From b7fd91c8edab997b84834fffb5cb6ef05fcb41a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepak Jois Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:50:32 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Obsidian Sync 2024-11-19 16:50:32 --- content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md b/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md index 25ccb582..309462ed 100644 --- a/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md +++ b/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md @@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ From a review in [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/n Adam Tooze gave from what all I have read, a really fresh analysis of the US election results from a materialist theory perspective. It's a rather long quote I picked out from the transcript, but it's really worth it. I really like the high analogy at the end between Kamala as a "spelling-bee girl" and Trump as a "high-living frat boy", both throwing a party and where the "academically unambitious high-school girls" (an analogy of white non-college educated women) would go. +The Professional Managerial Class (PMC) as an analytical category that + > Yeah, this is a great question. And I mean, I think at the most general level, the issue with materialism and the critics of materialism—materialism being the big, grand, metaphysical, almost philosophical idea that it's what we eat that determines who we are more than what we think. It's realities, it's the means through which and the way in which we reproduce our lives that shapes identities and assumptions about the world, right? That basic premise. > > The thing about it is that it's so often applied as a means of rather coarse—not to say crude—simplification. You know, this for workers, that for capitalists. And then, surprise, surprise, the world doesn't make that much sense if you're trying to apply that. And in this particular case, as you're saying, what are we to make of the fact that better-off people seem to be voting for redistribution? It's turkeys voting for Thanksgiving, you might say. Conversely, you have working-class voters voting for a business party that's promising to produce huge tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.