Midwest Action Network

Professionals want to be taken seriously. They are the cynics and sycophants of the dominant economy. As sycophants and cynics, they are productive, their praises and criticisms of the system deal with how capitalism is managed. Its no secret that most new forms of dominant capitalism comes from the petty. Because they want to change the system, but still play by the rules of capitalism, the professional is the ultimate leader of smoothing out contradictions. Their skills and expertise make the practice of industrial capitalism possible as well as its unyielding rationale.

As workers, professionals exist outside of traditional hierarchic definitions. Some professionals work more than other workers to ensure they receive more work autonomy while other professionals work more because of the discipline required of their profession. Most professionals don't need a security camera watching their moves when they usually can't afford losing their professional status and maintain the lifestyle of a professional.

Professionals are a part of the education complex. Professional status and its acclaim increases along the same logic as school. Students of profession are often put through a demeaning life as a peon to their exploitive master. Experience, exams and awards (grades) follow the professional throughout their life. Convicts just want their papers to be clean, professionals want it full of kiss ass merits.

Even cynics are guilty, their angsty criticisms turning a buck for their masters, critical of their productivity while churning out consumer favorites, as people like the safety of citizenist cynicism and buy the cynics as often, if not more so, as the sycophants. Even former professionals turned uber capitalist, like Bill Gates, carry their former professional cynicism, threatening the U.S. to leave for Canada at one point. That would be a secession almost worthy of civil war. This professional cynicism is a part of celebrity hollywood millionaires as well. Ronald Reagan and Clint Eastwood follow the ideology of John Wayne, cynical from the right (Reagan becoming ideologically dominant upon ascending to the Presidency). While Brad Pitt and Matt Damon come from the left (with influences like Howard Zinn even).