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Seeing the success of those at the top - and all the glory and status that comes alongside this success - encourages working class men to fantasise about how much better life could be if they could just beat the competition and win for once. These fantasies are just as much about being treated with dignity and respect as they are about controlling resouces.
The economic anxiety being experienced throughout the American working class isn’t just about economics – it’s about identity.
Why Trump Won - Grace Blakeley
Substack
Some episodes are so shocking that for two or three days politicians and pundits sprinkle their heads with ashes and promise to establish new rules, and to pass restrictive laws. But it’s only crocodile tears. The spread of weapons continues unabated.
The idea that we are exchanging modes of reading that have been largely dominant in Western societies for the past few centuries for new technologically mediated modes of reading that have more in common with the centuries in which books were chained and the life of the mind was seen as a threat to the spiritual order maintained by the Church should not strike any sane observer as a hopeful or desirable development.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
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