Also: I read a great, very short essay in Bad Subjects decades ago - can't seem to find it anymore - pointing out that The West Wing and Star Trek catered to similar middle-class meritocratic fantasies. You do well in school and then you get to work with a great team on something realllllly important, and they're your friends too, and you're on the side of good. And in contrast I think "The Organization and the Assets" by echan says: what actually happens is that you become an unknowing or unwilling tool, interchangeable and at the service of forces you often did not choose.
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Date: 2020-09-18 04:00 pm (UTC)Also: I read a great, very short essay in Bad Subjects decades ago - can't seem to find it anymore - pointing out that The West Wing and Star Trek catered to similar middle-class meritocratic fantasies. You do well in school and then you get to work with a great team on something realllllly important, and they're your friends too, and you're on the side of good. And in contrast I think "The Organization and the Assets" by