Comments on: Culture is too important to be left to the sociologists https://www.isegoria.net/2018/12/culture-is-too-important-to-be-left-to-the-sociologists/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:57:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2018/12/culture-is-too-important-to-be-left-to-the-sociologists/comment-page-1/#comment-2723359 Graham Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:38:08 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44292#comment-2723359 I don’t normally go in for it but I find it increasingly hard to not notice that society in my lifetime (1970-?) has been radically reshaped according to notions that suit a congress of relatively small minorities, and continue to be so shaped, though their numbers grow when taken in aggregate.

Not to be ungenerous, these minorities include those defined by: well above average facility with and fascination with (ever-)new technologies, well above average fascination with the aesthetics of things like fashion and design, people with money and some collection of talents or attributes that can get them more money in a certain set of social arrangements, people who like to travel at rates far above average, people who read about only these things, foodies, people who fit a very narrow style of very high-end bourgeouis lifestyle, and so on. I realize I have overlapped a lot. One other feature seems to be a weird combination of desire for adventure and obsession with safety, often in the same areas of life.

That’s the neutral version, at any rate. your average schmo, even with a couple of university degrees, and in the humanities and social sciences at that, isn’t necessarily cut out for the world aborning.

It’s a sort of combined progressive/libertarian paradise. I might start calling it Randian Socialism.

]]> By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2018/12/culture-is-too-important-to-be-left-to-the-sociologists/comment-page-1/#comment-2723035 Sam J. Sun, 23 Dec 2018 14:05:51 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44292#comment-2723035 “…These books succeeded in the economic marketplace, as well as the marketplace of ideas, because they tapped a growing sense of discontent with the prevailing social and business ethos…”

Or maybe they just advertised them more, talked about them more on TV and in print. Look at the crap that sells. Look at the society that we live in. Did anyone, anyone, see great masses of people demanding that we import another 100 million people? Did anyone ever hear anyone say all we needed was more illegal aliens to be happy?

We were pushed. A bunch of this stuff was designed to cause doubt in society. To break it down and declare it unfit for, those that hated it. Who might that be? Could it be the same people who run the newspapers, TV, radio, magazines????

Maybe it was hard to recognize back then but is there any doubt today that the press is huge festering mass of filth and lies?

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