Here's a question for you:
Do we have Alphas and Epsilons in our society?
You may want to read the current post by Andrew Keen (check the Blogosphere over here to the right-->), in which he discusses Helen Milner's recent remarks: "She spoke impassionedly on behalf of the 25% of people in the UK who, she claimed, have neither access to the Internet nor knowledge of how to use digital technology. This 21st century unwired class, Milner suggested, was the new lumpenproletariat cast adrift in an increasingly online centric world of cheap and convenient Internet services and goods."
Lumpenproletariat. THERE'S a word concept for you. Figure that out before I leave Mayfair for Daytona Beach (2:45pm on 6/9) and I will give you a small package of sour gummy worms.
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wait for the term "lumpenproletariat" do you want us to define it or explain it?
ReplyDeleteFletcher: There's a word concept for you. Figure that out...
ReplyDeleteSnow: Wait. Do you mean "define" or "explain"?
Fletcher:
Lumpenproletariat (*n*.) the lowest of the proletariats, from the Marxist
ReplyDeletetheory (aka working class). These people did not have skills to be able to
have jobs; troublemakers as well. Vagrants are included. **So you mean that
Milner thinks the 21st Century consists of a bunch of underachievers who are
lazy because the world's technology has made everything so convenient that
people are now less productive than before the Industrial Revolution?*