[lbo-talk] Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward

[Carl Remick]

>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>This is autobiography. You may not want public
>recogition. Or money. That doesn't mean that it's bad
>if other people do, or that they don't. Frankly,
>Joanna, you're kind a hippie flower child with
>anti-materialistic values, maybe learned in Romania.
>That's cool, I respect that. It's not for everyone. If
>I had to choose between doing something worthwhile and
>getting no recognition and vice versa, I'd choose the
>first. But I'd really appreciate some recognition and
>respect. It matters to me. That doesn't mean I am a
>bad, selfish, narcissistic person. Hegel himself
>teaches that self-consciousness becomes what it it by
>and for itself only though the recognition of another
>self-consciousness. It matters to me that people I
>especially respect think my work is good. It would
>matter to me more if the opinion were more widely
>shared. A little extra cash wouldn't be so bad either.
>I really enjoyed that trip to France and Italy and
>spending too much money on Florentine leather coats.
>And being able to send my kids to college. But I'm a
>bourgeois, middle-class, boomer member of the PMC, too
>old to be a yuppie now.

Remind me why you are on a left listserv.

Carl

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