יום שבת, 11 באפריל 2015

Uproletariat: a new social class

Uproletariat is the class of wage earners, especially those who earn their living by digital labor. The workers live in an illusion that they aren't slaves of the capitalism. Uproletarian man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally- that is, for himself- which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts. They think that they are different and superior to the proletarian class, therefore they are called Uproletariat!

Most of the Uproletarian people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinion as the result of their own thinking- and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as this of the majority. The digital media reinforces this illusion. Uproletarian man cooperates smoothly and in large numbers; he wants to consume more and more; and his tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated by the digital media.
The capitalism needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience, yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the capitalism machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim, except the one to make money, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead. Uproletarian union is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard.

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