Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp...
by sanderjd on Sunday April 24, 2022 @12:25PM
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Totally agree. I don't understand what the mechanism of values "trickling down" is meant to be. In my experience, none of the people "downstream" care or are even at all aware of what the "upstream" elites think. Like, is the claim really that the deadbeat dad in his 30s mentioned in the OP got his values from an academic seminar on family formation? It's incoherent...
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Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp...
by gilmore606 on Sunday April 24, 2022 @06:30PM
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The people downstream watch hours of TV shows and internet media every day, most of which is created by people with elite-aspirational values. They also receive the clear message that these values are elite values. This is how values trickle down.
Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp...
by sanderjd on Sunday April 24, 2022 @07:12PM
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So the claim is that popular TV shows reflect this particular strain of (supposed) elite values? Can you point me to some examples?
> They also receive the clear message that these values are elite values.
How do they receive that message, exactly?