PREVIEW: History is a Weapon 5 - The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (2/2)

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Matt Christman and Sean KB bring our story of suburbia up to the present moment, when the periphery is in crisis and urban areas are suffering late-stage gentrification: How was Los Angeles the archetypal American city? Who developed suburbia and why? Which class interests are upheld by the primacy of real estate in American political economy? And whither suburban life in the 21st century?

All this and more along with an analysis of that class fraction everyone's talking about these days: the PrOfEsSiOnAL MaNaGeRiAL CLaSs!

Listen to the full episode and Part I at: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

Outro: CSNY - Our House

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0:00.0	Life under capitalism is alienated.
0:02.0	It's alienating.
0:02.6	And an alienated life will seek some sort of redress.
0:07.1	It seeks some sort of mission, some sort of way forward.
0:12.2	And of course, you know know the real mission is is is socialism it is the mission is us coming together as a as a species
0:19.2	Coming into coming into be into species awareness to overthrow these artificial constraints and live fully for the first time.
0:28.0	But barring that, but barring that and with that is
0:37.0	because it is so destroyed by the culture around you You end up flailing and especially the the greed the greater degree the
0:41.0	Which you are isolated and your life is mediated, the greater
0:46.0	to agree to which that flailing will be reactionary and futile.
0:50.2	And fucking weird.
0:51.4	And weird.
0:52.4	Like yeah, like you've got people, the cue people, holy shit.
0:55.7	The peep, like I remember I saw a cue video of this, uh, honestly kind of a very attractive older blonde woman.
1:02.8	Oh I saw this. This was insane.
1:04.4	She looked like she was on about 500 bars of Xanax.
1:08.4	She should not have been driving a vehicle.
1:10.0	Nice ranger over though.
1:11.0	Yeah, beautiful car. And she's just describing Q and she's saying
1:15.2	Q is you. He was me. He was a movement. I mean this is like this person could have been, you know,
1:21.5	and a fucking oh high California in like 1972 like
1:26.6	overdosing on acid you know they could have been in a fucking oh-night
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