{"id":62979,"date":"2023-08-28T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=62979"},"modified":"2023-08-27T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:49:34","slug":"qotd-progressives-dont-have-collections-but-they-may-have-fetish-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/08\/28\/qotd-progressives-dont-have-collections-but-they-may-have-fetish-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Progressives don’t have collections, but they may have fetish objects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The reason SJWs are so hung up on “capitalism” is, as we’ve seen, they regard it as something very like an addiction. Specifically, like sex addiction \u2014 we “capitalists” are compelled to accumulate new, different, better, more-for-more’s-sake, though the acquisition is harmful to both ourselves and society. Ever known a Leftist with a collection? Coins, stamps, baseball cards, anything? It’s 100 to 1 that you don’t, because Leftists aren’t wired like that.<\/p>\n

Leftists put their entire lives on display at all times. They might have some knickknacks or mementos (though it’s shocking how few of them have even that), but they’re all for show \u2014 if a Leftist ever had a baseball card, it would be framed and displayed in the center [of] xzhyr apartment’s living room, and would have something to do with the player’s politics (the only openly gay player on the Yankees or something). The collector’s joys are unknown to them, because the collector collects for personal reasons. Collectors often can’t wait to show you their collections, of course, and they can be godawful tedious about it, but \u2014 pace<\/em> the Left \u2014 they aren’t showing you to brag about it; they’re showing you because you’re their friend, and they assume you’re interested in what interests them.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

SJWs always project, right? They know better than anyone that money can’t buy you happiness, because SJW-ism is strictly an upper-middle-class pursuit. They have all the stuff in the world, and they’re miserable. Look at the ivory tower. I hate to keep beating this dead horse, but it’s really the best example I can think of. Those people are “the 1%” by any measure that makes sense. They have everything<\/em>. They work 24\/7 \u2014 that’s “24 hours a week, 7 months a year” \u2014 and get comped, on average, nearly $100K for it. You can always tell which one is the faculty parking lot \u2014 no make cheaper than Volvo; no model year earlier than 2017. The houses in the faculty ghetto tend to be physically small, it’s true, but that’s because they’re all restored Victorians \u2014 go ahead and cost out what it takes to fully restore one of those puppies, and contemplate a lifetime of pauperism.<\/p>\n

Commodity fetishism? In spades, kameraden<\/em>, and we haven’t even gotten to the “lifestyle” stuff yet. Organic food \u2014 tiny little bananas from Trader Joe’s that wouldn’t feed a pygmy marmoset, but cost $4 per pound. Hot yoga lessons \u2014 $100 per hour. Eat-pray-loving your way across Indonesia \u2014 I can’t even begin to calculate it. SJWs live niiiice<\/em>; way too nice for us deplorables to afford, filthy “capitalists” that we are.<\/p>\n

Severian, “Junkies (II)”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-01-18.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reason SJWs are so hung up on “capitalism” is, as we’ve seen, they regard it as something very like an addiction. Specifically, like sex addiction \u2014 we “capitalists” are compelled to accumulate new, different, better, more-for-more’s-sake, though the acquisition is harmful to both ourselves and society. Ever known a Leftist with a collection? Coins, […]<\/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":[79,53,41,13],"tags":[59,1020,1462,997,764,315],"class_list":["post-62979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-addiction","tag-progressives","tag-severian","tag-socialjustice","tag-university","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gnN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62979","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=62979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84464,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62979\/revisions\/84464"}],"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=62979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}