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2nd September 2018

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 37 notes

kontextmaschine:

Clerks was a work of and about working class intellectualism

even the Death Star contractors bit – “have you noticed that even our culture’s myths of counter-tyrannical liberation are about the valorization of a small elite at the expense of countless faceless workers” feels fairly contemporary

but it was ‘90s as hell, the whole time Dante’s (Jersey girl, lasagna-baking, blowjob queen) gf is trying to persuade him to go to community college and he just doesn’t want to

the slacker 90s sequel-in-spirit, Mallrats, clarifies this in the character of Ben Affleck’s “Shannon”, that’s the kind of guy who goes to college, who climbs the ladder, a slick fake jerk who literally lives for the sake of fucking vulnerable people in the ass

at the end of Clerks, Dante’s life is ruined, and that’s in the nice version Harvey Weinstein insisted they use, originally he just got shot and killed

but it was ok because in reality we knew Kevin Smith was elevated to celebrity public intellectual on the strength of his nerd takes, put in charge of the culture, feted and featured, fed women, he got his wife as a reporter assigned to interview him

And so would we all. The 90s!

Yeah, all the problems of today we had dramatized then - Married With Children was “cultural liberation has given nothing to the common white man, merely undermining the structures by which he used to be guaranteed a respectable position as patriarch”, Falling Down and Office Space and Dilbert were about the how the new white collar life oscillated between precarity and vapid horror

And then the internet!

Fuckin’ solved everything

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