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Allen17
08-09-2010, 03:04 PM
If you've followed the pundit bullshit in American politics, you've heard the term "creative class."

That is, white-collar intellectuals and professionals-venture capitalists, professors, wealthy doctors, lawyers, technocrats, etc. Basically, the Democratic-voting bourgeoisie, as opposed to the Republican-voting bourgeoisie.

Apparently, Democratic leaders and pundits believe that these white-collar people are smarter and more sophisticated and more creative than the poor blue-collar brutes who actually...you know, do the work for them, so this justifies the creation of a "service economy" where all the actual farming and mining and manufacturing and other "dirty work" is done far, far away from the precious liberals in their million-dollar homes in the San Francisco suburbs, or in Greenwich, CT, or in Northern Virgina-take your pick.

It is this "creative class" and the bullshit it spouts that is most dangerous to Americans, not Teabaggers or Republicans or even the traditional Wall Street capitalists.

Kid of the Black Hole
08-09-2010, 05:17 PM
first you drew some rudimentary class demarcations (creative class, blue collar, Wall Street capitalsits) but then you finish by saying one is more dangerous to "Americans".

Well..thats an entirely differnet way of demarcating society isn't?

There is an enormous stratification among people who live in America and/or are US citizens. So what qualities are we using to define "Americans" and what is collectively dangerous to that group?

There is a very deep question of "classification" (whence *class*) here