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PAUL DROTOS’ GUIDE FOR YOUR IMPROV JOURNEY

Your Improv Journey is Paul Drotos’ treatise meant for beginners, veterans and randos. It is an easy read and is relevant even when considering teamwork, community and art in general.   

Improv is an art form where actors create scenes on the spot. In a show, troupes will usually have games they play with varying levels of audience input.   

When the scene ends, that is the end of […]

Without merely fixating on scandal, and sidestepping the deeper structures of power that sustain it - the ruling class is always historically corrupt, incestuous, self-serving, amoral, and exploitative:
https://youtube.com/shorts/UeGw_Jo1v6s?si=2F6qCRr57NkGXGzm
@gabormate #medianarratives #epsteinfiles #trump #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #structuresofpower #TheTeaWithMyriamFrancois #GaborMaté #USPolitics #news #elites #elitism #rothchild #DrMyriamFrançois

The recording of my discussion about Defund Culture on Breaking Culture Live is now up on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available open access on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats: https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

'Drawing on contemporary debates around platform capitalism, cultural #elitism, #openaccess publishing and the crisis of the #humanities, Defund Culture makes the case for a bold rethinking of how cultural production is organised and resourced. Rather than defending existing institutions in their current form — or merely calling for incremental reform — it proposes a strategy of defunding as redistribution: redirecting resources, authority, and legitimacy toward more community-led, experimental, and socially responsive forms of cultural practice.'

#DefundCulture
#culture #class #UKPolitics
#copyright #theory #culturalstudies
#culturewar
#WorkingClass

The recording of my discussion about Defund Culture on Breaking Culture Live is now up on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available open access on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats: https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

'Drawing on contemporary debates around platform capitalism, cultural #elitism, #openaccess publishing and the crisis of the #humanities, Defund Culture makes the case for a bold rethinking of how cultural production is organised and resourced. Rather than defending existing institutions in their current form — or merely calling for incremental reform — it proposes a strategy of defunding as redistribution: redirecting resources, authority, and legitimacy toward more community-led, experimental, and socially responsive forms of cultural practice.'

#DefundCulture
#culture #class #UKPolitics
#copyright #theory #culturalstudies
#culturewar
#WorkingClass

The recording of my discussion about Defund Culture on Breaking Culture Live is now up on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available open access on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats: https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

'Drawing on contemporary debates around platform capitalism, cultural #elitism, #openaccess publishing and the crisis of the #humanities, Defund Culture makes the case for a bold rethinking of how cultural production is organised and resourced. Rather than defending existing institutions in their current form — or merely calling for incremental reform — it proposes a strategy of defunding as redistribution: redirecting resources, authority, and legitimacy toward more community-led, experimental, and socially responsive forms of cultural practice.'

#DefundCulture
#culture #class #UKPolitics
#copyright #theory #culturalstudies
#culturewar
#WorkingClass

The recording of my discussion about Defund Culture on Breaking Culture Live is now up on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available open access on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats: https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

'Drawing on contemporary debates around platform capitalism, cultural #elitism, #openaccess publishing and the crisis of the #humanities, Defund Culture makes the case for a bold rethinking of how cultural production is organised and resourced. Rather than defending existing institutions in their current form — or merely calling for incremental reform — it proposes a strategy of defunding as redistribution: redirecting resources, authority, and legitimacy toward more community-led, experimental, and socially responsive forms of cultural practice.'

#DefundCulture
#culture #class #UKPolitics
#copyright #theory #culturalstudies
#culturewar
#WorkingClass

The recording of my discussion about Defund Culture on Breaking Culture Live is now up on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available open access on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats: https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

'Drawing on contemporary debates around platform capitalism, cultural #elitism, #openaccess publishing and the crisis of the #humanities, Defund Culture makes the case for a bold rethinking of how cultural production is organised and resourced. Rather than defending existing institutions in their current form — or merely calling for incremental reform — it proposes a strategy of defunding as redistribution: redirecting resources, authority, and legitimacy toward more community-led, experimental, and socially responsive forms of cultural practice.'

