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Most MANGOs (Media, Academia/Arts, NGO) think of themselves as powerless, marginal, outsiders. Some other, critical MANGOs think MANGOs are all-powerful. Both are wrong, and both are ideological in the specific sense of creating a vision of the world that suits their interests.

no mainstream publication would mention this, but what trump is doing with DOGE etc is really just a continuation of the ongoing “structural adjustment” of the economy in the US, he’s just been more public about it, whereas most politicians equivocate bc the policies are vicious.

thank you to the Bunga boys for giving us the phrase "Lasch reductionist"

"The notion of the PMC given by Barbara Ehrenreich in the 70s included technicians...but today [among the anti-woke] it's been reduced to professional communicators and storytellers; they're not really 'money people'..." - Alex Hochuli 🇰🇬🇲🇭🇰🇮🇸🇨🇲🇿 in convo with Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

One of the greatest force of deculturation currently operating is the liberal tenet that one must not show one’s preference for any particular thing over another (culturally speaking). Because what is a culture but a particular set of linked preferences?

Marx predicted the full proletarianization of society (specifically middle class proprietors/artisans). The PMC was the 20th C counter to this thesis (the Ehrenreichs were grappling w/ this). By proletarianizing the PMC, perhaps AI will fulfill capital’s historic mission. 🤗

The dual liberalisms of boomerism. A naive liberalism in the realm of ideas and policy (hardening into an increasingly illiberal orthodoxy) combined with boomer economic liberalism: the conversion of national economies into giant housing bubbles to fund mass boomer retirement.

twitter so broke i spent the entire train ride looking at the view

2022: “OMG! Elon is a genius! His bold leadership shows that we can make mass tech layoffs with no impact on the user experience at all! Let’s make this an industry standard.” Today:

The PMC have the ability to use their idea-making skillset to stay ahead of AI. Proles have no comparable maneuver available to them. Of course, many PMCs (esp those overadapted to mere formula-spouting rather than idea-making) will not be able to make use of this aspect of their

Heard Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost say on a recent pod that wokeness was ideological legitimization for 2010s PMC downsizing -- e.g. replacing expansive "knowledge for its own sake" sense of humanities with a leaner, politically instrumentalized version.

This trend where academics write entire books about theorists they think are bad so as to warn people about them/help the state manage their followers is not good for theory It's voyeuristic & primarily concerned w/managing an other. Similar to 19th c. anthropology