[lbo-talk] white Americans think Kanye West is wrong

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Sep 20 16:40:25 PDT 2005


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>>There is something about the lumpenproletariat, no matter what
>>skin color or ethnicity, that repulses me - perhaps it is the penchant for
>>physical violence, or anthropomorphization of everything that happens, or
>>aesthetic tackiness, or religiosity, or smartalec-ism, or rowdiness and
>>noise - or perhaps all those altogether and something else.
>>
You're describing a tendency to hysteria, which makes sense given the conditions in which the lumpen live. By the same token, to them, we seem

indifferent, amoral, constipated icicles with a tendency toward abstracted self importance. Chuck Grimes could put it much better I'm sure.

Joanna


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