26 January 2010
fetishism of the bourgeoisie
Current government policy: 'we can't let the people who fucked up the country leave! if we spend more on education we might lose the bankers! If we spend more on education then people in hospitals will die - is that what you want, you bastard academic?!'
Is this hatred for the public servant a sex thing?! Are public workers simply not hottt enough?! If we rebrand the left/people who give a shit about something slightly bigger than their uptight pot o'gold, will people stop fetishising the super-rich? Having a bunch of mediation in your bank is historically surely one of the most obscure kinds of appeal there is: money is the utopian promise of a future that never comes - ha, perhaps we should be trying to get capitalists to be utopian in a different way...the communism of capitalism indeed.
Middle managers have learnt to speak the language of the bleeding-heart liberal without the politics: 'we know you're a good worker, we value you so much, you make such a valuable contribution' yet 'well, we all know that the budget is tight, I know it's hard but we have to make cuts, blah blah blah'. The murkiness and compromise of current political language is an admission that those that talk in that way have compromised their basic capacity to be human, to talk about anything at all. It's not even moral, it's biological.
UPDATE: Evan says: 'yes, it is a sex thing. Which is why we're busy trying to make communism sexier than capitalism for the first time in a long while, at least autonomia wore fitted trousers and Kollontai gave Eros wings and a haircut.'
Is this hatred for the public servant a sex thing?! Are public workers simply not hottt enough?! If we rebrand the left/people who give a shit about something slightly bigger than their uptight pot o'gold, will people stop fetishising the super-rich? Having a bunch of mediation in your bank is historically surely one of the most obscure kinds of appeal there is: money is the utopian promise of a future that never comes - ha, perhaps we should be trying to get capitalists to be utopian in a different way...the communism of capitalism indeed.
Middle managers have learnt to speak the language of the bleeding-heart liberal without the politics: 'we know you're a good worker, we value you so much, you make such a valuable contribution' yet 'well, we all know that the budget is tight, I know it's hard but we have to make cuts, blah blah blah'. The murkiness and compromise of current political language is an admission that those that talk in that way have compromised their basic capacity to be human, to talk about anything at all. It's not even moral, it's biological.
UPDATE: Evan says: 'yes, it is a sex thing. Which is why we're busy trying to make communism sexier than capitalism for the first time in a long while, at least autonomia wore fitted trousers and Kollontai gave Eros wings and a haircut.'
