Show me a man of money, and I will show you a genius.” So intoned Malcolm Eden, of 1980s UK guitar band McCarthy, on the track “Governing Takes Brains”. I know, as I was a broke young man listening to him in an empty student bar. I wasn’t sure whether to be slightly amused, faintly encouraged or frankly outraged that such myths of a hierarchical class structure could be perpetuated in a post-capitalist society. It was a long time ago.
“指给我个有钱人,我让你知道什么是天才。”上世纪80年代,英国麦卡西(McCarthy)吉他乐队的马尔科姆•伊登(Malcolm Eden)在那首《劳心者治人》(Governing Takes Brains)中如此吟唱道。在我还是个正坐在空旷学生酒吧里听他唱歌的穷小子时,知道这首歌了。听到这首歌时,我不太确定自己略感有趣、稍受鼓舞还是简直被愤怒了——血统论神话居然能在这个后资本主义社会继续流传。这是很久以前的事了。