“..I bit my tongue and stood in line With not much to believe in I bought into what I was sold And ended up with nothing This is not my idea of a good time ..” – Garbage, “not my idea” This started as a comment at Poetry of Flesh’s blog… but it got too […]
Pleasures
life’s simple pleasures
elites and expert classes in post-Democratic societies
[ed. just correcting some typos. 5/2/2010] I think that the notion of a power elite still has some validity, but in our post-democratic Western societies, it’s of a much different nature than people think when they think of terms like “The Establishment” or “the Elite” Establishments exist, Europeans typically have a more realistic understanding of […]