“Trump has liberated a lot of people from the last vestiges of the Sermon on the Mount. A lot of people turn out to have been sick and tired of pretending to be good.” Wallace Shawn, 2020
I think about this quote at least once a week.
I think about this quote at least once a week.
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"This isn’t a story of a working class that is being pinched. It’s the story of a working class that is doing better than any comparable working class ever has and a professional class who are angry about that."
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of-affluence/
Same with immigrants. Know your place, pick the food, don’t bother me
There was an *interview* with me before I became a client, where we talked about dental anxiety and all that.
Peak first world, as in the best part, e.g. medical devices. Amazing. Dental tech is now so good too
"So... dentist is ants?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxYYtxGrszw
> Equating wealth, especially generational wealth, with virtue and ability is a deeply American pathology. This country loves to believe that people get what they deserve, despite the abundant evidence to the contrary.
> there is something clarifying about staring all this smug and gaudy uselessness in the face
https://deadspin.com/bless-this-oafish-koch-heir-and-his-hideous-shirts-1821513843/
...So long as we don't stop Reconstruction v2.0.
"A lot" isn't going to cut it. And I refuse to go for a binary interpretation where *every* Trump voter is "no longer pretending" yada yada. (obviously it is true of *some*. But i don't believe "all".)
Virtue signalling is an interesting phenomenon. It was originally coined by women, I think women of colour, to identify men like Neil Gaiman who use performative virtue to hide their predatory intent.