I really like your point about Marxism, it makes me think about how people on here sometimes just refuse to discuss markets when they’re complaining about some sort of cultural development that is clearly downstream from changes in the way corporate culture works.
Yeah, like all the things they hate about literature are a direct result of corporate conglomerization at every level of the book production and sale process.
It's funny. I follow a self avowed white marxist who only wrote about online culture and never learned anything. But you're just a normal person who reads books and I feel like I've learned a lot T.T
I'm fascinated by the idea of education being a gateway to middle class life. I spent the entirety of my 20s in poverty. And even now I make less than the national average for US employees. Though it doesn't help that I just wandered around from job to job with no vision or aspiration. And no one else my age in my family had gone to college.
Do you take notes as you read? Or do you just have a great memory??
I don't take notes. I do try, when reading non-fiction, to stop and ask myself, do I really understand what they're saying here? And if i don't, I read some background material (usually by googling for glosses on the book in question) until I do. I've found it's really helpful for me to learn the same thing several times. Like I'll read a novel about a time/place, then I'll read a book about it, then I'll listen to a podcast. Each covers the same events, but hearing them repeated or re-explained is more useful to me than just trying to study up on the subject.
I agree that the aspiration has really broken down and worn off for lots of people. Look at this immense wave of grad student unionizing--that happened because these students no longer believe that they will ever be professors. Same thing when a college kid unionizes their Starbucks--they're realizing they might be at this place a long fucking time. It's not just a waystation.
But just as the industrial proleteriat didn't lead to socialism, I dunno if the aspirational class will either! Maybe they'll just finally get us our six hour work-day.
Happy there is a real leftist amongst my readership tho!!! Probably a majority of my readers are to the right of me.
I really like your point about Marxism, it makes me think about how people on here sometimes just refuse to discuss markets when they’re complaining about some sort of cultural development that is clearly downstream from changes in the way corporate culture works.
Yeah, like all the things they hate about literature are a direct result of corporate conglomerization at every level of the book production and sale process.
I love that you read Marx. And I love that you gave props to your mom.
LOL! I was really impressed seeing her keynote. I knew my mom was very smart and good, but seeing it in action was something else.
It's funny. I follow a self avowed white marxist who only wrote about online culture and never learned anything. But you're just a normal person who reads books and I feel like I've learned a lot T.T
I'm fascinated by the idea of education being a gateway to middle class life. I spent the entirety of my 20s in poverty. And even now I make less than the national average for US employees. Though it doesn't help that I just wandered around from job to job with no vision or aspiration. And no one else my age in my family had gone to college.
Do you take notes as you read? Or do you just have a great memory??
That's so sweet! Thank you!
I don't take notes. I do try, when reading non-fiction, to stop and ask myself, do I really understand what they're saying here? And if i don't, I read some background material (usually by googling for glosses on the book in question) until I do. I've found it's really helpful for me to learn the same thing several times. Like I'll read a novel about a time/place, then I'll read a book about it, then I'll listen to a podcast. Each covers the same events, but hearing them repeated or re-explained is more useful to me than just trying to study up on the subject.
I agree that the aspiration has really broken down and worn off for lots of people. Look at this immense wave of grad student unionizing--that happened because these students no longer believe that they will ever be professors. Same thing when a college kid unionizes their Starbucks--they're realizing they might be at this place a long fucking time. It's not just a waystation.
But just as the industrial proleteriat didn't lead to socialism, I dunno if the aspirational class will either! Maybe they'll just finally get us our six hour work-day.
Happy there is a real leftist amongst my readership tho!!! Probably a majority of my readers are to the right of me.