I can get on board with the idea that to other people and other classes the things you aspire to achieve are silly, and the way you act to get those things is ridiculous.

But the idea that the blue collar workers and elites "get it" while the bourgeoisie are fooling themselves comes across as ... self loathing, perhaps?

You could just as easily make the argument that the aspirations of the blue collar are shallow and meaningless. And or the elites are sociopathic because, hey, we all turn to dust in the end.