03-03-2021, 07:47 PM
(03-03-2021, 05:12 PM)Einzige Wrote:(03-03-2021, 05:59 AM)David Horn Wrote:(03-02-2021, 03:23 PM)Einzige Wrote: Fussell is wrong. Everything he considers as "middle" and below is proletarian. Everything above is bourgeois.
For this argument, let's say that's correct. Now, how many of the Middle think they are just workers with sheepskins? Not many, I think. most believe they're on par with the Upper Middle, just not as lucky as they are. Good luck fomenting a revolution on that.
Having a degree from a genuine college or university is still something of an elite characteristic. The College Boards weed out the scatterbrains, the simpletons, and the intellectually lazy. Such has always been intended since college admission started having a basis in intellectual merit instead of in already having the connections, when "legacy" admissions became more trouble than they were worth. Now people are more likely to drop out due to economic stress than due to intellectual inadequacy.
OK, I have understood that one characteristic that has nothing to do with social class has a role in students dropping out: heavy drinkers tend to drop out because alcoholism hurts academic performance.
Quote:(03-03-2021, 05:10 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-03-2021, 05:03 PM)David Horn Wrote:(03-03-2021, 02:10 PM)Einzige Wrote: Doesn't really matter what they believe. When the time comes, they will know.
Considering how long we've been waiting, I doubt it will ever happen. We've already passed 150 years since Das Capital was published. It's Marx seminal work. If not now, when?
The next awakening or crisis, though I doubt it will be violent. Violence is so Industrial Age. But the division of wealth is getting close to being the biggest problem with the culture. It is due to be addressed.
Have you watched the news lately?
Deutsche Welle occasionally exposes that part of Germany used to be officially hostile to capitalism. When aspects of American economic life resemble a Marxist stereotype, then America has a big problem. The problem isn't that people see something wrong with that.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.