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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Neoconservatives, those pious
atheists, are the ultimate postmodernists. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is why they fill their journals
and magazines with postmodernism. They hate themselves.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>YOPJ</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jollyrogerx99@yahoo.com
href="mailto:jollyrogerx99@yahoo.com">jolly</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pynchon-l@waste.org
href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org">pynchon-l@waste.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:03
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: What if Bush Wins</DIV>
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<DIV>Part of the blame goes to academics, to liberal elitists,
to writers and literati, to scientists. The walmart goin', flag
wavin' hordes can be expected to vote for the GOP and war and greed,
but universities, professors, and writers made no
effective effort to challenge either the plutocrats or
the blue collar hick masses that support them. It's not surprising
that millions of boneheaded evangelicals supported Bush ; liberals, leftist,
malcontents should never underestimate the smith n wesson X-tians who would be
pleased to put Dachaus right next to their breweries and nascar tracks; what
is surprising is the tame and apathetic acceptance of the plutocracy by
academics, by neo-liberals, by minorities.....</DIV>
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<DIV>Those academic and belle-lettrist types who spend years arguing about
"avoidng binary oppositions, man" or some light-weight relativism do
little to nothing in terms of real political or economic strategy. Indeed, it
could be argued that post-modernism is symptomatic of the anti-political and
generally apathetic mindset of academia and of the bourgeois. A
writer such as TRP, who can blithely ramble on in numerous books and essays
about the IWW, anarchists, and various left-wing forces, took no concerted
political stance except for a self-promotion stunt on the pop surrealist
cartoon The Simpsons. In contrast to the Garbo-like Great American
Novelists, William GIbson devoted himself to blogging and made some
decent critiques of the Bush regime and the conservative "mouthbreathers."
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<DIV>Kerry did make some efforts at economic critiques of the Bush oligarchy,
but it was mostly futile---the hicks don't seem to mind that, with the help of
Hatchetman Bill Thomas, the GOP pretty much dismantled the estate tax and
the capital gains tax. AS James Galbraith said, "His second term
could finish the job, shifting the tax base to consumption, perhaps even
abolishing the income tax for a value-added tax (as Republican Speaker Dennis
Hastert now suggests). Virtually the whole tax burden will then fall on the
middle class, on working Americans, and on the poor." Wilkommen to
the Monarchy of Tejas..... </DIV>
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