I was thinking more about a recent paper which I just turned in on The Social Network and how it's actually a subtext parable for class relations or more importantly class struggle, class exploitation, and how this affects people in general. I've yet to get the grade for the paper as class was canceled today, and I doubt Dr. Radine has had a chance to finish grading all the papers yet.
I thought about expanding the idea of the parable of analyzing the idea that classes tend to be in a state of cross exploitation. The class sees itself in egoistic fashion as being the best of all possible classes and there by feels legitimized in it's reasons for exploiting the other classes. Thus is the mentality of post-modern/post-industrial capitalism, if we are all capitalist as neo-liberal economic theory says, we must exploit each other, appropriate to idea's capitalism promotes.
The new bible of the unwashed masses becomes unto itself the sole and concentrated mode of instrumental rationality, that which says, I unto you, you become slave to my own ends, and for that I will be a slave to yours.
How acceptable is that?
Unto this mentality is a new rational born the idea of humanism, egalitarianism, and relation as a purely human enterprise washed as the illegitimate, to be scorned by politician and tea party member alike. Behold the grand legitimacy, and Marx with Weber in company, both tremble in fear and revulsion of the new and artificial human condition.
I thought of these idea as I watched the social network once again and remarked upon other class markings that came to mind. I wonder about ideas still, like Gramsci's Theory of Hegemony, and how truly bound to capitalistic terms we really are that it creates a social system unto itself. A code of silence and exploitation, with no means of escape, want a good life?
Exploit unto the exploited.
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