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the position ace is adopting is disengenuous in that it's not really about a coherent discussion concerning **his** claim that the transformations of the contemporary capitalist labor market are good things because they free more people up to "be artists"---this because it's obvious that he has nothing to say on the matter----it's more about a cheap rhetorical game in which ace tries to position himself (and the fact that he has nothing to say on the topic that he brought up) as being "of the people" in a stereotyped kinda way ("i'm a conservative i like nascar" as if all conservatives were like him) and by extension as someone who finds himself either being set upon by or setting upon "snobby over-educated east coast liberals" who think in terms of things like what art might possibly be (beyond "modern art using bodily waste") who artists might be and how these people might actually be able to live.
but it's pretty obvious: ace is arguing that by "freeing people up to be artists" what he really means is that people displaced by the reorganization of capitalism are superfluous and should be allowed to die off, preferably dying off while under the impression that they have been liberated from something, which would bring it into line with all kinds of charades american.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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