When I arrived in Vera Ferreira de Oliveira and Thiago da Silvas Ipanema apartment, Vera, one of the many parents I had come to know quite well over the time of my fieldwork, blurted out, Ana, how do p eople in the US do it, how do they live without a maid? In one of those odd moments of ethnographic synchronicity, I realized that it was the flip side of this question that had fascinated me for so long: Why were upper-class Brazilians, 202 Chapter Seven in general, and Brazilian parents, in particular, unable to make any life decision without factoring in issues related to hiring (paid) domestic help? Like the Indian elites in Ray and Qayums ethnography, Brazilian elites harbored feudal expectations of a h ousehold largely upkept by servants and of lifelong affective and loyalty ties between employer and servant, while also believing that the lifestyles and aspirations of employer and servant w ere decidedly different
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It becomes clear that the majority of the human race has been reduced to an unwitting simulacrum to serve the machines, reminiscent of Platos Allegory of the Cave - an illusion that can only be dispelled by the emergence of the One
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