Locator: 50033CULTURE.
Where are we?
I started here: link here.
I then tried to educate myself on Bourdieu. It was initially difficult but sorted it out myself without resorting to AI.
So,
Keynesian liberalism --> neoliberalism --> Hayek, Friedmam (Thatcher, Reagan) --> Bourdieu (in the article linked above.
The linked article begins:
Recent articles have homed in on the crisis of reading without explicitly tending to the phenomena as a site of class warfare.
[Recent articles] report that reading is now a rarefied activity: all it takes is reading two books a year to be considered an endangered species.
Alongside the techification and devaluation of public arts education, and its corresponding drop in reading practices, we can also observe the growth of exclusive and luxury branded literary salons. Spanish brand Loewe has held an International Poetry Prize for over four decades, under the trust of Loewe Foundation. The Italian brand Miu Miu and French brand Chanel have hosted a recent series of literary clubs with award winning writers. There is Fondazione Prada Books, an imprint by Prada that publishes “catalogues, monographs and artists’ books, with a focus on scholarly texts,” in addition to jewelry house Chaumet’s book series, which includes stories for children.
Examples, I assume, of techification and devaluation of public arts education, and its corresponding drop in reading practices:
techification: traditional community libraries are now shifting resources (money, space, personnel) from books and magazines one can read while holding them in your hands, to tablets and desktops;
devaluation of public arts education: Mamdami, mayor New York City, will cut funding of world class libraries to fund the city's budget crisis (wow).
There there, a quick review of neoliberalism, in response to Keynesian economics, a product of Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury social construct.
As noted, for me, an investor (not a trader) and a product of a liberal education, my mind is forever troubled by cognitive dissonance. I don't that's "bad" but it's often difficult.
Are the CEOs of the Mag 7 purposely feeding us "stuff" to maintain class warfare and keep themselves among the righ and famous, or are they simply giving folks what they want?
