[Ads-l] Fw: Thinking class / Cognitive class / Knowledge class

[Amy West]

It calls to mind the parallel construction "creative class".

---Amy West

On 2/7/24 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Tue, 6 Feb 2024 23:24:50 +0100
> From:    Z S<zrice3714 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Thinking class / Cognitive class / Knowledge class
>
> Just confirmed a suspicion: in the documentary*Spies of Mississippi*, one
> of the witnesses states that her uncle, B.L. Bell, referred to his class as
> "the thinking class people". (I just went back and scrubbed through the
> film to check.)
>
> (Timestamp 17:07 to 17:42)
>
> https://youtu.be/JX925i-llQk?feature=shared&t=1027
>
> These terms sound as antiquated as they are. Interesting - to say the least
> - that they're so freely used today by the media.
>
> Best,
> Zola Sohna

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