I took my mom to go see Death before Dishonor. She had never watched wrestling before, like ever, but was still very invested in Bandido vs Hechicero.

he does cite examples though they're not all in the vein you're pointing towards

and that's partly why I'm suggesting that revolt of the caring classes is a better text to think from. "most work isn’t making anything, it’s cleaning and polishing, and watching and tending to, helping and nurturing and fixing and otherwise taking care of things."

I think I'm in agreement that maintaining and caring for things is real and meaningful labor. Where I'm pointing out the frustration of the duct-taper is more like being set up in a position where it's really pointless and unnecessary.

I help with a college radio station, in my experience the scope creep of university administrators is 100% of real thing.

I think he's pretty clear that "maintaining and making fixes to things" is less bullshit even if it's frustrating that you're in a system that needs such band-aiding.

His stuff on revolt of the caring classes is relatively more useful for thinking through the current political-economic moment

I'm not sure that's quite right. He didn't want to call people's jobs BS that they didn't already suspect were so. It's more like middle managers and corporate lawyers who mostly do symbolic system manipulation rather than like, caring for people or fixing things.

...basically granting root access legislative power to an unelected court?

okay so...basically the root of their power comes from this skeleton we call "the constitution;" they can review and edit things based on whether or not it adheres to it, but they can't go and rip out their own femur because it doesn't happen to align with the current reactionary mood?

I think the Graeber analysis of "bullshit jobs" is a fruitful line of inquiry, like there is probably an under-valuing of genuine productive labor. But he also posited that conservative resentment roots in who gets paid to do interesting or meaningful work. davidgraeber.org/interviews/d...

I guess, I'd like to better understand what was enshrined in Marbury and not explicitly laid out in the constitution

Cifaldi the retronaut and Lantz the aesthete
Reynolds from Philly and Thomas the athlete
Cowboy gunman James who robbed from the banks
These are some of of my favorite franks

Silicon Valley CEOs are actually a well funded op by DARE to make drugs uncool

If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.