#DefundCulture
#culture #class #UKPolitics
#copyright #theory #culturalstudies
#culturewar
#WorkingClass

‘Privately educated tighten their grip on Britain’s most powerful roles’ - Sutton Trust, Elitist Britain 2025

https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/privately-educated-tighten-their-grip-on-britains-most-powerful-roles/

https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/elitist-britain-2025/

Sad to see little has changed since the #SuttonTrust's first Elitist Britain report back in 2019; let alone since 2021 when A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works In Elitist Britain was published:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/

‘The most powerful and influential people in the UK remain 5 times more likely to have attended a fee-paying school than the general population. Members of this leadership elite are also twice as likely to go to #university over five times more likely to have gone to a #RussellGroup university and 21 times more likely to have gone to #Oxford or #Cambridge than the general population. Just 7% of the general population attends #privateschools

#class #classwar #elitism #school #politics #education

When wealth buys moral bankruptcy

As the world burn…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #AU #auspol #Australia #Business #Cherrywoodrestaurant #classdivide #distractionpolitics #ELITISM #ethicalcollapse #ethicaljournalism #finedining #foodjournalism #gazawar #globalinequality #lifestylemedia #luxuryculture #mediaethics #moralbankruptcy #neoliberalism #performativeconcern #privilege #RosemarySorensen #socio-politicaldetachment #TheNewYorker #WaldorfAstoria #wealthdivide
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/119432/

that bit of scum that floated to the top should not control the whole pond.

#Politics #Power #Sociopaths #Elitism #Oligarchy #Plutocracy #Compassion #Empathy #Cruelty #ClassWar #Representation #Tyranny #PoliticalInequality #DirectDemocracy #PoliticalEquality

Good

#Venice #protests target #Bezos over mounting grievances

Mass #tourism, impossibly high #rent, #worker #exploitation, #inequality & #elitism: Venice protests in recent days against #JeffBezos & #LaurenSanchez's high-profile wedding have highlighted growing #global grievances.

#politics #oligarchy #technocracy #broligarchy #greed #billionaires #power #ITpol #Italy
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/venice-protests-target-bezos-over-mounting-grievances-2025-06-28/

This article @SabiLewSounds posted talks a lot about the origins #mentalhealth treatments

Things that remain centerstage today in the #marginalization of so many

There's a long history of #segregation and #uglylaws, on and on, to keep those who don't conform with expected norms from having an affect on lulled masses

#fascist #hierarchical #capitalist #elitism is present in systems that are not, nor ever were, built to help the #marginalized

They created the very disparity seen still today

https://youtube.com/shorts/iY5gWHpsLzQ

I think they buried the lead.
Education scarcity is a myth.

#HigherEd #Endowment #Colleges #Elitism

Peter Thiel, the self-proclaimed oracle of #pretentiousness, has a new metric for elitism: 🌟Harvard or bust!🌟 Because, obviously, where you went to school matters more than what you actually do. 🙄 Oh Peter, keep those pearls of wisdom coming! 😂
https://offthefrontpage.com/peter-thiel-says-kamala-harris-not-elite-for-going-to-howard-not-harvard/ #PeterThiel #Elitism #Harvard #Education #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

A good analysis of the jump in right-wing tech bro support for Trump and the fault lines that exist between the neoreactionary and MAGA movements.

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But despite its impact on the current Trump regime, neoreactionary politics is not MAGA politics, as the tagline to James Pogue’s 2022 Vanity Fair article noted. The key reason is that neoreaction is not populist. The movement to Make America Great Again, Trump’s political base, is a classic example of right-wing populism, i.e., a movement that combines calls to intensify oppression with twisted forms of anti-elitism. MAGA politics is about defending privilege and attacking those who are seen as threatening it from below, but it also feeds on people’s sense of disempowerment, of being beaten down by a few people on top, a belief that those in power have betrayed “we the people” and must be stripped of their positions.

