[lbo-talk] Taking the Pulse of Elite Response to OWS

[shag carpet bomb]

this entire time, I've been vaguely reminded of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of
the Vanities - what I seem to recall is the portrait he paints of an
elite terrified of the rabble, terrified that they were going to come
after them with pitchforks and take all their stuff, make them suffer
- much as whites were said to be terrified of slave insurrections.


> Ran into a Deutsche Bank employee on FB as a friend of a friend who
> works as a bond trader. He was quoting Ayn Rand at length and
> referring to the protesters as trust fund babies, clueless sociology
> majors, and moochers.
>
> You gotta hand it to Ayn for reviving the romantic/fascistic notion of
> the "great man" and of the mass of people as parasites of this
> greatness.
>
> Illustrates the great divide between xtreme right and left. The xright
> believes the working class is the parasite; the left believes the
> ruling class is the parasite. Never quite saw this before.
>
> Joanna
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Volscho" <Thomas.Volscho at csi.cuny.edu>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 7:06:03 PM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Taking the Pulse of Elite Response to OWS
>
> Is anyone on the list monitoring how elites are responding
> to/interpreting/dealing with OWS?
>
> According to the New Yorker:
>
> "Deutsche Bank employees were having black cars pick them up blocks
> away from the office; New York Stock Exchange workers were taking
> roundabout routes to the trading floor; and the Brooks Brothers at the
> corner of Trinity Place and Liberty Street had given up hope of
> selling ties on the weekends. “Something good will come out of it,
> don’t get me wrong,” a Brooks Brothers manager said of the
> movement. “But it’s not good for business.”
>
> Read more
> http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/10/24/111024ta_talk_widdicombe#ixzz1b5ulAaqY
>
>
> The crowd began to chant “Billionaire Bloomberg go to hell!” and
> “You are the one per cent!” The atmosphere was tense, and the
> Mayor looked a bit frightened. He proceeded quickly to Trinity Place
> and sped off in a black sedan.
>
> Read more
> http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/10/24/111024ta_talk_widdicombe#ixzz1b5vInSlR
>
>
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