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Pill Pod 55 - ”I Would Prefer Not To”

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Is This a Melville?

The dominant reading of this story now is a class analysis. The lower class not understood the boss, you know, making every effort to be friendly but still doesn't understand authority being subverted in this way. There's actlly reminded of a simpson's moment where a ned flanders is asked by one of his sons, like, why do we pay taxes? And he says, well, it's partly for the people who just don't want to work. Maybe that's bartlebys situation by the end. He's just part of society, but not really in the way that society needs him to be. So we could be critical of bartleby too. There's

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