May Pieces Of My Mind

  • Reading Kerstin Ekman I'm struck by how complicated a relationship her characters have to social class. And by how oblivious I have largely been to it through my life. I've always known that there are people with less money and power than my circle. And that there are those with more money and power. But me, I'm just comfortable in my middle-class geekiness, where what matters is neither money nor power, but being smart and well read. I don't care what your pay check looks like, I will still only really respect you if you have a vocabulary and can spell.
  • I want a big fucking switch in Gmail that turns visibility of read letters on/off.
  • The cake is a lie. And furthermore, there is no spoon.
  • Reading a science mag on paper. Frustrated by lack of share buttons.

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Regarding the first point I feel a slight urge to disagree a little and say you're a least as snobby in your criterias as someone who judge by what car you drive but that would lead to a very long discussion and I don't feel like going into that. I'll just say that on on this I'm more in line with Pierre Bourdieu and his points in "La Distinction". Perhaps because both my parents left school after 7th grade and I've feelt the consequenses of that all through high school and university while still getting good grades.

By Jakob Øhlenschlæger (not verified) on 01 Jun 2013 #permalink

I'm not saying I'm not snobbish. I'm saying that I have never felt the urge to be any other social class than the one I was born into, despite not being upper class. You are a class traveller and obviously your relationship to social class must be very different to mine.

A funny thing about class in Sweden is that our Labour part spent half a century turning working-class kids into academics, thus showing a remarkable hostility to the working class and suicidally undermining their core constituency.

Science mag on paper is ONLY true science mag!
(which is why I subscibe to "Science" despite having it available online at the university)
"A funny thing about class in Sweden is that our Labour part spent half a century turning working-class kids into academics, thus showing a remarkable hostility to the working class and suicidally undermining their core constituency"

Don't get me started on the labour party and its changed stance on culture, libraries and media.
There are exceptions, but overall it is crap.

By Birger Johansson (not verified) on 03 Jun 2013 #permalink

Never mind the cake and the spoon. How many lights do you see?

By Bruno Van de C… (not verified) on 03 Jun 2013 #permalink