Comments on: A Life Best Ordinary: Social Reproduction of the Status Quo http://generationbubble.com/2009/08/31/a-life-best-ordinary-social-reproduction-of-the-status-quo/ Intellectually securitized transactions in an age of speculation. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:08:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: 20090901 - Adam Crowe http://generationbubble.com/2009/08/31/a-life-best-ordinary-social-reproduction-of-the-status-quo/#comment-369 20090901 - Adam Crowe Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:39:23 +0000 http://generationbubble.com/?p=1740#comment-369 [...] Generation Bubble — A Life Best Ordinary: Social Reproduction of the Status Quo  'Status quo bias as permanent counterrevolution.' — Will Wilkinson: "I think I first saw this kind of argument clearly laid out in Tocqueville. If I remember correctly, he noted that there is a kind of soothing clarity in stratified societies with brightly marked class lines. When classes are stable over generations, and there is little mobility up or down, conventions that govern class relations become settled, making it easy to know how to behave toward those above and below one’s station. Moreover, when classes are fixed and mobility is limited, there is little anxiety about improving one’s position, since there’s so little prospect for doing so. American-style democratic equality creates a pattern of unceasingly stressful striving for relative rank, and all this mobility up and down produces a confusion in manners that can lead to dangerous social frictions and resentments. It becomes too hard to know what to expect of others, or what others expect from us." RobHorning america status class negativeliberty hegemony conservatism [...] [...] Generation Bubble — A Life Best Ordinary: Social Reproduction of the Status Quo  'Status quo bias as permanent counterrevolution.' — Will Wilkinson: "I think I first saw this kind of argument clearly laid out in Tocqueville. If I remember correctly, he noted that there is a kind of soothing clarity in stratified societies with brightly marked class lines. When classes are stable over generations, and there is little mobility up or down, conventions that govern class relations become settled, making it easy to know how to behave toward those above and below one’s station. Moreover, when classes are fixed and mobility is limited, there is little anxiety about improving one’s position, since there’s so little prospect for doing so. American-style democratic equality creates a pattern of unceasingly stressful striving for relative rank, and all this mobility up and down produces a confusion in manners that can lead to dangerous social frictions and resentments. It becomes too hard to know what to expect of others, or what others expect from us." RobHorning america status class negativeliberty hegemony conservatism [...]

]]> By: despicable http://generationbubble.com/2009/08/31/a-life-best-ordinary-social-reproduction-of-the-status-quo/#comment-361 despicable Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:35:37 +0000 http://generationbubble.com/?p=1740#comment-361 Everything on the planet and in the universe evolves. It is a cause and effect process that is an objective manifestation that is independent of subjective notions of what should and shouldn’t be. Political and social change is not the result of secret conspiracies by large national and international organizations. All change is something that occurs because at a particular point in time, due to objective circumstances, situations and conditions, it becomes imperative and necesary that a particular change takes place, a change that is the only possible thing that can happen, because all other options had been exausted. The “Global Economy” and the “New World Order,” evolved, … and is something that was predictable and was not the result of a world wide secret conspiracy of international bankers and liberal politicians. It evolved because the capitalist system could evolve in no other way. “Capitalism” has outgrown Nationalism” and the only possible direction that the system of capitalism can move toward so that it could continue to grow, … is toward the system of “Globalism!” http://blogdespicable.blogspot.com/ Everything on the planet and in the universe evolves. It is a cause and effect process that is an objective manifestation that is independent of subjective notions of what should and shouldn’t be.
Political and social change is not the result of secret conspiracies by large national and international organizations.
All change is something that occurs because at a particular point in time, due to objective circumstances, situations and conditions, it becomes imperative and necesary that a particular change takes place, a change that is the only possible thing that can happen, because all other options had been exausted.
The “Global Economy” and the “New World Order,” evolved, … and is something that was predictable and was not the result of a world wide secret conspiracy of international bankers and liberal politicians. It evolved because the capitalist system could evolve in no other way.
“Capitalism” has outgrown Nationalism” and the only possible direction that the system of capitalism can move toward so that it could continue to grow, … is toward the system of “Globalism!”

http://blogdespicable.blogspot.com/

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