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Today went from breezy to depressing.   .-.

i feel like posting about movies i’ve seen in the past few months hmmmm

more within an hour…or two. five…

staysuckafree:

Speech is irreversible; that is its fatality. What has been said cannot be unsaid, except by adding to it: to correct, here, is, oddly enough, to continue. In speaking, I can never erase, annul; all I can do is say “I am erasing, annulling, correcting,” in short, speak some more. This very singular annulation-by-addition I shall call “stammering.” Stammering is a message spoiled twice over: it is difficult to understand, but with an effort it can be understood all the same; it is really neither in language nor outside it: it is a noise of language comparable to the knocks by which a motor lets it be known that it is not working properly; such is precisely the meaning of the misfire, the auditory sign of a failure which appears in the functioning of the object. Stammering (of the motor or of the subject) is, in short, a fear: I am afraid the motor is going to stop.

Roland Barthes, “The Rustle of Language”

Yeah let’s talk about the term redneck only in contemporary terms. Let’s not talk about the very classist origins of the term. You know about how the upper class would designate them as that and treat them poorly so that the lower class would bargain for white power and privilege, to be subservient to the ruling class. And also how the term actually originated in Ireland. No let’s not do that, instead we’ll play oppression olympics and identity politics with the notion. We’ll talk about Marx but not apply any of his theory.

Nobody is saying racism against white people here. You say people’s opinions don’t validate them (a true statement in its own right) yet you do this yourself when you blatantly ignore the history of class struggle by pushing it aside and calling it opinion.

Foxworthy and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour are nothing but the Post-Modern excess of the original term. What Fredric Jameson would refer to as Cultural Capitalism par excellence.

philosophy & theory scholars would do well not to forget Sir Thomas Browne.