Sunday, August 14, 2022

Adulting

 Pretty good for Gawker: Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism."

Capitalism, in this rhetorical strain, is not so much the object of analysis or a concrete historical phenomenon as an all-purpose gesture. “Capitalism” is useful everywhere: as the punchline of self-deprecating jokes about the way we live now, as a perennial-but-distant bogeyman that explains chronic frustrations without ever causing enough pain to force serious disruption. Most importantly, its invocation immediately establishes a phenomenon in the realm of the political, without any further work required.
CWCID: Granite Dad

1 comment:

  1. 'Adulting' usually has the sound of a teenager protesting be being made to help with the dishes or pick up his room to my ears.

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