Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly working with writer and producer Rob Worsoff (of Duck Dynasty fame) on a new reality series called The American.
This is just proof to me that the big talent show creators know what they’re doing. The goal has always been to demoralize workers, blame them for their poverty, and reward subservience. I really think rich people have class consciousness. Looking at the world from that height, like a dragon with a hoard, just makes it all click into place for them. Kinda like how domestic abusers don’t need to be trained by experts to psychologically manipulate people, it just comes naturally to them.
Kinda like how domestic abusers don’t need to be trained by experts to psychologically manipulate people, it just comes naturally to them.
I’d never thought of a tendency towards domestic abuse as a form of interest convergence but it kind of is isn’t it? Temperament precedes the abuse, not the other way around. In the case of the wealthy, it’s their material position that precedes the abuse.
This is just proof to me that the big talent show creators know what they’re doing. The goal has always been to demoralize workers, blame them for their poverty, and reward subservience. I really think rich people have class consciousness. Looking at the world from that height, like a dragon with a hoard, just makes it all click into place for them. Kinda like how domestic abusers don’t need to be trained by experts to psychologically manipulate people, it just comes naturally to them.
I’d never thought of a tendency towards domestic abuse as a form of interest convergence but it kind of is isn’t it? Temperament precedes the abuse, not the other way around. In the case of the wealthy, it’s their material position that precedes the abuse.
(CW for SA, colonial atrocity, and war crime descriptions in the linked article)
Great essay, the psychological side of neoliberalism needs a bigger spotlight.