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Elite overproduction is an incomplete meme because it fails to grasp the featureless middle space that most elite aspirants actually occupy. They are neither rich enough for their financial concerns to be negligible but also are not in any meaningful sense working class https://twitter.com/shoe_sticky/status/1342623372509728768
This has always been true to some degree but where failed elites may have typically LARPed upward by overpaying for luxury goods and inflating the importance of their jobs, current failed elites LARP downward as working class.
So what we get are a bunch of lawyers and profs and NGOcrats desperate, as a matter of political self-understanding, for solidarity with blue-collar workers. The real tension is that they actually hate blue-collar people and all their backward beliefs...
Even worse, these efforts are ofc completely inauthentic, and the profs and lawyers are in the end just a part of the same big middle class blob as the rest of us which for a certain kind of person is the most horrifying fate of all and what they’re really acting out against.
Note how “marginalization” operates in place of capital in certain insulated social/political worlds like the one this person lives in...unlike capital, which is easy to come by, marginalization offers these people real scarcity, and therefore real status distinctions. https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1342876800804941824
This person sounds very rich, so it’s a bit different than the lawyer complaining about law school debt making a mere 150k, but one gets the sense that this person suffers from the same basic dissatisfaction: no way to distinguish themselves from the big blobby middle class
What is a girl to do in a world where there is no high culture to reflect your superior tastes, and worse yet where a boorish, red-state Ski-Doo wholesaler can afford the same vacation to Bora Bora as you?
Invent an ideology to create new opportunities for scarcity, I guess.
Invent an ideology to create new opportunities for scarcity, I guess.
