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status: iron crowns of glamour
…a large number of customers were indicating that they simply wanted no part of it. Money that used to go into the difference between a Detroit automobile and a functional means of transportation was now going elsewhere: into boats, swimming … Continue reading
status system: chasing proclivities
…The idea of social class is one of the most useful, and most risky, weapons in the armory of the social scientist. … Once you have assumed that there is such a thing as “class,” proofs of its existence follow … Continue reading
status: enduring symbols
…Actually, we are living not so much in a status system as in the wreckage of one, a storeroom full of broken monuments; for the process of destroying status is self-destructive, and ruins each new idol that it raises. Once … Continue reading
like archie bunkers: all in the (electoral) family
… It wasn’t exactly a Seinfeld election. When the Dow Jones Industrial average ended the decade of the 1970′s exactly where it had begun, it did not mean nothing happened. In fact, the groundwork was laid for the dramatic changes … Continue reading
getting here first
And the value of the fast second. Who got to America first? Refugees from Atlantis? Phoenicians piloting the children of Israel? The Chinese? The Egyptians? Perhaps the answer to the discovery of the America’s lies in the unthinkable… With such … Continue reading
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on ole’ boot hill
Where the difference between the good guys and the less good guys was sort of blurry. Boot Hill, Tombstone AZ and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The times were a changin’ and America was pushing westward. Like in Peckinpah’s … Continue reading
top bananas: the wild bunch
Entertainment is ideology. Whether it was Gary Cooper in High Noon or the Marx Brothers Go West, the white man was conceiving and furthering his own myth. The frontier mentality. The New World. These cultural myths usually encapsulate the dominant … Continue reading
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