The GOP is actively trying to impoverish the entire globe in the vain hope that a few low-skill, low-education Rust Belt male swing voters will return to work at a domestic assembly line.
I feel like it's a cousin of "he won't really do what he says." There's this version of denial where you talk about the toasters not being worth the jobs, but still think, in reality, nothing will actually change and you'll still have your cheap toaster.
But it's harder to deny once you say subsistence.
Fascism is an aesthetic, not an idea. Clocking in at your factory job is part of the aesthetic. Subsistence farming isn't.
(I always like to imagine today's Nazis clocking in at that factory job in the 50s, where they'll work next to a tough-as-nails WW2 vet who won't tolerate their trash very long.
"Fascism is an aesthetic, not an idea. Clocking in at your factory job is part of the aesthetic. Subsistence farming isn't." Well-put. Subsistence is unaesthetic.
I feel like their obsession with certain aspect of Catholicism can be explained in a same way - they want that aesthetic (and their hierarchy ig?) but not quite sure if they give af about actual teaching (I’m saying this as someone very secular who’s technically Buddhist lol
Learning about the extent to which it’s possible for a woman to take for granted her privileged reality is THE reason why I stay subscribed to your Substack. This subject is clearly on your mind a lot, and it’s clear, throughout your articles, that you hold yourself above those whom you deem lesser than yourself. This, contrary to what your arrogant ego tells you, is a fiction… in reality, the “unskilled” labour you’re referring to requires a degree of skill that you would falter and fail to achieve even 10% of. In a free, and therefore intrinsically competitive market, there is NO such thing as “unskilled labour”. The blue collar men you so love to shit on would talk you under a table with two hands full of ho (a hoe in the right, and you in the left).
I feel like it's a cousin of "he won't really do what he says." There's this version of denial where you talk about the toasters not being worth the jobs, but still think, in reality, nothing will actually change and you'll still have your cheap toaster.
But it's harder to deny once you say subsistence.
Fascism is an aesthetic, not an idea. Clocking in at your factory job is part of the aesthetic. Subsistence farming isn't.
(I always like to imagine today's Nazis clocking in at that factory job in the 50s, where they'll work next to a tough-as-nails WW2 vet who won't tolerate their trash very long.
"Fascism is an aesthetic, not an idea. Clocking in at your factory job is part of the aesthetic. Subsistence farming isn't." Well-put. Subsistence is unaesthetic.
I feel like their obsession with certain aspect of Catholicism can be explained in a same way - they want that aesthetic (and their hierarchy ig?) but not quite sure if they give af about actual teaching (I’m saying this as someone very secular who’s technically Buddhist lol
Learning about the extent to which it’s possible for a woman to take for granted her privileged reality is THE reason why I stay subscribed to your Substack. This subject is clearly on your mind a lot, and it’s clear, throughout your articles, that you hold yourself above those whom you deem lesser than yourself. This, contrary to what your arrogant ego tells you, is a fiction… in reality, the “unskilled” labour you’re referring to requires a degree of skill that you would falter and fail to achieve even 10% of. In a free, and therefore intrinsically competitive market, there is NO such thing as “unskilled labour”. The blue collar men you so love to shit on would talk you under a table with two hands full of ho (a hoe in the right, and you in the left).