{"id":33212,"date":"2017-09-13T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33212"},"modified":"2017-09-03T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T14:36:50","slug":"qotd-the-changed-nature-of-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/13\/qotd-the-changed-nature-of-class\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The changed nature of “class”"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a while communists went around looking lost [after the collapse of the Soviet Union]. Umberto Ecco referred to them as \u201cdefrocked priests\u201d who have lost their vision of paradise. And then \u2026 And then they decided we just hadn\u2019t tried it hard enough or well enough.<\/p>\n

But by the time they found this \u201cnew vision\u201d (these doomsday cults never admit they were wrong, you know) they had given up on the idea of the proletariat conquering the bourgeoisie and rich, and had instead turned into sort of missionaries of victims and wounded people.<\/p>\n

Instead of social class meaning what it meant to Marx, which was entirely economics based, it now meant \u201cgroup vaguely aligned through some (usually natural) characteristic.\u201d So we have the oppressed class of oh, gay people who come from all backgrounds and regions and who face differing levels of acceptance from family and society, but who are deemed to be all equally victimized, and as such to need equal intervention from the elites to make them whole. Then there are racial groups, so factionalized that at some point we\u2019re all going to become a race of one.<\/p>\n

The elites took to this new way of viewing society like ducks to water, partly because you don\u2019t actually need to do anything to help anyone anywhere. Like Marx, who mistreated his illegitimate son from the woman who was somewhere between an indentured servant and a slave to his family, even as he preached social revolution and the triumph of the lower classes, they can simply preach acceptance and talk about how poor victims suffer without bothering to notice that their neighbor is unemployed and surviving on cat food. If you ask them about this particular instance, they\u2019ll tell you that, well, come the revolution he will have a job and food\u2026 Meanwhile they\u2019re working for the greater cause of bringing about the revolution.<\/p>\n

And thus, more dreary than the \u201cquality\u201d that consisted of unpleasant people doing unpleasant things, we have the taste makers hailing the new \u201cquality\u201d which consists of \u201cfighting patriarchy\u201d or \u201cwhite hegemony\u201d or whatever latest crazycakes lens is applied to society. Yep, the people with the power are accusing other people of keeping them down because they have a vagina or can tan or whatever. (And the proof of this is the Dolezals of the world who find great rewards in pretending to be victims.)<\/p>\n

Sarah A. Hoyt, “The Quality of Writing”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-10-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a while communists went around looking lost [after the collapse of the Soviet Union]. Umberto Ecco referred to them as \u201cdefrocked priests\u201d who have lost their vision of paradise. And then \u2026 And then they decided we just hadn\u2019t tried it hard enough or well enough. But by the time they found this \u201cnew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[780,238,351],"class_list":["post-33212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-communism","tag-offensensitivity","tag-politicalcorrectness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8DG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33213,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions\/33213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}