"The Fault in our (Super

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:51:19 +0000

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"The Fault in our (Super)Stars"

written as if they were intended to be read by a figure that he called ‘the vice-president’: young, male, a sort of high-flying junior executive – comfortably off, with many important responsibilities, but also a constant array of nagging concerns about keeping up appearances, achieving romantic success, or climbing the corporate ladder. But the section was actually read, for the most part, by lower-middle-class women. The inflated importance of the perceived addressee was thus, Adorno surmised, intended as a device to flatter their egos – to make the readers feel as if, from the perspective of the stars, their modest lives unfolded on the same stage as those of the genuinely powerful.

The idea is hijacking someone else's missives is pretty powerful - the everyday homies feel themselves at exec level. Someone noted, so many poor feel like it's just a mistake of address, they could really be the anointed, not repressed and downtrodden. Kinda like the poor in the 90s living vicariously by the rise of the stock market even though they weren't invested, or minimally. Can Toro bring you in touch with the Gods of Wall Street and K Street?

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artappraiser — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:44:57 +0000

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