From c0b452a67fa7e71a1da3d4515d0fd78e93b8176b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepak Jois Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:42:00 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Obsidian Sync 2024-11-19 16:42:00 --- content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md b/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md index 68278724..3f6b6fd1 100644 --- a/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md +++ b/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ From a review in [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/n #### A Materialist Analysis of US Election Results [Why Are Poor Americans Voting for the Party of the Rich? | Listen Notes](https://lnns.co/lANz_msVn-U) #materialism -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", and +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. > 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. >