Uncle Ralph
2008-04-13 06:37:47
Enjoyed the essay. Two points with which I totally agree, but have not often seen cited, are:
“because they were so lacking in humor, their solemnity was taken for sincerity.”
“there was a great deal of self-serving blather about individualism. But most of those doing the blathering wore identical clothes, listened to the same music, went to all the same movies and mouthed the very same clichés. There was more individualism to be found in a flock of sheep.”
Further, I have recently discovered the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). I have a hunch his work plays a part in this, and in some other things (like the Jeremiah Wright phenomenon).
