VLVL the collapse of the Youth Movement

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Mon Feb 23 15:45:52 CST 2004


>> Frenesi's motive is that she likes Brock's cock so much, and she'd do
>> anything to have it. And that's precisely how she tries to excuse her
>> actions -- "you know what happens when my pussy's runnin' the show." >>
> 
> That's a pretty weak case against Frenesi, but it begins to turn the
> focus on Brock.

It's not the "case": it's the motive. I was responding to your inaccurate
contention that Frenesi had no motive. That it's a very poor excuse for what
she does doesn't make her actions any less real, or reprehensible.

>> Of course not. Brock is manipulative and vengeful and he abuses his
>> position. Frenesi willingly does his dirty work. >>
> 
> *Willingly*? If she's so willing, then why does he need to manipulate
> and abuse her? Or do you think- she's abusing him?

She goes after him, remember (200-1). He tells her what to do, and she does
it. Willingly. And she kinda gets off on the rough stuff, too. It's pretty
straightforward, really, and I don't mind taking five minutes to point it
out.

***

    War in Vietnam, murder as an instrument of American
    politics, black neighborhoods torched to ashes and
    death, all must have been off on some other planet. (38)
 
This is, of course, a narrator's voice. Zoyd and the other hippies of the
"Mellow Sixties" weren't much concerned about any of these things in the
first place, except in the abstract. Frenesi, however, supposedly right in
the forefront of the Youth Movement, was, or should have been. But after
she, and other betrayers like her, had brought it crashing down, these
causes were also lost. The '60s Youth Movement achieved nothing, or very
little, of its original agenda.

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