What are the reasons those pointed-at reasons persist? Why does is that persistence more pronounced is some places, but not others? Can there be a symptom without underlying causes?
Read theory if you’re actually curious and not just posting to post. Personally, I’ve come to think of inequality as being at the center of it all.
But the reason is certainly not “because <<country>> is <<country>>”.
Read theory if you’re actually curious and not just posting to post. Personally, I’ve come to think of inequality as being at the center of it all.
Inequality doesn’t just turn up out of nowhere.
But the reason is certainly not “because <<country>> is <<country>>”.
I never claimed “because country is country” is a deep and meaningful analysis of the material factors in a given country and its history. What it is, and what I expect people with a modicum of knowledge of the English language to understand it as, is vaguely gesturing at the overall situation and saying “this thing here that be the way it do”. You know, pizza is tasty because it’s pizza does one always have to be more specific than that.
Why would anyone post this? Of course it didn’t just turn up out of nowhere.
What it is, and what I expect people with a modicum of knowledge of the English language to understand it as, is vaguely gesturing at the overall situation and saying “this thing here that be the way it do”.
That quoted phrase you have there is pure hot nonsense.
Why would anyone post this? Of course it didn’t just turn up out of nowhere.
Good. Then you agree that it’s valuable to look at the reasons for inequality, I presume, and not stop at “inequality is the centre of it all”. Both material and immaterial ones. Or to put in classic Marxist terms (a bit reductive but it’s close enough): What’s the economic and cultural obstacles to class consciousness.
That quoted phrase you have there is pure hot nonsense.
It’s using habitual/continuative aspect. “This thing here that is habitually that way because it habitually is that way”.
I know you think you’re the smartest person on Earth giving unthinking Americans lessons or something but you haven’t taught me a damned thing here at all except what the German word for neoliberal is.
(But, I know, don’t dare call them that!!! 😡🤬 😤)
😆
Separately, even frequent users of the habitual be wouldn’t write a sentence like that.
Read theory if you’re actually curious and not just posting to post. Personally, I’ve come to think of inequality as being at the center of it all.
But the reason is certainly not “because <<country>> is <<country>>”.
Inequality doesn’t just turn up out of nowhere.
I never claimed “because country is country” is a deep and meaningful analysis of the material factors in a given country and its history. What it is, and what I expect people with a modicum of knowledge of the English language to understand it as, is vaguely gesturing at the overall situation and saying “this thing here that be the way it do”. You know, pizza is tasty because it’s pizza does one always have to be more specific than that.
Why would anyone post this? Of course it didn’t just turn up out of nowhere.
That quoted phrase you have there is pure hot nonsense.
Good. Then you agree that it’s valuable to look at the reasons for inequality, I presume, and not stop at “inequality is the centre of it all”. Both material and immaterial ones. Or to put in classic Marxist terms (a bit reductive but it’s close enough): What’s the economic and cultural obstacles to class consciousness.
It’s using habitual/continuative aspect. “This thing here that is habitually that way because it habitually is that way”.
I know you think you’re the smartest person on Earth giving unthinking Americans lessons or something but you haven’t taught me a damned thing here at all except what the German word for neoliberal is.
(But, I know, don’t dare call them that!!! 😡🤬 😤)
😆
Separately, even frequent users of the habitual be wouldn’t write a sentence like that.