[lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 19 13:02:44 PDT 2007


On Sep 19, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:


> I'd read that as a sign of socialization into a commodity culture.
> Kids
> that age are sociolinguistic sponges.

It happened so quickly & forcefully. He almost never watches TV, and doesn't hear a lot of it from us.

And if you're a "sociolinguistic sponge," you must be pretty receptive to new stuff. Yes, Ian's right about the old and familiar - repetition is the bane of a toddler parent's existence - but novelty is pretty powerful too. Which must have something to do with why we're easy marks for the "New!" and why Sut Jhally is fighting a majorly uphill battle.

Doug



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