What if Bush Wins

[snappydresser]

The Neoconservatives, those pious atheists, are the ultimate postmodernists. 

This is why they fill their journals and magazines with postmodernism. They hate themselves.

YOPJ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jolly 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:03 PM
  Subject: Re: What if Bush Wins


  Part of the blame goes to academics, to liberal elitists, to writers and literati, to scientists.  The walmart goin', flag wavin' hordes can be expected to vote for the GOP and war and greed, but universities, professors, and writers made no effective effort  to challenge either the plutocrats or the blue collar hick masses that support them.  It's not surprising that millions of boneheaded evangelicals supported Bush ; liberals, leftist, malcontents should never underestimate the smith n wesson X-tians who would be pleased to put Dachaus right next to their breweries and nascar tracks; what is surprising is the tame and apathetic acceptance of  the plutocracy by academics, by neo-liberals, by minorities.....

  Those academic and belle-lettrist types who spend years arguing about "avoidng binary oppositions, man" or some light-weight relativism do little to nothing in terms of real political or economic strategy. Indeed, it could be argued that post-modernism is symptomatic of the anti-political and generally apathetic mindset of academia and of the bourgeois.  A writer such as TRP, who can blithely ramble on in numerous books and essays about the IWW, anarchists, and various left-wing forces, took no concerted political stance except for a self-promotion stunt on the pop surrealist cartoon The Simpsons.  In contrast to the Garbo-like Great American Novelists,  William GIbson devoted himself to blogging and made some decent critiques of the Bush regime and the conservative "mouthbreathers." 

  Kerry did make some efforts at economic critiques of the Bush oligarchy, but it was mostly futile---the hicks don't seem to mind that, with the help of Hatchetman Bill Thomas, the GOP pretty much dismantled the estate tax and the capital gains tax. AS James Galbraith said, "His second term could finish the job, shifting the tax base to consumption, perhaps even abolishing the income tax for a value-added tax (as Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert now suggests). Virtually the whole tax burden will then fall on the middle class, on working Americans, and on the poor."  Wilkommen to the Monarchy of Tejas.....  


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