That Obscure Object of Discipline (was lingua franca on "stars" in academia)

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At 12:04 AM 1/26/99 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote:
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>>And Dougster Baby these numbers what do they *mean* ferpity'sake?
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>Well that's what I was asking you. You're the sociologist; I'm just a
>journalist.
>
>>Aren't those numbers pretty stable?
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>Yes.
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>>And doesn't the ideology of meritocratic individualism have much to do with
>>this attitude:  If I don't like my job it's my fault, so the best answer to
>>give is that I like my job, otherwise sumpins wrong with me.
>
>Please say more....
>
>Doug
>
>

If you don't have enough political awareness to know that your agency is
subject to construction, or enough hatred to know the someone is out for
your distruction, then it's embarrassing to admit that your life is a
disfunction at the junction

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