Underrated effect of inequality is that large numbers of people have no skin in the humanity game beyond immediate survival.
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—it's the basis of ideological analysis. But in regards to leftist critical thought being ignored by mainstream economics, hell yes.
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Phenomenology is not ideology. I think leftists get it badly wrong, but that's another story.
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—I think what you've done is just replicate a standard leftist precept without even knowing it, pace Zizek on ideology. ;)
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—i.e., ideology shapes phenomenology: it constructs the very "spontaneous" perception of the real: THEY LIVE youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8ibr
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Not what I mean by phenomenology. Too hard to explain if you are coming at it via Husserl and Zizek. You've been ruined :)
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—lol. Husserl *invented* phenomenology. ;)
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He invented a particular analytical technique of "bracketing" that he used the word for. You're being oddly reductive.
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—but if you mean phenomenology as the study of appearing (phainesthai) of the logos, then again we encounter the ideos (of the) logos.
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Dude, you really need to exorcise received authority from your head and play rough with words like Humpty-Dumpty a bit.
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—*chuckle* Husserl wrote voluminously to describe a *process* of reduction that is the condition of phenomenology as a discipline. ;)

