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Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
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1. srlucado:Good column, Roger.
I believe that many, if not most, of today’s lefties aren’t trying to recapture 1968’s ideology. They’re too ignorant to have an ideology. They just want the 60’s sense of being cool.
In today’s mythology, there’s nothing cooler than having been part of the anti-war movement, and Chicago in 1968 is its iconic political moment.
Today’s anti-war protestors couldn’t find Vietnam on a globe (or Iraq, either, I bet), and couldn’t care less about who the Weather Underground was. But being cool? *That* they understand.
Cool is everything; it’s more real than Islamic mass-murder; more real than the environment; more real than taxation, unemployment, or trade imbalances. It’s more important than anything.
Oct 16, 2007 - 10:24 am 2. gumshoe:“Cool is everything; it’s more real than Islamic mass-murder; more real than the environment; more real than taxation, unemployment, or trade imbalances. It’s more important than anything.”
which is ironic,srlucado…
…since the more *cool* is desired and persued,
the less of it the persuer has.
tough to admit nihilism is what drives the bus.
Oct 16, 2007 - 11:59 am 3. Lem:What I got from Roger’s gaze at the mirror is that some of the impetus for 60’s – lets change the world ñ may have been a reaction to the ‘pathology’, to evil. Unfortunately the reaction turned into a denial of the pathos it once sought to quash.
Inversely but similarly, the civil rights movement once nearly having conquered, some have sough to bring back the pathology of separate but equal, disguised as political correctness and affirmative action.
If war is not ‘good for nothing’ then how do you explain away its pervasiveness?
The replacement (love) is a bit on the thin side when it comes to concrete ideas on how to solve problems. The sooner leftist fall out of love the better.
Oct 16, 2007 - 2:11 pm