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The Monday Media Diet with Charles McFarlane

With the military-civilian divide in the US what it is, military culture increasingly exists apart from broader American culture. I want to translate some of that military culture to a more general audience so they understand what they are looking at, for example, when federal agents dress more and more like soldiers: What are they referencing? Where did this come from? And what does it say about culture? People think we live in a militarized society, but really, I think we need a better understanding of what is going on in our military so we can better understand the people who make it up.
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3d ago

noahpinion.blog

I have never been working class

Class in some countries is about the past; you can be a shabby aristocrat if your grandfather was the Earl of Whatevershire. In American policy discussions, class is often implicitly about the present — where you lie in the income and wealth distributions this year. But on some level, everyone knows that class in America is really about the future.

4d ago

honest-broker.com

What Is My American Identity, Really?

'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.'

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