Precis: k-punk thinks Kogan is irrelevant, outdated. Rest of us are anti-intellectual public school toffs who appear on clip shows and enforce kapitalist hegemony and generally oppress the masses. Finishes with this:
Contrary to the ‘it’s only hedonic stim’ deflationary move that both Stekelmanites and Popists share, popular culture remains immensely important, even if it only serves an essential ideological function as the background noise of a capitalist realism which naturalises environmental depredation, mental health plague and sclerotic social conditions in which mobility between classes is lessening towards zero.
A class war is being waged, but only one side is fighting.
There is a lot more going on in there, obv, so I am probably being a little unfair. Hell, many of the things that make him angry make me angry too, but the way he lays the blame on 'popism' is utterly maddening.
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Date: 2007-08-22 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-22 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-22 01:44 pm (UTC)Contrary to the ‘it’s only hedonic stim’ deflationary move that both Stekelmanites and Popists share, popular culture remains immensely important, even if it only serves an essential ideological function as the background noise of a capitalist realism which naturalises environmental depredation, mental health plague and sclerotic social conditions in which mobility between classes is lessening towards zero.
A class war is being waged, but only one side is fighting.
Choose your side. Choose your weapons.
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Date: 2007-08-22 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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