Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - Lingle WY
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Rain, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY, May 4, 2011
The end
Today I saw the last day of this winters adventures in the west. Heading eastward across Wyoming I leave the mountains behind and head down onto the great plains and see the last of the western culture this trip.
Night camp
Site n/a - Pony Soldier RV Park, Lingle WY
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - good signal
- Pony Soldier RV Park website
- Locate Pony Soldier RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
The Credential of the Dominant
The general veneration that greets the academy is a sign of its near-sacred station and of the importance of its role in, as Bourdieu would view it, the reproduction of the dominant class and its habitus. Although the rewards of academics are middling in terms of financial capital, the cultural capital they accrue cannot be surpassed. To have a college degree -- only about one-quarter of American adults do -- is to have the credential of the dominant; not to have a college degree is to remain forever among the dominated.
The Whipping Boy, Jib Fowles, Reason magazine, March 2001