[A-List] Re: Oil, Oil Everywhere

[CeJ <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also from MP:

> > The bourgeoisie or capitalist in America know they are capitalists
and not  of another class. We were birthed as a capitalist country and
state.

The political and intellectual elite knows that it is a political and
intellectual elite and not factory workers or slum dwellers. The
workers know  they are workers because everyone in America has an
inbred intuitive sense of
their wealth or lack of it. Doctors know they are doctors and the
female  majority of the employed sector of the working class knows
they make little  wages and
often must work two jobs. >>

Yes, you see I always took the supposed 'revelations' about Abu Graib
prison as a microcosm of American society . However, what we see are
controlling ideologies of selves in ACTION. And I really think that
the media in the US most especially (but throughout the developed
world, if my experience of Japan for 17 years allows me to generalize)
drowns out the collectivity of the working class. To the point where
the working class actually starts to accepts representations of it in
the media as the truth. So the working class is always depicted as
simpleton and dysfunctional if not outright criminal, and either the
working class accepts this dysfunctionality or it gets caught up in
internalized narratives about American heroes and heroines, starring
in their own Hollywood movies and pop songs.

And so this another source of my pessimism about the working class in
the US and in other developed countries.

So how do we start to create that space for solidarity and action? I
really don't know, but so far I really think the www and the internet
are just not sufficient.

CJ