On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:47 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> consider the way Michaels writes about he sees his own participation
> in this system of exploitation in the last chapter, just after
> explaining that even though his family is in the top 1%, he doesn't
> actually feel as if he is as rich.
>
> "Why is this dissidentification legitimating? Because it leads
> Walter Benn Michaels to think of himself as *not* rich; it leads him
> to think that when he talks about the problem of economic
> inequality, he is not the problem, the superrich are. And, of
> course, the superrich *are* part of the problem. But, unfortunately,
> he is too."
>
> it's news to me that overpaid English professors are on the same
> order as Bill Gates.
Imagine the outrage! The man identifies himself as part of a Social Problem. Asshole. QED.