House of Paine

cultural capital

  welcome 
to    one more 
     
    brand   
        of
           meritoid 
                     barbed wire 

                   

            " cultural capital "


 sure  sure sure
   its  just the same old shit
           in a new can 

        but soft .....have some fun 


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It's
 October 6,
     and 
we're looking over
          the  op-ed 
              at The New York Times
 
   ah 
          there be a likely 
                       boob fest 

   that  loutish
           mushbomb    
              David Brooks column   

   his  topic ....

" why  College  prospects are  so widely unequal" 


      
 and  he's  got a man bites dog
                grip on it too 

 cause
  all this unequal ness
     isn't  explained
   best
   by   obvious variations
                 in  household income     

 
nope 

a lot of the diff
       today  comes  
        from

        "cultural inequality"


and   its gettin even more so 
                          every day 

  " as the information age matures" 

and this is not race based

but....
low and behold
  its 
klass based 

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here's  our  smug  ox 
        tossing us
his   hook line : 
 
"the rich  no longer   exploit the poor
 they just outcompete them "

 
lovely eh ????


forget  fairness even
         where 
         merit reigns 
 nope 

 forget  work harder 
        even 
  gettin  born  smarter
 forget even 
 both
  
   the top rungs aren't
likely to be  your's 

cause 
   rewarding the fittest 
   has other trials  
that   usually 
  spank hell out of outsiders 
               

our 
  jeffersonian elite 
              in danger  ???
u bet 

and its got ole brook-trout here
                    gummin away 


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  the field's  tilted ....

not only no
    equal opportunity 
no chance of it either 

check out why 

check out

"the four pillars of cultural capital"

" academic and practical competence
                and 
  economic and social confidence"


to compete 

"with an open field and fair chance " 

every one's gotta have roughly equal

       confidence and competence 


   say whahhh  ?????

niggah 
you knowz
u ain't got 
that  
insider je ne sais quoi 



  this be cultural capital 


  and 
 cultural capital 
     is not something
 that can be  
    picked up  
 in cram school 

those  winning
             Dispositions 
  those  gorgeous  styles
                     of conduct 
the ones  
that  mark  off 
  the  final cut ins from
                     the  along the way cut outs
   that shit take 
               years 

years and years and  years 

like fine wine 


 
                         


up shot

 odds are:

         you  gonna  lose darkie 

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 isn't it
ever so  wonderous 
  how these over priced  hirelings
                           of the  tower  dragons 
 
 can fence themselves off 
            from social reality

its worth repeating:


"the rich  no longer   exploit the poor...."
 
      amazing blindness eh?

"... they just outcompete them "


  its old hat  i know 
  but i can't help myself

this self serving  
  boss man serving type
           of rolled shit logging 
                    still leaves me in awe .....

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 but   now  friends 

           let us pray ........


   "  oh god 
           who maketh  all blessings flow
            forgive these 
             most   favored of your creatures  
                   forgive  them
                    their  simple 
                           ugly 
                        graceless  
                                 thoughts
 
                   forgive them all now 
  
                           before we get
                                  around to cutting 
                                their fucking throats