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That's kind of a contrived example. Having a uniform doesn't help you load groceries or stock shelves, but wearing a tinkerbell costume does in fact help you ac
by mxkopy 4y ago
That's kind of a contrived example. Having a uniform doesn't help you load groceries or stock shelves, but wearing a tinkerbell costume does in fact help you act like tinkerbell.
It'd be more like if Disney required the actress to make certain movements or say certain phrases just because "that's how we remember the movies doing it".
Fascism in the Anti-Oedipus has a very specific meaning so I implore you to read some of it before you criticize my use of the term.
- whythre 4y agoIf the term you are using deviates significantly from the common understanding, you might want to refrain from using it. Also that last bit amounts to ‘you can’t criticize me until you educate yourself on my idiosyncratic definitions,’ which seems both silly and unreasonable. You might just want to use a different word than fascism, anti-Oedipal or otherwise.
- mxkopy 4y agoIt's not that different though. 'Fasces' means 'a bundle of sticks bound tightly together', which signifies how the uniformity of a people can be made into a powerful instrument put into the hand of a single person. In the case I gave the customer demands uniformity from the workers. It's a sort of fascism but on the level of an individual's psyche rather than an entire nation.
- IX-103 4y agoSo call it micro-fascism?
- jamilton 4y agoThey said upfront that they were using it in a non-standard way, I think it's fine.