cultural politics/"real" politics

loobyloo at altavista.net loobyloo at altavista.net
Tue May 5 13:00:07 PDT 1998


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Jim heartfield wrote:
>
> > "Middle class" people,
> whoever they are exactly, drive more vehicle miles than poor people. All
> those suburbanites in their sport utility vehicles - suburban assault
> vehicles, as they say - aren't investigating their desire, they're fouling
> the air.
>
> Doug

A homology based on participant observation in a suburb of London, England:

Income >£30 000 pa

Favourite supermarket The one five miles away

Location of school for kids Half a mile away

Method of getting kids Car

to school

Type of car Big/flashy/no taste/high insurance group

Enviromental awareness Recycles newspaper but drives a car to take

them there

Althusserian ideology If only everyone behaved like myself

things would be alright

loobyloo. looking out of the window



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