{"id":8169,"date":"2009-04-05T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8169"},"modified":"2010-12-25T02:36:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T07:36:04","slug":"social-class-and-the-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/05\/social-class-and-the-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Class and the Economic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this great photo at <a href=\"http:\/\/bagnewsnotes.com\">BAGnews NOTES<\/a>, entitled, &#8220;Reflecting on the Meltdown&#8221;:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8170\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/6a00d8341cc90353ef01156ee5a735970c.jpg\" alt=\"85742709MT009_Protesters_De\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/6a00d8341cc90353ef01156ee5a735970c.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/6a00d8341cc90353ef01156ee5a735970c-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The author describes the photo and its meaning this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It captures a two-day anti-capitalist rally protesting the Wall Street bailout. Through the use of reflection (in this photo of a restaurant, as well as this one playing the street off against a corporate lobby), Mario [Mario Tama, Getty Photographer] portrays America&#8217;s class schism (note the guy in the lime-colored reflective vest overlapped with the guy in the jacket with the wristwatch); America flip-flopping between awareness and denial; and the strange disconnect these days between crisis and &#8216;business as usual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a wonderfully telling picture, but perhaps in addition to &#8220;America flip-flopping between awareness and denial,&#8221; one could also interpret the artistic use of reflection as representative of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/10\/two-excellent-graphs-illustrating-increasing-income-inequality\/\" target=\"_self\">the ever-widening chasm between the social classes in the United States<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; one that will most likely not be remedied or even addressed in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this great photo at BAGnews NOTES, entitled, &#8220;Reflecting on the Meltdown&#8221;: The author describes the photo and its meaning this way: It captures a two-day anti-capitalist rally protesting the Wall Street bailout. Through the use of reflection (in this photo of a restaurant, as well as this one playing the street off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-8169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}