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n+1 Issue 3: Reality Principle
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n+1 Issue 3: Reality Principle
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A Boom Deferred
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So the Nineties turned out to be the lie we always said they were. Those gains in productivity? That was from unpaid overtime at Wal-Mart and the high commissions brokers got from the stocks they hyped. The co-prosperity sphere of NAFTA? Mexican jobs went to China, and unemployed Mexicans to America. The popular inevitability and inevitable popularity of free-market views? Try hawking that idea in Brazil or France about now. Already we’re nostalgic for our days as superfluous men and women; a part of our integrity, a part of our dissent, was to be of no use to anyone. Edmund Wilson: “One couldn’t help being exhilarated at the sudden unexpected collapse of that stupid gigantic fraud.” Sure. Still, it was pleasant there for a few years to suspect we might be wrong about everything.
So the Nineties turned out to be the lie we always said they were. Those gains in productivity? That was from unpaid overtime at Wal-Mart and the high commissions brokers got from the stocks they hyped. The co-prosperity sphere of NAFTA? Mexican jobs went to China, and unemployed Mexicans to America. The popular inevitability and inevitable popularity of free-market views? Try hawking that idea in Brazil or France about now. Already we’re nostalgic for our days as superfluous men and women; a part of our integrity, a part of our dissent, was to be of no use to anyone. Edmund Wilson: “One couldn’t help being exhilarated at the sudden unexpected collapse of that stupid gigantic fraud.” Sure. Still, it was pleasant there for a few years to suspect we might be wrong about everything.
cosset
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(noun) a pet lamb / (noun) pet / (verb) to treat as a pet; pamper
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This society that cosseted us, and now permits us to try a new restaurant once a month, bribes our poorer contemporaries off to Iraq.
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This society that cosseted us, and now permits us to try a new restaurant once a month, bribes our poorer contemporaries off to Iraq.
notable
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superannuated
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(adjective) outmoded old-fashioned / (adjective) incapacitated or disqualified for active duty by advanced age / (adjective) older than the typical member of a specified group / (verb) to make, declare, or prove obsolete or out-of-date / (verb) to retire and pension because of age or infirmity / (verb) to become retired / (verb) to become antiquated
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For some people, a superannuated youth means postponing the question of whether you made it into the middle class
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For some people, a superannuated youth means postponing the question of whether you made it into the middle class
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5 years ago