Work! Consume! Die! by Boyle Frankie

Author:Boyle, Frankie [Boyle, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

I am not joking Gary, it’s been a hard couple of weeks. Thanks for your kind words. By the way, it’s You’re, not Your. You are, rather than the possessive your.

Alan

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

C. P. Snow

Chapter 07

I read an incredible article in the Guardian describing the summer rioting in Belfast as ‘a marketing disaster’ for a city hoping to encourage golf tourism. But how could these young people, from an area of chronic unemployment and lack of opportunity, actually benefit from golf tourism? They could get minimum-wage jobs changing the sheets at hotels, hold that ‘Golf Sale’ sign in the high street or become prostitutes. I mean it – those are the options. Kevin Costner caused a stramash at a Scottish golfing hotel by apparently trying to get a masseuse to touch his cock. Because it’s the Third World to him and that’s what these places do. They invite you over to some golf tournament and they touch your cock.

It’s ‘a marketing disaster’ for hoteliers, investors and the middle classes. For the people involved it’s a human disaster, one that is ignored. The effect the rioting has on their lives is not discussed. They are an inconvenience to capital.

Criminals are the Other that nobody gives a fuck about. And ‘criminal’ is cultural shorthand for ‘working class’. In fact, ‘working class’ is virtually cultural shorthand for ‘criminal’. Cultural contempt for the working classes is largely a projection of guilt. In slave societies you always had these myths of black men raping white women, because white slave owners raped black women a lot. So in our society rich people brand the poor as thieves, because the rich are busy stealing from the poor.

While you’re at it, look at some of the other stereotypes of the underclass and see if they are projections:

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