I'm There is. There's a show. Ron.

How's everybody doing it's a unnervingly beautiful day in New York

hey I was walking here hello sweatness my old friend I've come to speak with you

again it was it was a wad it was well wild how warm it was. So the last couple of

streams I've been sort of trying to sketch out a working theory for a political

moment. And I think I'm getting there, but I think I thought I'd just take a break from

that for a bit. Let that stuff simmer a little bit when we think about it. I think I thought I'd just take a break from that for a bit let that

stuff simmer a little bit when we think about it I think I might end up expanding on

it in a different space than this feel like it's sort of I've gotten as far as I'm

gonna get talking about it on here so, stay tuned for something else where I kind

of flesh that out. But just last thing I say on the subject though before I kind of move on is,

I know a lot of people seem to be upset by what I'm saying about the idea of college educated

people composing some sort of cultural

elite now, like a class with its own characteristics. And I get why, because that's a claim

of a lot of dumbasses who want an excuse to become Republicans. I mean, that's the end of the

day, well, that's what that is. And I get that. I understand it.

And maybe it's my fault for not stressing enough that when I say it's a class, I don't mean an actual class in any marks a sense. I mean a pseudo-class.

We're talking about pseudo-classes in that they have something that is like class consciousness in that it informs their political actions, I either vote, which is all we do in America, mostly.

But their political actions are symbolic.

And their class awareness is totally illusory.

And it has nothing to do with their relationship to production.

It has nothing to do with, like, whether they're bad or good people because of their relationship to the mechanisms of exploitation. Like most Americans, they are both exploited and exploiters. It's all about how you see yourself and then what premises you operate from, that determine your political agency.

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