Class oppression in America is largely based on access to secret knowledge that is never written down. This knowledge forms character, habits, social networks, info bubbles, and what positions you get herded into.
This is partially an evolved response to the social/legal inability to discriminate directly combined with the necessity of class hierarchy and distinction. But I wonder whether it has always been this way.
Most people's self-concept is a false consciousness that basically justifies and perpetuates their own oppression.
Not to say that there aren't other mechanisms, but it's shocking how much oppression is self-oppression because of bad ideas, where the good ideas are kept secret.
My favorite example is certain fashion choices that signal "I stay in my lane and self-enforce my subordinate class position". For example: flannel shirts outside of the woods.
People like to believe America doesn't have analogues to the Qing dynasty Han tonsure, but we do.
People like to believe America doesn't have analogues to the Qing dynasty Han tonsure, but we do.
Like internet-powered telepresence, literacy will always be a fake 10% substitute for the real thing.
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