I agree entirely with Andrew here. I met some ordinary people the other
day, and they were very nice. I think we should just leave them alone...
Sid
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Andrew Wayne Austin wrote:
> List,
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> When I talk to workers (people like me) about matters vital to their
> lives, when I show ordinary people Roger and Me or even Manufacturing
> Consent, they get it. They're not stupid. Ordinary people are concerned,
> are pretty hip to what's going on, and are eager to learn. I left my
> contracting business to my cousin to enter the academy to learn more about
> the world. And, yes, I drank beer and hung out in bars. The enemy of
> freedom is not the mythical stupid proletariat (although sometimes
> proletarians act in stupid ways). The enemy is the capitalist class and
> the political stratum at their beck and call, many of self-important
> latter moving through the ivory tower, from time to time kicking out
> embarrassing fictions, believing the masses to be nothing the herd.
>
> Maybe the fact that the ordinary person doesn't care about the concerns of
> the cultural "left" and out-spoken trivial side of the political left is a
> demonstration of Moore's argument? Maybe this has shot right over the
> heads of the very people he is criticizing? I suggest that rather than
> falling into the elitist mode and suggesting that Moore and the masses
> don't get it, some might consider the possibility that *they* just don't
> get it.
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> Andy
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