Not disagreeing with anything you’ve said, but the “one professor in particular” was from a working class background. Among other things we bonded over was being the first in our families to pursue higher education, and how he didn’t talk to his family anymore and I looked forward to cutting contact myself.
I remember being a bright eyed youth excited for the change Bernie was sure to bring, and he told me to not get my hopes up and that Bernie’d never win. Hillary was the “safe bet”, which was strange to me as he’d also talked about how Obama/the Dems let us down by not making a public option. I know he knows the system doesn’t work for people, he just can’t imagine anything better, and I think actively thinks pursuing radical change can only backfire.
It still makes me sad. I remember breathlessly coming into a club meeting having watched the CGP Grey video about how much the crown properties make England, and telling him about it and how it “was a bargain to pay the royals what the UK does” and he told me how it wasn’t because they had attained the land by being warlords and were lucky they’d kept their heads much less their lands. I was so embarrassed. By the next week I’d processed what he said and found myself agreeing. I told him at the next meeting that I had come to agree, and further no land could be owned because it had all been bought with blood at one time or another, from the Natives especially. I was so shocked/crushed when he didn’t agree…even more when it became a running joke how you might find me in your kitchen calling it “our kitchen”.
Not disagreeing with anything you’ve said, but the “one professor in particular” was from a working class background. Among other things we bonded over was being the first in our families to pursue higher education, and how he didn’t talk to his family anymore and I looked forward to cutting contact myself.
Individuals don’t make systems. For a working class person to rise to their ranks, they must assimilate ideologically. Which your professor did.
But yeah besides that. I had similar experiences with people I looked up to, whom I thought were incredibly thoughtful and wise - but then showed their incredibly childish and disconnected worldview.
Not disagreeing with anything you’ve said, but the “one professor in particular” was from a working class background. Among other things we bonded over was being the first in our families to pursue higher education, and how he didn’t talk to his family anymore and I looked forward to cutting contact myself.
I remember being a bright eyed youth excited for the change Bernie was sure to bring, and he told me to not get my hopes up and that Bernie’d never win. Hillary was the “safe bet”, which was strange to me as he’d also talked about how Obama/the Dems let us down by not making a public option. I know he knows the system doesn’t work for people, he just can’t imagine anything better, and I think actively thinks pursuing radical change can only backfire.
It still makes me sad. I remember breathlessly coming into a club meeting having watched the CGP Grey video about how much the crown properties make England, and telling him about it and how it “was a bargain to pay the royals what the UK does” and he told me how it wasn’t because they had attained the land by being warlords and were lucky they’d kept their heads much less their lands. I was so embarrassed. By the next week I’d processed what he said and found myself agreeing. I told him at the next meeting that I had come to agree, and further no land could be owned because it had all been bought with blood at one time or another, from the Natives especially. I was so shocked/crushed when he didn’t agree…even more when it became a running joke how you might find me in your kitchen calling it “our kitchen”.
Individuals don’t make systems. For a working class person to rise to their ranks, they must assimilate ideologically. Which your professor did.
But yeah besides that. I had similar experiences with people I looked up to, whom I thought were incredibly thoughtful and wise - but then showed their incredibly childish and disconnected worldview.