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Re: <nettime> Another insult of the 1 percent: everybody does it! |
JH: > At any rate, much of the concept of capital investment > and such abstractions lose any reason to exist without > a passively operating consuming class which dominates > the developed world. Excellent observation but . . . that is EXACTLY what has *already* happened! The *effect* of digital media is to directly undermine "conspicuous consumption" which REQUIRED mass-media to prop it up. It's OVER!! We have been living in a DIGITAL ECONOMY for 20+ years now, which is why there will be *no* recovery of "capitalist" consumption-driven growth . . . *EVER* What is called the "Eurozone Crisis" and even things like Brzezinski's lamentation about a *failure* of "Strategic Vision" are the direct playing out of this already fundamentally changed reality. (Btw, the Chinese appear to have already figured this out but apparently none of the Western elites -- or their necessary counterparts, the "protesters" -- seem to have grasped what has already occured.) Welcome to the FUTURE! Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY In a message dated 5/11/2012 11:57:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jhopkins@neoscenes.net writes: Hi Brian: > In this way you can see that the current attack on the universities is > not just a caste issue for academics, it's a societal issue. The > structure of society based on distinct professional fields defined and > guarded by credentials is useless for the business entrepreneurs. The > real question, imo, is not how to defend professional status but rather > how to transform it into something that can have a positive social > function for everyone. So instead of getting a degree to carve out a > protected niche in the economy, you would get both a degree and a > profession in order to contribute to a greater good. My experience is exactly so, though, in my engineering education -- I learned how to extract things from the earth that were/are in high (social) demand benefiting many, so, not sure what you mean here. What I learned was <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org