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Yeah. Something you touched on there I think is interesting about the way that being forced to live together creates this consciousness. It reminds me a lot of when I was a student, I was an anthropology student, and one of the things that we read was this sort of classic of... I guess, I guess you call it like structuralist Marxist, like anthropology from the eighties.
It's this book called we, the minds and the minds eat us, which is about these indigenous Bolivian tin miners.
It's this book called we, the minds and the minds eat us, which is about these indigenous Bolivian tin miners.
It's this book called we, the minds and the minds eat us, which is about these indigenous Bolivian tin miners.
And one of the things that always struck me about that was, you know, like, because they're all, they're all literally like sleeping next to each other, like in these rooms, you can literally hear like the stomach of like the child next to you, like rumbling at night because they don't have enough food. And that like turns them into like one of the most militant sort of like working class.
And one of the things that always struck me about that was, you know, like, because they're all, they're all literally like sleeping next to each other, like in these rooms, you can literally hear like the stomach of like the child next to you, like rumbling at night because they don't have enough food. And that like turns them into like one of the most militant sort of like working class.
And one of the things that always struck me about that was, you know, like, because they're all, they're all literally like sleeping next to each other, like in these rooms, you can literally hear like the stomach of like the child next to you, like rumbling at night because they don't have enough food. And that like turns them into like one of the most militant sort of like working class.
I mean, for like a hundred years, they are like, like they're syndicalists and then they're communists. And like, they're, they're one of those Milton things. And I, I, I don't know.
I mean, for like a hundred years, they are like, like they're syndicalists and then they're communists. And like, they're, they're one of those Milton things. And I, I, I don't know.
I mean, for like a hundred years, they are like, like they're syndicalists and then they're communists. And like, they're, they're one of those Milton things. And I, I, I don't know.
It's, it's interesting to me that, that this is like this aspect of the society that, that you've, you know, you sort of drawn out of, of these historical revolutions where a key element of it again is, is this sort of collectivity. And also there's this,
It's, it's interesting to me that, that this is like this aspect of the society that, that you've, you know, you sort of drawn out of, of these historical revolutions where a key element of it again is, is this sort of collectivity. And also there's this,
It's, it's interesting to me that, that this is like this aspect of the society that, that you've, you know, you sort of drawn out of, of these historical revolutions where a key element of it again is, is this sort of collectivity. And also there's this,
If you look at the trajectory of the modern American state and just the modern development of capitalism, it's been specifically trying to make that stuff not happen by kicking people into suburbs and trying to physically alienate people. I don't know. I was wondering how much you were thinking about that kind of stuff when you were writing the... cultural aspects of this. Sure.
If you look at the trajectory of the modern American state and just the modern development of capitalism, it's been specifically trying to make that stuff not happen by kicking people into suburbs and trying to physically alienate people. I don't know. I was wondering how much you were thinking about that kind of stuff when you were writing the... cultural aspects of this. Sure.
If you look at the trajectory of the modern American state and just the modern development of capitalism, it's been specifically trying to make that stuff not happen by kicking people into suburbs and trying to physically alienate people. I don't know. I was wondering how much you were thinking about that kind of stuff when you were writing the... cultural aspects of this. Sure.
I was actually about to quote literally that exact thing. But the interesting part to me about the Thatcher line is that everyone, almost everyone who quotes that line only quotes the part about there are only individuals and then leaves out the part about the family. Yes.
I was actually about to quote literally that exact thing. But the interesting part to me about the Thatcher line is that everyone, almost everyone who quotes that line only quotes the part about there are only individuals and then leaves out the part about the family. Yes.
I was actually about to quote literally that exact thing. But the interesting part to me about the Thatcher line is that everyone, almost everyone who quotes that line only quotes the part about there are only individuals and then leaves out the part about the family. Yes.
Which I think is a really important connection to what you were saying, where it's like their vision of the family is also still fundamentally this isolated group because... they still need some kind of collective because again, you literally, you can't just like leave it, leave a baby like out in the woods. It just dies. Right.