Shopping, not work, is the primary means by which society now reproduces itself,
No, not really. Reproduction is still mostly done by fucking, just as it always has been.
The rest of it is confused even for Lawson. Essentially, Yay! for consumer boycotts because that us the citizenry sticking it to The Man. But this is bad because it’s consumerism. Or something.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Richard Gadsden // Feb 19, 2013 at 9:08 am
Cultural propagation is how society (as contrasted with the human species) reproduces.
2 Surreptitious Evil // Feb 19, 2013 at 9:49 am
But even if you accept his hypothesis:
you would have to assume that “cultural propagation” is all about the struggle between people and the evil baby-eating capitalist banksters and their worker-crushing cronies. Which is a very Marxist thing of you to do.
I would expect that, frankly, the currently dominant mode of cultural propagation is online, possibly even social media. Of course, that may not be the sort of “culture” that would get Neal panties moist – it doesn’t attract quite enough government subsidy, for a start, but it is how a lot of cultural memes, good or bad, spread nowadays.
Which is, of course, a very first world attitude for me to demonstrate …
3 John Davis // Feb 19, 2013 at 10:49 am
Five minutes of my life I’ll never get back reading that drivel.
4 Stuck-Record // Feb 19, 2013 at 11:29 am
“Today we watch films about the Dagenham Ford seamstresses and their sepia struggle for justice together. Tomorrow the films will be about Cait Reilly and her lonely legal struggle against Poundland.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Priceless.
5 Joe Blow // Feb 19, 2013 at 9:06 pm
@stuck- record
One to be preserved for future posterity in David Thompson’s archive methinks.
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