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> You could even argue that being "apolitical" actually means that your political opinion is that the status quo is acceptable I agree with this. I see Cultura
by thulecitizen 6y ago
> You could even argue that being "apolitical" actually means that your political opinion is that the status quo is acceptable
I agree with this. I see Cultural Hegemony (domination-justification stories) being very strong in unexpected places. Family members or close friends who indirectly benefit from the artificial scarcity mechanisms (in SV especially Intellectual Property) that make up the various social class realities of rentier capitalism [1]. What seperates me and a mother of three in Bangladesh, who is getting paid starvation wages making the designer clothes I wear [2], is that I was lucky enough to have been born in the global North, in an upper-middle class family. I was able to grow up on the inside of the fort, and benefit from a rich inheritance [3].
[1] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corruption-capitalism-guy-standing/ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGp5_Sfbss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGp5_Sfbss
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGnDDhco4gw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGnDDhco4gw