Comments on: Privilege http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/ Yes, this is where we live. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:57:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: hans http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1695 hans Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:11:32 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1695 I was going to reply: "could you tell them most people have a hard time 'working hard' because they don't have a place to 'work' at all?", but eli just nailed it. I shut up and bugger off! :D I was going to reply: “could you tell them most people have a hard time ‘working hard’ because they don’t have a place to ‘work’ at all?”, but eli just nailed it.

I shut up and bugger off! :D

]]> By: eli http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1694 eli Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:31:41 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1694 heh heh. yeah, i was being ironically pretentious with that lacan reference. somebody just told me that shit yesterday. but i'm also getting that dickface theory from lacan. heh heh. yeah, i was being ironically pretentious with that lacan reference. somebody just told me that shit yesterday. but i’m also getting that dickface theory from lacan.

]]> By: vijay http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1693 vijay Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:25:41 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1693 wow, that's some shit I actually agree with. well, except for the lacan reference. wow, that’s some shit I actually agree with. well, except for the lacan reference.

]]> By: eli http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1692 eli Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:11:04 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1692 Simple argument: success tends to happens only in an environment that is socially supportive of success. If people are not surrounded by others who value the skills necessary for success and who do not practice and learn those skills, then the are not going to value or practice those skills themselves. I'd argue that the underlying problem that prevents dickfaces from understanding the fallacy of meritocracy is that they have a view of the Self as an isolated, autonomous individual being. If they would instead decenter the self and see personal identity as constituted through interaction with and recognition by others (because of the gap between subject and individual - cf. Lacan), then they would understand that the self cannot simply pull itself up by the bootstraps into success but rather must interact with others who also value and practice successful habits. I.e., meritocracy ignores the vicious cycles of poverty and poor education/family environment. P.s. people who believe America is meritocratic are dickfaces (i.e., they use their own dicks as a model for their personal identities, and then they jerk themselves off their whole lives.) Simple argument: success tends to happens only in an environment that is socially supportive of success. If people are not surrounded by others who value the skills necessary for success and who do not practice and learn those skills, then the are not going to value or practice those skills themselves. I’d argue that the underlying problem that prevents dickfaces from understanding the fallacy of meritocracy is that they have a view of the Self as an isolated, autonomous individual being. If they would instead decenter the self and see personal identity as constituted through interaction with and recognition by others (because of the gap between subject and individual - cf. Lacan), then they would understand that the self cannot simply pull itself up by the bootstraps into success but rather must interact with others who also value and practice successful habits. I.e., meritocracy ignores the vicious cycles of poverty and poor education/family environment. P.s. people who believe America is meritocratic are dickfaces (i.e., they use their own dicks as a model for their personal identities, and then they jerk themselves off their whole lives.)

]]> By: Eric http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1691 Eric Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:29:30 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/09/13/privilege/#comment-1691 Exhibit lots of counterexamples? 17 should do the trick. Exhibit lots of counterexamples? 17 should do the trick.

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