Our economic, class inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our midd
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Our economic, class inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class....
Our economic, class inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class....
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~ Greta Thunberg, 2019
I think Greta Thunberg is really neat!
SJG
And it gets worse and worse as industrial and information technology advance so they need to gut unions and environmental protections just to create more employment, and then to come to harsher and harsher condemnations of minorities and immigrants to justify the extreme economic stratification.
This started with Social Darwinism in the 1870's, going full force in the reactionary decade of the 1880's
SJG
It is more right wingers who seem to want to piss away money.
SJG
Why did he succeed while the Democratic voters of Detroit sit around claiming they are poor victims of our economic structure ?
Once someone has their biography trashed, de-legitimated, it is hard to do much accept hide in the underclass.
Only when political consciousness is raised and people start to score tangible victories, will this change.
The most fucked up groups are the ones which have lived here the longest. This is Whites and Blacks. Hispanics, Asians and Indians less.
SJG
During the early 1900s madame cj walker was a black millionaire. Do you dispute the systemic discrimination against blacks and women then because of her?
SJG
SJG
And this is how capitalism runs, by people seeking approval, playing to the herd. This is what Benjamin Franklin encouraged people to do, and this is what Calvinism is based on.
SJG
MC5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM44liYG…
And a vulgar middle-class is what James Joyce had one of his character in Dubliners call, "An obtuse middle-class that trusts its fine arts to impresarios".
The middle-class lives for social approval. Industrial capitalism created this.
SJG
It is like Deleuze and Guattari explain in their Anti-Oedipus. Capitalism scrambles social codes, and then replaces them with its own over codings.
So the way I would explain this is, traditional societies have a communitarian ethic. No one is left out, everyone is taken care of.
But Capitalism destroys this, sets people against each other. And then it comes up with its own over coding, which is the "Work Ethic". So you are further turning people against each other. People are now motivated by keeping up appearances, and they gain status by denigrating the popular scapegoats. And this is all so the the rich can get richer and the poor poorer.
And I also say that once someone's biography is delegitimated, they really have no chance unless they can find common cause in the underclass. And this is very hard because Christianity, motivationalism, psychotherapy, and the recovery movement are designed to destroy political consciousness and keep the poor from organizing and acting.
SJG
SJG
@Tetradon
“Greta Thunberg has likened her Asperger syndrome to a ‘superpower’ — some Fortune 500 employers appear to agree”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketw…
“When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go.
And then you know you’re winning!”
“The world is waking up...
And change is coming whether you like it or not.”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
~ Carl Sagan
~ Marcus Aurelius
Unless somebody makes $400 k or over a year I can’t c why they would vote republican. Those guys don’t even try hide the ball. Then the attack on women’s rights not to mention the Jan 6 govt. takeover attempt / big lie.
People need to unionize / find an angle they can work to survive. They need to reject values of being a slave to some Corp sweatshop being constantly dumped on and lied to by the people exploiting them.
The convience store thing that family had resources work their angle.
People need to union
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
~ Albert Einstein
The only thing which will change this is when people can organize and fight back and score some wins.
SJG
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skibum609
“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life,
but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—
whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Chill skibum609, Chill!"
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 , Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
:D
SJG