4 May
2013
4 May
'13
8:19 a.m.
"killing it"
I don't work the kind of industry jobs where I'd ever meet people who
use phrases like this to mean the things you're talking about, and
while sometimes I complain about not making industry money, it's nice
to be reminded of the upside.
Doesn't the civilized psyche secretly crave the
things it sets itself apart from and
gives up and projects on its image of the noble savage though?
I'm sorry, I respect you Anthony, but someone mentioning AAVE really
isn't the time to start meditating on the ideas of civilization and
savage. It really isn't. I am still perplexed in my attempt to
interpret that as anything other than racist, and the replies about
hip-hop and "gangsters" aren't really helping me.
Is it really necessary to remind some of you that the words "African
American" include people in your own hacker/maker communities, rather
than this bizarre dreamscape of philosophical Others? Really?
a bunch of nerds (conventionally thought of as white)
are engaging in some kind
of outsider-critique of someone else's community (black).
I'm sorry George, I respect you but I can come up with nothing but
profanity in response to this sentence. I will try again in 24 hours.