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🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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In the aftermath of Sophie's brutal Twitter ratioing (The Night of the Dirty Legs), Andy decided we should revisit the classic essay "Washing... or Brainwashing" from Crimethinc's in/famous 2000 book Days of War, Nights of Love. We discover that nobles are savage, washing your landlords' blood off your shirt is bourgeois and that deodorant is capitalism negging you.
Mostly we are just sober and dumb and talking about eating human shit.
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0:00.0 | Over time, cleanliness became a measure with which the halves separated themselves from the |
0:05.6 | have-nots. Those who possessed the wealth and power required to have the leisure to remain |
0:10.1 | indoors, inactive, scorned the peasants and travelers whose lifestyles involved |
0:15.0 | getting their hands and bodies dirty. This is all true so far. Throughout our |
0:18.9 | Yeah, this is all very reasonable actually so far. Crime think is good. |
0:22.4 | Throughout our history we can see the cleanly reasonable actually so far. Crime think is good. |
0:23.0 | Throughout our history, we can see the cleanliness has been used as a standard of worth by those |
0:28.2 | with power to ascribe social status and thus the godly, the self-proclaimed holy ones who stood above the rest of us in hierarchical |
0:35.6 | society, proclaimed that their cleanliness bought with the labor of the others who were forced |
0:40.1 | to work for them was a measure of their godliness and superiority. |
0:44.1 | Go off. |
0:45.1 | We're all across the way. |
0:46.1 | To this day we accept this traditional belief that being clean according to social |
0:51.1 | norms is desirable in itself. |
0:53.6 | Ops to crime think they got me man this is fucking great. |
0:56.6 | Go on something. |
0:57.6 | Yeah, take it. |
0:58.6 | It should be clear from the history of our ideas about cleanliness that anyone who is critical of |
1:04.8 | mainstream values any radical or punk rocker should be extremely |
1:09.7 | suspicious of the great value place on being clean according to traditional standards. |
1:15.0 | Besides, what exactly does clean mean? |
1:18.0 | Indeed, what does it mean? |
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