SLSL Intro "Chicago School"

[jbor]

on 10/11/02 11:15 AM, s~Z at keithsz at concentric.net wrote:

>>>> The other criticism he makes (bottom of p.9) has to do with
> the ageism<<<
> 
> Referring to it as ageism oversimplifies what he is criticizing. It is a
> puer-ile attitude, an adolescent view of reality that is quite independent
> of age, as he points out implicitly by using the term 'eternal' and
> explicitly by referring to older men who are still little boys.
> Chronological age is irrelevant.

Yes, I don't disagree that there's that aspect to his comment also. But
ageism is also a part of it:

" ... both forms of the movement placed too much emphasis on youth ... "

I read this as another "reason" why, or another part of the fact that,
"college kids and blue-collar workers failed to get together politically"
(p.7), within the specific politico-historical context Pynchon is
reminiscing about. There were definite generational prejudices at play
within both the rhetoric and the student radical movement itself.

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