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it would be neat if people said the phrase "we have a ruling class" with the intensity and frequency they constantly tell everybody to vote
it could be used to clarify and end so many other stupid tropes, too!

"Sir, how dare you, the hypocrisy of --" RULING CLASS
"I can't believe Susan --" RULING CLASS
"How could the Democ --" RULING CLASS

see, it's easy!
"I keep voting but the people I vote for out of necessity still keep betraying and then shaming me for not voting for some rea" -- RULING CLASS
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cannot get over the miserably impoverished understanding of life and community implied by hailing some asshole's sending boutique cars down a private tunnel as a visionary breakthrough
IIRC Mbembe has a bit in his necropolitics essay about the spatialization and intensification of inequality as exemplified by highway overpasses erected over tent cities packed with refugees - which is this, but somehow even more wasteful, ugly, and stupid
the country where kids still can't get safe drinking water in their schools embracing a future of bespoke, sheltered underground transport for four Tesla-owning assholes at a time. what a worthless future
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I think this is precisely right. And in a related way, the outsize enthusiasm with which he's celebrated is *because* of his mediocrity. It models and exemplifies a pathway to success and celebrity for young people who otherwise fear for their own future and basic likeability.
To wax a little analytic, and borrowing an insight from a friend, it's not dissimilar to why so much pornography involves average or even unattractive men together w/ outrageously attractive (by, as it were, conventional standards) women: the men offer a screen for projection.
That these examples are all about tropes MALE desire and models FOR MEN is precisely the point. The Shapiro phenomenon is deeply gendered, it's a role model for a certain kind of insecure young man who, among other things, thinks sneering is the same thing as being smart.
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a follower from abroad recently observed a very distinctively american disinterest in even the most meager historical accounts of the origins of various ideas, and I admit I have been thinking about this constantly ever since
why not just impose your own cursory prosthesis of origin on a concept like emotional labor? why acknowledge any of hundreds of books written about something like "neoliberalism" when you can just say it means nothing more than you're experience of being called names online?
the key tell in all these debates is that the defense people take is invariably a type of projective offense: it's not you, but the people who are trying to tell you about the origins or context for an idea who are the ones "making it mean whatever you want"
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Its exactly what Corbyn himself voted for, remain. And the "whole country" doesn't have the same interests, the workers interests are diametrically opposed to the exploiters, both EU & the British variety. But Corbyn will never admit that.

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