commodifying working class culture
Can also be applied to Hip Hop and punk.
London's poor fetish: commodifying working class culture
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#72I'm always reluctant to embrace something that is basically bemoaning "cultural malaise", especially with a rather obvious left-wing bent, BUT, it's very well written and offers several good points. In particular, this bit: "That their accent, speech patterns and knowledge of institutions, by their very deployment in the job market, perpetuate norms that exclude those who were born outside of the cultural elite." It'…
And working class people don't do social signalling? I find that hard to believe.
The most blatant social signalling of all is mostly seen in the working class: swathing yourself in your team colours.
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#73This is basically just Pulp's "Common People" in article form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM
I was about to write the very same comment before searching the page for "Pulp" to see if anyone else had made the same connection...
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what gives the author the right to blanketly declare the lives of the middle class to be souless, meaningless, and that their jobs are bullshit? Well, that's what modern life is under the TINA regime[1]. A whole society of people who've sold out every heroic ideal humans have ever conceived, in order to live as cells inside corporate organs of a hyper-capitalistic organism that would collapse if it stopped expandin…
Assuming that was not intended as a parity. Capitalism does not require net growth. People, things, culture and organisations decay. People get old, Teens in 2016 are not going to dress the same, listen to the same songs, or even read the same books from the 2015. The is a long cycle of banks flat out failing in good times and in bad. Clothing, Houses, Bridges, and Roads need to be replaced etc. Sure, in steady state…
> parity
You probably mean "parody" (they are pronounced very similarly)
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#75The worst thing about this article is how hilariously smug and self-assured the tone is. Seriously, what gives the author the right to blanketly declare the lives of the middle class to be souless, meaningless, and that their jobs are bullshit? How does he not realize that he is projecting his own insecurity and outdated ideas about "authenticity" on to these people. Honestly, I've found that most people don't really…
> what gives the author the right to blanketly declare the lives of the middle class to be souless, meaningless, and that their jobs are bullshit? Well, that's what modern life is under the TINA regime[1]. A whole society of people who've sold out every heroic ideal humans have ever conceived, in order to live as cells inside corporate organs of a hyper-capitalistic organism that would collapse if it stopped expandin…
Wake up, sheeple! http://i.imgur.com/YakV0LG.gif
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what gives the author the right to blanketly declare the lives of the middle class to be souless, meaningless, and that their jobs are bullshit? Well, that's what modern life is under the TINA regime[1]. A whole society of people who've sold out every heroic ideal humans have ever conceived, in order to live as cells inside corporate organs of a hyper-capitalistic organism that would collapse if it stopped expandin…
I, for one, believe that continued economic growth needs continued growth in global energy production, and that we will be unable to maintain this growth over the next century for thermodynamic reasons. This will be the big shit-hits-the-fan moment of the coming years, not climate change or wars. We literally have to throw centuries of economics out the window.
Solar energy is essentially untapped today (relative to output from fossil fuels), and we are in no danger of exhausting the supply of nuclear fuel in the near term.[0]
Eventually global energy production will taper off, but I would bet strongly against it being within the next century.
[0] http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Uranium...
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The middle class are damned if they do, damned if they don't by the author's argument. And yet if the middle class ask their representatives to scale back the very same social programs that provide the uber cool, uber cultural working and welfare classes that the author is idolizing here they are demonized in the extreme. Sure, the middle class give the working and welfare class schools, access to universities, free…
The middle class "give" the working class access to universities and free healthcare? Um, what ?
Yes, those who pay net taxes pay for those who don't to have access to university and free health care.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Except Americans despise snobbery or snobbish attitudes of any kind, its almost taboo, while the Brits embrace it. Ah, making sweeping generalisations of one demographic containing about 80m people and another of 330m people. Bound to be a good tactic.
From what I hear of the DAR and the WASP establishment that's not true its still major deal the Jeb Bush is a catholic.
It's not 1950. The WASPs lost their lock on the establishment around the time my father was born. The Ivy League graduate Liberal intelligentsia have been the establishment for 40 years on the outside.
Jeb's Catholicism is not a big deal for his electability or this would not be the first time I'd heard of it. By this time Mitt Romney's run I'd read multiple discussions on his Mormonism.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
The middle class "give" the working class access to universities and free healthcare? Um, what ?
What are you taking issue with? Keep in mind we're discussing the UK.
The middle class cannot give what is not theirs to give. What if the working class stopped working?
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#80Between white America's appropriation of black American pop culture and the rise of yuppie hipsterdom, this applies just as much to the U.S., doesn't it?
Really it's just Whites who are under attack.
When poor or redneck Whites live in their own way, the are characterized as uneducated violent brutes who are in need of education and culture.
And yet when middle class Whites act decently, they are attacked for their soullessness and lack of authenticity. They are criticized for being out of touch with poor people, by the same people who heap scorn on poor (White) people.
See my blog for a deconstruction of anti-racist ideology and its attack on White people.