"It's so elegant, so intelligent" (Eliot, 1922)
Well attempting to be serious for a moment. I have not yet managed to read
the latest Shakespeare Tome, which is probably a testimony either to my
meanness or poverty, or the popularity of the book whichever way you look at
it.
So I am looking for a useful citation (not from Eliots Waste land again
please)wondering do we find anywhere in Shakespeare (the baronet not the
bard) the critique of the disability movement from the sociological
standpoint of its being an elitist or "high" culture analogous to the
notions of classical music vs rock and roll for the hoi polloi.
I rather suspect it would be a wonderful post modernist irony for
Shakespeare to say this, but I am willing to accept any lesser luminary who
has pointed this notion out from the opposite class perspective, that is to
say that the "disability movement" is a middle class educated ideal
attempting to patronise the ordinary experience of working class
"disability" (whatever disability in this context means).
And don't shoot me for asking for it, I am simply looking for a critique of
this sort to balance an essay I am writing, not necessarily agreeing with
the idea, cos who says the lumpenproletariat can't have culcha :)
Larry
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