Check out The Pomo Group

Mitchell R Coffey Mitchell_R_Coffey at vitro.com
Mon Oct 11 09:31:00 CDT 1999


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cjhurtt6 at aol.com at Internet
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 2:24 PM
> To: Coffey, Mitchell R; pynchon-l at waste.org at INTERNET
> Subject: RE: Check out The Pomo Group
>
> In a message dated 10/8/99 3:19:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Mitchell_R_Coffey at vitro.com writes:
>
> << You mean why do our political reactionaries contrive to blame
>  their problems on a relative handful of intellectuals in fields
>  without direct policy influence?
>
>  Well, for one, it doesn't work to blame it all on communism
>  anymore.>>

> hmmm yeah. but still....postmodernism? you'd think politicos
> would attack something else. it's not like the postmodern folk,
> who ever they are, are going to form a union.

Bingo.

Though, to be serious, I can't imagine it's that premeditated.
I supposed it has at it's root reactionaries' natural antipathy
toward smart people.

Mitchell Coffey
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