off like this. Despite his claims about "living alone in the woods" he was actually write near civilization, his mother doing the cooking and his laundry. He's a well-off man who can quit this whenever he'd like, and is only indulging in this half-hazardly to make a point of valuing nature.

The trope originated as an insulting depiction in the 1890s, and among Socialists rather than the nationalists, with Populists in the United States and Labourites in Britain using it to mock their more bourgeois liberal/socialist counterparts. These people have also been called "champagne socialists" in the U.K., "gauche caviar" in France, and "limousine liberals" in the U.S. Anti-liberal and anti-socialist nationalists and conservatives began to co-opt it in the mid-20th century. The [[TropeNamer term itself]], however, comes from the [[NewerThanTheyThink 2000]] book ''Bobos in Paradise'' by ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers The New York Times]]''[='=]s conservative columnist David Brooks. Brooks identified "bobos" as Baby Boomers like himself who had grown up with the individualistic, do-it-yourself ethos of the 1960s counterculture, but now found themselves in TheNineties as well-off middle-aged professionals.

Often someone's HippieParents, and often SelfMadeMan and NouveauRiche, having earned their comfortable living after a poor and rebellious youth.

See also: TheManIsStickingItToTheMan, RichKidTurnedSocialActivist, RuleAbidingRebel, FoxNewsLiberal, and UpperClassTwit. If the aging character becomes conservative rather than retains their counterculture values, they're a FormerTeenRebel. BourgeoisBumpkin is ''almost'' this trope, but with the political ideology flipped and combined with ItsAllAboutMe. Also compare with {{Yuppie}} which is what a Bourgeois Bohemian would've been during TheEighties had they been more materialist, obsessed with SimpleYetOpulent ConspicuousConsumption, and class conscious. CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority may motivate young {{Hipster}} Bobos.

This has nothing to do with the upper-middle class citizens of a region in the UsefulNotes/CzechRepublic.

* British cartoonist Posy Simmonds spent much of the 1980s satirising this type of person in her comic strips for ''The Guardian'', whose readership tended that way.

See also: TheManIsStickingItToTheMan, RichKidTurnedSocialActivist, RuleAbidingRebel, FoxNewsLiberal, and UpperClassTwit. If the aging character becomes conservative rather than retains their counterculture values, they're a FormerTeenRebel. BourgeoisBumpkin is ''almost'' this trope, but with the political ideology flipped and combined with ItsAllAboutMe. Also compare with {{Yuppie}} which is what a Bourgeois Bohemian would've been during TheEighties had they been openly materialist, obsessed with SimpleYetOpulent ConspicuousConsumption, and class conscious. CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority may motivate young {{Hipster}} Bobos.

See also: TheManIsStickingItToTheMan, RichKidTurnedSocialActivist, RuleAbidingRebel, FoxNewsLiberal, {{Yuppie}}, and UpperClassTwit. If the aging character becomes conservative rather than retains their counterculture values, they're a FormerTeenRebel. BourgeoisBumpkin is ''almost'' this trope, but with the political ideology flipped and combined with ItsAllAboutMe. CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority may motivate young {{Hipster}} Bobos.