[WS:] No question about that. My concern, however, is that such a sense of lost status/privilege often leads to reactionary sentiments, as Corey Robin convincingly argues.
Wojtek
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [WS:] I doubt. You seem to underestimate the sense of entitlement
>> that comes from being anointed by elite universities
>
> No wild utopianism here, I'm just reporting what I see here at the UI
> (one of the key launch-pads of the US professional classes) and
> elsewhere in the higher educational world.
>
> Some Rubicon of pain was crossed this summer, some point when
> suffering turned into insufferability. In all honesty, it's not like
> anything I've seen before -- not like the bubble surplus which powered
> Seattle, or the more local resistances of earlier years, rooted in
> specific struggles.
>
> This is driven by a transnational ocean of class rage. Americans are
> finally starting to figure out, a little later than the rest of the
> planet, that the plutocrats have taken everything from them. We
> literally have nothing to lose but our debt-chains.
>
> -- DRR
>
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