ivory-tower revolutionaries WAS Re: Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Muchasmasgracias at cs.com]

<<  "Brock Vond's genius was to have seen in the activities of 
 the sixties left not threats to order but unacknowledged desires for 
 it. While the Tube was proclaiming youth revolution against parents 
 of all kinds and most viewers were accepting this story, Brock saw 
 the deep -- if he'd allowed himself to feel it, the sometimes 
 touching -- need only to stay children forever, safe inside some 
 extended national Family." (VL 269) >>

Been down and out from the list for a while (and still kinda am), but I was 
going through my inbox and this quote caught my eye cause it reminded me of 
GR's "counterforce", esp. the line about "unacknowledged desires for" order.  
I remember getting into the last section of GR a couple years ago and 
thinking, dangit, those silly counterforce fools are making the same mistake 
all over again, still imposing an Us and Them form on the world.  It's gotta 
be just Us or it's the whole Maxwell's Pipedream again, hoping we can thrive 
on taking from them and keeping for us.

Tangent:  constantly looking at those LAPD bumper stickers "There's no excuse 
for domestic violence" made me want to go down to the station and ask for 
one.  I wanted to put that sticker on one side, then make another one for the 
other side that says "We're all kin".  I thought this would also give me good 
favor with cops who pull me over, but as my boss pointed out, the second 
sticker would reveal my hippie leanings and no doubt encourage contempt from 
the pig heart.

Still catching up,