Cultural Oxygen
As I continue reading EP Thompson lately (“Making of the English Working Class”), I think one of the outstanding points he makes in his work is the enduring propensity of the opulent class to suck all the cultural oxygen out of our ambient environment. It’s a power which, more than brute, physical force, accounts for their astonishing ability to sap all resistance against them by their vastly numerically superior adversaries in the rest of population.
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