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have been trying to stay away cause this is going to mean ranting...been picking over this...
The unthinking, herdlike, Pop Idol-watching masses and people who use terms like "the unthinking, herdlike, Pop Idol-watching masses"
very nice and easy if you don't have to deal, as i suspect those of you who subscribe to this, don't..but pretty crappy as a cultural attitude nonetheless. nice and easy to be so vitriolic if this isn't yr stuff...yr defining yrself against it pretty strong, which suggests a certain level of comfort/distance.
but my imagining that such folks should be instantly reborn as those they despise for a bit of fucking understanding and empathy. to realise how fucking close/unable to be superior they are, is prolly on the same scale.
have been yr sketch. am now.
and not swopped back, as to them, being viewed as part of the appalling(sp?) working class, tabloid-driven lumpenproles would probably be the worse fate poss. gah.
doubt it would produce any empathy, sadly, but would be fucking amusing.
as well as:
theoretical multiculturalists/queerists.
who are very sweet at times, and very useful. not decrying them but for duality purposes...
it's very easy to put 'woolly liberals who don't belong to these groups but feel that they should stand alongside'/to feel that they can talk to overpatroniised members of these groups who have to deal with the crap.
Which is not to say that sympathisers have no validity, but more a personal thing of realising that very few people I know share my viewpoint and are unable to. Because I'm a reasonably sucessful 2nd gen kid and am broadly middle class, I guess, prolly lower middle if you asked me to define.
And the successful bit relates to having done a wee bit of social climbing. (anyone else have this?), and so being in my case apparently about leaving the very definitely non-english stuff behind. so being with people who can't really appreciate where I've come from. that's what we're meant to aspire to.
And the rest is about being very fucking aware that i'm really fucking lucky not to have to deal with the extra shit of being non-white and nonetheless I still have to be twice as good as the next person to attain career goals.
an interesting paradox. or fucking annoying..
sorry, this seemed topical at the time.
so - white - non-white.
a duality that all over the western world has big fuck off impact.
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