Bentley's Absurd Gait
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fine then.... your use of Gramsci doesn't hold water. being 'cool'- at least as its generally been applied in Western popular culture - tends to mean an association with the counter-culture, i.e. the people who aren't part of the hegemony. To grossly over-generalise: if we lived in a socialist paradise, there'd be some decent right-wing comedy.
There is a weird statistical thing going on here though-presumably there are a lot of famous people whose politics tend towards the right-wing: the numbers in the general population must surely make it so, as does the fact that people with lots of money have a vested interest in low-tax regimes. Possible suggestions:
1- could reflect the phenomenon in polling generally that people are reluctant to admit voting for a right-wing party. I think the stat is something like for the 4 last general elections and the London Mayoral, the most accurate opinion poll in the preceding week was the one that gave the highest Tory vote.
2- People don't feel the need to spout off about how much they love neo-liberal economics and nationalism, because those ideas already dominate current politics and are entrenched in our major institiutions. It'd be like me getting up each morning and telling everyone how vital is is that the sun rises.
3- your last paragraph is entirely unsubstantiated trouble-making, and i suspect you know it to be so.
You can do better Loz, I rather regret pointing that out mate! As for point three, I disagree. It is trouble-making, but I believe it is substantiated by my previous paragraphs. That's why it's called a conclusion.
The highlighted sentence in point one does support my argument, and I would also contend that the counter-culture is now the mainstream culture. Being 'edgy' is the norm. To be staid and 'old school' is bordering on revolutionary.
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