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roachboy · 05-10-2009, 07:11 AM

so now the conservative set is getting pissy. fact is that it's only in your fantasy world that socio-economic opportunities are distributed evenly. in the real world, class position is an overwhelming determinant of possibilities. o sure, part of being conservative entails avoiding nasty ugly structural realities and substituting for it mythologies of the Execeptional Individual who through Gumption and Grit strides manfully off the pages of a horatio alger story and into 3-d where he Triumphs Over Adversity because this is Amurica dammit and that's what we do here, that's what amurica is about, these Exceptional Individuals who stride manfully off the pages of cheap stupid 19th century novels. so Everyboy Everywhere is an Exceptional Individual conditioned only by the level of Gumption and Grit poured into his skull by whomever wrote this cheap stupid novel that is amurica conservative style--nothing but Exceptional Individuals who manfully Compete with each other in the manly man arena of the Market and if one Exceptional Individual makes out better than another then dag gummit it Proves that there is a Gumption and Grit Gap. folk who do not fare well in the manly man world of competition are therefore Less in the Virtue Department. so if there are inequities, it's the fault of those who are trapped in them--if they were more Filled with manly Gumption and Grit--if they were more like you, in short, who is obviously the Hero of your own private Novel of amurica---they wouldn't be in that position of disadvantagedness.

there is no structure in this cheap stupid novel that conservatives substitute for social reality: no history, no institutions, no class, no effects of class.

this novel is published by the chump press and distributed free of charge through conservative media outlets everywhere.
you may enjoy reading it, you may prefer it to the world, but in the end it's just a novel.

05-10-2009, 07:11 AM	#112 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	so now the conservative set is getting pissy. fact is that it's only in your fantasy world that socio-economic opportunities are distributed evenly. in the real world, class position is an overwhelming determinant of possibilities. o sure, part of being conservative entails avoiding nasty ugly structural realities and substituting for it mythologies of the Execeptional Individual who through Gumption and Grit strides manfully off the pages of a horatio alger story and into 3-d where he Triumphs Over Adversity because this is Amurica dammit and that's what we do here, that's what amurica is about, these Exceptional Individuals who stride manfully off the pages of cheap stupid 19th century novels. so Everyboy Everywhere is an Exceptional Individual conditioned only by the level of Gumption and Grit poured into his skull by whomever wrote this cheap stupid novel that is amurica conservative style--nothing but Exceptional Individuals who manfully Compete with each other in the manly man arena of the Market and if one Exceptional Individual makes out better than another then dag gummit it Proves that there is a Gumption and Grit Gap. folk who do not fare well in the manly man world of competition are therefore Less in the Virtue Department. so if there are inequities, it's the fault of those who are trapped in them--if they were more Filled with manly Gumption and Grit--if they were more like you, in short, who is obviously the Hero of your own private Novel of amurica---they wouldn't be in that position of disadvantagedness. there is no structure in this cheap stupid novel that conservatives substitute for social reality: no history, no institutions, no class, no effects of class. this novel is published by the chump press and distributed free of charge through conservative media outlets everywhere. you may enjoy reading it, you may prefer it to the world, but in the end it's just a novel. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite