Evil Politicians! Film at 11!

[MantaRay at aol.com]

<<  I think the real American ideal involves free 
individualism in daily life and politics, much more than in business 
enterprise, and on the part of actual individuals, not the corporate 
hierarchies that They always turn out to have in mind when They preach 
"rugged individualism.">>

I have a feeling that the "real" Ideal being discussed here is only possible
in the aforementioned Utopia of Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time. The
"rugged individualism" preached by either side of this Ideal has always been
associated with business enterprise. That is what this country was founded
upon. How can individualism in daily life and politics be free of the
influence of enterprise, and how did the corporate hierarchies suddenly
become divorced from free individualism? This is exactly their problem:
freedom (from punishment, from temperance you name it. They are running over
every last fertile ground on the planet without fear of public condemnation.
That 's true freedom). Hilary and Bill are parties to this corporate
usurpation (see Alexander Cockburn's Washington Babylon for a comprehensive
list of their big business exploits) so whatever bullshit aphorisms they
employ have to be at the service of this "Ideal."

Scott