anti-intellectual-intellectual legitimation wank

[RedBug]

Yo Mittelwerk:

Y'all must be a Kraut, what with the this mania for subdividin'.

Smart stuff.

RedBug

On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 Mittelwerk at aol.com wrote:

> no wonder this list sucks . . . i didn't realize so many of you were so
> fucking old!
> 
> 'I was there at Berkeley, man, when the shit went down!  The REAL shit!  When
> they started serving that godawful Vegan sausage, man!  I though I was gonna
> puke . . .'
> 
> The way I sees it . . . this list has deteriorated (and LIKES IT! Jameson
> style, man, see, I understand the man, we were in Cam Lo together, man !
>  When the REAL shit hit the fan  . . . ') into three, uh, dialectical camps:
>  
> 
> 1)  The BODY-COUNT camp:  the ones who know what it's like on the STREET!
> Who know about REVOLUTION and shit!  The Ones who were THERE when the shit
> hit the . . etc. . . . 
> 
> and
> 
> 2)  The I AM A, YES, I CONFESS, HA HA (erudite laughter), PYNCHONIAN WHO
> ENJOYS PERUSING HIS MATERIAL IN THE BEE-LOUD GLADE WITH MY THUMB LODGED
> SECURELY IN MY ANUS camp:  The Ones who have an inchoate sense of the WONDER
> and AWE of what the Master is trying to convey.  
> 
> and thirdly, largely irrelevant, is 
> 
> 3) The HICK camp:  rural, pork-loving folk who don't know exactly what a
> TRACTOR or DAIRY-QUEEN or COP signifies, but know, in their fart of farts,
> that by GOD, it has something to do with that STRANGE and WONDERFUL thing we
> call America!
>