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Originally Posted by roachboy
tropple:
i was referring to this:
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however, what you seemed to be saying was that if you were not socially authorized--if you were not already assimilated as "the person who dissents" into a normally operational cultural space--and thereby perhaps trivialized---you should make nice. that would perhaps make sense if behind all this, unspoken, worked the assumption that cultural markets are rational and that the best stuff being produced at any given time is somehow assimilated into them. but this assumption is manifestly false---just look around.
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Well, not exactly. The point was not that a dissenter must be "approved," but that a person making a living from the marketplace must be acceptable to that market, or in this case the market's owner. It's an economic consideration... That's why boycotts and letters to advertisers over programming content are usually effective.
The point is that if you are independent you are no longer subject to the whims of anyone else to pay the rent and buy the groceries, hence the mention of trust fund kiddies and the rich.
(For the record, I am not a bush supporter. None of parties managed field a candidate I liked.)