He peppers his nihilism with talk of revolution, bummed cigarettes, working-class frustrations, desperation, self-destruction and romance on the eve of the apocalypse.
But "sharing the burden" became a central rallying call for several parties running in the January elections, including Yesh Atid, the party led by Finance Minister Yair Lapid, which tapped into middle-class frustrations and came in second.
Though certain forms of regulated violence have always existed to set the upper classes apart – such as jousting and fox hunting – many others have existed as an outlet for working-class frustrations.
Although he had bit parts in The Devil's Rain (1975) and Carrie (1976), Travolta did not become a film star until the release of Saturday Night Fever (1977), the story of a Brooklyn youth who escapes his working-class frustrations by becoming king of the local dance floor on Saturday nights.
Silva, by contrast, has tapped into middle-class frustrations with corruption and a sluggish economy that has crawled for the past two years and slipped into recession last month (partly because there were so many public holidays during the World Cup).
The right's resounding defeat, however, isn't simply a case of its inability to tap into middle-class frustration.
Republican candidates are going to keep doing what they have done for a long time, with frequent success: stoking middle-class frustration and directing it at Democrats.
But she lost many voters in the more affluent south-eastern cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro due to middle-class frustration with the moribund economy and corruption scandals.
By the mid-19th century, middle-class frustration with the deterioration of the cities had led to the passage of laws regulating public behaviour and creating new public institutions of social control and coercion penitentiaries, asylums, and police forces.
