On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:53 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
> This is not an analysis that Michaels would even countenance. For him, all
> such talk is silliness. Whining about Bill Cosby berating people for buying
> sneakers instead of educational software will accomplish nothing in WBM's
> view. For WBM, these kinds of cultural attacks by people like Oprah Winfrey
> and Cosby (and presumably the people who criticize the Winfreys and Cosbys)
> are wholly irrelevant to any left struggle worthy of the name. Indeed,
> looking at anything through the lens of cultural analysis gets us nowhere
> because culture is epiphenomenal to the economy. Looking at culture makes us
> think culture is important. This is silliness, on Michaels view, since
> because culture is epiphenomal, it's just a mirage. Grasping at it will get
> us nothing.
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