_NP?_ "the_formerly_colonised_coming_back_to_haunt_us"

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on 12/23/02 5:09 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> Hey, if the hippies could make a counterculture
> classic of a novel (1) written by a generally
> right-leaning libertarian (2) who subsequently
> published a novel in which the silver lining of that
> mushroom-shaped cloud was the post-apocalyptic
> possibility for racial cleansing (3), well, just goes
> to show how a little (or a lot of ...) dope, acid
> and/or patchouli'll take the political edge right off
> yr so-called "counter"culture and/or force.  As with
> the aforementioned, the readership that elevated TLOTR
> to US Pop Cult status was hardly yr so-called "New
> Left," hardly "progressive," and certainly, as may be
> obvious given the pastoralism of the texts under
> consideration, not in the sense of "forward-looking."
> See, e.g., Todd Gitlin, The Sixties ...
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> It is indeed an incredibly odd argument which says
>> on the one hand that the book is "racist" and then
>> tries to factor that into the book's immense
>> popularity with the counterculture of the 60s, which
>> is where "White Male Guilt Studies 101" and the
>> like originate.
> 
> (1) Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
> (2) Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988)
> (3) Farnham's Freehold (1965)
> 
>> best to all for the festive season
> 
> But once again we find ourselves in agreement.  See
> y'all at the Kwanzaa bazaar ...
> 
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The immortal words of Homer Simpson:

>I'll Kwanzaa you, you little.......argh.....