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class 101 - standing room only at the magic theatre , ' mad men only ' rule relaxed

_POSTED_BY desik

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

is this the directors cut ? by autotelic

Comments

Gramsci

|2008-11-11 12:09:52

Where are the exits!

thedubprojectionist

|2008-11-11 12:39:58

They are padlocked shut to stop people watching the feature for nothing. This is
part of the history of Class 101. Google Triangle Fire.

Anonymous

|2008-11-11 14:22:52

The media keeps talking about how politics has gotten exciting again, I don't
think this is what they're referring to though.

Thatch - word to the wise

|2008-11-11 14:27:35

if you guys are going to keep moralising about class every time you open your
mouths, you might want to reconsider breaking the other guy's knee caps,
metaphorically, in the process of doing so.

autotelic

|2008-11-11 15:12:07

Thatch: asking me to stop breaking the other guy's kneecaps would be like asking
the other guy to give up his morally bankrupt notions of class

FlickrUser - self ruined man

|2008-11-11 15:41:18

I used to think I belonged to the Existential Class and lived on a plane
way above the so called objective socio economic reality outlined by Marx and
later left wing theorists but boy did I come crashing down to earth with a
thump.

You must be or have been in a pretty powerful and secure position to
so arrogantly dismiss there being any role or benefit for Class analysis in the
middle of a recession Thatch but watch your step buddy , I've been there too and
I'll tell you something else for nothing, you pass a lot of the people you
fucked off on the way up on the way back down and they wont even spit in your
direction to help break the fall.

autotelic

|2008-11-11 15:51:22

just want to say that my triceps are much more toned in real life than the
way they appear in this photo

bright lights and shadows....not
my best allies anymore

graphics_guy

|2008-11-11 17:59:32

ok auto , does look a tad too jaded WC so we'll skip the obvious Terror
Management Theory implications and just run the image back through Photoshop
and kill those bright lights and soften those tones a bit?

Does my recent
nose job make me middle class?

SteveGilroy - are we seeing the death of the US auto industry?

|2008-11-11 23:52:38

With GM shares losing 40 percent of their value since friday and GM management
admitting they have severe liquidity problems that will soon undermine their
ability to legally trade , you gotta figure why the huge number of blue collar
workers involved here , guys who get their hands dirty for a living , are being
put through this fucking miserable ordeal when world leaders have been rushing
round to save the jobs and bonuses of the financial sharks for months.

I have
wondered about this and I think the reason why the auto workers have not
received anywhere near the amount of official attention, sympathy and assistance
the financial sector has received from Government boils down to one thing, the
auto workers being working class, expendable and no-one in authority giving a
shit about them knowing it!

Its a crying fucking shame to watch an industry ,
keel over and go under with near all hands on board just because the Bush
administration has favoured a rogue market trading culture , Big Oil and
started horrifically costly bulshit wars that bigged up peoples confidence so
that the auto-industry was rolling out 4x4's , hummers and desert jeeps for
khaki wearing mom's to pick up their kids from school like there was no fucking
tomorrow!

Al Gore has a plan to have Government manage the creation a smart
national grid over the next ten years with plug in electric car readiness at
every site and home. Thats a doable plan that needs to be don! . Its a doable
plan that can save the auto industry too but only if we start seeing everyone
valued and validated and focus on guiding production to meet the needs of
society instead of the wants of fat cat executives and flighty share holders.

SheilaB

|2008-11-12 00:02:06

The wealthier in-patients where I work definitely get preferential treatment
from ward staff. There's this exchange of cultural capital - there will be this
mutual probe for connectness and they'll hit upon a shared interest , art ,
film, theatre or whatever. They'll just talk family with the working class
patients but the poorer single on the ward are pretty much neglected .

They
dont usually get visits either.

Today I noticed one new guy from Albany was
being ignored so I forced a smile and sat down beside him in the corridor and
said ' What's up? You want to talk? ' He stared at me intensely for a moment as
if he knew me and then just said ' No, I dont have anything to say'. His
directness made me mentally squirm because that's exactly how I feel a lot of
the time now.

Wondering how long I am going to be able to conceal the panic
attacks and cutting from from my work colleagues.

Is there a mad Class by
any chance because I have a horrible feeling that I was born into it ?

the most anonymous of all

|2008-11-12 05:23:31

I wonder if I'm supposed to feel paranoid and self-conscious, or utterly
comfortable about being so vulnerable in this arena.

Dear God, have I
revealed too much of myself once again?

I don't think we're wasting time
talking about class, staggering hypocrisy should never just be ignored.

I'm
dumbfounded that most people aren't obsessed about the sore that isn't to be
scratched.

I suppose that's why The Terror Management Theory was developed.

