Comments on: Eat the rich! http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 23 May 2012 20:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: helen http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-935 helen Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:27:11 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=119#comment-935 Hi, The above thought is smart and doesn’t require any further addition. It’s perfect thought from my side. Helen Drug Intervention North Carolina Hi,

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]]> By: fredwich http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-934 fredwich Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:55:22 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=119#comment-934 Rodney Crowell's "Obscenity Prayer" song might be a good soundtrack for this topic. Rodney Crowell’s “Obscenity Prayer” song might be a good soundtrack for this topic.

]]> By: dboy http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-933 dboy Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:09:48 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=119#comment-933 Hey Grant... not quite along the same lines, but perhaps street artists done-good are in for a rough road too, having had their work snapped up by 'yuppie scum' <a href="http://twitpic.com/28xc7" rel="nofollow">http://twitpic.com/28xc7</a> Hey Grant… not quite along the same lines, but perhaps street artists done-good are in for a rough road too, having had their work snapped up by ‘yuppie scum’

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]]> By: George http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-932 George Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:03:16 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=119#comment-932 not all people are being affected by the economy. not all people are being affected by the economy.

]]> By: Alan http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-931 Alan Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:45:01 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=119#comment-931 The juxtaposition of graffiti and advertising is always rich in meaning. In the case of the wealthy poster-dad, it is the self-satisfied better-family-guy-than-you message ("sees his daughter every day") that makes any self-respecting working stiff want to punch him in the nose! Imagine having to be filthy rich to have time to lavish on your children! Well, this is America. Of course, you do have to be rich to have everything that's promised in our pursuit of happiness. Duh. So who do you suppose wrote the graffiti? I'm guessing a hard-working guy with a family. Or, a woman? Would a hard-working woman have written it? On the train, late, after a tiring, futile day in the office? Maybe Tootsie? I mean, there is plenty of well-founded hatred in that movie, isn't there? And I am just fascinated by the comments this generated. Pretty nasty. Interesting stuff going on. Thanks, Grant, for your sharp eye out there. Class hostility in America has always been right there just below the surface (which is just another way of saying unnoticed.) Oh yeah, take a look back in history. Skip Marx and check out the Gracchi brothers in 133 BCE in Rome, a city filled with meaningful graffiti! Class hostility, justifiably enraged by consumption on display, has figured in societies and histories from the get go. The juxtaposition of graffiti and advertising is always rich in meaning. In the case of the wealthy poster-dad, it is the self-satisfied better-family-guy-than-you message (“sees his daughter every day”) that makes any self-respecting working stiff want to punch him in the nose! Imagine having to be filthy rich to have time to lavish on your children! Well, this is America. Of course, you do have to be rich to have everything that’s promised in our pursuit of happiness. Duh. So who do you suppose wrote the graffiti? I’m guessing a hard-working guy with a family. Or, a woman? Would a hard-working woman have written it? On the train, late, after a tiring, futile day in the office? Maybe Tootsie? I mean, there is plenty of well-founded hatred in that movie, isn’t there? And I am just fascinated by the comments this generated. Pretty nasty. Interesting stuff going on. Thanks, Grant, for your sharp eye out there. Class hostility in America has always been right there just below the surface (which is just another way of saying unnoticed.) Oh yeah, take a look back in history. Skip Marx and check out the Gracchi brothers in 133 BCE in Rome, a city filled with meaningful graffiti! Class hostility, justifiably enraged by consumption on display, has figured in societies and histories from the get go.

]]> By: srp http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-930 srp Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:28:57 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=119#comment-930 I loathe this type of self-rigtheous envy and mob justice. It makes me fantasize about buying luxuries I normally wouldn't just to push into the faces of the haters. Car-keyers and suit-gummers ought to be caned by Singaporean experts. BTW, a couple of weeks ago I saw an ad from one of the private jet companies in the Wall Street Journal that was pretty much a defiant "stomp your timid competitors by saving your executives' time while they're sitting around in airport terminals." I loathe this type of self-rigtheous envy and mob justice. It makes me fantasize about buying luxuries I normally wouldn’t just to push into the faces of the haters. Car-keyers and suit-gummers ought to be caned by Singaporean experts.

BTW, a couple of weeks ago I saw an ad from one of the private jet companies in the Wall Street Journal that was pretty much a defiant “stomp your timid competitors by saving your executives’ time while they’re sitting around in airport terminals.”

]]> By: Seamus McCauley http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-929 Seamus McCauley Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:41:23 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=119#comment-929 There's all sorts of conspicuous consumption patterns that could be made non-viable if it became normal amongst even a minority to actively challenge them. Ostentatiously expensive cars could be keyed whenever parked in a public place, it is trivial to destroy expensive clothes worn on public transport with a 5 cent stick of gum, in some British teenage subcultures theft of mobile phones from ostensibly affluent owners has been referred to colloquially as "taxing" for a while already. There’s all sorts of conspicuous consumption patterns that could be made non-viable if it became normal amongst even a minority to actively challenge them. Ostentatiously expensive cars could be keyed whenever parked in a public place, it is trivial to destroy expensive clothes worn on public transport with a 5 cent stick of gum, in some British teenage subcultures theft of mobile phones from ostensibly affluent owners has been referred to colloquially as “taxing” for a while already.

]]> By: Charles http://cultureby.com/2009/03/eat-the-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-928 Charles Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:09:04 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=119#comment-928 The Guillotine seems perfectly reasonable for a class of people who have no intention of returning that which doesn't belong to them. You may recall I commented about this long before it was considered polite on your blog. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/b9v6ru" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/b9v6ru</a> It's not about revenge. It's about decontamination. The Guillotine seems perfectly reasonable for a class of people who have no intention of returning that which doesn’t belong to them. You may recall I commented about this long before it was considered polite on your blog.

http://tinyurl.com/b9v6ru

It’s not about revenge. It’s about decontamination.

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