http://snappyconfetti.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/masculinity/ thinking some stuff about some stuff Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:52:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://snappyconfetti.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/masculinity/#comment-5 snappyconfetti Fri, 18 May 2007 21:52:51 +0000 http://snappyconfetti.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/masculinity/#comment-5 I responded to your comment on my main page. There's more that I want to say, but there's also food I want to eat & laundry I want to wash, so the more will come later. Thanks! I responded to your comment on my main page. There’s more that I want to say, but there’s also food I want to eat & laundry I want to wash, so the more will come later. Thanks!

]]> http://snappyconfetti.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/masculinity/#comment-4 skunkcabbage Tue, 15 May 2007 04:13:01 +0000 http://snappyconfetti.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/masculinity/#comment-4 From the position of understanding the world by way of scarcity, which is of course to understand the world by way of property, I wonder if the liberal male doles out pieces of his "privilege" in order to feel like he's staving off or controlling the irrationality of a system that he knows (more or less consciously) can strip him of his "privilege" during a crisis. In this light it's not unlike a primitive sacrifice to appease the capitalist weather-gods. Irrational as all hell, but satisfying as false consciousness of control of an inexorably crisis-prone system. Is this sympathetic to what you mean by the epistemological disadvantage? From the position of understanding the world by way of scarcity, which is of course to understand the world by way of property, I wonder if the liberal male doles out pieces of his “privilege” in order to feel like he’s staving off or controlling the irrationality of a system that he knows (more or less consciously) can strip him of his “privilege” during a crisis. In this light it’s not unlike a primitive sacrifice to appease the capitalist weather-gods. Irrational as all hell, but satisfying as false consciousness of control of an inexorably crisis-prone system. Is this sympathetic to what you mean by the epistemological disadvantage?

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