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> scholar-gentry We prefer to be called "Eloi-American".
by frooxie 13y ago
> scholar-gentry
We prefer to be called "Eloi-American".
- jeorgun 13y agoGoing by Neal Stephenson, surely the scholar-class would be the Morlocks in this particular analogy :P
- MarkPNeyer 13y agowhat book is that from?
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoIn the Beginning was the Command Line
- r0s 13y agoPlease, Mentat.
- jfb 13y agoOf course, we're still just the shoe-shine boys of the ruling elite.
- judk 13y agoNo room for false humility here. The upper middle class are collaborators, taking part in the oppression of the working class in exchange for being lifted above it. The mercenaries of class warfare.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoPretty much, except for those of us trying to find the big red button we push to bring the whole thing crashing down. Yes, I know how that sounds. Sorry, but I don't want to maintain and support a system in which my parents, my friends, and my children all face a steady worsening of their lives just because they're not programmers and don't have a million in assets. This society can either fix itself, or it is becoming something worth destroying.
- userulluipeste 13y agoThis is the very essence of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine. At first I was repulsed to get involved, but exactly ignoring things is is how they escalate. What kind of oppression do you imply an educated person invariably is guilty of? How about the other way around - what an uneducated "oppressed" person is entitled to have and hasn't? What could you do if you'd be in the leading circle for the lower class given the economic circumstances of our current time? These are just some elementary questions that I think deserve answers before pointing fingers and doing the hanging.