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Unfortunately people in general are not interested in discourse, they want convenience and novelty.
by darepublic 8y ago
Unfortunately people in general are not interested in discourse, they want convenience and novelty.
- yyyymmddhhmmss 8y agoThis is, of course, not a problem with “people”, but it is a problem with people in our current capitalist society. Capitalism inspires culture. The abstraction Marx provided for this is the base/superstructure spiral. It is simple and, well, abstract, but it is abstract to a degree that it remains applicable through the ages and more detailed conceptions map onto it, like critical theory and the like. Even post-structural critique really fail to counter Marx on this. I think Frederic Jameson succinctly described the experience of spiraling inevitabilities to result from capitalist/commercial culture with this phrase: All that is solid melts into air.