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> On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> CB: The idea Mills criticizes is actually denial of envy of
> the rich. We want the proletariat to be consciously envious and act on
> their envy, pace Nietzsche . Steinbeck claims that Americans entertain
> an illusion that is sort of the obverse of the one Mills
> describes:“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see
> themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily
> embarrassed millionaires.”
>
> Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is plagerized from Doug on facebook. He might have to put me on moderation.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> Thought for the day, from C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite:
>>
>> "The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place at
>> the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what to do
>> with their money; the idea that the successful become filled up with
>> futility, and that those born successful are poor and little as well
>> as rich - the idea, in short, of the disconsolateness of the rich -
>> is, in the main, merely a way by which those who are not rich
>> reconcile themselves to the fact. Wealth in America is directly
>> gratifying and directly leads to many further gratifications. To be
>> truly rich is to possess the means of realizing in big ways one's
>> little whims and fantasies and sicknesses...."
>
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