Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Secret History of the 2017 NBA Finals - BLARB
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Come to SF and visit the the Outer Mission, or The Excelsior district or how about the Tenderloin? Maybe think about all those people displaced from SF who now live in Richmond and support the Warriors now and when they where led by Don Nelson, a dozen years ago. Sorry, yes SF is full of tech dicks and it's obnoxious, but they are not the only ones here and we were here first. And thanks for erasing all the working people, especially those of color, who service the tech overlords here making those 25$ pizzas and who clean up after them. And the underpaid au pairs from Mexico, and Central and South America so you can go to the games. Oh, and by the way, your working class hero, Lebron, the guy who left his hometown and went to Miami to build a team of multi-million dollars all-stars? For money and fame, he broke the hearts of Cleveland? Oh, and the guy Steve Kerr, the coach, who was a mediocre at best as a player and devised a plan to topple Lebron James, the superstar who was pampered from prep school with Hummers before he could drive? "John Rossiter is a writer and retail employee living in Los Angeles." Come on, get someone who knows sports to write, not this muppet. Sorry my original post was garbled, but it was the first thing I read when I awoke and sent me reeling before my first coffee. Never write before your first cup. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Secret History of the 2017 NBA Finals - BLARB
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Come visit the the outer mission, or The Excelsior district or how about the tenderloin. Maybe think about all those people displaced from SF who know live in Richmond and support the Warrior now and when they where lead by Don Nelson. And thanks for erasing all the working people who service the tech overlords here. Oh, and by the way, our working class here, Lebron, the guy who left his hometown and went to Miami to do the built a team of all-stars? Oh, and the guy Steve Kerr, the co On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > This was an appealing team before their first championship — a team of > smaller, skinnier, stranger players than normal. The supremely coordinated > Steph Curry and Klay Thompson can shoot from anywhere on the court, > excellent defenders and creative passers like Draymond Green and Andre > Iguodala create space and take pressure off of their gifted offense. They > are undersized, but tough and smart. Yet soon enough, the Warriors got too > good. And then they got Kevin Durant and his transcendent offensive talent. > It certainly began to seem unfair, especially when you consider how San > Francisco, a city steeped in tradition and history and physical beauty, has > become the gaping maw of tech-fueled liberalism (and maybe the augury of > the alt-right), the #1 place to get a $25 pizza and sing Gavin DeGraw with > your coworkers at karaoke before you return to an apartment that only a > peon of these murky and vaguely malevolent operations could afford. At the > same time, gentrification spilled more and more into Oakland, the team’s > true home. Now with the Raiders departing, we can fit the entire Bay into a > neat and well-managed singular cultural narrative, rather than acknowledge > these complicated, diverse, vibrant, and often difficult histories. The > transition from the underdog 2007 character-driven Warriors led by Baron > Davis (and his absurdly vicious dunk over Andrei Kirilenko) to the stacked > machine of 2017 runs parallel. We accepted this story and it became very > easy to hate Golden State as we continued our drift toward the bad > decisions of the near-left. > > Here, our hero emerges. Whereas with Golden State we saw the triumph of > “team,” Ohio native LeBron James materialized as the sole savior of > Cleveland’s pro sports championship desert. Conveniently enough for this > secret history, Ohio is a state tortured by the decline of > industrialization in the United States, the “Rust Belt,” as they say. When > white middle-class workers are feeling as disenfranchised as ever, > desperate for distraction, the hope of an NBA Championship provides a > powerful opiate. This is the subconscious shaping of our current ideology: > that we may indeed be able to return to an (inherently false) American > greatness. That these jobs will come back. That Cleveland is not needing a > real change, but a simple tweaking and the return of a familiar home-grown > heroism. When Cleveland won last year, it was the false return of the > Midwestern middle class and a harbinger of the confusing orange-hued > nightmare we would soon find ourselves in. > > full: http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/secret-history-2017- > nba-finals/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/mediacrusher%40gmail.com -- J.A. Masko College of Communications Penn State University State College, Pa 16801 "The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned." Antonio Gramsci. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The Secret History of the 2017 NBA Finals - BLARB
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This was an appealing team before their first championship — a team of smaller, skinnier, stranger players than normal. The supremely coordinated Steph Curry and Klay Thompson can shoot from anywhere on the court, excellent defenders and creative passers like Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala create space and take pressure off of their gifted offense. They are undersized, but tough and smart. Yet soon enough, the Warriors got too good. And then they got Kevin Durant and his transcendent offensive talent. It certainly began to seem unfair, especially when you consider how San Francisco, a city steeped in tradition and history and physical beauty, has become the gaping maw of tech-fueled liberalism (and maybe the augury of the alt-right), the #1 place to get a $25 pizza and sing Gavin DeGraw with your coworkers at karaoke before you return to an apartment that only a peon of these murky and vaguely malevolent operations could afford. At the same time, gentrification spilled more and more into Oakland, the team’s true home. Now with the Raiders departing, we can fit the entire Bay into a neat and well-managed singular cultural narrative, rather than acknowledge these complicated, diverse, vibrant, and often difficult histories. The transition from the underdog 2007 character-driven Warriors led by Baron Davis (and his absurdly vicious dunk over Andrei Kirilenko) to the stacked machine of 2017 runs parallel. We accepted this story and it became very easy to hate Golden State as we continued our drift toward the bad decisions of the near-left. Here, our hero emerges. Whereas with Golden State we saw the triumph of “team,” Ohio native LeBron James materialized as the sole savior of Cleveland’s pro sports championship desert. Conveniently enough for this secret history, Ohio is a state tortured by the decline of industrialization in the United States, the “Rust Belt,” as they say. When white middle-class workers are feeling as disenfranchised as ever, desperate for distraction, the hope of an NBA Championship provides a powerful opiate. This is the subconscious shaping of our current ideology: that we may indeed be able to return to an (inherently false) American greatness. That these jobs will come back. That Cleveland is not needing a real change, but a simple tweaking and the return of a familiar home-grown heroism. When Cleveland won last year, it was the false return of the Midwestern middle class and a harbinger of the confusing orange-hued nightmare we would soon find ourselves in. full: http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/secret-history-2017-nba-finals/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
