Re: elite-bashing
On Mar 23, 2007, at 10:26 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
Doug writes:
Naomi Klein is a very smart person, but her Canadianness is showing here. If only this were true…
I think Canadianness grants more insight into US anti-elitism than
you do.
How’s that? Because you can take a few remarks out of context, turn
them into a column, publish it in a British paper, and no one will
ever know?
There is a lot of elite-bashing out there, but it is entirely
reconcilable with the persistence of elites, and it is by no means exclusively
American.
Well yeah. Americans grumble about this & that, but it’s mostly
meaningless, completely lacking any political context or consequence.
Naomi Klein thinks that this has something to do with undermining the
saleability of the American model of political economy, but the
connection eludes me.
Doug