Tony	\|2008-11-12 05:34:49

What do people have to say about Class instincts ?

Joolz - what is he saying?

|2008-11-12 07:18:51

John Berger used the two Seurat paintings on the screen in his book Ways of
Seeing to discuss Class suggesting they represented class conflict, with the
middle classes promenading on one bank of the Seine and the working class and
the smoking factories based on the other. The boy in the red hat calls out
across the river to the middle classes ......what does he say? Is it something
provocative? A cry for help? A declaration of intent?

Perhaps he is shouting
across ' Your top hats, parasols and fancy clothes wont protect you from the
passage of time."

Maybe we should have a competition for thie best
caption.

David Icke - children of the matrix

|2008-11-12 07:33:28

read my books and watch my videos, don't know why they don't teach my material
in schools yet.

pepe	\|2008-11-12 19:29:53

@Steve Gilroy

Right on. We really need to see public money pushing Green
Collar jobs as of policy.

If we fail to invest in the clean energy
infrastructure we're just going to see unemployment figures soar and biting
poverty take hold of even more people over the next decade or so.

We need to
get the Green Economy underway, and who knows, this could lead to the emergence
of a New Green culture opposed to class division and conflict.

whitepunksondope - go play Tubular Bells in Hell

|2008-11-12 20:39:31

David Icke? We dont need no stinking hippie Class!

Chaz	\|2008-11-12 23:47:19

The media are reporting how the financial workers who lost their jobs on Wall
Street recently are attending Pink Slip soirees to meet potential employers and
network in glitzy New York bistros and bars. I doubt layed off auto workers are
getting the same coverage in the features and style pages .....in fact you can
be sure they fucking arent!

CoonDog

|2008-11-13 00:24:08

So what? That's what being in the working class is all about - trying to escape
it!!!

Learn to admire the Pink Slip crowd, at least they arent weak and
fatalistic

Chaz - pink slip destroyers

|2008-11-13 00:41:35

The commercial and financial activities of the middle class has totally
dehumanised the world.

Anonymous - colonials challenged

|2008-11-13 11:49:56

Odd you should say that as the-times--they-are-a a-changing for the
Colonial Class as the Western dominated G20 meeting in Washington on
November 15th is going to have far more than global economic problems
and financial reform to deal with as countries like Brazil, Russia, India
and China and the petro-states of the Gulf demand that the New World Order in the making gives them a greater role and acknowledges
that outside of the Western dominated financial institutions
real economic power is shifting Eastwards . We are probably going to
see a real challenge to the status quo emerging out of the G20 meeting
and maybe even a real deterioration in terms of international
stability and security if any of the big players feel short changed and it
deteriorates into a free for all.

kungfukitten - New World DisOrder

|2008-11-13 11:52:58

Welcome to Chimerica - the Future is Yellow.

D - its weird but...

|2008-11-13 12:05:48

.... the more I think about it , the more I become convinced that the most
conscious , determined and powerful revolutionary force faced by global
capitalism is the planet itself and I'm pretty sure it will bury us.

stellar

|2008-11-13 13:30:28

You're right D as Agents of Change we dont seem that Conscious , willing or even
bothered enough to take the necessary action to ensure our own long term
survival on the planet. There seems no great collective will to act.

robert-bryant - Please Stay Away

|2008-11-14 20:49:34

Why did you post such a picture on our page?

We created our Revealing
Humanity group to share positive aspects of what it means to be human not to
share depressing imagery or debate the reasons for our existence . We are a
friendly family group interested in sharing positively empowering and
remarkable images of humanity at its best based on events from our daily lives.
We are not looking to undertake a visual exploration of negativity nor do we
wish to get into heated philosophical discussions about the meaning of
life.

We are a family group , please respect this.

Thank you for your
co-operation

Regards

Robert Bryant

Group Admin

D	\|2008-11-14 14:42:41

It's a real struggle to break through the popular anti-negativity attitude as
even if there isnt an overt block there's still incredible but very subtle
pressure to self censor. I think Class is viewed as a ' negative ' subject
unless its used to flatter people.

Flickr loves me - agiprop

|2008-11-14 15:04:59

oh my goodness, Robert's post reads like a cliche, I think I've heard this all
before.

frank - smug existential bailout

|2008-11-14 20:51:52

It's not a cliche its a universal defence mechanism and avoidance scheme. .
Happiness is projected as heroic, why we need to be deleriously happy and heroic
if there is nothing particularly negative or wrong with life is another
question.

Josh	\|2008-11-14 20:46:04

Today I saw my first commercial christmas tree. It was in the window of an
undertakers on main street. Thank God someone is able to flaunt the fact that
business is good this year.

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