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Fighting Muggles!

san_jose_guy

money was invented for handing to women, but buying dances is a chump's game

I am fighting them ever single day!

A lot of what it seem to come down to is suburban thinking. Suburban thinking is what is displayed in Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling.

Suburban thinking is based on the idea that there are good people and bad people, and that the goal of life is to display yourself as one of the good people, and to set up communities with only good people. The main determinant of who is good and who is bad, is money.

The way Muggles look at it, good people measure up to social expectations, and most of all, they fulfill the expectations of their parents. Hence you have the good family.

And so they want to build a world which excludes bad people. If not excluding them, it at least subjugates them by pressing them into a penitent posture.

So Muggles believe that good people will always go along with normative politics. They believe that progressive politics is the domain of bad people, lazy, delinquent people, people who don't listen to their parents, people who don't live up to normative expectations.

Most Muggles are Republicans, but in areas where most people are Democrats, Muggles are pseudo Democrats, like Hilary Clinton.

Living in the suburbs does not necessarily cost more than living in a city, but in suburbs there is a much greater emphasis on the laws of property, and on separating the good people from the bad. In cities, strict enforcement of property laws becomes impossible. So many homeless and drifters.

The suburbs don't always cost more to live in, but they define themselves by strict enforcement. While I say it is about money, what it really is about is giving support for the ideologies of compliance, this actually outranks money. So its religion, upwards mobility and motivationalism. These are what I am fighting daily. I am fighting the ways that middle-class interests play out in local politics.

SJG

London must be an interesting place:
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In A Casual Vacancy, one woman, a social worker, had moved out to the small city from London, and one jr high school age by with the worst sort of jerk for a father, wanted to move to London.

Hermetic Hour
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