- In what ways do these two essays examine subcultures?
- How did the authors present themselves in relation to the subculture that they examine? In other words, what is their ethos? How are they an authority about this subculture(s)?
- Both of these essays seem to be making certain political arguments too. What are they and how convincing, or not, are these arguments to you?
- What questions did these readings raise for you? (Try to answer one of your classmate's questions.)
Monday, October 22, 2018
"Cost of Living" and "Travels in Pornland"
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How awful that Emily Maloney tried to kill herself and then immediately had to face the consequences of how she would pay for it. I think this essay is a great argument for why we need a single-payer health care system. Every single post-industrial country in the world besides for us has free health care for its citizens. People go broke b/c of this. And, curiously, nearly the only people who argue against it are wealthy politicians and entrepreneurs who have never had to worry about doing w/out and who never have to worry about their own daughter having to pay her hospital bills.
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