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Starhawking the Privilege Game<\/a><\/h3>\n

The last two posts here on\u00a0The Archdruid Report<\/em>, with their focus on America\u2019s class system and the dysfunctional narratives that support it, fielded an intriguing response from readers. I expected a fair number to be uncomfortable with the subject I was discussing; I didn\u2019t expect them to post comments and emails asking me, in so many words, to please talk about something else instead.<\/p>\n

Straight talk about uncomfortable subjects has been this blog\u2019s bread and butter since I first started posting just shy of ten years ago, so I\u2019ve had some experience with the way that blog readers squirm. Normally, when I touch on a hot-button issue, readers who find that subject too uncomfortable go out of their way to act as though I haven\u2019t mentioned it at all. I\u2019m thinking here especially, but not only, of the times I\u2019ve noted that\u00a0the future of the internet<\/a>\u00a0depends on whether it can pay for itself, not on whether it\u2019s technically feasible.\u00a0Whenever I\u2019ve done this, I\u2019ve gotten comments that rabbited on endlessly about technical feasibility as a way to avoid talking about the economic reasons why\u00a0the internet won\u2019t be able to cover its own operating costs<\/a>\u00a0in the future of resource depletion and environmental blowback we\u2019re busy making for ourselves.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just hard questions about the future of the internet that attracts that strategy of avoidance, mind you. I\u2019ve learned to expect it whenever some post of mine touches on any topic that contradicts the conventional wisdom of our time. That\u2019s why the different response I got to the last two posts was so fascinating. The fact that people who were made uncomfortable by a frank discussion of class privilege actually admitted that, rather than trying to pretend that no subject so shocking had been mentioned at all, says to me that we may be approaching a historical inflection point of some importance.<\/p>\n

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Starhawking the Privilege Game The last two posts here on\u00a0The Archdruid Report, with their focus on America\u2019s class system and the dysfunctional narratives that support it, fielded an intriguing response from readers. I expected a fair number to be uncomfortable with the subject I was discussing; I didn\u2019t expect them to post comments and emails […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[3463,13588,1339,1758,13587],"class_list":["post-20131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-archdruid-report","tag-class-privilege","tag-internet","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-starhawking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20132,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions\/20132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}