[lbo-talk] US immiseration

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 7 14:14:48 PST 2007


<Sob> It's all true! James' forensic wizardry with the lbo archives has stripped bare my seething snobbishness and general vexation with The People -- what a hollow mockery of a lefty, no? I do tend to view Americans generally as a pack of fat-assed conformist nincompoops with no taste in housing or really anything else. I do tend to think Americans are impoverished in many ways not reflected in per capita GDP -- that they are morally deficient, lacking in judgment , etc., etc.

Still, I also do define myself as a person of the left. Why? Because I think The People are the way they are now mainly because they have been victimized by the system. IMO the US has a fat, lazy-minded, self-indulgent population because it serves the interests of capitalism as a consumer society to make it so. I think capitalism is an evil force that warps people's values and aspirations, erodes their pride, diminishes their creative potential, and steals their very sense of self. Socialism of some kind is the only solution.

Carl


>From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
>
>Carl Remick takes a pop at me, since I am in trouble for saying that
>Americans are not starving. But what does Carl say about the impoverished
>yanks?
>
>Strangely, Carl does not seem to give much credence to the idea that
>Americans are hard done by, at least not those in the Red States:
>
>"Since the Red States are the locus of the most virulent strains of the
>obesity epidemic, it occurs to me it might be feasible to leverage this
>self-destructive gluttony by encouraging Red Staters to stuff themselves
>with as much artery-clogging, heart-stopping, mortality-accelerating
>saturated fat as possible. If as you suggest these tubby Jesus Freaks can
>be induced to actually consume one another, so much the better."
>
>In fact, Carl has a bit of a thing about how fat Americans are:
>
>"No wonder Americans are such porkers" he writes, and
>
>
>"the sovereign wisdom of the U.S. electorate deems GWB the obvious choice
>to
>save their sorry sizable behinds."
>
>When I suggested that there was nothing wrong with Americans' aspirations
>to
>better themselves, Carl snapped:
>
>"there are indeed millions of go-getter, happy-as-clams Americans who
>think
>exactly like you? Come on over, grab some financing, fire up a
>bulldozer and start building."
>
>And far from thinking that Americans were hard done by, he thought they
>were
>principle architects of their own difficulties:
>
>"Yes, "Little Boxes" radiates contempt -- for the houses, the people who
>live in them, and the pointless conformist lives they lead."
>
>
>
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