#socialperformance

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"The job of politics, at its most basic, is finding common cause with people who aren’t like you. But current incentives seem to point in the opposite direction — surveying the people who are just like you [..] [the internet] encourages people to collapse any distinction between their work life, their social life, and their political life. “Hey, that person who tweets about the TV shows I like also dislikes injustice,” which over time becomes “I can identify an ally by the TV shows they like.” [..] The fact that you are part of the tiny sliver of humanity that lives in very small geographical and social enclaves in a handful of coastal cities and can identify some such thing as the “litbro” doesn’t change the fact that 99.9% of the people who use the term “bro” would find the conflation of that term with a love for literature totally, utterly confusing. But since those enclaves are vastly overrepresented in digital media, so is the concept of the litbro, which then becomes another means through which potential allies are alienated by the obscurity and insiderism of left discourse. [..] Establishment power controls our institutions, and thus wins by not losing. [..] The moneyed have money; the powerful have power. The left only has people power. [..] You can’t take on inequality and injustice with a coalition of people who use the same slang, listen to the same music, and post the same emojis that you do. That will never be sufficient. And so we have to rebuild the distinction between solidarity and friendship. We have to stop acting like cultural consumption and the use of slang are meaningful indicators of political connection. We have to stop judging people for their social foibles and dressing it up as political critique. You have to be willing to sacrifice your carefully curated social performance and be willing to work with people who are not like you."

The Revenger's Tragedy All My Sons The Spanish Tragedy The History Boys Tamburlaine She Stoops To Conquer The Bacchae Dr Faustus Cause Celebre (U DONT UNDERSTAND IT IS PERFECT AND I WILL GLADLY SCAN IN MY ENTIRE SCRIPT) Posh Amadeus Equus Beautiful Thing

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i’m really sorry if people missed out on their reading but i don’t know what information people are looking at. i thought i’d forgotten to sign up at all because i wasn’t cast as anything.