It's leisure-class over-analysis. For it to work, you have to be revealing something profound about the world, or analyzing the class gap itself (why some people don't have time to analyze).
This bit from Camus' The Plague has always stuck with me as analysis done right:
"He walks quickly. When crossing a street, he steps off the sidewalk without changing his pace, but two out of three times makes a little hop when he steps on to the sidewalk on the other side. He is absentminded and, when driving his car, often leaves his side-signals on after he has turned a corner. Always bareheaded. Looks knowledgeable."
sdwr|1 year ago
This bit from Camus' The Plague has always stuck with me as analysis done right:
"He walks quickly. When crossing a street, he steps off the sidewalk without changing his pace, but two out of three times makes a little hop when he steps on to the sidewalk on the other side. He is absentminded and, when driving his car, often leaves his side-signals on after he has turned a corner. Always bareheaded. Looks knowledgeable."