Neoreactionaries, by contrast, believe firmly that elites should rule and “the people” (Nick Land’s “howling irrational mob”) should not. Since Trump first entered the 2016 presidential race, MAGA aimed to mobilize a mass movement to overturn the political establishment, liberal and conservative alike. This initiative included not just electoral campaigns but also broad-based organizing and physical protests that culminated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in hopes of overturning the 2020 election results by force. But neoreactionaries dismiss the whole idea of a popular uprising. As Yarvin wrote in June 2024, “Charlottesville [the 2017 Unite the Right rally] and January 6 were the last lame breaths of what John Adams called ‘mobocracy’ in America.” What Yarvin envisioned wasn’t a popular uprising, but rather to “hack” the system in order to break it.

https://threewayfight.org/the-doge-and-the-neoreactionaries/

#fascism #Trump #MAGA #USPol #Musk #Thiel #Yarvin #NRx #neoreactionary #elitism #populism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk

#InsideJob #fullfilm #CharlesFerguson

This #documentary is about the late 2000s #financialcrisis and provides a detailed examination of the elements that led to the collapse and identities key financial and political players.

#FinancialServicesIndustry #Corruption #Capitalism #greed #CapitalismAndGovernment #Elitism

To all those racialised as 'white' and therefore have the audacity not to care when the system attacks #POCs, guess what?! Ready? :

Internationally, 'The System' hates us too.

#TheRationalNational

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=319iasGcUtc

Mother of 3 Jailed Over Anger at #HealthInsurance Company

#ClassStruggle #Capitalism #healthcare #workingclass #elitism #LuigiMangione
#UHC #Capitalism

#GOP Deploys the “#Mudsill Theory” to Destroy #SocialMobility

Eight Red states have made it easier for children to get trapped in a cycle of work that often ends their educational progress and consigns them to a lifetime of manual labor.

Eight other #Republican-controlled states are currently considering legislation to weaken #ChildLaborLaws, while 13 mostly Democratic-controlled states are in the process of tightening their restrictions

— Meanwhile, Republican-controlled states are waging war against universal quality #PublicEducation for their #Children
#elitism #billionaires @ThomHartmann
https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-the-gop-deploys-the-mudsill-theory-cd8?r=f9bh

Foreign Office is ‘elitist and rooted in the past’, says new report | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/08/foreign-office-elitist-rooted-in-the-past-new-report

#ForeignOffice
#Elitism
#FCDO

#Fortunes result from various factors unrelated to talent.

Furthermore, fortunes distort the allocation of talent in society, as exceptionall young individuals that could be contributing to climate change or healthcare instead serve the wealthy elite.

A mass movement for wealth distribution is needed to address this #inequality. Good examples are #ProgressiveTaxation policies and taxing corporate income based on shareholder returns.

#elitism #wealth #corporations

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tie-that-truly-binds-grand-fortune-and-great-talent/

@leftylabourtech @gemelliz

I agree with you that that modern #liberal/#progressive politics, #infected with this #toxic #elitism, bears a large share of responsibility for our present condition, where politics can't be discussed #rationally. Those towards one side of the spectrum decided the rest were "#deplorables", and that was that.

But regarding the #SK #NDP [...]

A few emails into a chain a student #apologized for addressing me as Marek and not Dr Gluza because another student didn't switch. (I responded to the first #email addressing me Dear #Dr Gluza with Best, Marek)

Here's a good #academic #ruleofthumb: If I responded signing with Marek and not Dr Gluza then just go with Marek.

First hand example that an academic title caused stress.
If #academictitles facilitate #elitism rather than serve to encourage #trust then we have a #serious #problem.

https://archive.org/details/phillips-exeter

Elite Education and the Private School: Excellence and Arrogance at Phillips Exeter Academy by Alan H. Levy

Topics
#PhillipsExeterAcademy, #PhillipsExeter, #unitedstatesofamerika, #privateschools, #prepschools, #charterschools, #gradeschool, #eliteschools, #eliteschooling, #rulingclasseducation, #exeter, #newhampshire, #educationinnewhampshire, #educationinnewengland, #newenglandelite, #elitism, #secondaryschool, #secondaryschooling

Considers many components of current crises and dilemmas in education through an analysis of one of the most celebrated secondary schools in the nation, Phillips Exeter Academy. Illustrates how styles and techniques at Exeter have grown to eclipse educational content, a stasis resulting from an "education school" mentality among the teaching establishment that adversely affects American instruction. Levy examines the "corporate culture" of Exeter and the way in which a surreal relationship of genuine and illegitimate standards stymies intellectual development among faculty, and hence, among students. Also deals with the way students' problems with drugs, depression, sexuality, and suicide are either mishandled or ignored.